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eq-on Nope.c – A web framework with a tiny footprint

So would a ridiculously slow PHP framework be an example of why we don't code serious web apps with PHP?

eq-on Nope.c – A web framework with a tiny footprint

It depends. It's not like there's no safe way of using strcpy and sprintf.

eq-on Named parameters in C

It's not (strictly) C, though.

eq-on Named parameters in C

C99 compiler won't do, it also requires a GCC extension (statement expressions).

eq-on A History of Tug-of-War Fatalities

Too serious, too serious. I like the best the version in which each participant starts with a can of beverage in one hand and has to finish it before pulling with both hands.

eq-on Rust for C++ programmers – part 5: borrowed references

I disagree. Even in 2014 we have a place for different kinds of new languages. If we didn't, the likes of C++ would live forever with all their shortcomings.

eq-on Rust for C++ programmers – part 5: borrowed references

I wonder if there's a (simple syntactical) way to unlink the constness of unique pointers and their targets. It's not a huge obstruction, but seems like an unnecessary restriction not found in the near-equivalent C++ construction.

eq-on Atom Is Now Open Source

Open sourcing is never the end of a good product.

eq-on Atom Is Now Open Source

Perhaps we will. I strongly doubt any of those will be even a slight success, unless released by the Atom team (which the copyleft license wouldn't affect).

eq-on Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary

They don't have VAT in the US, and their sales tax is a bit different. I'm not sure if it applies to digital purchases.

However, the price difference is often larger than what taxes alone would suggest, but surely localization plays a part here. Still, many European countries would need a reduced price just like the developing countries (to a lesser extent) to have an equal purchasing power compared to the US.

eq-on Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight

The only reason for midnight being a falsy value that I can think of is that someone thought that all objects should provide some functionality for __nonzero__/__bool__.

It was a bad idea.

eq-on JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON

Well, I use spaces for marking whitespace in many cases. Just not for indenting, that's what tabs are for :).

eq-on JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON

Just use a capable editor. It's 2014, for heaven's sake!

eq-on Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones

It's not like it runs Linux now, is it? ;)

eq-on Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones

The OS in the most basic of Nokia phones is commonly referred to as S30. It doesn't really need much active maintenance, though, because they mostly only change graphics and included games (and utilities) between those phones.