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by adambard 13y ago
There is now a (mildly half-assed) blurb on contracts, not that fogus was likely to feel left out otherwise.
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by adambard 13y ago
I started writing a bit on contracts, but it was 2am and I really wanted to be done. (I thought I had a little more time between then and HN front page.) You're right, though, I should at least give it a shout and let people know about
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by adambard 13y ago
I was thinking about including the Leiningen dependency line, but I don't want someone including the wrong version later because I didn't update it. Install info is usually pretty prominent on the github pages of the projects (whi
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by adambard 13y ago
No, it's not, my bad. Not that there's a need for them, as it turns out.
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by adambard 13y ago
Hah, so it is. It was pretty late when I finished this one off, sorry about that.
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Ask HN: Where is the consumer-grade encryption?
5 points by adambard 13y ago|2 comments
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by adambard 13y ago
Whenever I see a button that says "sign in with Facebook," I just close the tab immediately. Am I the only one who does this? What's wrong with just having me fill out a survey of my interests if that's what you want? Facebook is the only a
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by adambard 13y ago
Why does Sync deserve a security audit and Dropbox not? If anything I'd say Dropbox is the more risky, what with storing all your files on their own servers.
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by adambard 13y ago
I did not know about this. Thanks!
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by adambard 13y ago
I probably should have posted that in the existing php-sucks party above, I suppose.
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by adambard 13y ago
php > $x = array("a" => 1, "b" => 2); php > echo $x["a"] . "\n"; 1 php > echo array("a" => 1, "b" => 2)["a"] . "\n"; PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[', expecting ',' or ';' in
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by adambard 13y ago
It's definitely the most quotable bit. I'd say you actually make your point a lot better through sheer quantity, but that's a bit harder to convey in excerpt form.
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by adambard 13y ago
I cannot possibly hope to express the reasons I dislike PHP better than this comprehensive article: http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de... An excerpt: > I can’t even say what’s wrong with PHP, because— okay. I
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by adambard 13y ago
When I develop against MongoDB in python, ruby, or clojure, I consider it less a database and more a persistence layer for my dicts/hashes/hash-maps, with a handy-dandy query functionality built in. Hell, in clojure I usually develop agains
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by adambard 13y ago
Mutable data structures are a much more accurate abstraction when it comes to how computers actually store data in memory and on disc -- I don't think you can reasonably call them "flawed." A (properly-implemented) mutable memory structure
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by adambard 13y ago
[This poem]( http://www.tricolour.net/som.html ) is part of the Canadian ceremony (or was at mine, anyhow), and describes the aforementioned burden. It may be because it strokes an engineers' ego a bit, but I enjoy it.
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by adambard 13y ago
There was one more layer of symbolism to the ring that was mentioned in the super-secret ring ceremony (which is well-documented on wikipedia). New rings have rough edges due to the bevelled decoration; over time it smooths out, symbolizing
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by adambard 13y ago
The window in my bedroom approximately faces the rising sun, which certainly doesn't hurt the situation. I didn't make a point of that, but I'd definitely miss it.
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by adambard 13y ago
I started working at a small startup in January. With the team as small as it is, the working hours are very flexible -- if I make it into the office at 10:00, I'm usually the first one there. Since I had the luxury, I did something that I
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by adambard 13y ago
I can definitely see the use-case on CTA buttons, it would be really interesting to A/B test.
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by adambard 13y ago
Minecraft is a lot of fun, but hardly a paragon of performance.
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by adambard 13y ago
I had this idea back in March 2011 with http://resumatic.net/ , but I never really ran with it and it has by any measure failed (it's still up, since it costs me nothing to host). After testing the market, and my meagre design abilities, I
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by adambard 13y ago
I encourage you to research what a croissant is and then find and devour one. This comment makes me feel like you're missing out on that.
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by adambard 13y ago
In short, the problem with ORMs is that they trade off efficiency for ease-of-use and conciseness. In a world where anyone uses languages other than C for anything, this should be considered a non-issue. If something's too slow for Ruby, yo
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by adambard 13y ago
Yeah, I don't know what the precedent is for Ruby's versions. I'm glad map, filter and reduce are also present.
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by adambard 13y ago
Coffeescript uses it already.
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by adambard 13y ago
x is the variable in the anonymous function 'x => x != ""'. I don't know C# but I presume that everything before '=>' is the argument list and the rest is the function body (with implicit return). You can see it again in '(a, b) =&#
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by adambard 14y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qjHLsctLL8
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by adambard 14y ago
I hope it's not considered ad hominem to point out that the man who wrote this piece considers fiat currency in general a mistake: http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswoodhill/2013/03/06/the-fia... Dude is just really into gold, which appare
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by adambard 14y ago
Awesome to hear. My secret hope is that a Lisp, possibly Clojure, can become a dominant teaching language, and then perhaps a popular industry one as well. Then there will be more Lisp work out there, which I think would be rad for programm

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