JulianMorrison

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   by JulianMorrison 15y ago

   It's a remote distributed MVCC data store with a total ordering of writes maintained by a transaction service, nonblocking reads bypassing the writer, and a local data analysis system that reads and caches the relevant facts from the remote
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   by JulianMorrison 15y ago

   Honestly I have no idea why they didn't just ban him and say "don't hack us". It really should be that simple.
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   by JulianMorrison 15y ago

   Clojure implements them in trees of contiguous arrays :-P http://blog.higher-order.net/2009/02/01/understanding-clojur...
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   by JulianMorrison 15y ago

   Not comparable. The then-contemporary equivalent to "today's Ruby On Rails For Dummies crowd" was hobbyist BASIC programmers. The modern day equivalent to people making DOS jump hoops would be professional C++ games programmers.
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   by JulianMorrison 15y ago

   That's mainly because DOS couldn't do anything. If you want to reproduce the capabilities of DOS - single tasking, single threading file and screen IO in text or simple non-windowed graphics - you really wouldn't need to learn much more n
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   by JulianMorrison 15y ago

   Err, nope, coffee is pretty popular. The differences between coffee and modafinil are: coffee tastes better, modafinil does the same job for longer with less side effects.
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   by JulianMorrison 15y ago

   What is the use-case for server side scripting? Does a running script block readers and writers?
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   by JulianMorrison 15y ago

   Why can't the battery just be simply disconnected?
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   by JulianMorrison 15y ago

   Take a look at how Go handles interface types, because that is basically dynamic typing, and Go can allocate data as unboxed values.
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    True but overly defeatist. Fixing one problem would not solve things. Fixing several problems (cancer, intra-cellular junk, extra-cellular junk, etc etc, Google "SENS" for a suggested list) would actually cure death from ageing - or at mini
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    It's different when the privacy violation is followed by being involved in somebody else's sex act without consent.
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    Having more inside space probably compensates.
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    Obvious solution: hire Damien Hirst to personally respray your boringly cheap, commodity Tesla. Pure snob value!
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    End copyright.
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    This seems to be the theory https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Identity/VerifiedEmailProtocol Can any HN folk comment on the quality of security this provides?
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    I think this is just mistaken. How is mixing your social circle into your search NOT relevant? Given that people routinely move in tight cliques, whether or not they know it. If all your buddies are into kink, a search for "horse" or "crops
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    Yeah, but good luck getting it back.
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    Because basically, I don't think that the trouble they go to creates an obligation in me in regard of my network, my hard drive, my screen.
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    The law is just a thing I follow to avoid inconvenience, when necessary. It's completely distinct from my morality. And, my morality simply does not see copying as stealing, pirating, thermonuclear mass-murder, or whatever blood curdling wo
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    Ah, the silliness heuristic.
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    Shoulda used Forth. It'd be fairly easy to go from assembler to an ultra bare bones Forth, and that could be built up to work like Pascal, until it looks like Pascal-written-backwards. Then write the compiler in that, and the translation
22. 2482.▲
    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    SpaceX will beat them to it.
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    Because it's hard, I expect. There are few companies you can boycott with just a few clicks.
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    Clojure's data structures are rather good for "concurrent access to the same data". References change value, but values don't change. The references are protected by read/write locks but the values in them need no protection once they have
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    It's not that the recording industry is, just coincidentally, a bunch of jerks. Copyright is not about money, not directly. Copyright is about power. In the case of the content industries, honking great amounts of government backed power to
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    Redirects are a good idea. Redirects mean that you don't have to juggle legally sensitive credit card data yourself, and your customers see a browser indication that they are talking to the genuine Paypal (or whomever). Paypal sucks, bloc
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    Black, white, and 50% grey do seem to be the attractors.
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    This article is probably falling for the cognitive bias (whose name I forget), where what actually happened looks inevitable in retrospect, but looked much more undecided in prospect. Contrast all the other tablet PCs and so forth which hav
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    I have said before, driverless cars will end the private car. First you get your car doing taxi work for money while it would otherwise be parked in your workplace. Then you get a social stratum of people who only ever use other people's ca
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    by JulianMorrison 15y ago

    Instead of: [person_id,person_name] [team_id,team_name] [person_id, team_id] You get: [person_id, person_name, [team_id, team_id, ...]] [team_id, team_name, [person_id, person_id, ...]]