alayne

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by alayne 12y ago
That's crackpot talk. Both fluoride and mercury amalgam are considered safe by current scientific understanding. You need to build up actual science to disprove that rather than make ridiculous claims based on proximity of fillings to
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by alayne 12y ago
From your website, you appear to be a college student. Perhaps your expectations and uses are different than commercial developers.
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by alayne 12y ago
I don't know why you would make this argument now. Stallman argued clearly in January why copyleft was more important to him than technical superiority. https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00247.html
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by alayne 12y ago
This is Steven Pinker's sister, if anyone was wondering.
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by alayne 12y ago
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8930360
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by alayne 12y ago
Z3 Compact? If there's a market for certain devices, companies will sell them. What do you expect companies to do here? I don't understand this discussion.
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by alayne 12y ago
I really enjoy having a bigger screen. You don't -- that's okay.
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by alayne 12y ago
The AP article is from 2013. I question the surprise in the original article though -- we've known that Greek and Roman buildings and statues were painted.
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by alayne 12y ago
Still needs the GCC toolchain.
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by alayne 12y ago
Further down you can see he only does that in a development environment.
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by alayne 12y ago
You can do functional programming in Lisp, but even the wiki page for GOAL says "GOAL encourages an imperative programming style". Not to mention most Lisp data structures being mutable if we're talking purely functional.
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by alayne 12y ago
For starters, Perl has five different kinds of references with different qualifying characters for each one. $scalarref = \$foo; $arrayref = \@ARGV; $hashref = \%ENV; $coderef
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by alayne 12y ago
If you work with a lot of bad software, a better conclusion might be that producing good software is hard for multiple reasons than it being a "game".
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by alayne 12y ago
Yesterday I read about the Warren Harding climb up The Nose in 58 and Dawn Wall in 70 which were also interesting.
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by alayne 12y ago
Well, I disagree with what is happening with OS X at any rate. Everyone's realized by now that the Post PC era stuff isn't really true and I don't think that truck analogy holds. OS X has been getting much more attention the
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by alayne 12y ago
Mac sales have not been flat http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/07/mac-achieves-highest-u-s-pc...
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by alayne 12y ago
Your moderation is getting too heavy handed. People are interested in this topic and you are unilaterally killing discussion. It's not like the site is being taken over as it was with some of the NSA topics.
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by alayne 12y ago
I just donated to Wikipedia after reading some of your inane comments.
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Facebook Apologizes for Pain Caused by ‘Year in Review’ Posts(time.com)
2 points by alayne 12y ago|1 comments
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by alayne 12y ago
Stallman got $240k from MacArthur in 1990. Pretty sure he's burned through that by now. The Takeda award in 2001 was split three ways so his take was at most $300k.
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by alayne 12y ago
There are numerous tools that work on text files without knowing a specific structure. Some tools are more sophisticated with their knowledge of formats and can do more with the text files. Binary files don't allow for this extremely u
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by alayne 12y ago
Don't do this. It has overflow issues.
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by alayne 12y ago
The DEA website lists "not less than 5 years" for first time offenders. This guy got three. If you're black they choke you out for selling cigarettes improperly.
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by alayne 12y ago
There"s no efficiency requirement on atomicity. Who said we need POSIX filesystem semantics anyway? Is it so important we should trade scalability? Obviously that wasn"t the s3 design choice.
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by alayne 12y ago
Is directory rename an operation that needs to be efficient though? Probably not.
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by alayne 12y ago
Not compared to my experience with other mobile platforms.
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When Does the First Amendment Protect Threats?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by alayne 12y ago|0 comments
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by alayne 12y ago
Memory safety can't guarantee security or correctness. If you guys want to have a better discussion, you need to be even handed about the complexity of security. Languages can solve some classes of security problems.
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by alayne 12y ago
The best optimizing compilers are C and C++ compilers (as far as I know), perhaps Fortran but even that is getting more esoteric. I think that's why the assembly idea persists.
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by alayne 12y ago
Racket isn't new. It's a scheme which has been in development for around 20 years. Reading their thread, it sure sounds like they want to work with the community to make Racket code viewing a good experience.

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