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by aryastark 13y ago
Not sure I buy this premise. For one thing, I just had to decide between DO and AWS. I wanted something I could jump in and try something, and then later scale out. I was heavily leaning towards DO. But then I noticed AWS gives you a fr
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by aryastark 13y ago
huh? Stop making shit up. None of what you said is true. They were sending messages in plaintext not that long ago. Their switch to encrypted communication was merely a footnote.
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by aryastark 13y ago
Google has a Samsung problem. I think they are in a bad position, such as Sun was with Java or IBM with the PC. They own the platform, but they aren't getting much from it that I can tell. I'm no psychic. But I can easily see
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by aryastark 13y ago
Python is the language designed by a guy that did not understand the difference between tail-call optimization (a general, widely useful optimization) and something he made up as a strawman, called "tail-recursion elimination." PH
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by aryastark 13y ago
The problem Perl has is that it is the language tied to the first dot-com crash. Prior to the dot-com crash, there was the AI Winter. This is where Lisp died, for almost identical reasons. When a major tragedy happens, someone or somethi
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by aryastark 13y ago
The point is the irony. The website is designed to give the impressing that this mock CLI is used for everything, but it can't be seen using w3m/lynx/links from a real CLI.
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by aryastark 13y ago
Wow, you're daft. Everything is, ultimately, getting turned into machine code. Not even Lisp Machines could get away from this fundamental fact: http://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/04/some-lisp-machine-minuti..
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by aryastark 13y ago
Why would it be a phase? This has been happening since the very first video games were created. It's exactly what an arcade is. We like to look back at games like Pac-Man with nostalgia. And it's easy, since you get to play th
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by aryastark 13y ago
It's more like a brothel.
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by aryastark 13y ago
I signed up for Mint.com once. I liked the concept in theory. But then after an hour of using it, I realized just how incredibly stupid it is giving a third party total access to all your bank accounts. Then I immediately went and change
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by aryastark 13y ago
What are you editing a 100 meg file for? Genuinely curious. I regularly work with 2GB+ files, but I don't need to edit them. I use "less". If I really needed to make a change, I'd use some combination of sed/a
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by aryastark 13y ago
Any more fuzzy platitudes for us, Geee? The best encryption we have today is still bound to time and technology. Without a threat model, it's pointless to discuss security. To the NSA, not much of anything is secure on the Internet.
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by aryastark 13y ago
that depends on if the law is moral or immoral. Anything can be turned into law.
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by aryastark 13y ago
there is apparently a generational gap here. There are people that have read The Mythical Man-Month, and then there are people that go and re-live it .
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by aryastark 13y ago
Exactly what happened to me. Ended up using the new iTunes in a VM running... Windows XP. How's that for irony. iTunes couldn't run on Leopard, but could run on something much older and in a resource-limited VM. Obviously my C
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by aryastark 13y ago
$400k would let me quit my job and run a startup. So... yeah, that would be pretty life-changing.
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by aryastark 13y ago
> has an online messaging service ever been able to really turn a huge profit? You could make the argument that Tencent did, as some are apparently doing when comparing them to Snapchat and seeing visions of billions dancing in their mud
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by aryastark 13y ago
That's great. Until they take bad risks, cry "too big to fail" and finally socialize their risk. I'm more on the libertarian side myself, but you can't deny the hypocrisy here. If a business is so big that it pos
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by aryastark 13y ago
I agree. You have people out there like Marc Andreessen comparing SnapChat to Tencent and saying it's potentially worth $100B or so. These people are off their goddamn meds. They are pure vulture capitalists, and poor mom and dad ou
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by aryastark 13y ago
Loren Carpenter did pretty much this back in 1991, using an audience and Pong. http://vimeo.com/78043173 http://kk.org/outofcontrol/ch2-b.html
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by aryastark 13y ago
ESR is a dick. I really don't know why others don't see it here. He's always been a bit of a long-winded blowhard, even when he's right. People worked without source control because CVS was not real version control. I
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by aryastark 13y ago
The Catch-22 is that if I had faith in my fellow Americans, then we would not be sitting in this deep well of depravity. If you look at where we are, today, as a nation, how can anyone have hope? We're a nation that finds it more poli
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by aryastark 13y ago
I think you're being obtuse. Once you start sending emails for things, you start sending emails for everything . It's easy to fall into the trap of not accurately categorizing what is critical (like real, real, critical, I mean
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by aryastark 13y ago
If you just need something for yourself or a few people, you might consider an Android device. I use Gidder on a cheap tablet and it seems to work fine. Multiple users/repos. Easy to setup. It has a DynDNS option as well.
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by aryastark 13y ago
This will remain nothing more than a parlor trick. It's pretty much a guarantee, based on how a modern CPU works. You're sure to screw up the branch predictor, caching, and everything else that works to prevent your program from
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by aryastark 13y ago
If you run Linux with systemd, then you already have this for the most part. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/shared/... http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/
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by aryastark 13y ago
No. All binary programs access the CPU directly. Only certain instructions require being in a certain "ring" (i.e. access level). The CPUID instruction is non-privileged, meaning you can access it from user space.
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by aryastark 13y ago
This wasn't me, but a coworker. We were rearranging the layout of the office. Coworker was moving in to his new space, setting up his desk. He boots up his computer, wonders why he has no network. Looks around, discovers the etherne
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by aryastark 13y ago
On what planet do you live on? You make it sound like the midwest is riding around in buggy whips and without electricity. You really think people haven't seen The Social Network? That entire movie was about the arrogance of Zuckerbe
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by aryastark 13y ago
Looked at versioning file systems? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system#Linux ). They've been around for awhile. Can't say why we don't have any mainstream system-level filesystem yet, t

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