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by armitron 8y ago
This is one of the best interviews I've seen Harlan on, he's completely relaxed and mostly allowed to run with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3jbeVA-lKM
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by armitron 8y ago
Javascript is a horrible language, this by itself is a good enough reason to use something else to a lot of people out there. I think the number of programmers who are currently doing JS but hate it and would jump to something else the mome
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by armitron 8y ago
There are a lot of people out there that don't want to deal with Javascript or (worse) Node.js. since they consider them to be abominations. Life is too short to be spending it in these environments. Web assembly will finally give them
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by armitron 8y ago
I find that while Neuromancer lays on the atmosphere heavy from the beginning, Count Zero is all about insinuations and implications. Kinda like Dune in that regard. This doesn't take anything away, but it means that it's not as i
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by armitron 8y ago
There is no ambiguity: "Linda still wore his jacket; she waved, as he passed. But the third figure, close behind her, arm across her shoulders, was himself." It's hinted (in the next two books) that the construct merged with
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by armitron 8y ago
Of course it can be used on iOS, there are commercial applications that do exactly that. You can turn off the JIT and you're left with probably the fastest interpreter for a dynamic language that currently exists. LuaJIT is state-of-th
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by armitron 8y ago
The human brain was not designed, but evolved. Why do you think we can't do better when in fact we have done exactly that repeatedly, focusing both on aspects of human biology and other non-human biological systems.
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by armitron 8y ago
I wouldn't rush to call VR market failure, VR sales are steadily increasing. What a lot of people don't see are the iconoclastic milestones that are coming up, that will transform the entire domain in terms of market acceptance an
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by armitron 8y ago
More low SnR spam from Patrick Wardle.
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by armitron 8y ago
Even with all the mistakes that he made, I think he would have easily walked had he not done the thing that sealed his fate: bringing his hot "work" laptop (possibly unencrypted or otherwise compromised) with him to the US. All hi
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by armitron 8y ago
If you mean isolation tank, it's not comparable because you retain control. With LSD/mushrooms/mescaline/ayahuasca there is no control on your end. It's like jumping into a stormy sea and letting it take you whereve
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by armitron 8y ago
Parts of the government aren't that great at secrets, sure. But like someone else wrote, the government isn't a single entity, but a collection of entities. Moreover, a substantial (if not the vast majority) of classified work is
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by armitron 8y ago
If they did work, would you ever expect to see them declassified and listed here?
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by armitron 8y ago
How do you archive? Screenshots? I haven’t found a way to do mhtml with chrome headless which would be so convenient..
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by armitron 8y ago
This is not at all fair or accurate in terms of general architecture. The quote from Daniel Colascione describes some implementation details that can and will be improved. The same Daniel Colascione is very passionate about Emacs and spends
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by armitron 8y ago
Prolog has better (simpler, more readable) and more uniform syntax too. I don't see how yours is an improvement.
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by armitron 8y ago
I'm not requesting the compiler to read my mind, I'm just asking for dead obvious and simple guidelines that allow me to perform a cost-benefit analysis and tune the compiler's behavior to what I consider acceptable. Examples
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by armitron 8y ago
Which is why it's so important to have -- ultra-clear -- (have you looked at the clang documentation or GCC manpages?) guidelines on how to disable optimizations that can be dangerous/unpredictable (strict-aliasing comes to mind)
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by armitron 8y ago
I can't be the only one that 99.9% of the time doesn't care _one iota_ about these mythical optimizations that compilers can introduce by exploiting undefined behavior. I just want to write straightforward, predictable code that t
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by armitron 8y ago
CMake is absolutely terrible if not destructive for non-trivial projects that require frequent build system updates and restructuring (especially those tied to cross-compilation). GNU Make might have its share of issues but compared to CMak
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by armitron 8y ago
It's hard to keep something like this out of the media and trying to do so could backfire and create an even bigger mess. Going public is really the only response that makes strategic sense, irrespective of the causal factor.
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by armitron 8y ago
* Read 'The Human Evasion' by Celia green [1] * Watch 'Neurons to Nirvana' [2] Instead of avoiding the issue or running head-first into escapism (like most of the responses here are urging you to do), I advise you fully
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by armitron 8y ago
Lua supports the scenario you describe effortlessly not to mention that it's actually designed for embedding. Python can't even be re-initialized in the same process without introducing memory leaks and other non-deterministic got
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by armitron 9y ago
They don't really. Objective See's tools are not bad for what they are (utilities), but they are lacking in: 1. Code quality (Patrick Wardle is not an engineer and it shows in his code). This is not terribly important for an en
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by armitron 9y ago
“From NAND to Tetris” is the classic starting point.
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by armitron 9y ago
On the flipside, it introduces monstrous dependency (strongSwan) written in memory unsafe C, is nowhere near as flexible as OpenVPN and is blocked by many networks since it can't operate over arbitrary ports and forces you to manage&#x
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by armitron 9y ago
Yasha Levine likes to spin these grand conspiracies but comes off as completely clueless, technically (not sure if deliberate but it doesn't really matter). Completely absent from his work are any sort of technical advisors or rigorous
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by armitron 9y ago
A lot of this is common sense to me. I've seen the C++ part play out in practice many times. C++ is an easy example because it requires a lot of effort and time investment in order for someone to be truly good at it. The same is not tr
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by armitron 9y ago
Make may seem crude these days but has manageable complexity, I've never run across a build issue I could not debug. Its model is so simple, I can have it fully in my mind and be confident this is how it works. Moreover, this model sim
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by armitron 9y ago
Google has one of the worst monocultures I've ever seen in my life with a heavy emphasis on commoditization. It's a giant machine treating software engineers as nothing more than easily replaceable cogs. The perks and "easygo

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