ISV_Damocles

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by ISV_Damocles 5y ago
The only address I see is the one for an LLC, which is also a public address? If you mean the email address, it's just your first name and your company, which is the same name you're using for HN and Github? How are they not alrea
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by ISV_Damocles 5y ago
If that was true, you never would have brought up trademarks in the very first post of the issue? You don't "want" to use the legal threat of trademark law, but you'll dangle it in front to try and coerce your desired be
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by ISV_Damocles 5y ago
This has certainly soured my view of the Elementary OS project. Someone has created a project to help himself and other users and chose an obvious name for it, then a representative from the company behind it wants the name changed and thre
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by ISV_Damocles 5y ago
Here's why I believe you are being downvoted: 1. The original topic was about Ender's Game only, not the entire series, so you basically shifted the goalposts. 2. More importantly, I think you are using the wrong literary termino
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by ISV_Damocles 5y ago
Maybe `(graphics programming)` would be better, because I assumed it was for generator functions.
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by ISV_Damocles 5y ago
> That requires a lot of people to be using older versions, that is, it assumes there's an audience of people who are interested in using older Rusts. But we don't have that in Rust, even if it was that way with Node. Look at t
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by ISV_Damocles 5y ago
I am still pretty new to Rust (about a year of usage), but I think there are ways to have this "forward compatibility" problem be a less significant impact in real world usage, though. Node.js went through similar rapid developmen
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by ISV_Damocles 6y ago
That's mostly correct. :) We used `do-while` to demonstrate that we could replicate the behaviors of a normal assembly language within the dependency graph representation. However, we do have a restricted version of `do-while` implem
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by ISV_Damocles 6y ago
Yes, we didn't want to make this article too long or confusing, but we have a static, compile-time-defined event system[1] to allow for applications that wait for external inputs to start executing again. Each event handler is guarante
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by ISV_Damocles 6y ago
So you don't need to distinguish keywords from variables by case when you have syntax highlighting, and lowercase has been shown to be faster to comprehend than uppercase while driving[0], so switching that metadata signal to a seconda
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by ISV_Damocles 6y ago
And the hilariously Orwellian statement to "increase" security by requiring Javascript to be enabled: > The browser must have JavaScript enabled.
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by ISV_Damocles 6y ago
Key Quote: > The browser must not provide automation features. This includes scripts that automate keystrokes or clicks, especially to perform automatic sign-ins.
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by ISV_Damocles 6y ago
There was a question earlier from someone who wanted to know how Alan compares to NESL and Fortress. We took too long to draft up our response and were surprised to find it deleted when we got back. In case you're still lurking, we wan
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by ISV_Damocles 6y ago
We think the design of the language will support that in the future, but we need to write a GPU-based runtime that lives inside of the runtime and get it to decide when to offload work to GPU first, and that will take time.
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by ISV_Damocles 6y ago
Still working on those. :) We definitely beat Python, and we're faster than Node.js and Java at startup time. Where we are in the spectrum from C to Ruby we don't exactly know yet. But we do expect to improve and get much much clo
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by ISV_Damocles 6y ago
So we're very early and only do CPU parallelism right now, but we plan to tackle that problem domain in the future.
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Show HN: Alan – An implicitly parallel programming language(alan-lang.org)
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by ISV_Damocles 7y ago
Copying a product to reproduce bugs as well is exactly what WINE is all about. When bugs are part of your interface for others to integrate with, then I don't believe they should be considered off limits to copy. Otherwise an incumbent
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by ISV_Damocles 7y ago
That's why I separated it out. The post I replied to made a blanket statement about IP law in general, which I think is currently very flawed and certain actions that Huawei and others have done with respect to patents I have no issues
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by ISV_Damocles 7y ago
> (We should also not forget or excuse Chinese IP theft which has enabled Huawei to produce competitive products in the first place...) I certainly can, because it would be hypocritical to be against Microsoft using IP rights as a bludge
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
> It's funny because C opted to leave the number of bits machine dependent in the name of portability, but that turns out to have the opposite effect. That depends on what you consider the portable part. In the era of proprietary ma
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
Breaking the nose to placate concerns about a supernatural phenomenon seems like the very definition of a ritual (placate concerns about a supernatural phenomenon) defacement (literally removing a surface feature from the face of a statue)?
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
Using H3 to analyze data originally indexed in different formats is definitely cool, but you can totally do that with S2 as well. I personally feel the unidirectional edges[1] are a real differentiator. If you have these space-time buckets
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
Thank you so much for your wonderful documentation. The H3 team at Uber used it so much for so many things. :)
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
I just want to make it clear that there's a real reason behind H3, not just "invent something really cool." I don't work at Uber, anymore, but I did work on the team that originated H3 and worked on H3. To condense it do
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
Now I kinda hope Oracle decides to buy out MongoDB and integrate it into their own cloud. Then Oracle can decide to pull the same bullshit that they did with Google over the Java APIs with the MongoDB APIs but now against their current ene
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
They probably squashed the history before release because they only got legal's approval on the current state of the repo and not all prior history (which may or may not have had hacks referencing internal systems at some time).
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
A common misconception! It's actually the science of the color cyan, but people kept mispronouncing "Cyantology". ;)
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
From the Internet Archive FAQ: [0] > The Internet Archive (Archive.org) is a nonprofit library that preserves digital cultural artifacts, and provides online access to over a million users a day with the goal of universal access to all k
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by ISV_Damocles 8y ago
Would be even better if you could filter on your end. Users just tag their posts; "Pets," "Kids," "Politics," etc and then you can uncheck any tags from a friend you're not interested in, but leave the res

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