cowile2

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by cowile2 5mo ago
Exactly. Good ads are a service to me that inform me of things I want to buy. They aren't tricking me into buying stuff. Sometimes I see an ad and immediately believe the product would improve my life and it does. I think the problem w
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by cowile2 7y ago
I have thought of that possibility, but find two things strange about it. 1. Half a dozen companies being dishonest in exactly the same way is tough to believe. It's too much coincidence. I don't see a reason for dishonesty in tha
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Ask HN: How to Change Industries?
6 points by cowile2 7y ago|2 comments
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Let's Create a CLI with Python – Part 1(medium.com)
1 points by cowile2 8y ago|0 comments
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Password Hashing Explained with Bad Drawings(cswithbaddrawings.wordpress.com)
1 points by cowile2 8y ago|0 comments
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ABS: A Programming Language for Shell Scripting(abs-lang.org)
5 points by cowile2 8y ago|0 comments
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by cowile2 8y ago
> Finding qualified programmers and having access to libraries so you don't reinvent the wheel. Lots of niche languages have the same problem, notably lisp, but it doesn't do to say they aren't popular for those reasons. I
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by cowile2 9y ago
A few of the words right now implicitly depend on machine word size to operate correctly. I could write versions that worked on 32-bit, but I don't have a 32-bit machine to test on.
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by cowile2 9y ago
What are your metrics? What Forth is best at is boostrapping from bare metal to a reasonably high level language with the simplest design possible. Forth was first written at a time when there was a staggering amount of hardware in existenc
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by cowile2 9y ago
Hello, everyone. I would have responded sooner but I spend most of my workday in a closed network for security reasons (defense contractor), and don't have much internet access over the course of the day. There is nothing stopping Fors
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Show HN: Forsh – A Unix shell embedded in Forth(bitbucket.org)
76 points by cowile2 9y ago|20 comments