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by amenghra 11y ago
If you have an existing codebase in PHP, Hack provides a backwards compatible way to improve the state of things. I have experienced both cases: a conversion of a large codebase from php to Hack and also a conversion from php to rails. Pick
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by amenghra 11y ago
Hack does not fix all the weird warts PHP has given us, there are far too many of those :) It does give you some level of sanity (aka types). It also gives you tooling (autocompletion, ability to do basic code refactoring, etc.).
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by amenghra 11y ago
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Often, the problem with this kind of academic work is that they don't have a real world system to gather data and study different algorithms. I don't really care if javac (one of the applicati
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by amenghra 11y ago
Or if you don't want to spend money, you can always re-host things on your own site. Let your visitors do the work for you.
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by amenghra 11y ago
Guess what, laws aren't universal! Unless gwern has a complete understanding of your jurisdiction and can somehow guess how you plan to use the data, he cannot know what is legal and wasn't isn't. The burden lies on you.
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by amenghra 11y ago
I think the advantage of ARC is not the potential for longer pause times but the fact that things are predictable & somewhat easier to debug. I think it's too bad that the GC/ARC choice also implies a language choice. For e.g.
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by amenghra 11y ago
I wonder how things will change once self driving cars become the norm.
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by amenghra 11y ago
Square [ https://squareup.com/careers ] | INTERNS, FULLTIME, VISA, ONSITE | San Francisco, New York & other places too. Square is hiring across various teams. More specifically I'm an engineer on the infosec team and
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Distribution of viewport widths(paulirish.github.io)
2 points by amenghra 11y ago|0 comments
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A “bootloader” and retro game in 140 characters(twitter.com)
1 points by amenghra 11y ago|0 comments
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by amenghra 11y ago
When you find interesting pieces of code, look at the commit that brought it to life. Commits contain precious gems of information: you'll understand what files are related, who worked on which parts of the codebase, how the commit was
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by amenghra 11y ago
That's called good UI design. Kudos to whoever decided to implement that!
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by amenghra 11y ago
The main issue I have with regular expressions is that the current syntax mixes "code" and "data". I.e. it's very easy to write something like /https?:\/\/www.foo.com/ (e.g. you want to whitelist
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Video showing how to solve the connect the towns problems with soap+water(m.youtube.com)
1 points by amenghra 11y ago|0 comments
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by amenghra 11y ago
It's too bad we don't have <a href=... method="post">. The distinction between safe and unsafe is not only useful for things like prefetching or caching but also for csrf. State mutation (whether intentional or acc
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by amenghra 11y ago
This is what it can find in openssl: http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=143406271519649&w=2
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Etrade.com: “Your password cannot contain spaces or special characters.”
5 points by amenghra 11y ago|7 comments
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by amenghra 11y ago
My experience as a reviewer for a Packt book: I gave them feedback about specific technical issues, large pieces which I felt were missing and some general feedback about how the text was full of spelling mistakes and general lack of qualit
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by amenghra 11y ago
I would add a sentence or two at the very top about what you are looking for. Maybe try to answer were you see yourself now and in 5 years? If you have specific numbers on your projects it can help put things into perspective (how many peop
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Ask HN: Why do people like HN?
10 points by amenghra 11y ago|12 comments
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Go formatter to display in human friendly units(github.com)
2 points by amenghra 11y ago|0 comments
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by amenghra 11y ago
Doesn't /proc/config.gz expose the config? Why do you need an app for that?
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More Labs Are Likely to Have Mistakenly Received Anthrax Samples, Military Says(nytimes.com)
1 points by amenghra 11y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Was Warned of System Open to Cyberattacks(nytimes.com)
56 points by amenghra 11y ago|24 comments
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by amenghra 11y ago
You mean the mechanic of a timepiece is mind boggling, right? ;)
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by amenghra 11y ago
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453754
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Debugging 64bit applications (windows)(twitter.com)
4 points by amenghra 11y ago|0 comments
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Sharing Arduino prototypes made easy(fritzing.org)
1 points by amenghra 11y ago|0 comments
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Metrics for various subsystems of linux, mysql and postgres(github.com)
1 points by amenghra 11y ago|0 comments
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Bitcointalk.org compromised(bitcointalk.org)
4 points by amenghra 11y ago|0 comments

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