Why not just take the money and skip the talk? He can speak to an empty hall as much as he pleases.

> Why not just take the money and skip the talk?

I don’t understand what you’re suggesting here. FOSDEM is a free event, attendees don’t pay. I doubt speakers are paid much or at all, either, though I wouldn’t be surprised if the organisers covered their travel/hotel/meals.

FOSDEM takes his sponsor money, attendees do not show up to the talk.

Apparently his version of Lisp does not allow it ;-)

Does not work this way in Zsh. What's the purpose of that in Bash?

Thank you for that! This was particularly interesting:

Certain versions of Unix, and early network file systems, used paths of the form //hostname/path to access 'path' on server 'hostname'.

It directly ties in with the URL format:

scheme://hostname/path/to/file

How cool it would be if we could go:

  cd //google.com/search?q=quack+like+duck

and we would get a directory with 1 file per result (or to be really unix like: 1 directory per result, with a set of files and directories for different aspects of the result hehehe :))

This is an old idea behind “everything is file” and plan9, afaik. FUSE allows this, you can easily write a “driver” that does exactly this on a mountpoint like /mnt/mywebfs/whatever.com/search?q=….

/proc (procfs) is basically this but for kernel structures.

I recall somebody did this with www, I think at first using a browser extension? Webfs possibly.

It is a really cool idea. I find it makes many things easy to deal with, and those that aren’t? Interesting to think about.

The hierarchical abstraction of a file system is a good model from many things

I am surprised they are allowed to exist. They aren’t doing anything useful anyway.

Covfefe?

IIRC the USSR coins weighted their value in grams, so that the cashier can know their value just by weighting them on the scales.

Every half-competent software engineer knows about fixed point arithmetic, my friend.

>> Every half-competent software engineer...

You meant 8192/16384 right? I like q14.

The textual one is quite good! I wish Randall does it.

> Rust needs a web framework for lazy developers

Write one?

You'll never believe what the end of the post says.

I can guess it without reading the post now. Thanks!