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   by DC-3 8y ago

   This more than makes up for a couple of slightly sparse releases. Congratulations to the whole team, and to you especially for the completion of the new book:
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   by DC-3 8y ago

   I don't really buy into this. There's still a lot of great academic and intellectual programming on the BBC - Life Scientific and In Our Time come to mind - and British universities are ranked as the best in the world [1]. [1] ht
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   by DC-3 8y ago

   I was worried that this was the case since Ticki went, to put it bluntly, AWOL around the start of the year. It will surely compromise the development of Redox, but I have faith that in the hands of Jeremy Soller (jackpot51) the project wil
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   by DC-3 8y ago

   Their point is a valid one though. I don't really think the init process is the right place for timers.
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   by DC-3 8y ago

   Native UIs are how you get fast and responsive applications that don't chew up memory and CPU.
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   by DC-3 8y ago

   Language evolves. The original authors' intent was conveyed much better, in my view, by 'et. al.' then it would have been by 'etc.' given the shift in how that latter phrase is used.
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   by DC-3 8y ago

   Have you tried it? If you have - why do you think it shouldn't be as popular as it is? If not, perhaps in using it you will discover why it is popular.
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   by DC-3 8y ago

   s/19/18 and 17
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   Ask HN: How good a programmer is Eric S. Raymond?

   5 points by DC-3 8y ago|1 comments
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    by DC-3 8y ago

    Would be interesting to see this applied to Rust. Obviously physical side-effect attacks (timing, EM) are still a concern and LLVM optimisations need to be considered as with the Clang toolchain, but massive swathes of UB are eliminated whe
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    The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant(m.youtube.com)

    2 points by DC-3 9y ago|1 comments
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    Strikes me that it's just a rebranding of flatshares for people who consider themselves too old and too professional to be living out a Peep Show esque post-university existence.
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    You can't afford to lobby politicians. Alphabet can.
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    It's nothing to do with the fact that it's about software development, I don't think (or at least hope). I just find it jarring to see 'her' used as an 'abstract' gender neutral pronoun. In my mind, '
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    That's interesting, since 'her' in this context causes something equivalent to a Parse Error in my brain, but 'their' flows completely naturally for me.
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    > Jupyter presents a unique programming style where the programmer can change her code while it's running.... Is the author trying to make some kind of statement by using 'her' as a gender neutral third person pronoun? Sur
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    Nailed it. How many Onion articles have you seen end with a quip of the form "at press time". The articles have a flavour all of their own, which is certainly quite distinct from the deeper satirical mood.
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    Maybe I'm naive, but I honestly don't understand why governments and private foundations alike aren't throwing money at Fusion scientists. It seems far and away the best possible investment one could make today in humanity&#x
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    To be horribly utalitarian - every week you set back the development of self-driving tech, you're 'killing' future people who are involved in human-at-fault collisions. Counterintuitively, it is the most ethical choice to con
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    Two seperate Korean Air 747s have been piloted into the ground as a result of mistakes that went unchallenged due to the strict cultural power hierachy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Cargo_Flight_8509 [2
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    That boils down to preference though. A lot of people, myself included, find Rocket to be a highly ergonomic, state-of-the-art web framework. I think you're wrong to discount it because it doesn't look, at first glance, the exact
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    ICAAN now allows organisations to purchase Branded TLDs. Google, Sky, Barclays among others have done it.
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    Educated in Engineering and CS at Cambridge, courses which employ far less intimidating mathematics than the Maths Tripos for which Cambridge is renowned. I think Brown could reasonably claim to be an ameteur Mathematician - and certainly a
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    Formula 1 to launch F1 TV, a live Grand Prix subscription service(formula1.com)

    2 points by DC-3 9y ago|0 comments
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    Well deserved. Few other language even come close to Python in filling the gap between scripts and larger projects.
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    For whatever reason, Flight Sim companies are some of the most customer-hostile software companies out there.
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    I believe Rust took direct inspiration from Scheme (or at the very least functional languages in general).
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    Wonder what his solution was. I'd be tempted to rebuild rsync with some download completion checks patched in.
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    Eight-Legged Essay [pdf](princeton.edu)

    2 points by DC-3 9y ago|0 comments
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    by DC-3 9y ago

    I think ultimately it's very dependant on which sites you frequent. Like with many things, it's absolutely a case where the only good answer is YMMV.