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Venture Capital’s Biggest Fear (2011)(red-sweater.com)
3 points by btrask 6y ago|0 comments
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by btrask 6y ago
Have you thought about why having a standard causes all these problems with undefined behavior? The point of a standard is to be less specific than a reference implementation. That's why it's written in English, not code. That mea
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by btrask 6y ago
If you remove the standard, wouldn't everything naturally be implementation-defined? Like, say, Python.
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by btrask 6y ago
Is that what you think of Python? How can this be: C has a standard, when many other languages do not. Thus C is "more defined" than other languages. Yet somehow it ends up being less defined. If C had no standard, it would be def
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by btrask 6y ago
Fun fact: if there were no C language definition, there would be no "undefined behavior."
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WebKit Shutting Down (April Fools 2007)(webkit.org)
13 points by btrask 6y ago|1 comments
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How do you use Leanplum tracking in Firefox?(support.mozilla.org)
1 points by btrask 6y ago|0 comments
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by btrask 6y ago
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-you-use-leanplum... > What data is collected and sent to the Leanplum backend? > Leanplum tracks events such as when a user loads bookmarks, opens a new tab, opens
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GNU Hello: another implementation of the classic program that prints Hello World(gnu.org)
2 points by btrask 6y ago|0 comments
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by btrask 6y ago
As someone who never played WoW, I'm curious. What exactly was the ice cream, and what was the gun?
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by btrask 6y ago
Thank you for the article! It's too bad that your conclusion, that systemd doesn't/shouldn't matter, wasn't able to be grasped by the community.
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by btrask 6y ago
You're right, and it's too bad you were downvoted.
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by btrask 6y ago
"The various forms of communication between humans are chock full of opportunities for error." Don't let it get you down.
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by btrask 6y ago
This is a completely legitimate comment (which was 'dead' when I saw it). PGO really is less powerful than JIT. A compiled language with a "micro-JIT" (e.g. for v-tables) seems like an interesting idea to me.
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by btrask 7y ago
Well, they can keep issuing stock until their share price hits $0.00. If they still need money, then maybe the state can step in and start buying some.
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by btrask 7y ago
What I mean is, simply buying a company's stock does not immediately benefit them. They have to issue new shares to turn their elevated stock price into cash. So if companies simply issued shares, they could raise money and effectively
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by btrask 7y ago
Okay, but why is buying a company's stock not the same as bailing it out? If you're "investing" in the business, why does money have to be given to them directly, using a completely different mechanism?
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by btrask 7y ago
Why aren't shareholders on the hook for bailing out their own companies? They have the financial incentive to protect their own investments. Why is bailing out a compay different from "investing" in it? What is an investment
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by btrask 7y ago
"If you really want to solve this". Exploring Tokyo is awsome and something I want to do at some point in my own life, but like anything else it can also be a form of escapism.
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by btrask 7y ago
(For those who don't know, Byuu is a member here and will likely see comments in this thread.) Hi Byuu. You don't know me, but I've been a fan of your work since the early days of bsnes. I've also seen at least some of y
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by btrask 7y ago
If your language promises some kind of new feature (e.g. "safety") but offers a back door you could drive a truck through (e.g. 'unsafe'), then ensuring that back door is used appropriately and in good taste comes down t
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“Humans had finally become a multi-planetary species” (2016)(bentrask.com)
2 points by btrask 7y ago|0 comments
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by btrask 7y ago
You don't sound like a very romantic person. There are other things in the world more expensive than diamonds, but she didn't ask him to buy her a skyscraper or Renaissance painting. Different gifts have different meanings, and it
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by btrask 7y ago
I recently learned about the term "Russell cognate", meaning two words that have the same meaning but vastly different connotations, via some podcast with Eric Weinstein. This thread is probably going down in flames, but I appreci
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by btrask 7y ago
He loved his dad, but he didn't love what his dad loved.
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by btrask 7y ago
> When someone is lying, the passive voice is a very common choice of words. The passive voice was used to write this sentence.
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N-Rays(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by btrask 7y ago|0 comments
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Jonathan Blow – Preventing the Collapse of Civilization(m.youtube.com)
9 points by btrask 7y ago|2 comments
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by btrask 7y ago
Past the right margin a poem may poke, With the help of HN's mighty block-quote.
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by btrask 7y ago
Elon Musk is long TSLA so we shouldn't believe him either.

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