armitron

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by armitron 9y ago
First, is there a point that you are trying to make because I didn't see any. Second, 200k USD for a vulnerability of such caliber is peanuts. Third, you must have missed this: http://blog.trendmicro.com/results-mobile-
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by armitron 9y ago
Linux is a disaster security-wise (look at how massive things like grsecurity are) and that won't change anytime soon. Android has inherited all of that and it's by far the shittiest mobile OS out there in terms of how easy it is
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by armitron 9y ago
In practice, it's close to useless. A lot of the power of Emacs comes from the homogeneity and that Emacs itself is mostly written in Emacs Lisp. There have been attempts in the past to do similar bridges to Python and Javascript IIRC,
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by armitron 9y ago
The idea behind ascribing meaning to the tarot is one of reinforcing symbols. Think of the Tarot as a programming language for the mind. The more one uses it, the more the rich symbols become grounded to one's individual psyche. In the
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by armitron 9y ago
Common Lisp has multiple "socket apis", most of them well-documented, widely used, well-tested and robust. Your other point about "finical [sic], security, encryption-type problems" I do not understand at all since you d
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by armitron 9y ago
It's embarrassing watching you trying to argue, when it's more than obvious you haven't got the slightest clue of what you're talking about and probably never used Common Lisp in your life. Rather than wasting your time
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by armitron 9y ago
Anyone have part2?
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by armitron 9y ago
Well, unfortunately, the features most important in Lisp and Smalltalk are not memory safety, GC, dynamic linking and reflection. Which is one reason Java is a shitty language. It may be popular, "a blue collar language" but it&#x
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by armitron 9y ago
You're all over the place here and your arguments make no sense whatsoever when examined. First, you conflate mass-appeal with some sort of objective "better" criterion which is of course bonkers. To use one of your own examp
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by armitron 9y ago
This is completely wrong. Guy Steele (who is an expert Lisper as opposed to James Gosling) has hinted, numerous times, that Java was a compromise. Here is a quote of his: "And you're right: we were not out to win over the Lisp pro
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by armitron 9y ago
Have you ever programmed with dynamic binding in Emacs Lisp or are you talking out of your ass? Because it's sort of obvious to me that the latter is the case here. For 99.999% of cases in Emacs, there is no difference between dynamic
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by armitron 10y ago
One reason I used the term "western esoteric tradition" is to exclude things like the loa or the cloven-hoofed gentleman at the crossroads .. By this term, I am referring to a consistent stream of philosophy and induced brain-chan
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by armitron 10y ago
Which does not contradict anything that I wrote. "Shaken" can also be an unexamined reaction.
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by armitron 10y ago
It's not the worldview or the underlying philosophy that's important, but the techniques themselves. And when it comes to the techniques, the western esoteric tradition is without equal. Moreover, in many cases, the techniques hav
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by armitron 10y ago
This process has been known for thousands of years in the west and falls under the term "Initiation" (1), when it is deliberately induced and not as a result of trauma or other pathological causes. In modern terms, it can be descr
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by armitron 10y ago
The expressions that you used ("deathly ill", no sleep tonight) make me think that you may be lacking some perspective and/or are identifying too closely with your body. Sometimes, it pays to take a step back and contemplate
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by armitron 10y ago
Doesn't seem to work on OSX. Connecting to debug port from a different chrome brings up an empty page. Running Version 59.0.3069.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit)
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by armitron 10y ago
Excellent points. Unfortunately, those people that only treat programming as a way to pay the bills - with a six figure salary - which would be the vast majority of professional programmers working today, do not want to understand _why_ the
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by armitron 10y ago
Active nihilism is not about finding meaning in objects created by others or transcendent ideas of any kind, but creating (and projecting) your own. It is Nietzsche's concept of the Übermensch. If there is one word to characterize acti
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by armitron 10y ago
I couldn't say since I'm not living with that realization. Here are the words of someone who does: http://biroco.com/journal.htm
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by armitron 10y ago
Because there's a difference between intellectual understanding of the Self or non-dualism as a concept, and actually manifesting that "truth" by living it. Or as someone once wrote: Philosophical truths are transmitted throu
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by armitron 10y ago
The initial impetus is not really important. It may have been something as trivial as a book, or a friend, or somebody on TV. People start all sorts of pursuits for all sorts of silly reasons, and usually end up abandoning them for the next
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by armitron 10y ago
Not to mention that Rust is not interactive and doesn't allow for dynamic, incremental development. Forth brings the rapid, extremely tight feedback loop one sees in Lisp or Smalltalk to hardware. Comparing it to Rust is missing this p
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by armitron 10y ago
Nothing ruffled my feathers, I'm simply laying out facts. Feel free to ignore them. There is no improvement for Firefox, it will never amount to anything given how rotten the codebase is. Unless they plan to scrap it and rewrite everyt
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by armitron 10y ago
Look at the prize money for Firefox, lowest of them all. I think this proves my original point. TBB is routinely attacked by nation states and other government groups. In that context, homogeneity is an important factor since they only have
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by armitron 10y ago
If you're talking about Pwn2own, they've dropped Firefox from the competition __because it was too easy to exploit__ [1]. I quote: "For the last decade, the Pwn2own hacking competition has pitted the world's best hackers
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by armitron 10y ago
> I've been using Firefox for years without any problems and find it much better (just as fast, more privacy-minded) than chrome. Then you must not value security at all. Firefox is by far the worst of the modern browsers in how eas
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by armitron 10y ago
These Rust trolls (at least I hope, for your sake, that you are trolling here and not serious) are getting annoying. One would wonder how we managed to cope before Rust. Also, you should ask these guys [1] [2] how they know they're usi
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by armitron 10y ago
One issue with Clojure is that it comes with strong opinions (STM, immutable data structures, JVM-Java ecosystem) and thus is not as paradigm-enclosing as other Lisps (e.g. Common Lisp). I'd much rather have SBCL's native code com
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by armitron 10y ago
Plagiarism is not something I find easy to accept thus I do my best to counter it whenever I encounter it. Besides, mentioning the originators of certain ideas and models and guiding people to their work is surely adding a lot of substance

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