Animus7

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by Animus7 14y ago
Awesome, I wouldn't have thought of this. But to pick nits, it could be argued that you're using md5 as a trial/error "compression algorithm" without including its source.
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by Animus7 14y ago
Supply & demand. Back in the day internet connections were so terrible that it was unbearable to do much more than to download a document and display it. Hence, HTTP and HTML. Arbitrary TCP streams existed but in practice performance an
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by Animus7 14y ago
Aren't serialization/deserialization, sanitization and async concurrency management the most complicated and error-prone parts of JS development? I don't see any reason to put this stuff back into module interfaces when we already have modu
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by Animus7 14y ago
When your government is taping mouths, blocking the street kind of seems like fair play. It's shitty communication all around, but how else are people supposed to react?
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by Animus7 14y ago
> Real security people will tell you it's a disaster. No, they won't. Bitcoin is built upon decades of battle-hardened industry-standard cryptography. The day someone cracks SHA you'll have a lot more to worry about than your Bitcoin wa
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by Animus7 14y ago
Well, theoretically they could just have a guy manually pushing new rate values to reflect reality. But that's a big theoretically . This is almost certainly malice. And it would almost certainly have gone unchecked if the developer had on
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by Animus7 14y ago
That's because it was made in the 90's. Maddox has been writing for ages [1], and he keeps the site "shitty" as a sign of protest [2]. [1] http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=archive [2] http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.
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by Animus7 14y ago
If you think this is "awful" JS, you're in for a rude awakening.
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by Animus7 14y ago
> without signing any license agreement with Microsoft Clickwrap is a blurry legal line, but you more or less are "signing" a license agreement by installing Windows. And nonetheless the "OEM edition" that you get is potentially very di
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by Animus7 14y ago
> OEMs are customers just like the people who actually buy PCs; you can't trivially restrict one without restricting the other. This is plain wrong. Microsoft dictates licensing with its customers and it certainly has the right to licen
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by Animus7 14y ago
This is true and a good point. But obviously Google gets to call the shots with their own services. They only answer to their customers, who aren't whining about this.
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by Animus7 14y ago
> Of course, this will result in the shareholder equity to be diluted for each of the newly issued shares... As I understand from the article, there is no extra dilution here. The shareholders are simply selling more of their shares.
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by Animus7 14y ago
Yes, it could be argued. You're the product because FOSS developers make money almost exclusively through consulting and support. By using Ubuntu you're putting yourself into that pool. So you could think of Linux distros as a means of prod
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by Animus7 14y ago
Impressive. It's basically a kinda-sorta-rewrite of Node.js APIs on the JVM. Looking through the docs, the main difference I see is that this is opting for a comparatively heavy-core approach which contrasts with Node's ruthless minimalism
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by Animus7 14y ago
Heh, I thought my team was the only one that made this kind of thing before interviews. This one's got much better content than ours though; thanks for sharing! For those like me who are curious what the RNG missed, here's the data list: h
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by Animus7 14y ago
> I can't understand how Hasbro or their legal firm could get it so wrong. I take it you haven't experienced the innards of a huge company before. This is the classic stink of a broken management onion. Maybe I'm jaded but I don't find
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by Animus7 14y ago
My story is similar. I was looking to get a tech job out of college a couple of years back, and Microsoft picked me up first (Google was also interested with talks of similar offers but they moved much slower). It was all interesting and ne
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by Animus7 14y ago
> For example, say my phone needs to grab some data from my laptop, but rather than have the laptop send all the raw data to my phone and have my phone process it, the system figures out that it would be more efficient for my phone to s
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by Animus7 14y ago
We already have this. Node.js. So I'm confused as to why we need another language which is like JS but not really , that compiles to Node (which it doesn't, but the author wants to give it a shot). Sharing server and client stuff in Node i
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by Animus7 14y ago
Those who did are probably keeping it to themselves, which has been the historical case.
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by Animus7 14y ago
How is a non-programmer supposed to understand best practices, redundancies in code, or time to implement a complex class? I've been programming my entire life and I still wouldn't be able to tell you if a Python class follows best practice
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by Animus7 14y ago
> Email can be secured and authenticated with GPG and perhaps more people should consider doing this. Doesn't work unless you teach people about security, which is difficult. We have padlocks next to URLs but it's amazing how many peopl
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by Animus7 14y ago
> Mongo especially returns JSON as its results, so it's usually the first choice for JS-based frameworks, for better or worse. Nitpicky, but it actually returns BSON, which is based on JSON but has more data types.
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by Animus7 15y ago
> The trick here is designing an API that is simple and easy to use that still works for a large set of use cases, and this is a very difficult task. Security is complicated, so making a generic, simple API tends to lead to APIs that ap
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by Animus7 15y ago
> The decrease in productivity with node comes from having to write everything with callbacks. Programming asynchronously is crazy, it makes very simple algorithms very annoying to write. I know exactly what you mean, because that's w
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by Animus7 15y ago
I detect confusion here, and I'd recommend you take some time on the bitcoin wiki to clarify: > "If the rewards go down over time, eventually it won't be profitable to mine bitcoin." > Yes. No. Because the other part of mining is th
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by Animus7 15y ago
Mining is peculiar in that is serves multiple goals. On the one hand, it solves the problem of seeding the network with coins. Otherwise, how could you kick this off in a fair way? Secondly, mining "solidifies" transaction blocks, which act
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by Animus7 15y ago
By chance I noticed your earlier comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3782072 and I'm trying to get over the dissonance between what you said there and what you're saying here.
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by Animus7 15y ago
To clear up the confusion, the grandparent is simply wrong. The only person to lose karma is the one that gets downvoted.
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by Animus7 15y ago
As a developer who's actually implemented this, I can say that the hot frameworks do have good libs for it -- and the bitcoin daemon has a trivial JSON RPC interface for which you could easily write whatever bindings you like. And as amazin

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