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4 months ago

in Getting Tiled with XMonad on overstimulate
olmekki: Haskell is Turing-complete, and there are no limits to what one can do in one's xmonad.hs. So all that is possible. Whether it's easy I couldn't tell you without you translating it into xmonad terms.
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oelmekki @SamC : You're right, i made a too big shortcut. Awesome is derived from dwm which in turn was "extract" from wmii as a rewrite when the main dev thought it has really too much features. That reminds me it was the main reason why i don't switched to awesome when it got published, even if I really appreciated to see the "features are not crimes" philosophy on its homepage :)

@gwern : ok, thanks to pointing it. I read a bit of the xmonad source code, and it doesn't look like any language I know. A good reason to give it a try, actually, if I find enough time.

11 months ago

in Neal Stephenson’s Anathem and Music on In Pursuit of Mysteries
Out of curiosity, does it include CD credits? I'd bet Brian Eno appears somewhere in it, to tie in with the Long Now connection to _Anathema_.

1 year ago

in My Git Workflow on Languages of the real and artificial
"I got hit by the exponential merge bug in Darcs (since fixed?)..."

Yes, in Darcs 2 (just recently released). It's a very solid release, but I can't speak to whether it would be more satisfactory as far as 'going back in time'.
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