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> I find myself writing simpler ones and tying them together with app code just for sanity's sake.

Or just use PEG, parser combinators, or other more readable parsing abstractions

Re:Rust-style resource management in OCaml on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:28AM (#16598630)
Affine and linear types and variants (ownership types, uniqueness types) can model predictable release of resources, like a compiler-enforced C++'s RAII.

As another commenter put,

> The paper explains it's because they want deterministic destructors for things like file handles.

> If you do not wish to give them the rights to your modifications, the license forbids you from using it

Unless your use qualifies as fair use

Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense on Saturday January 27, 2018 @08:23AM (#16246121)
Those are racist undertones, even when put in context.
Re:Why Understanding Space Is So Hard (2016) on Sunday January 21, 2018 @01:58PM (#16199379)
> There must be something else in the Universe to observe the single proton for it to have rotation, etc, according to quantum physics.

No, according to the Copenhagen interpretation.

I doubt bandwidth is their concern. They already wasted bandwidth by showing the anti-ad block wall.
There are many people today that want to associate themselves with Trotsky. They are called trotskyists.
That's why browsers pin the certificates of certain sites.
Car sounds are important for small children and animals in the street though.
Re:A tale of two bubbles, the dot-coms and Bitcoin on Thursday December 07, 2017 @04:27PM (#15874435)
A better analogy is with KaZaA. It's still around, but was largely replaced by BitTorrent.
Re:China Blocks WhatsApp on Monday September 25, 2017 @05:44PM (#15334447)
They could do it, but the current leadership doesn't seem interested.
Re:Why Happy People Cheat on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:32AM (#15330286)
I just want to give a name to this for whoever want to Google more: novelty seeking.
Simply return an HTTP error code if your server doesn't want to spend resources with my request. HTTP 500 perhaps.
Re:Interesting commands for the Linux shell on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:44PM (#15251151)
I would find it a little if it were called the GNU or the GNU/Linux default shell
Re:Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:02AM (#15063584)
This is totally impractical, or people would be already doing this when using other browsers as a defense in depth thing.
> This has been done for some time with other, less aggressive types of IgE-mediated conditions like dog and cat dander allergies

Can you link to this please? Is this "allergen immunotherapy"[0]?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy_to_cats#Allergy_shot...

Re:The Kolmogorov option on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @08:44AM (#14968056)