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In this post they discuss the planned redesign of GHC’s build system, and here’s my comment:
The goal of moving away from make is probably a good one, but when failing to get Cabal to fit your needs you revert back to redesigning it using make again? There are numerous other build tools out there, many of them remarkably better than make. What other tools were considered and why were they discarded? I simply refuse to believe that the only build tool to make the shortlist was make.
After reading about screenshots.debian.net I’ve now uploaded a screenshot for the only package I have in Debian, keysafe. It will be visible to the public as soon at it has been approved.
I’ve never quite understood why anyone would want to have their most recently received mail at the top. Personally I always want to read mail in the order they arrive.
Here’s another post about a paper I’ve read recently. This time it’s not entirely for fun, but I still thought I’d write about this one, Adventures with a certain Xen vulnerability (in the PVFB backend). I’ve read a few security-related papers and articles. In general I’ve found that there’s a huge gap in quality (and sometimes rigor) between the practitioners and academia. This however is a paper that I found to be of good quality, while still being produced by a member of the former camp. Hopefully it will start a trend
I thought I’d start posting little notes about papers I read, especially if I find them interesting and worth reading. So here we go!
I read this paper on the bus this morning. I suspect I got it off Lambda the Ultimate a while back, printed it and then kept it in my bag for several months.
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