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by adrusi 11y ago
Pretty sure gmail supported POP from day one, and it has supported IMAP since 2007 [1]. The problem is that gmail's mail organizational system is sort of incompatible with POP/IMAP and completely incompatible with a number of clie
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by adrusi 11y ago
One point that seems to be ignored in this discussion is that having a GC creates problems for interfacing with foreign libraries. It's not too hard to create hooks in the runtime to allow calling C functions, but it's very hard t
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by adrusi 11y ago
I've been hearing (from other HN comments) that Go 1.6's GC is still considered less performant that hotspot's in the average case, and has significantly worse performance in some select edge cases. Historically Java competed
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by adrusi 11y ago
It's like a darknet market (Silk Road, AlphaBay, etc) that can't be taken down by law enforcement. Or it's like a clearnet market (Ebay) that doesn't take a cut and works with bitcoin. It looks like it uses multisig as a
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by adrusi 11y ago
Yes.
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School is an institution that occupies every child full time from age 5–18. Even when they're not physically in school, school dictates the structure of their life. So nearly all of our population experiences their most impressionable,
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by adrusi 11y ago
And that's true of reading, but notice that you refered to "minimalist writers " and "maximalist writers " rather than minimal and maximal works . Because most people do choose one over the other when creating
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by adrusi 11y ago
> Tor exit nodes were far more likely to contain malicious requests That's comparing apples to oranges though. A lot of different people send requests from tor exit nodes. That might be comparable to some corporate networks, but m
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by adrusi 11y ago
Regular expressions are improved in perl 6, using a syntax that allows better readability through whitespace and comments (previously the x modifier) and new features that make the regular expressions more like PEG grammars.
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by adrusi 11y ago
You seem to be assuming that an intelligent organism would have uniform thoughts across their entire body. Cephalopods, at least, don't entirely match that description. Different parts of their bodies act on their own, often with no ne
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by adrusi 11y ago
Linux driver support for a lot of the surface hardware leaves much to be desired unless it's changed much since the last I looked.
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by adrusi 11y ago
Unix command line autocomplete is fairly good, but it's not useful for discovery of new features or for helping you figure out a CLI without reading anything. It is quite effective at helping a user who knows what they're avoid
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by adrusi 11y ago
A few people will donate bitcoin. A few things can be bought directly with bitcoin. On average, you'd expect that the fraction of your income paid in bitcoin would be similar to the fraction of goods and services that you can pay for w
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by adrusi 11y ago
There's also gratipay, which doesn't take a cut. Still the credit card's cut, but gratipay offers bitcoin payments, which, if they implement it right, would eliminate the middleman (unless you count miners as middlemen) when
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by adrusi 11y ago
Last pass used both: a global salt and a per-password salt. The idea was that the global salt isn't stored in the database so if the attacker doesn't have access to the application server, they cant find what that salt is at all.
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by adrusi 11y ago
I haven't looked too deeply into Haskell's io model, but it think it might offer an exception to your "untrue in all languages" claim.
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by adrusi 11y ago
It doesn't, really. Not all that much is written in Clojure. Clojure has a nice FFI, and it turns out that lisps are pretty good at calling into java code, but other lisps also have FFIs. The FFI support is inconsistent between impleme
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by adrusi 11y ago
Doesn't look like this is quite ready for HN. Perhaps when the documentation and tutorial are fleshed out.
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by adrusi 11y ago
This link is dead. I assume this is the same video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKblgZupOc
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by adrusi 11y ago
IIRC for a while apple wasn't even letting native apps use their own video player chrome. Considering how awful the experience of using embedded video players is on android (on chrome and Firefox mobile at least), I'm not surprise
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Hunter-gatherer societies were much more egalitarian than today's, this much is agreed upon by the anthropological community. It's just a result of small group size and homogeneity, along with a lack of specialization. What you&#x
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by adrusi 11y ago
Well that's already possible now just by reading the CSSOM and patching new things into the DOM like how the article described the current state of affairs. If you just want to shunt another banner ad in there, that's not somethin
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by adrusi 11y ago
I'm not talking about packaging node libraries for developers. No node developers are going to use system packages to install their libraries. What I mean is packaging applications written in node for end users. For example, you can in
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It's not that packagers are using npm. It's that they might want to package a node application for their distro's package system, and now they have to sift through thousands of npm packages (already a nightmare). They can&#x2
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by adrusi 11y ago
It sounds like your problem with C/C++ tooling is that it's hard to support Windows. The reason for that is simply that microsoft bundles its own proprietary C++ toolchain with the platform-specific tools that Windows developers n
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More importantly, if you only use a specific version of a library, you're opting out of literally every one of the advantages of micro-libraries that people claim they offer. Tying yourself to a single version is the same as copy-pasti
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And that kind of works in a dynamic language. You could make it work in a statically-typed language, but then the problems will become more apparent. If X depends on Y and Z1 and Y depends on Z2, and Y exposes an object created by Z2 in its
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by adrusi 11y ago
Undefined behavior is not always identifiable through static analysis. Obviously it can be checked against at runtime, but that's actually quite expensive. It would, for example, include bounds checks for everything, and overflow check
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by adrusi 11y ago
The complaints people have about millenials are, as I see it, a reflection of the social policies of the schools they attended. People talk about the "everyone is a winner" attitudes, but I think the effect of that is less than of
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You think existing incentives for open source work could equate to $20,000/year? Two orders of magnitude is a lot.

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