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by akkartik 6y ago
The most useful part of this for me: "my definition of success for a bear market call.. It is simply that sooner or later there will come a time when an investor is pleased to have been out of the market.. requiring that you get the t
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by akkartik 6y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space...
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by akkartik 6y ago
They're agreeing with you.
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by akkartik 6y ago
Also Unix. Syscalls return null-terminated strings all over the place. So any language running on Unix has to deal with null-terminated strings. I know because I run a userland that uses length-prefixed strings as far as possible: https:&#
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by akkartik 6y ago
The results are always Javascript literals. Javascript doesn't have symbols. So symbols are represented as strings starting with a single quote. Mildly confusing but seems easy to pick up.
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by akkartik 6y ago
Even cooler: defining a function (and block) relies on currying. I think it's just syntax sugar.
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by akkartik 6y ago
Are favorited comments really any more discoverable? (I use them a lot: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=akkartik&comments=... )
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by akkartik 6y ago
My big problem with Kevin Kelly and Techno-utopianism is that it squanders human agency. If technology "wants" and "has a will," who cares if a Tesla kills someone, or if lots of people lose jobs, or if our society sleep
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by akkartik 6y ago
Situation: there are 14 companies installing rootkits. 14?! Ridiculous. We need a single company that's allowed to install rootkits. Situation: there are 15 companies installing rootkits. How about we just stop digging when we find our
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by akkartik 6y ago
I've been trying to build a computer with a single principled HLL included that can also double as a shell. There's also http://www.oilshell.org which _also_ tries to be compatible with existing shell. It also tries to
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by akkartik 6y ago
"The dark side of the lightbulb is a pathway to many abilities that some consider unnatural."
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by akkartik 6y ago
I buy the thesis as stated; there's a common attitude among researchers of, "why don't we have this already ?" that seems counter-productive. However, there's an adjacent thesis that's also worth stating: fund
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by akkartik 6y ago
The write-up for day 1 is seriously cool: https://www.quaxio.com/bootable_cd_retro_game_tweet Edit : previously on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17656299
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by akkartik 6y ago
I've somehow passed by a lifetime of incidental Heathcliff comics without encountering one with a helmet.
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by akkartik 6y ago
I just remembered our conversation from just about a year ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268252#21293237
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rwall Incident (1987)(en.wikipedia.org)
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A Ray of Hope: Array Programming for the 21st Century [video](youtube.com)
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by akkartik 6y ago
That's really interesting, thank you. Comment favorited. https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=akkartik&comments=...
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by akkartik 6y ago
Boring, boring topic :) It's been discussed to death, but there's just not an option that the bulk of the community is willing to commit to. There's a searchable archive at http://history.futureofcoding.org . It st
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by akkartik 6y ago
> we didn't have millennia of home-cooked tradition built up before the restaurants arrived Just to be clear, I was alluding to software here, not real food and real restaurants.
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by akkartik 6y ago
Many languages seem to give the impression of being home-cooked early on. Ever do factories start small. But it's inevitably a mirage. If we want something that won't grow into something "industrial strength" that needs
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by akkartik 6y ago
Yes. <3 The old hobbyist computers would put you in front of a prompt when they booted up. I'm working on something like this, actually. Here are some 2-minute videos: https://archive.org/details/@kartik_agaram
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by akkartik 6y ago
Lately I've been finding an analogy with food production quite useful. It's possible we have enough restaurant-style software and we should stop (but we never will, because restaurant-style software production rots if it stands st
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by akkartik 6y ago
Yeah. It's all about getting us off our asses and into the voting booth. I think this also explains why more partisan rhetoric wins. It gets more people mobilized, while not really hurting you with moderates. It only hurts you with peo
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by akkartik 6y ago
That's how it's been for at least decades. Democrats voted for Gore from hate of Bush. So this is a structural problem you're stuck with. Unless you come up with a stronger force than a pandemic with 100,000 fatalities.
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by akkartik 6y ago
Isn't your claim falsified by this election? This opponent was someone else. Trump didn't lose many votes. The reality that's hit me this year is that most Americans will vote for anyone who wins "their" party'
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by akkartik 6y ago
Thanks, I'm trying it out now.
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by akkartik 6y ago
I already have all that. Like I said in the part you trimmed out: > Photos are the only things I don't have backups for due to their sheer size The bottleneck here isn't storage space. It's bandwidth and transfer time, giv
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by akkartik 6y ago
For sure. I'm happy to throw money at the problem. But I want something automated on my phone that I can trust to work reliably . I'd actually pay more for a fixed feature set if it means less instability.
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by akkartik 6y ago
As a paying customer of Google Photos, I'm starting to explore alternatives after the recent round of horror stories. Baby photos are the one thing I don't have backups for due to their sheer size, and they are also utterly irrepl

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