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New comment by mandus in "A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway"

mandus — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:29:44 +0000

One of the things I do with : is infinite while-loops, like:

    while :; do
        
        sleep n
    done

Maybe to mainstream to make the cut!?

New comment by mandus in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

mandus — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:06:40 +0000

Good thing git was designed as a decentralized revision control system, so you don’t really need GitHub. It’s just a nice convenience

New comment by mandus in "Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans"

mandus — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:01:31 +0000

There is also Pdm now I recently learned, which is supposed to be a more modern alternative. As an alternative to poetry that is; pipenv is yesterday’s solution.

https://pdm.fming.dev/

New comment by mandus in "J Notation as a Tool of Thought"

mandus — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 18:20:50 +0000

That is actually a nice analogy! No one, not even the pro formula-1 drivers will want to drive a f1 car in regular traffic. Much the same with these languages (apls, lisps, forth, etc); they have their place and role, but is better not used in regular open source or commercial codes.

New comment by mandus in "Bring Back the SE"

mandus — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:07:01 +0000

I was holding my old iPhone3 in my hands a few days ago (one of my kids have collected a few phones in the house over the years). It felt so good, light and small. I really long for a phone in that form-factor again, the big phones of today is just silly.

New comment by mandus in "MatLisp: A library for scientific computation in Common Lisp"

mandus — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:28:25 +0000

My guess it's a proportionally low number. I looked into matlisp when I did my PhD in scientific computing - none of the other people I worked with had any interest in it. I couldn't pursue it since I would have to reimplement or interface each and every library myself, a workload I couldn't justify at the time.

So, although lisp might have been great, in the end I stayed with Python/C++. Guess I'm not the only one with similar experiences.

New comment by mandus in "Ubuntu Mate"

mandus — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:58:05 +0000

There are still days when I miss fvwm. Not because it was that great, but because I used it for so long that my fingers still remember the keyboard shortcuts I configured. But I moved to OSX and just had to adapt. I guess moving on isn't always the most important thing, but stay productive. If that mean staying with some old software I'm all for it.

The RITE project: British, Belgian boffins battle buffering bandwidth bogeyman

mandus — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:27:53 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/14/buffering_research_european_commission/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5224991

Points: 3

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