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by amirmc 12y ago
> "A website for hackers with 'opening hours' that simply refuses connections from your locality when you're supposed to be at work." I'd argue that HN already has this kind of functionality with the nopro
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Yes, Jimmy Wales, There Is a Right To Be Forgotten(pando.com)
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by amirmc 12y ago
When you fully believe that a test that is "100 percent foolproof" and impartial, it's easy to convince yourself that the person in front of you must be lying. In this case the implicit assumption was something like the follo
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by amirmc 12y ago
Looking round the rest of the pages [1], it doesn't look like it's Steve Job's .mac site. On the other hand, this is a fascinating glimpse of how things you put on the internet can stick around for a long time (courtesy of th
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by amirmc 12y ago
Possibly off-topic, but I wonder when PG will be writing more essays. I remember that one of the things he was looking forward to when sama took over YC was the extra time to work on projects and write more.
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by amirmc 12y ago
From the readme: "Right now it will only work on an iPhone 5S, as it requires the M7 motion coprocessor."
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by amirmc 12y ago
I'm having trouble understanding the first part of your comment. For the latter I don't understand what you mean by 'smart'. Without some forms of regulation, people would blissfully poison themselves with dangerous food
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by amirmc 12y ago
Yup, that's what I heard (obviously 3rd hand). Second like is very useful as I've not had a chance to look at the swift docs yet.
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by amirmc 12y ago
This does still happen (e.g [1]), though I've no idea if the frequency of such posts has changed. If no-one asks questions, then there's nothing to answer (so please do ask!). On the other hand, I've noticed that more people
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by amirmc 12y ago
Why? Frankly, I'm glad that there is more stuff happening out on the net at large rather than trapped on one list. I consider it a sign of success (there are probably many more users out there than who are on the mailing list anyway).
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by amirmc 12y ago
More people trying this and learning from previous mistakes (of others) is a good thing. For example, here's a TLS implementation in pure OCaml https://github.com/mirleft/ocaml-tls I'm glad Stripe is helping
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by amirmc 12y ago
Indeed. I heard someone comment that every FP conference will be doing a 'victory lap' due to Apple's announcement. At the very least, I hope people/devs will explore ML based languages for their next project. It would b
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by amirmc 12y ago
You can read about the Mirage work at http://openmirage.org It's also a core piece of a toolstack we're putting together for building distributed systems/applications ( http://nymote.org ).
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by amirmc 12y ago
I don't think you've looked very closely (if at all?). There is tons of stuff happening in the OCaml ecosystem. Compiler improvements, large scale projects, more industrial uses and also new books. Try looking at http:/&#x2F
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by amirmc 12y ago
I'd argue you could/should be doing this kind of stuff from day 1. IP assignments, clean books, documented agreements etc are part of your business, not a secondary concern. Having this stuff under control throughout the life o
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by amirmc 12y ago
It runs the risk of sounding conceited rather than funny. It almost came across to me that way, but not quite (I could see the attempt at humour). You're not coming across that way here, just so you know.
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by amirmc 12y ago
This is (kind of) one of the reasons that I don't use third party services to sign in to anything. I'd rather have an email+password option and use a password manager (I'm aware that most people probably don't do this a
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by amirmc 12y ago
I'd argue that getting address books to understand what keys are and how to use them would be more impactful. If I put public keys in my address book, which is nicely integrated with my mail client anyway, then sending encrypted mail
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "I would assume his talk must have been approved internally in some way or form (unless any employee was able to give any talk they wanted without any form of supervision, in which case there's a deeper problem here)."
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by amirmc 12y ago
I have read your post several times. I still have no idea what you're trying to say.
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by amirmc 12y ago
It's when the majority is making jokes about the minority that people get riled up. Even if it's only perceived. Also, taking things out of context adds to the effect.
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by amirmc 12y ago
For some additional context, the OP is working on fuzz-testing the network stack in Mirage (and she has a bunch of great posts up). http://openmirage.org/blog/welcome-to-our-summer-hackers
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by amirmc 12y ago
It's used in a lot of places, including Facebook for Hack and Bloomberg as well as the oft cited Jane Street. OCaml users: http://ocaml.org/learn/companies.html FB Hack: http://cufp.org/2013/j
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by amirmc 12y ago
(I'm the site author) Is the UX comment something about the site or the tools? If it's the site, that's on me and I have a bunch of work queued up to better represent the tools. Specific feedback would be welcome. If it'
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by amirmc 12y ago
Seems to be working for me (I'm the author). It's hosted on GitHub Pages so perhaps they had a transient issue.
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by amirmc 12y ago
"So, the next time that you see a new person entering your community, stop, say hello, introduce yourself, introduce them to your friends. Who knows, they may be the next person to make a major difference in your life, and you saying
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by amirmc 12y ago
I think you misread my comment. Apart from the UI polish, I wasn't impressed --> I was impressed with the UI polish but less so the rest. I'm aware that implementing this well is a difficult problem and I have utmost respect f
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by amirmc 12y ago
And yet people complain about the pointlessness of meetings despite not doing anything to make them more efficient (cf start and end on time, avoid chit-chat, stick to the agenda, send actions quickly afterwards etc). It only takes a smal
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by amirmc 12y ago
They don't need validation. They have a product and paying customers.
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by amirmc 12y ago
Only in some ways. I doubt it will be as customisable nor the developers as responsive to feedback.

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