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by OskarS 8y ago
This is... insane. 2.7 million phone calls, containing the most sensitive information imaginable, just available on an unsecured server. Many of the files indexed by phone number, making it trivial to look up any given person. This has got
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by OskarS 8y ago
Every primitive recursive function is also µ-recursive: the primitive recursive functions are a subset of µ-recursive functions. But the converse is not true: there are µ-recursive functions that are not primitive recursive. The canonical e
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Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenue as They Fuck Over 800 Employees(waypoint.vice.com)
5 points by OskarS 8y ago|0 comments
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by OskarS 8y ago
> If you want to place your work in the public domain, you're free to do so. Fun fact: in many places, you actually can't. You can sign over copyright to someone else, or you can give anyone permission to do whatever, but many
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by OskarS 8y ago
Agree 100%. It's obviously not possible to dictate what people do with privately funded science, but it's ludicrous that publicly funded research isn't always open-access. If you get a single cent for your study from tax paye
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by OskarS 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-access_journals
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by OskarS 8y ago
I understand that the situation is frustrating for scientists and academics, but I really hope that they understand that breaking the Elsevier's chokehold is good for science (and the world) in the long run.
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by OskarS 8y ago
When it comes to any kind of programming library:ish thing, there's no bigger turn-off than "patent pending technology". No thanks. Off you go.
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by OskarS 8y ago
It might be tricky from a standards point of view, but as a user of the language, I don't think I've ever had an issue with how it handles overload resolution. Every once in a while you get an "call is ambiguous" compile
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by OskarS 8y ago
The problem isn't necessarily that / does integer division: it's that it ONLY SOMETIMES does integer division. It should either always do proper division, or always do integer division, but not try and guess what the programm
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by OskarS 8y ago
I don't like this style at all. If you're following the pipeline, it starts in the middle with "input", goes to the left for the grep, then to the right (skipping over the middle part) to sed. cat input | grep &#x
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Ask HN: Do you believe that your government has access to your Google history?
8 points by OskarS 8y ago|7 comments
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by OskarS 8y ago
Yes, it seemed strange to me as well. "We really, really like Objective-C and decided to poorly implement it in C". Just use Objective-C! It's perfectly compatible with C, it has better syntax and better compilers with better
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by OskarS 8y ago
You find it cognitively burdensome to remember that italic fonts aren’t necessarily made in Italy?
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by OskarS 8y ago
It’s not actually a problem. It’s fine. We all understand each other.
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by OskarS 8y ago
There's a fabulous numberphile video exploring this paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUD8h9JpEVQ
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by OskarS 8y ago
Good advice.
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by OskarS 8y ago
Are you honestly saying that medicine (a branch of biology) is not a "hard science"? That epidemiology, or genetics, or oncology isn't? Are you saying that when Crick and Watson deduced the structure of DNA based on the X-ray
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by OskarS 8y ago
Biology is absolutely a hard science. The soft sciences are things like economics, sociology and psychology. Look up "hard science" on wikipedia. Look it up in a dictionary. Look it up in any reference work you like. It may very w
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by OskarS 8y ago
The other obvious example is changing names when you get married.
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by OskarS 8y ago
The github page comes right out and says "[it] is ideally suited for high performance trading financial systems". Clearly, that's the intention behind the library. This would be essentially useless in game development (which
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by OskarS 8y ago
I think the problem here is that "financial computing" is too broad a term to apply a rule like that blindly. If you're making products like point-of-sale systems, ecommerce applications or account management, then it's
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by OskarS 8y ago
Probably not high priority in financial computing.
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by OskarS 8y ago
Yeah, my first thought was games as well. If you could make this work in real time, you could do all sorts of nonsense.
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by OskarS 8y ago
Some part of that is bad namespace handling, remove the namespaces and it already looks better: thing->Energy = thing->Mass() * pow(speedOfLightInVacuum, 2) And you can obviously clean it up further by using variables and j
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by OskarS 8y ago
From the very little work I've done in Mathematica (which was years ago, and I'm not anywhere close to a "real" mathematician), the mathematical formatting was one of the great perks.
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by OskarS 8y ago
According to GNU's page on this, GitHub also got a failing grade: [0] Are you making this same comment every time someone posts a project on GitHub? [0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html
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by OskarS 8y ago
This echoes many of my experiences in gamedev as well. It's really soul-crushing to be working on games that are poorly designed by people who has no business making games, or are designed to exploit some addictive impulse. It can real
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by OskarS 8y ago
This one is neat! $ curl wttr.in/ Not sure if I'd use it much, but it is nifty!
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by OskarS 8y ago
> This should be restricted to anything making decisions based on personal information It strikes me that the most obvious thing the US needs is some version of GDPR. It's a much better framework than some vague "regulator of a

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