Tloewald

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by Tloewald 11y ago
> They can interoperate through OS-level abstractions like pipes and via C APIs on at the process level. And you can't do this in OSX or iOS? > The average Unix desktop or server is probably running code written in 5-10 languages
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Yeah it's only possible to write iOS apps with C, C++, C#, Ruby, Javascript, Python, LUA...
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by Tloewald 11y ago
You can make a case for CSV because it's text editor friendly, and tabs because it conceptually maps to typewriters, but we don't even have the option to use these characters. And arguing that typing escape sequences to represent
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by Tloewald 11y ago
How much would you care to wager?
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The thing about encoding multiple fields within a cell using \x01 somewhat bugs me -- not because it's a hack but because it's yet another example of needless reinvention of wheels. Good old ASCII has characters specifically devot
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by Tloewald 11y ago
My guess is it's Richard Branson's knack for self promotion.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It seems to me that concern over the dictatorship criterion is ill founded. Its failure merely implies that for any given set of alternatives there will always be one voter whose preferences, whatever they may be, determine the outcome. Now
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by Tloewald 11y ago
You're better-informed that I am. I see from the NY Times: > There is one exception to this wall of secrecy: a group of some 600 trade “advisers,” dominated by representatives of big businesses, who enjoy privileged access to draft
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I sure hope the dog is playable!
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by Tloewald 11y ago
There are plenty of reasons why virtually all international negotiations are conducted in secret. For one tiny example, imagine the effect on the markets and perhaps worse the effect of markets on the negotiations. If the process were made
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Another way of looking at it is that they've built their business model this way and they're making the case why it's better for their customers and the right thing to do. Volvo likes to advertise the safety engineering of it
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Parsing and string manipulation are (hugely) easier in Javascript than C. Compiling the interpreter to Javascript via Emscripten is certainly easier than translating to Javascript -- but porting C to Javascript should still be very easy.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The stuff we are doing is so not life and death that nothing like this could happen. E.g. We have fairly insane levels of security for information that is inherently public.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
A lot of c will translate very simply to JavaScript and any parsing or string manipulation will be insanely easier.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Given it's written in C, it seems like a direct port to Javascript might be a much better option.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The project I'm working on (for the Federal government no less, and very much not life and death) involves having test data in the production system and tests that run in the production system. (I was impressed by this when I found out
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by Tloewald 11y ago
This isn't really a comparable example. We are talking about the most famous recent piece of math that made headlines all over the world first when the proof was published, again when issues were found with the proof, and again when th
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The guy he tried to kill was a corrupt law enforcement officer who was stealing from him. If the same trick were deliberately pulled by law enforcement surely the defense could argue entrapment. It's ironic at minimum.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I understand what an open ball is (and surely if you read my original post carefully this would be clear), I just don't think it actually makes the discussion clearer. In particular, when explaining something to people, starting with c
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Trig is the math of triangles and circles — it can be fully understood in geometric terms. Calculus requires far more foundation. The linked article is interesting but the definition of differentiability looks wrong to me — maybe my brain n
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Just bear in mind that from what we know the German and British governments were all in with the NSA and do even more surveillance on their own citizens than the U.S. does (both, by the way, also using terrorism as the pretext - IRA and Bah
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It's quite obvious that the Clintons and Obama are far more liberal than their policies — far from being a "homophobe" who secretly opposes gay marriage, Obama is almost certainly guilty merely of underestimating the rate of
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It's much less obvious than you think. In many cases safely overriding a method requires correctly in invoking the inherited method, and failing to do so can cause subtle problems.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
There's an in-between option seen in some languages where you don't inherit and override but instead implement a superclass's stub (or event if you want to think of it another way), which I think gives almost all the benefits
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I find there are no 0x engineers. What there are is -3x engineers.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I was taking this into account. Bear in mind that the future value of laptops is very low indeed.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It's quite possible that most startups are worth less than the developers' laptops.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
We'll know we're doomed when WIRED has a cover story on "The Long Boom" and how this time it's for real.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
So it's smooth but doesn't do synch properly? That's kind of a deal breaker – keeping in synch is (or should be) a higher priority than not skipping frames.
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Right -- universities are "diluting their brand" in the long term by creating incentives that destroy the value of college education.

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