autodidakto

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by autodidakto 12y ago
Do you recommend installing just ghc[1] and cabal[2] and using sandboxes? [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download [2] http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Thanks. I've been wondering for a while: How much do we know about human psychology is based on studies performed only on 20-year-olds?
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Related: Posing as neutral Red Cross health workers to infiltrate a hostage camp. The Colombian government did this to rescue a high profile hostage. Most didn't seem to mind, some thought it was clever and honorable to do so. Now it&#
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Please authenticate with something that's not a phone number! I guess that's the simplest for most people (look at WhatsApp), but the reason why I use things like Signal is because I despise cell carriers. I'd like to use thi
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by autodidakto 12y ago
You are never on the tracks. That would change the experiment, right? It would be self-defense and not much of a moral dilemma (that many people would struggle with or hold against you, I assume).
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by autodidakto 12y ago
BitMessage uses private/public keys, but it isn't built on top of email like PGP. It's meant to replace email. It is its own network and protocol, intended to be private at every level.
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by autodidakto 12y ago
No. They're working on a firefox port, but it will take some time (you can checkout the github issue). It's the only extension I really envy. Firefox does have Adblock Edge (open source adblock without the silliness).
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Can I suggest a transcribers peddle?
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Managing your podcasts can be a complicated thing. Shows and episodes can exist in different states and use cases. Do I listen to every episode of this show? Most episodes? Just dip in and out every once in a while? How can a UI accommodat
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Hmm. Normalization means you don't have the change the volume between podcasts, but better than that would be dynamic range compression. A podcast with both loud music/effects/screaming and quiet/normal dialogue would be
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Grammar Nazi Time. An excerpt from Oxford's American: 1 (of a person) surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react: he would be completely nonplussed and embarrassed at the idea. 2 informal (of a person) not disconc
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Even though it's a good example, I think extra care should be taken to avoid the stereotype that Haskell is elegant for math and academic stuff but not for the real word.
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Does nobody love darcs?! crickets
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by autodidakto 12y ago
How about downcase all instances of FREE?
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Instead of addressing the linked article, your post is insightful self-parody, with much sarcasm -- a style more suited to reddit than hn. Please remove it at once, preferably falling on your sword afterwards.
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by autodidakto 12y ago
People use the word "complex" in different ways. Do you mean number of features? Do you mean the size of the compiler? By some measures, operator overloading adds complexity; By another measure, it add simplicity.
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Possible error: >If you want to modify a data structure, you have to create an entirely new data structure with the correct changes. This is still pretty fast because Haskell uses lazy evaluation. I believe the issue is persistent data s
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by autodidakto 12y ago
What about after you give them money and they look down at their hand like "WTF? That's it?" and walk away disgusted (or just stare at you)? Do you judge then? I'm not making this up to be combative. I use to carry a bun
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by autodidakto 12y ago
You have an insight (bankers are self-selected to be more greedy than average), but the author's point still stands: people underestimate their tendency to do bad things when offered enough money. He phrased it in a way that might seem
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Please don't be alarmed by the fallout of war. The President (past, present, and future) wants you to go back to shopping and sportsball.
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Cue Weird Al's "Jurassic Park"
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by autodidakto 12y ago
I recently ran into two github repos that were taken down due to DMCA requests. It's a weird feeling.
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by autodidakto 12y ago
iOS 7 opened up some APIs for it. GetCloak's app uses it (and has a lot more niceties, I read), and so does the ugly but generic OpenVPN app. I'm guesses that they're not able to block all traffic before the VPN is set up tho
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Correct. Running your own server, etc, doesn't matter. If what you're doing on the internet isn't encrypted by you and decrypted by a trusted and competent recipient... consider it more or less public.
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Not bad. RSS feed? It says "send pull request", but I don't see a github link or any contact address.
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Thanks. I hope someone could look up a discussion on this soccer goalie example: I never really understood it. Is the example above saying goalies would do the "more productive" thing of standing still more often if they didn&#x27
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Update: https://github.com/iSECPartners/yontma-mac/issues/4
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by autodidakto 12y ago
Sort of. We think. I dunno: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18720/how-secur...
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by autodidakto 12y ago
You're saying that an Apple killswitch would be a good thing that users would want?
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by autodidakto 12y ago
That's the use case of Whonix. http://whonix.org

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