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dfalzone | 5 years ago | on: Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab

Would it make sense to implement a peer-to-peer protocol for sharing git repositories, similar to torrenting, with the goal of overcoming these kinds of issues?

dfalzone | 5 years ago | on: In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? (2018)

That sure sounds like GNU. Instead of building tiny tools that each do one things, just make one big tool that can do a bunch of things depending on which of a hundred flags you use. Not to shit on GNU; I use GNU/Linux on all my own computers. But I notice that a lot of GNU software suffers from severe feature creep.

dfalzone | 5 years ago | on: Nano 5.0

I'm a professional developer and I use Nano as my main text editor, entirely by choice. I've never missed the cool features that other editors like Vim and Emacs have, even though I've used both in the past.

dfalzone | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Great programming language features, other languages should steal?

This is pretty minor but I like how in Rust you can use constructs like if-statements and match-statements as expressions. For example:

  let foo = if some_condition {
      "condition is true"
  } else {
      "condition is false"
  };

  let bar = match x {
      0 => "string",
      1 => "another string",
      _ => "default"
  };
It's not super significant but I think it's an elegant syntactic feature.
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