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by SeanDav 11y ago
OT: > "In march of 2014, a young man posed for a selfie atop a boxcar. Diverted, he was unaware of the 35,000-volt livewire just beside him." These articles always quote high Voltage numbers as being dangerous. It is not the
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NSA Hacker Chief Explains How to Keep Him Out of Your System(wired.com)
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by SeanDav 11y ago
A major concern to me is how to Debug Nim. Considering it compiles into C as a first step, I would have thought that Debugging may have quite a few issues and gotchas as well as some good tips and tricks. I am not sure if this is covered, b
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I put off developing in Python for ages because I dislike significant whitespace. Eventually I was persuaded to give it a go. After developing in Python for some time now, I still dislike significant whitespace and the whole tab-space issue
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I have known a few entrepreneurs and invariably they showed they were such by their behaviour, attitude and approach. They did not need someone to tell them or need to stop and ask "Am I an entrepreneur?", they just got on with b
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by SeanDav 11y ago
> "But how do we know if it is in our blood? That is probably the hardest part" I would say if you have to ask that question of yourself, then the answer is self evident.
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by SeanDav 11y ago
> "....Redmine instance (which is written in Ruby) and this is real nightmare for me. Each time I've to upgrade, I've to drink a lot day or two in advance...." Well that is your problem right there - don't drin
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by SeanDav 11y ago
Right now many trading houses with huge IT budgets are choosing Java for their high frequency trading systems. This is an arena where microseconds matter and the fact that Java is a viable choice, says a lot about the speed and power of mod
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by SeanDav 11y ago
But for the work of 1 man - Martin Burgess, this is yet another marvel of old technology that may have been lost forever, along with Greek Fire, Roman Concrete, Damascus Steel and many others.
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by SeanDav 11y ago
If it can add top class security / anti tracking / anti fingerprinting, it would become far more compelling.
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I will definitely be keeping an eye on Nim. That aside, does anyone else find the fact that Nim treats "-1" differently to "- 1" (quotes added for clarity) a bit disconcerting?
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I am not a fan of Adobe, but this is hardly "Adobe caught lying". It is common practice for the support people dealing with cancellations to have incentives to try keep the client, and some scope on what they can offer, but this s
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I followed the link to some slides created by the Author at: http://ghostweather.slides.com/lynncherny/deck#/ This is not a direct criticism of the Author, but what is it with the penchant these days to use absol
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by SeanDav 11y ago
An obvious problem (and one that was highlighted but seemingly ignored) is that you require a significant amount of reputation on Meta in order to get the ability to down-vote something proposed on Meta - i.e. the proposed licence changes.
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by SeanDav 11y ago
My first thought when I started reading was "wow what a waste of time and money to display a stupid picture" but by the time I was near the end of the article, my attitude had turned 180 degrees. This is amazing attention to detai
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by SeanDav 11y ago
For international users: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35301279
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Google's self-drive cars had to be stopped from crashing(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by SeanDav 11y ago|1 comments
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by SeanDav 11y ago
> "Way cool indeed. And this is my first comment....." Welcome to HN. Please read the Guidelines and FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.
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by SeanDav 11y ago
> "Juniper said it brought in third-party help to investigate its code and determined that no other “unauthorized code” lives in either ScreenOS or Junos OS." The third-party help probably consisted of a number of helpful fol
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by SeanDav 11y ago
> "And here I get a huge WTF. If someone gave me money that he couldn't give me (for example, he stole it), I'm not required to give it back — he is." It has to be like that or laundering stolen money/goods bec
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by SeanDav 11y ago
It is the direct TL;DR quote from the Author himself, given prominence with blank line separators, italics, bold prefix and located near the very start of the article, so hardly out of context.
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I don't understand the point of saying something like: > "I show how to build a modern C++ high-performance, asynchronous echo server that can be written with just 48 lines of code." The fact that it is 48 lines of code
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by SeanDav 11y ago
This used to be a well known technique by windows users to save memory and resources, back in the day when the desktop background could have an impact on system performance. The trick was to have a background of an image of a few pixels squ
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by SeanDav 11y ago
> "[2] "C vs C++ linus torvalds" Linus is a great programmer and in the kernel space I would listen very closely to what he has to say - minus the profanity and insults. Outside of that space he is as subject to cognitiv
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by SeanDav 11y ago
So informing was a useful tool to knock down your potential rivals or those whose faces did not fit. I despair at Human Nature sometimes...
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by SeanDav 11y ago
Where I drive (UK), truck drivers are by far the worst drivers on the road. Many of them are from Europe and used to driving on the right side of the road, not the left side in the UK. If this was the only issue it would be bad enough, but
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by SeanDav 11y ago
Good to see LoseThos there. An interesting story about an interesting guy - and also a great programmer.
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I have just started teaching my daughter to program. I would certainly agree that starting off is not nearly as easy as it used to be. Kids love interactive and graphical environments and trying to do this in any mainstream language quickly
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by SeanDav 11y ago
Disclaimer: I know nothing about the issues, but would using C with inline assembly gain anything?
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The point of the project is not to demonstrate if copying is right or wrong, it is to demonstrate that the value given to copies is blatantly incorrect because the industry players see every copy as a lost sale, and ask for compensation on

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