phauna.org

..on a Saturday night in Jersey City. So I’m still up.

The bar wasn’t open when we moved in, and there was no indication that it would open soon. 8 months later, it happened, and here I am having to get up in 6 hours for a long day of driving, but I can’t sleep because of the noise.
I know the guy running the bar, and [...]

In this day and age, it seems insane that so common a program would have such a bug. Arbitrary code execution, just by opening a tar archive?
It’s time to rewrite gnu in a real programming language!

Let’s say I have a function with some optional arguments and some mandatory ones:
let f ?a ?b c = ...
And let’s say the b argument should only be used inside this module. It would be nice to be able to just put
val f : ?a : 'a -> c -> 'b -> 'c
in my [...]

H&R Block, a company whose primary business is preparing people’s tax returns, screwed up their own taxes! The income tax is so confusing that even tax experts don’t understand it. One more reason to support fundamental tax reform, such as the fairtax.
Oh well, back to H&R Block’s website to work on my taxes..