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by amouat 13y ago
Don't be so dismissive. This could very easily transition into a business. The only real difference is that the author won't feel too much pain if it doesn't make a lot of money.
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by amouat 13y ago
Think I'll be back in Edinburgh by the 6th Nov, but if anyone feels like meeting up before end Oct, give me a shout (I think details are in my profile). Would be nice to meet other any other hn users over here.
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by amouat 13y ago
Seems you have to hit the spacebar or right arrow key. No idea how we were meant to guess that, or why it's a bad idea to also progress on clicking... EDIT: following update by parent post - Spacebar and right arrow key definitely work
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by amouat 13y ago
As far as I'm aware there is no Go support. It primarily supports Clojure and Javascript, with Python support somewhere behind that. There is also some support for HTML and CSS.
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by amouat 13y ago
I think the point is that most of the time when you think "I need something that does x", there is a library for that; whether it is a core library or not. In Lisp I guess you often find something very specific that doesn't q
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Securely Citing Datasets(epcc.ed.ac.uk)
2 points by amouat 13y ago|0 comments
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by amouat 13y ago
I submitted this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5181742 Which included David Byrne's (slightly misinformed) thoughts on the Aaron Swartz case. As such I titled it something like "David Byrne on Aaro
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by amouat 13y ago
Hmm, maybe I'm just assuming Linus Torvalds wrote that - it could be another kernel dev.
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by amouat 13y ago
Personally, I like Linus's take on comments: "Comments are good, but there is also a danger of over-commenting. NEVER try to explain HOW your code works in a comment: it's much better to write the code so that the _working_
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by amouat 13y ago
Took me a minute to figure it all out. If you're using chrome, you can change your user agent to mimic various viewports and the examples become a lot clearer - hit ctrl-shift-i then push the cog in the bottom right and select override
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by amouat 13y ago
You're assuming the money is invested only as cash in the bank. It's quite possible to make considerably above inflation with other investments, and anyone with that amount of money is very likely to have a range of investment typ
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by amouat 13y ago
I would suggest 600,000 (pounds? dollars?) is actually more than you need - assuming you did 15 * 40,000 - as you haven't factored in interest.
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File containing its own checksum(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by amouat 13y ago|0 comments
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by amouat 13y ago
That may be true, but it's still a pretty idiomatic Clojure solution. Ask 10 Clojure programmers to solve this problem and most of them will come up with something similar. Ask 10 C programmers and they will likely come back with a pro
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by amouat 13y ago
It's definitely ironic to use medium as the platform to say why you shouldn't use medium, regardless of how much sense it makes.
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by amouat 13y ago
I notice they've continued their defense in an update to the blog post: "One more small note: Much has been said about a line of code in our XMPP library that supposedly is a sign of bad practice — this line is not used for anythi
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by amouat 13y ago
Whilst there may still be plenty of scope for error, I think there is a large difference between using CryptoJS and "rolling your own". I wonder how "correct" CryptoJS itself is though.
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by amouat 13y ago
But they didn't roll their own crypto as far as I can tell. They used CryptoJS [1]. They just failed to use it correctly. EDIT: Here's the code https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/blob/master&#x2F
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by amouat 13y ago
Crytpocat have now posted a reply: https://blog.crypto.cat/2013/07/new-critical-vulnerability-i...
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Critical Vulnerability in Cryptocat(blog.crypto.cat)
111 points by amouat 13y ago|39 comments
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by amouat 13y ago
It's somewhat undermined by the statement directly above it: "LGBTQ activists use Cryptocat to keep private matters private. Journalists use Cryptocat to keep their stories and research confidential. Cryptocat is made for everyone
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by amouat 13y ago
Interesting. I've never run across the term spike before. I was assuming mainframe refers to "big iron". Thanks to you and unwind for the explanation.
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by amouat 13y ago
Does "spike out a mainframe in two weeks" mean anything? I assume it's meant to be a designer parody of developer talk, but it just seems an odd phrase.
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by amouat 13y ago
An extra s would be nice - Board s of Canada ;) Nice to hear a Scottish band getting a shout though.
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by amouat 13y ago
Well, they should have replaced the drive if it failed within 6 months. But expecting them to go to the lengths of recovering your data for free is a bit hopeful.
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by amouat 13y ago
I would argue "beauty" in code is very strongly linked to maintainability.
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by amouat 13y ago
It's important to remember that we don't really know what languages/framework etc will still be used in the future - if you specialise in something you run the risk of that technology becoming obsolete or just being ignored.
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by amouat 13y ago
Isn't it one of the themes in "A Clockwork Orange", which was published in 1962? It's admittedly not a scientific text however...
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by amouat 13y ago
I wondered how long it would be until a core.logic version appeared :) I think the original post has one of the prices wrong. BTW thanks for working on this stuff swannodette - I hope to look into core.logic in the not too distant future...
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by amouat 13y ago
Those are all good points. Perhaps it is wrong to use the term Al-Qaeda in this case - it would probably have been better to say militant Islamic fundamentalists or some such than give any specific group name. However, I was mainly trying a

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