nobodyorother

I don't think it's fair to say that marketers ruin everything...

Marketers devalue everything.

I'd love it if SD.C allowed users to contribute extra money each period that was banked as an endowment-like-fund and drawn on only to cover unexpected shortages.

They're doing neat things, and I'd love to see it up and running.

> Unfortunately Github is struggling under the load

What the flip did you do? They held off the Great Firewall!

/impressed

IIRC, most Java IDEs also natively support XXX as an alternative to HACK. "sed 's/HACK/XXX/g'" to the rescue?

If you have the time, choose both: write them out and then review and revise them as you write them up.

> What am I supposed to take away from this? Start a campaign for tundra deforestation?

They're just calling out the positive feedback loop where "things that aren't white like snow absorb more heat than white snow would."

The obvious solution is to cover the entire world in powdered soap or talcum powder, since we're pretty much out of snow and glaciers.

Worrying about both is appropriate: in both cases, folks are acting like amoral jerks, mentally divorcing their actions from the amount of suffering they directly or indirectly cause.

I think the long term question is: how can we make these choices less okay and less profitable?

I'll second that unpopular opinion and claim I have experience with many other languages that I also enjoy.

The fun part about Mumps is that it's basically Lisp's ugly sibling, without meaningful scoping rules. You can easily do lots of terrible things in Mumps, but those things are usually more straightforward than the terrible things you do in other languages. You can also do elegant things, though a little less straightforwardly.

My single biggest complaint about Mumps codebases is that they're usually old, which means they have shitty documentation. Not that new ones are necessarily any better, but at least there's a chance new things are written in Orgmode or something :)

The biggest thing, to me, is Babel: it's a system that lets you combine documentation and code into a single unit, and lets you combine code from many different languages into a single tool for processing. Now, instead of an unintelligible readme with an undocumented handful of scripts, I've actually got real documentation and an entire project basically in a single file.

http://www.jstatsoft.org/v46/i03

I've been thinking of starting a project specifically in org-mode for quite a while.

Of course, when somebody releases a proof of concept, it'll be called RansomBear.

You might want to investigate Mumps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

Setting data in memory is the same as setting data on disk, the only difference is the name of the variable:

s X=1 ; store 1 in variable named X, in memory.

s ^X=X ; store 1 in variable named X, on disk.

s X=^X ; load disk to memory