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by codewiz 10y ago
"Also, there’s the issue of integrity. Google is still cooperating with the NSA and other intelligence agencies. PRISM is also still a thing." What's this based on? Google immediately denied any association with t
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by codewiz 10y ago
Because heat is pure entropy; it's what you ultimately end up with after electricity has been used to do work, and the process is irreversible due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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What the ISO C++ committee added to the C++17 working draft(reddit.com)
3 points by codewiz 10y ago|0 comments
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Small asteroid discovered orbiting Earth(cnn.com)
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by codewiz 10y ago
Reading Taler's website ( https://www.taler.net/ ) it is not clear to me whether customer and merchant must agree to use the same exchange in order to perform a transaction. It seems to be implied by the key interactions
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by codewiz 10y ago
Is this really news? Mosh has been around since 2012 and there haven't been releases in almost one year.
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Kerbal Space Program 1.1(forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com)
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by codewiz 11y ago
As a native speaker of Florentine Tuscan Italian, I often have more trouble understanding other Italian dialects than other Latin-derived languages such as Castilian, Catalan and Portuguese. My maternal grandmother came from a small town in
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Elon Musk didn't like his kids' school, so he made his own without grades(businessinsider.com)
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by codewiz 12y ago
Did you spot a specific issue, or are you just opposed to any form of legal advice given on HN?
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by codewiz 12y ago
Lazily converting UTF-8 (or latin1) to UTF-16 as needed is indeed an old trick employed by many string classes. It's even a bit surprising that a codebase as popular and performance-critical as SpiderMonkey hadn't picked up such a
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by codewiz 12y ago
First reactions of "experts" on this study range from cautious to skeptical: http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-c...
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by codewiz 12y ago
Funny how the companies with the best engineering also tend to be those with the best business ethics. Kudos to Tesla for being once again disruptive and innovative in the risk-averse and ailing automotive industry.
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by codewiz 12y ago
That's not math. It's calculation, a process that computers can carry on without actually thinking.
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by codewiz 12y ago
OTOH, GCC and Clang provide warn_unused_result, and it's easy to define types for returning errors from functions that throw a compile-time error if ignored by the caller. I find explicit error handling safer and more elegant than exce
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by codewiz 12y ago
Turtle Art (AKA Turtle Blocks) is another LOGO-derived educational language with aims similar to Scratch. Turtle Art is free software and its block language seems more powerful and orthogonal. It can be extended with inline Python expressio
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by codewiz 13y ago
The doc mentions this among the cons of NSS: "Certificate path building is C code designed to emulate Java code, through indirection of an average of 7 layers of macros, two platform abstraction layers, and then the remaining NSS abstr
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by codewiz 13y ago
Oh, and they're using CVS because it's so secure!
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by codewiz 13y ago
Until a few minutes ago, you could see this hidden message: $ curl http://89.248.171.30/ <a href='MtGox2014Leak.zip'>They were not made out of magic Mark...</a> <!-- I hated working with
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by codewiz 13y ago
This other site shows market cap for all the notable cryptocurrencies, including Dogecoin: http://coinmarketcap.com/
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by codewiz 13y ago
Reminded me of the famous sketch Everything's Amazing & Nobody's Happy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E
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by codewiz 13y ago
Someone is trying to win the Ig Nobel prize.
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by codewiz 13y ago
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by codewiz 14y ago
The article does not mention that the Anonymous had defaced MIT's main website immediately before the Jan 13 MITnet outage: http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/anonymous.html