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New repository: aquilax/dirble-cli - Command line tool for accessing https://dirble.com API

NixOps 1.0 released
NixOps\
 1.0 has been released, the inaugural release of the NixOS
cloud deployment tool. See the announcement
and the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more

Find what you love
Steve Jobs commencement\
address at
Stanford University, in 2005:

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve
ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because
almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of
embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of�� … ⌘ Read more

LDTA 2008 paper
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper “Maximal\
Laziness — An Efficient Interpretation Technique for Purely\
Functional DSLs” at 8th\
Workshop on Language\
Description, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2008). It’s about
caching of evaluation results in the Nix expression evaluator as
a technique to make a simple term-rewriting evaluator efficient.
Slides are [here](h … ⌘ Read more

USA PATRIOT Act
A lot has been said and written about the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act”, commonly known as USA PATRIOT Act, but they are quite diverse interpretations —some biased—, mainly because the whole Act is written on 300 pages of legalese. Recently I found the Electronic Frontier Foundation page about such Act, which sums it up in the following points (as far as why should … ⌘ Read more

Mena wants to know
How are you using “the tool”? Mena wants to know how people are using Movable Type. That should have been the first question before last week fiasco. ⌘ Read more