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   by daeken 17y ago

   The interesting things don't happen in a particular paradigm but rather where multiple paradigms meet. Python is imperative and strongly object oriented, but it also has many functional qualities to it. Ruby even more so, with great suppo
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   by daeken 17y ago

   That happens fairly often in general, but it's really not that big a deal. People misapply programming languages all the time, but it never seem to hamper innovation. Innovation tends to take place in the lesser adopted languages and even
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   by daeken 17y ago

   There will always be a need for better programming languages, with the current situation making new languages more important than ever. We have computers we can't completely utilize at the moment and they're becoming more parallelized (and
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   by daeken 17y ago

   This is a terrible way of promoting a language. If you want to knock a language and promote another, you do it by showing why the language is better. "For starters, it has real classes" is the extent of the content here, and that's using
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   by daeken 17y ago

   Please, please stop overloading well-known terms like 'operating system'. This is simply an application platform, much more akin to something like the JVM than an operating system. The implementation details are sparse, but at the lowest
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   by daeken 17y ago

   I agree, and while I can appreciate the sentiment of wanting to go 'cashless' (hey, who here doesn't want to run a startup? (too easy)), trading goods and services is the same thing, just a different currency. There's a level of indirectio
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   by daeken 17y ago

   Not so much a particular piece, but many albums -- I rarely listen to single songs, just albums and full discographies. Iron & Wine, particularly Woman King Splashdown and Universal Hall Pass Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream and Th
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   by daeken 17y ago

   Looks like a very cool language (I can't help but love any language with real macros), but it looks more like ML than Python to me. I wonder how this compares to OOC. I think I might have to run them both through some tests and publish th
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   by daeken 17y ago

   As much as I agree that such people are "inhuman", and my first instinct (like many, if not most, other people, I'd imagine) is that these people don't deserve to be treated like 'normal' people... they do deserve it. If you act in a viole
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    by daeken 17y ago

    I don't think we have enough information to say one way or another. We've gained a lot of knowledge about the brain, but it's still very much a black box. I think it's worth holding off on making any assumptions until we understand a whol
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    by daeken 17y ago

    Ok, I can't be the only one that wants to get one and hack it to work with any VoIP provider. I haven't been this excited about working on a device since the original iPhone came out.
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    by daeken 17y ago

    Little organization. There haven't been any well organized attacks on the DMCA, which is necessary for it to work.
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    by daeken 17y ago

    We find a silly case under this law that would've been legal previously, then get a few hundred thousand (or more) people to download it, willingly putting the content up in violation all at once. Civil disobedience isn't the best choice n
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    by daeken 17y ago

    > Now, we just need a Flash (the big desktop creation app) equivalent that spits out HTML5 code. Anyone working on that? I was just discussing this exact idea with a friend yesterday (although it's something I personally wouldn't be int
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    by daeken 17y ago

    I learned ARM while working on iPhone reversing, and it's certainly nicer, but there are still a ton of considerations. It's much nicer to write, but when reversing it you have to handle so many edge cases it's not even funny. Writing a d
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    by daeken 17y ago

    Compiler intrinsics, binary patches and hooks (although EasyHook has made assembly a rarity here outside of the occasional shim where odd calling conventions are used), in-process debuggers, low-level bootloaders, hardware initialization/ma
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    by daeken 17y ago

    Having read and written assembly on a daily basis for years, I have to disagree entirely. The only simple thing about assembly is that it happens to map to machine code directly, but macros and quasi-instructions even make that iffy. Ther
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    by daeken 17y ago

    "The US spent a million dollars to develop a pen that could write in no-gravity. The Russians used a pencil." False: http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
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    by daeken 17y ago

    This is purely a signing key. It's not used for any sort of copy protection but solely to prevent unauthorized code from running.
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    by daeken 17y ago

    Repost of the original message that started it all -- spread it far and wide: Gentlemen, A mathematical morsel for your entertainment and edification. The number 6,857,599,914,349,403,977,654,744,967, 172,758,179,
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    by daeken 17y ago

    I'm about 25% through Makers now and I'm downright hooked. I was planning on reading a few pages then going to bed, but now it's looking like I'm going to finish it today. As for Little Brother, it's likely my favorite book of his. With y
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    by daeken 17y ago

    Well, there goes a day of work. Seriously though, I've become a huge Doctorow fan. When I first got my Kindle, I didn't have an internet connection at my house for a week or so and decided to grab Down and Out In The Magic Kingdom to give
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    by daeken 17y ago

    All that said, it's incredible to see it included at all. Boo is a fantastic language that's getting better by the day, but it's not well known at all. It's great to see even their level of support.
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    by daeken 17y ago

    The discussion of Dunbar's Number (as well as WL Gore, for that matter) in The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell is very interesting. I highly recommend the book for everyone here.
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    by daeken 17y ago

    The specs went to the current licensing scheme in May of 2008, with the launch of the Open Screen Project.
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    by daeken 17y ago

    I too want to be a cyborg, but I wonder when it'll come. One of the things I'm personally interested in (outside of the blue-sky stuff I read about in H+) is better interfaces for the already ubiquitous computers we have. I've been sketch
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    by daeken 17y ago

    I agree that AI is going to push us forward to places we've never even considered before (being a strong supporter of the Singularity myself), but I think focusing on AI is wrong. I think that, like most big things, strong AI will come by
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    by daeken 17y ago

    If Linux does what you need it to do, then that's all well and good, but saying "I'm convinced that people only buy Microsoft products because they are unaware of FOSS." is just silly. There are plenty of good reasons to use Windows just l
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    by daeken 17y ago

    1) M$ on HN? Really? Come on, make your point without the silly name. 2) I buy MS products because I prefer them in many cases. I'm buying Windows 7 because it works great, and I want to move from Win2k8. I use free operating systems ev
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    by daeken 17y ago

    Comparing Windows to OS X on a price basis is downright silly. The cost of OS X's development is 100% subsidized by hardware sales. Is Windows 7 a ripoff? Yes, but only because of the differences between the low-end and high-end versions