Why not be brave and ask questions? People fill them out voluntarily and anonymously, no one is harmed
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What culture are you from? Apologies if this is offensive to ask
If you don’t do what you preach I don’t respect you
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Yes, there was the bourne sh on Unix but I don’t see how that’s relevant here. We’re talking about operating systems in use. Please explain the downvotes
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There is no sh shell. /bin/sh is just a symlink to bash or dash or zsh etc.
But yes, the question is valid why it compiles specifically to bash and not something posix-compliant
I think Haskell was created by mathematicians and it feels exactly like that: Clever and elegant language, but no normal programmer would stick with it as it’s unpractical to write
It’s perfectly fine to just make a zip available
- jack@monero.towntoProgramming@programming.dev•Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub3 years
You don’t have to fix every issue, there are also other volunteers who might look at it.
If the reproducible instructions aren’t clear enough or are missing, just ask for more info. If they can’t deliver on that, close it or just move on and other people might take care of it
- jack@monero.towntoProgramming@programming.dev•What things really helped you toget better at programming?3 years
Find a program to work on and fix issues that interest you. Start small. It is satisfying to fulfill peoples feature requests, even if the feature isn’t helpful to you. You know that you made this person happy and there are probably more people who wanted that feature too
- jack@monero.towntoProgramming@programming.dev•Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub3 years
Yes but knowing of a bug is better than not knowing of a bug
Change your job
Well, there is eternity, jerboa, liftoff, thunder, memmy, mlem that’s out now. That a sale compared to boost.
Check out alternativeto.net and filter by open source, it’s really useful
Linux itself does nothing for desktop computing, you also need GNU and the rest of the free software suit to better the world



Ask him to do 500 lines and he will never look at it, making you wait forever