SeanDav

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by SeanDav 12y ago
* "Edit: Not entirely sure why I'm being downvoted for this" * You are implying something negative about Google. There are a lot of Google employees and Google fanboys active on HN that will happily downvote anything negative
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Can't find any reference to c++ in these lists - even COBOL gets a mention...
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It is a vastly smaller space than "all people that use the internet". Also I think it makes sense to assume that the "privacy seekers" set would contain a higher proportion of "bad actors". I am not in any way
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Not sure why you were marked down for that comment. Logically it is an obvious low hanging fruit to target the people looking for privacy. It is cynical but certainly logical, like it or not.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Not sure that anyone outside of the USA is going to trust important data to any USA company. Speaking for myself, I wouldn't trust these companies with my important business data, even if I lived in the USA.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
The TrueCrypt developer(s) may be under a government gag order and this may just be their way of letting us know without saying "The Government can crack TrueCrypt, it is not fit for purpose anymore" This may be another Lavabit si
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by SeanDav 12y ago
I am no expert, but logically you could explain this behaviour of apparent negative SEO by Google discounting all links to "blue widgets" and the sites that market blue widgets that are now ranking higher, achieve this because of
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by SeanDav 12y ago
This attitude is incredibly naive (the fact that you made an account 2 hours ago to express this opinion, means you probably agree and are just trolling). Governments change, but data is forever, what you say now or do in public may be poli
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by SeanDav 12y ago
This was initially developed on OS X but has since been ported to Windows and Linux(x86). Does anyone know if the releases for all these platforms are identical in terms of features and release dates, or is one the poor cousin?
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Interesting project. Why is there no grep in this, or on the to-do list?
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Not at all trying to diss the OP, who wrote an interesting article, but if anything, this has put me off FP a bit. It really does seem like a lot of effort to go through for unclear benefits. I have no doubt that learning FP will make me a
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by SeanDav 12y ago
This is a good illustration for Karma, or "what goes around, comes around". Apple have only paid lip service (at best) to patent reform, so now there might be some serious consequences to that decision.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
OT: I tried to get hold of a copy of Sidekick plus so I could play Vogon Poetry, but could not find this anywhere. So if anyone has a copy of Sidekick plus with Vogon Poetry....
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Peter Norton's books, or at least the ones he wrote himself initially, were wonderfully clear and well written, even though they absolutely got down to the bare metal. I kept my copies for many years because I could not bring myself to
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by SeanDav 12y ago
I used to work at Merrill Lynch, I saw what the focus on short term results did and the culture it created. It was almost always about the quarterly results. I once saw an entire team of bond traders fired because their quarterly results we
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Agreed - I saw a later comment by the poster which shows I misinterpreted the comment. My original point still stands though, just not applicable to the poster.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Ask yourself: How many kids are killed annually by being left alone in a car, and how many kids are killed annually in car accidents? I have no doubt that the number killed in car accidents is vastly higher. So which is the biggest sin? Whi
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by SeanDav 12y ago
The USA seems to have the most incredibly lousy "justice" system. Laws are made by lobbyists and enforcement of those laws, sometimes involving judgments of billions of dollars seem to rest on some good ol' boys in some dingy
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Except it is not safe to remove your kid from the car - that carries risks of its own. There is no safe option - as the article clearly points out. In any case - if you wanted to make the safe decision, why did you put your kid in the car i
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by SeanDav 12y ago
What open source dictionaries are being used by these scrabble programs? (I know I could bing (or DDG) the answer but would like to hear from an "insider" if possible.)
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by SeanDav 12y ago
There are Apple fanboys, there are Google fanboys, there are Microsoft fanboys, there are Linux fanboys, there are Haskell fanboys...etc etc. Sometimes it can be annoying, especially when they band together to kill an otherwise interesting
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by SeanDav 12y ago
You are being racist. People born and bred in Africa are of African descent. Skin color is irrelevant and to think that skin color makes a difference to how "african" you are, makes you racist.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
South Africa is an interesting mix of 1st and 3rd world in almost every aspect of life. Education can be world class, yet many are illiterate. Medicine can be world class (the first ever successful heart transplant anywhere in the world, wa
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by SeanDav 12y ago
I wondered what language it was written in and found out after a little research: http://processing.org/
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by SeanDav 12y ago
The problem is perception. If people associate the name with Hitler (and I think they do), then no matter what the "correct" definition is, the name will be what people think it is. This is how languages evolve. If enough people t
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by SeanDav 12y ago
There appears to be billions to be made in profits from anti cancer drugs, no surprise that companies are spending like crazy on cancer research. On finding replacements / alternatives for our fast reducing arsenal of effective antibio
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by SeanDav 12y ago
What happens if it turns out that the treatment is fatal in 30% of cases? A trial of 2 would not necessarily show this type of thing. That is why one cannot extrapolate this without much more information i.e. more trials.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
I see no reason why it isn't real, unfortunately a trial of 1 does not a cure make, however it does seem very hopeful, even if there is a long way to go with more extensive trials.
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by SeanDav 12y ago
I hope that the comments engine supports tail-call optimization, or we gonna blow the stack!
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by SeanDav 12y ago
Perhaps software and virtual routers are the way to go, especially if any are open source. It would be great if someone with knowledge in this domain could comment on this.

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