Ralith

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by Ralith 14y ago
It's quite a lot easier to mess up C memory management than to somehow accidentally manually specify a ridiculous Typeable instance.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Don't you use version control?
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by Ralith 14y ago
Dependently typed programming languages can do the "express all the invariants" bit. Readability is an open question, though.
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by Ralith 14y ago
> Any sane programmer would highly doubt existence of a (faster_than_C && safer_than_java) claim. I dunno, mlton was of that order and that was ages ago.
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by Ralith 14y ago
So contribute to it!
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by Ralith 14y ago
It's important that rapid, even numerous, security updates are never seen as a bad thing, because that would provide incentive to choose the obvious alternative for the sake of appearance, despite the actual reduction in security.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Certainly. But it does ensure that access to your server does not entail access to historical numbers.
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by Ralith 14y ago
> The frequency of security updates over the last decade is a disgrace. Would you have preferred they only released security updates once a year?
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by Ralith 14y ago
Giving kickstarter donators special treatment doesn't really change anything. Why don't you just charge for access to the web UI/feeds/etc, but still leave the hardware open and usable independently for those inclined and able to set up the
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by Ralith 14y ago
To my reading, OP didn't intend to convey "unpredictable" so much as "large," and if he did, then I'm not sure what he was thinking; "quantum leap" isn't even colloquially understood to mean "unpredictable change".
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by Ralith 14y ago
Compared to, say, an actual leap. What do you mean by "an impossible gap?" If it wasn't possible, it wouldn't happen. Even beyond that, "impossible" does not entail great magnitude, but simply something outside the set of possibilities, whi
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by Ralith 14y ago
There is a difference: If the data never touches your server at all, it is impossible for you to inadvertently record it.
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by Ralith 14y ago
As an aside, you may want a new metaphor--"quantum leaps" are actually extremely small.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Did nobody tell him about http://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/ ?
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by Ralith 14y ago
Indeed. There's no incentive for rightsholders not to hedge their bets, and so even well-meaning user-generated content sites will suffer. Unless they're google properties, presumably.
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by Ralith 14y ago
For smaller sites, why would rights-holders bother trying to contact the site when they can just get it delisted from google?
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by Ralith 14y ago
What makes you think I want anything hard-coded?
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by Ralith 14y ago
Any syntax highlighting scheme which does not leverage a language parser is woefully limited. If you're satisfied with a scattering of heuristics, great; you'll find satisfaction in a much wider set of tools. Myself, I want syntax highlight
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by Ralith 14y ago
> it's not super-tough to write your own syntax for any language Spoken like somebody who's never tried to parse C++.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Would it be any worse? Because "Same deal, but faster and cheaper" sounds okay to me.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Sure, but is this project on github because of that policy? I doubt it.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Like http://identi.ca/ ?
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by Ralith 14y ago
There's an easy way, actually: Don't do publically visible things in the first place. Certainly, this limits your options in life, but if you simply can't tolerate other people speculating about you, reasonably or otherwise, you don't give
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by Ralith 14y ago
If he doesn't want people to discuss his actions and motivations, he shouldn't write them up on a blog.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Notch isn't the one working on this code, and it's not released, just open.
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by Ralith 14y ago
> Maybe we need app/media store neutrality as well, by requiring OS vendors to allow side-loading. Maybe we need OS neutrality as well, by demanding HW vendors to offer their machienes "rooted". Maybe? There's no question. Manufacturers
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by Ralith 14y ago
Just FYI, "Yea" and "Yay" are not synonymous.
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by Ralith 14y ago
We're not speaking English, we're speaking math.
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by Ralith 14y ago
> architecting enterprise integration contracts As a soon-to-graduate who knows both Lisp and Haskell, I'm curious what exactly this means.
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by Ralith 14y ago
I'm a heavy Common Lisp user, but I'm only casually familiar with Scheme, so I opted to leave deconstruction of that aspect to others--such as yourself!

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