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by adamb 12y ago
Amen. Will send later today.
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by adamb 12y ago
Working nonstop at my computer has always made eating 3 meals a day tough for me[1]. Even with OrderAhead and DoorDash, nearby restaurants get played out fast. I first tried Gobble when I saw a trial card over at Zombie Runner on California
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by adamb 16y ago
Our early decision to use SHA-1 was a balance between limitations of mobile hardware and the security landscape of the day. Much of Skynet's core technology is actually designed for mobile platforms. Skynet essentially thinks of a desktop c
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by adamb 16y ago
While we're talking about syntax, "\n" is an alternative to ",". This helps multi-line expressions read more naturally. '{ foo: 1 baz: 'bar chunky: 'bacon }
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by adamb 16y ago
Our use of ' was inspired by lisp's. Immutability such is an important part of Spin's messaging model that we wanted a consistent way to declare an immutable construction. # An immutable string (or symbol) 'foo # An immutable list
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by adamb 16y ago
The distributed programmer in me wants to point out that having applications automatically use the latest version of a library is a scary proposition. During a distributed operation, participants can arrive at many different points in time.
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by adamb 16y ago
Without making any promises, it's hard to imagine any programming system becoming successful without being largely open source.
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by adamb 16y ago
Security holes present an interesting challenge. Since we allow authors to blacklist their code at the uuid level, it's possible to issue a network-wide advisory that revokes execution rights for that specific uuid. This can instantly close
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by adamb 16y ago
A step backwards compared to what? Are you thinking about a specific alternative approach?
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by adamb 16y ago
Generally speaking, we don't connect directly to unknown computers, but there are other reasons for that. Security is addressed at a few levels (here are 6 of them). 1. Access to native resources requires specific permission. 2. All process
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by adamb 16y ago
It's worth noting we (the team that's building Skynet) didn't set out to build a parallel language, we set out to build a distributed one. It turns out that a lot of the things that make Spin a good distributed language also make it a good
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$10000 crossplatform mobile app development contest(msnbc.msn.com)
1 points by adamb 18y ago|0 comments
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by adamb 18y ago
- ask for input from the previous year's teacher - students only pick one other person, so picking their entire clique wouldn't fit as an answer. further, as good students tend to find one another, it's a good filter for finding people that
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by adamb 18y ago
you mentioned that when you plotted score vs income, there was a clear correlation- i was suggesting using this data to normalize the scores. if trusting teachers is an issue, there are two options. - polling multiple teachers (hopefully el
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by adamb 18y ago
i'd suggest a simple split: - select the highest scores on the exam without question (these students will make your program prestigious) - normalize actual scores based on "expected scores", select highest normalized scores (these students