chrisdew

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by chrisdew 11y ago
> I expect the language to be broad and the enforcement narrow. That's the worst kind of law - you can be locked up at a prosecutors whim. In the UK, it's already illegal not to disclose the key to an encrypted file.
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Petition UK government to not ban encryption(petition.parliament.uk)
292 points by chrisdew 11y ago|106 comments
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by chrisdew 11y ago
But there's definitely still odd stuff here: $ node > var bar = undefined = "foo"; undefined > bar 'foo' > undefined undefined >
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by chrisdew 11y ago
Apologies, you're right. I'm sure this used to work, a few years ago... but I may be getting old.
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by chrisdew 11y ago
var undefined = "raspberry"; function eatFruit (fruit) { if (fruit === undefined) { fruit = "strawberry"; } ... } eatFruit("raspberry");
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by chrisdew 11y ago
Likewise, I'm now torn between Rust and Haskell as my "safe" language of choice. ("safe" as in - if it compiles, it runs correctly.) Rust's lifetimes are a bit annoying, its async IO story is woeful, but it do
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by chrisdew 11y ago
Everyone will wait until just before the closing of the window, before submitting their orders, so that they trade with the most information available. Those with fast connections will have more market information at the point that they pla
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Unfinished Side Projects(shadowstick.com)
1 points by chrisdew 11y ago|0 comments
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When function pointers don't contain the address of the code(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by chrisdew 12y ago|0 comments
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by chrisdew 12y ago
Has anyone merged Haskell and Scheme, such that I can write strongly typed Haskell code with the (lack of) Scheme syntax, and its macros? (I hope that Template Haskell would make this possible.)
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by chrisdew 12y ago
There may be a problem with the "prefix length" parameter. What the user will want to specify is not the proportion off all messages they want to download, but the number or bandwidth. i.e. If subspace has 1,024 users, I might s
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by chrisdew 12y ago
Perhaps people are annoyed that DJB does everything his own way, rather than using standard tools? I vaguely remember building DJB's software from source to be non-trivial, but that was a decade ago.
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by chrisdew 12y ago
Are you sure about this, I thought HMRC needed a UK VAT registration number?
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by chrisdew 12y ago
The MOSS (one stop shop) is only available to VAT-registered entities. Making it available to all would solve the problem for me.
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by chrisdew 12y ago
The worst part is that non-VAT registered (because of turnover of less than £70K/~$100K in UK) businesses will have to register for VAT in each of the 28 EU countries they sell to individually (and probably in 15+ non-English languages
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by chrisdew 12y ago
Please correct me, if I have misunderstood the new rules. The new rules are very bad for non-VAT registered UK companies which create and sell digital goods. If my company continues selling ( http://www.virtsync.com ) to EU count
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by chrisdew 12y ago
Yes, my first paying side-project (virtsync) was the fourth or fifth thing I'd started. I currently have three other ideas I'm working on, but I find it difficult to focus on one.
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by chrisdew 12y ago
I wrote virtsync, an alternative to rsync, which performs much better on sparse, GB+ files that don't change much (like VM disk images). http://www.virtsync.com It's a niche product that makes me $1-2K per year. More
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ProtoStream: Streaming multiple Protocol Buffer messages(github.com)
6 points by chrisdew 12y ago|0 comments
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Arthur Whitney's One-page Interpreter (1992)(jsoftware.com)
59 points by chrisdew 12y ago|50 comments
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by chrisdew 12y ago
"Luis Alves’ machine used a regular 68000 at 20 MHz, and got decent performance running ucLinux." ucLinux doesn't need an MMU - that's its reason for existing.
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by chrisdew 12y ago
Clutching at straws here, but... One use case for 128 bit addressing is for a single-address-space OS running on a cluster. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_address_space_operating_... Pointers can have 32 bits for
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by chrisdew 12y ago
How do you Haskell on embedded systems? Are you talking about baremetal with 1-32K SRAM?
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by chrisdew 12y ago
Try some non-oop languages (e.g. Haskell, Clojure, Prolog, etc.) They're not so easy to switch between.
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by chrisdew 13y ago
You can do a JS hack with JPEG for RGB and PNG for alpha, but it's not ideal.
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by chrisdew 13y ago
Could you recommend a good escrow service? There are lots when you Google.
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by chrisdew 13y ago
Hi rartichoke, thanks for your comment. Yes, I don't really believe it'll take off - but it was worth a try for a day's work. Plus I got to use Stripe for the first time, which is so much nicer than PayPal. FDD is a sort of
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by chrisdew 13y ago
You can also get too specific - http://www.virtsync.com - I've only made $1000, but it was only a few day's work.
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Show HN: My first Stripe site - Fifty Dollar Deadline.(fiftydollardeadline.com)
1 points by chrisdew 13y ago|4 comments
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by chrisdew 13y ago
Could you post a link to that info? I hadn't come across that limitation before.

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