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by acomar 10y ago
Sure, but I don't know any pure languages that provide no facilities for mutation whatsoever, they just ask you to be explicit about it and add some syntactic weight (which is a good thing, you want mutation called out as a reader).
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by acomar 10y ago
I've found the specific sites you have open matter too. Google products (inbox especially) and AWS in particular are awful if you leave them open for a while. I stopped doing that as soon as I noticed. On linux I also saw a lot of bene
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by acomar 10y ago
It's always either redundant or indicative of a problem elsewhere. Either section 1 has a title/thesis that makes it obvious what it's about and so the restatement is unnecessary, or you need to say it because you haven'
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by acomar 10y ago
There's a difference. You aren't forbidden from listing your marital or child-care status on your resume, companies are forbidden from asking you about it. Banning applicants from disclosing their school would be a rather differen
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by acomar 10y ago
I bet you'd be on the hook for installing a door without locks though.
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by acomar 10y ago
The lanes are HOV-3 if you have an appropriately equipped transponder to signal that fact.
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by acomar 10y ago
It's unpredictable in the sense that even with a compile-time check that the function I'm calling is pure, I don't have any guarantee that it won't throw on my particular inputs. This comes up a lot in the Haskell commun
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by acomar 10y ago
> Unpredictable exception-throwing only happens if the work being done by your function isn't pure, i.e. it depends on something other than the function parameters. This isn't true. The canonical example is trying to grab the f
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by acomar 10y ago
You know what's funny about that quote? It was actually intended as a clever dig about Robert Hooke's height[0]. Newton and Hooke had a longstanding feud and this was another shot in that war. The quote itself is much older with t
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by acomar 10y ago
I must be missing something. I realize the stories share some similarities but the third movie ends with a Hindu prayer to drive the point home: the Matrix is a fairly classic retelling of the story of Gautama (the Buddha). It follows the H
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by acomar 10y ago
Thanks! This has me down a rabbit-hole because I'm now trying to find the name for a related concept: once you've learned a new idea/model, you start to notice how it applies to everything around you. I find this happening mo
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by acomar 10y ago
I do too. I suspect they're a form of confirmation bias, however, because it's not easy to remember that you heard about an idea or term you're unfamiliar with. On the other hand, something you've just recently heard or
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by acomar 10y ago
Presumably they'll want to deactivate the accounts for people who don't settle their bills, and they'll want to keep out folks who don't have accounts. This seems attackable to me, probably because they haven't rele
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by acomar 10y ago
I saw that, but it sounds vague enough that there a few different scenarios I can think of to attack this service. Like what are they going to do if multiple people are sharing an account, but they only have photos of one? edit: I just real
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by acomar 10y ago
I wonder how they plan to deal with fraud... some kind of check-in process instead?
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by acomar 10y ago
PD is bad enough on its own without dementia. My mother has had the early onset variety since her mid-thirties, and while her cognitive function has clearly declined, she's no where near dementia. On its own, the disease is like prison
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by acomar 10y ago
I'm not saying there's no lock-in, just that it's not as rigid or strong. Better search results (for you) is exactly the kind of reason you want to be using one search engine over another. If another search engine started pro
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by acomar 10y ago
The account would be by far the hardest thing for me to walk away from. Email is federated and I can export the mail out of Gmail without too much hassle. I don't because I like the interface they provide (for now). Calendar, same deal
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by acomar 10y ago
Wait, KeePass only decrypts the database into memory for a particular process, right? So it would take an exploit of some kind to read the memory holding the decrypted database?
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by acomar 10y ago
There's less of a lock-in effect though. The only thing stopping you from using a different search engine is that you're more comfortable with Google, it provides better (catered to you) results, etc.. That is, competitive advanta
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by acomar 10y ago
Works fine in Firefox.
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by acomar 10y ago
They hit the self-destruct button. It's reasonable to expect that it's all gone at this point. The community will have to build something new and hopefully more resilient this time.
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by acomar 10y ago
That's true only of the most popular OSS projects but the infrastructure described in the OP is much more general about that. I strongly recommend actually reading the full paper, it talks about the difficulty in funding these projects
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by acomar 10y ago
Donated to whom? There's no central body to receive and distribute these donations. Somebody still has to turn the indirect funding into direct funding to actually get the money into the hands of the developers building the infrastruct
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by acomar 10y ago
This model just doesn't work and that's exactly what the paper linked in the OP is about. Look at OpenSSL, everyone was (is) using it, one guy was maintaining it and barely earning a salary to do so. Seriously, read the OP, it&#x2
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by acomar 10y ago
If you slow it down, it would be apparent to you too. High-level human players do this kind of thing to, just not this fast. But effectively, it's watching where the attacking unit is facing and it knows when the next attack is coming,
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by acomar 10y ago
GPL just requires source to be available to anyone who receives the binary. It has to be available on request. You can ask them to pay for the cost of postage to ship it to them.
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by acomar 10y ago
> Meanwhile, our "software patterns" embed a centralized power structure both in the code (architect->team lead->junior programmer) and in the world now increasingly controlled by the whims of Silicon Valley founders. No
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by acomar 10y ago
Likely a lot of the same biases... Look at the categorization, these are things any general system of intelligence is going to have to do at some level. Only a system with infinite computational power can afford to be without bias.
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by acomar 10y ago
Honestly man, I can handle math without issues. Differential equations are no big deal. But if you ask me to design a workflow, I'm going to give you the blankest stare ever because I don't even have a clue where to start. I can p

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