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by cwp 12y ago
The point is that the constitution doesn't mention "censorship". You may be right that censorship does violate the first amendment, but there are precedents that establish that censorship is permissible in certain circumstanc
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by cwp 12y ago
Yup, although not lately. DabbleDB was (mostly) implemented in Smalltalk, until it was acquired by Twitter. I would really like to see a version of the Smalltalk VM that runs directly on Xen. That way you could bundle a Smalltalk image with
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by cwp 12y ago
BetterCompany - San Francisco, CA BetterCompany is an early-stage startup (less than 10 employees), based in SF's financial district. The company is well-funded by some of the best enterprise angels and VCs in the business. We're
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by cwp 12y ago
Yes, but... Often better libraries and tools can only be built on a better language. That's easy to say and very, very difficult to pull off, but when it happens the result is like magic. I recently encountered this when I was getting
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by cwp 12y ago
The paragraph he quoted notes that Apple does not have the keys.
576.
by cwp 12y ago
Compared to gas.
577.
by cwp 12y ago
So? Rockefeller didn't invent the internal combustion engine either.
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by cwp 12y ago
The average person doesn't make use of communication satellites? Ok, maybe not directly, but without them you wouldn't be able to live sports on TV. http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/07/14/falcon-
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by cwp 12y ago
BetterCompany - San Francisco BetterCompany is a seed stage startup based in SF's financial district. The company is well-funded by some of the best enterprise angels and VCs in the business ( https://angel.co/bettercomp
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by cwp 12y ago
If you claim to have written it yourself, that's plagiarism. It would only be copyright infringement if you sent photocopies of the pages of the book. If you're sending the original pages, there's no copying, and thus no infr
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by cwp 12y ago
His complaint is that implementation details of the interpreter have leaked into the specification of the language, such as it exists. The result is that alternate implementations have to mimic those quirks of the interpreter in order to ac
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by cwp 12y ago
It a threat to their control of the web. Javascript is currently the only real option for client-side software, and Mozilla owns Javascript. Why would they do anything to help Google take that away from them?
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by cwp 12y ago
How does this compare with Nixops or Disnix? It sounds like it would be possible to plug nix-based provisioning into Terraform, and use it to manage the high-level cluster structure. Edit: downvotes? whatever for?
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by cwp 12y ago
There's quite a bit of territory between "proprietary" and "free software, as approved by the FSF". If the MapCode sources are free for any purpose except confusing people, I'm fine with that.
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by cwp 12y ago
Globally-unique identifiers make sense on the web, where "going" to a website being served from the other side of the world is as easy as one served from across the street. That's not true for navigation in the physical world
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by cwp 12y ago
It would be useful for implementing Julia parsers.
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by cwp 12y ago
It's not at all obvious they'd lose. Github is not violating anybody's copyright. They're only distributing source code, presumably with the full consent of the authors.
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by cwp 12y ago
I do this with node and python projects. I develop using nix on a Mac, then deploy to NixOS servers. One thing I've found handy is to create a .profile file in the root of my project directory with additional shell customization for th
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by cwp 12y ago
Yeah. The cool kids are using Erlang. If everybody was doing it, it wouldn't be cool.
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by cwp 12y ago
Even if developers are non-malicious, they aren't infallible.
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by cwp 12y ago
Did valarauca1 claim that anyone should defer to his crypto-expertise and detailed analysis? He basically said, "The behaviour of this developer makes me not want to trust his work." His assessment isn't definitive, but he se
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by cwp 12y ago
Sure. "Good artists borrow, great artists steal."
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by cwp 12y ago
The Smalltalk version of foreach() is called #do:. #inject: is like reduce(). That blog post inspired a fun discussion in the Smalltalk community on what the semantics of #infect: and #neglect: should be!
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by cwp 12y ago
After some tire-kicking a few months ago, I've started using Nix in earnest, and I am loving it. It's sort of like moving from CVS to git: there's some new stuff to learn, but it's worth it.
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by cwp 12y ago
No and no. But that doesn't mean it'll be a failure. People who write games for iOS are going to love it.
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by cwp 12y ago
Why would method inlining be incompatible with dynamic dispatch?
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by cwp 12y ago
Checkpointing is a natural fit with the Cocoa API, which uses an event loop. Just save the state of the application after each event is handled.
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by cwp 12y ago
He wasn't asking 1Password if it's a good idea, he was asking them why developers disable pasting. It's precisely because their livelihoods depend on being able to auto-enter passwords, that they're likely to know th
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by cwp 12y ago
It's a place to start. It's not a huge leap from modelling the game of chess to modelling the skill of chess-playing. Stockfish already offers post-game analysis. Imagine extending that to analyze a players entire career, and offe
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by cwp 12y ago
Apologies for the pedantry, but it's "chink in the armor." See http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chink and http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kink

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