Ralith

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by Ralith 14y ago
Well, the original commenter might've thought that they were becoming more selective, or even just letting the community select titles for final consideration.
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by Ralith 14y ago
"Isn't applicable?" What kind of an error message is that?
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by Ralith 14y ago
If your brand is based on strict curation, then accepting the union of the selections of your curators and popular demand removes that strictness. It didn't sound to me like they're accepting the intersection of the two methods.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Compared to self-published works, sure. But compare them instead to the old standard, the likes of EA, Ubisoft, and Activision, with their buyouts, exclusive contracts, editorial control, and very small volume of profits returned to develop
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by Ralith 14y ago
Your trivial example is already spaghetti code; I'm loathe to imagine what real-world use would look like. It's also an internally inconsistent concept: consider "case 3" and "case s > 4". Are you comparing values to the switch statemen
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by Ralith 14y ago
Valve continues to innovate in the distribution market. Here's to the death of monolithic publishers and retail!
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by Ralith 14y ago
Unfortunately, lispbox is badly out of date: "Last updated: February 6, 2011." If you're on windows, try Lisp Cabinet. Elsewhere, you'll have to configure things yourself.
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by Ralith 14y ago
The philosophy page this article cites is hilariously contradictory: it bemoans hackers working for other people rather than bringing their own ideas to life, and then encourages them to work for other people through the OP's service--the s
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by Ralith 14y ago
The problem is you still have to go out and successfully identify which cryptossytem was designed and implemented by experts and is appropriate for your use-case.
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by Ralith 14y ago
That's not a very good map either--there's no connection between ML and Haskell, for starters.
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by Ralith 14y ago
They wouldn't. That's why law's so much about intent and interpretation--to avoid trivial workarounds like that.
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by Ralith 14y ago
> A reasonable person knows an assault rifle is not for protection Makes for pretty fun sport shooting, though.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Oh, cool!
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by Ralith 14y ago
Why will you succeed where so many others have failed?
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by Ralith 14y ago
What about those of us who don't use facebook or twitter? Or any social networking service, for that matter?
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by Ralith 14y ago
You realize this has already started, right?
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by Ralith 14y ago
Considering that arrows are a generalization of monads, that shouldn't be a surprise.
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by Ralith 14y ago
What do you have to say to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4188882 ?
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by Ralith 14y ago
> Sometimes people ... use "Internet" when they mean "Web." It is in fact extraordinarily common. It's also wrong.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Alarmist article.
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by Ralith 14y ago
While I appreciate that your post is mostly jest, it's worth noting that a "fix" that places an immense amount of additional load on the programmer is not worthy of the title (in part due to the consequences you describe). And even then, ev
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by Ralith 14y ago
I'm at least as opinionated about programming languages as the next HNer, but surely it's a misrepresentation to call Visual Basic, Access, and, yes, even PHP "failed" in light of their widespread use in successful products and/or businesse
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by Ralith 14y ago
TFA seems to argue that people's complaints don't apply to PHP5 because it added a random assortment of features.
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> PHP's problems are actually quite solvable without core language changes How do you fix weak typing?
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by Ralith 14y ago
He's certainly optimistic, but I notice a distinct lack of evidence.
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As C++ has taught us, the solution to the errors made in a badly misdesigned language is not to continue cramming every feature you can think of into it.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Missing an apostrophe there.
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by Ralith 14y ago
So, Perl's HTML::Template?
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by Ralith 14y ago
Not to mention that the web is not the internet.
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Yeah, at this rate nobody will be working long hours at unsafe assembly lines! Wait a moment.

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