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by _sh 13y ago
Perhaps that any attempt to subvert snooping by the government will simply be made illegal?
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by _sh 13y ago
For those who argue that the hierarchical filing system isn't going anywhere, consider Yahoo vs Google. Yahoo was once a hierarchical filing system for the web, Google's philosophy was 'search don't sort'. For those
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by _sh 13y ago
"The kernel battle"? Oh please. Why must everything be cast in terms of winners and losers? If you insist: the absence of a microkernel implementation, regardless of its technical feasibility, means we are all losers of "the kernel battle".
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by _sh 13y ago
Although it looks impoverished, it's really just a foundation for developing your own abstractions, and syntactic sugar goes a long way (I've bound the Alt-> key to → and use it for 'send'). CLOS-like systems can be built on structs wit
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by _sh 13y ago
Files are a case where the object metaphor makes sense-- there's a bunch of tightly-wound connected state, and I/O is inherently stateful. And user interface widget libraries, which are all about I/O. Even Racket's widget toolkit leverage
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by _sh 13y ago
Backporting bugfixes has a cost. Requiring 1.x to support IE15 pushes that cost onto the jQuery developers instead of where it rightfully belongs: migrating your app to a recent version.
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by _sh 13y ago
It's "unforgivably bad design" only if enough people don't click... I understand your sarcasm, but 'good design' is an aesthetic, not a metric. [edit: on second thoughts, I think I may have over-simplified things. Is 'good design' purely
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by _sh 13y ago
Previous discussion about the relative merit of these papers versus the relative number of times a link to them floats about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599306
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by _sh 14y ago
I had a look at these two applications. I couldn't figure out if they do anything that Vim's ':X' doesn't do? Partial key-sharing? Access delegation?
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by _sh 14y ago
Racket now has all manner of purely functional data structures (Okasaki and Bagwell) available as a library on Planet: http://planet.plt-scheme.org/package-source/krhari/pfds.plt/...
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by _sh 14y ago
A lisp program's code can be manipulated by the program itself. Lisp programs are self-aware. It's a bit mind-bending, but from this simple foundation comes the power to easily create and assimilate ever higher-level abstractions (which is
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by _sh 14y ago
The accepted answer is an excellent post. In it is this gem: > Scheme's syntax-case is far more subtle and complicated than any one thing in Lisp. While syntax-case seems complicated at first because it involves a similar mind-bending
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by _sh 14y ago
Isn't a language just a framework for abstracting machine code?
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by _sh 14y ago
A cluster of camps, perhaps related to a specific topic, could be called a 'Jamboree'.
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by _sh 14y ago
My helpful suggestion: get a lawyer. Don't bother contacting Google/Bing or doing anything else until this is done first. Doing anything else is stupid, risky and futile. On the plus side, this is a great opportunity for some clever PR spin
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by _sh 14y ago
While the site is indeed good, if you want truly awesome , BEHOLD the POWER of the TIME CUBE: http://www.timecube.com/
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by _sh 14y ago
There's a whole bunch of tools groping awkardly in a single direction here: 1. Give a graph to the computer 2. The computer makes the graph a reality The good ol' fashioned make tool does exactly this and, in the spirit of U
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by _sh 14y ago
As to what compiler NASA uses, their C Coding Standard [1] nominates a set of flags for GCC (page 8). http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
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by _sh 14y ago
Once you've paid for Internet and power, being 'social online' is indeed free.
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by _sh 14y ago
Port knocking makes no sense in this situation. I think it's something more like STUN (RFC3489). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3489.txt
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by _sh 14y ago
Before this ignorant meme gets too much of a footing here, why don't you Betteridge your flapjacks off with this one: Why is Apple losing its shine after Steve Jobs?
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by _sh 14y ago
"I'm sorry, my current contract forbids me from discussing my remuneration. I'm sure you understand and have similar policies. However, I can give you a ballpark figure: more than <insert your desired base salary here>." Or you co
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by _sh 14y ago
"If you can't say it as a declarative statement," Social media use in Indonesia predicts Facebook's decline "it's link-bait" QED
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by _sh 14y ago
Thanks for that clarification--I find myself confusing V8 for JSC every now and then.
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Map: Mass shootings in the US since 1990(abc.net.au)
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by _sh 14y ago
Andy Wingo's exploration of V8's Lithium interpreter [1] describes the reasoning behind the Ruby offline assembly generator. Actually, if you're reading the original linked article, you should also be reading Andy's series on V8. [1] http:
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by _sh 14y ago
Nice one. I'd love to see a walkthrough for .NET executables[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable#.NET.2C_met...
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by _sh 14y ago
I'm just amazed you use divs containing data-uri images instead of, say, a canvas element for drawing icons like the battery level and connection signal bars. You must have fought hard with superhuman patience to do battle with the DOM in t
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by _sh 14y ago
Sorry Sriram, I was going to let this whole point slide, but I just can't. I think your advice on the architect issue is out-of-whack. When I hear the phrase 'fire anyone who has architect in their title', here's what I hear in my internal
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by _sh 14y ago
This is an interesting idea that uses email/IMAP as a transport for social message passing. It plays to the strengths of multipart email messages having a human-readable part that is as rich as possible for email client viewing (when users

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