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by davidwritesbugs 5y ago
I very nearly threw up my hands when writing an Elm parser combinator. The idea is great but the documentation and lack of advanced examples turned a day of effort into weeks. I just wanted to go back to Regexes.
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by davidwritesbugs 5y ago
Sonds a bit OTT! I have visions of David Attenborough
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Ask HN: How do you do notes for a project?
4 points by davidwritesbugs 5y ago|6 comments
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by davidwritesbugs 5y ago
And you'll be reading it for the rest of your life.
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by davidwritesbugs 5y ago
Many many years ago I got kicked out of student halls at university. I used to keep my stuff in my lockers and sleep in the bathing rooms all night. If people tried to use one I'd yell "In the bath". One time I slept in a stu
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by davidwritesbugs 5y ago
If you are trying to avoid spook you're fucked anywhere you are: US EU whatever. Yes, if the NSA want your US email they probably won't press that button, but they'll ask GCHQ to press a UK button insetad and get it that way.
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by davidwritesbugs 5y ago
But if you were, say, The Pirate Bay and all you are pinning is the torrent file then it seems like that might have worked as torrents are only a few kb in size rather than a Gb movie file? What was the name of the site?
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by davidwritesbugs 5y ago
It is. Being sued for professional negligence is hurty & we earn by inflicting pain on others not getitng hurt ourselves. A static type checker/formal verifier for legal contracts would be worth serious money.
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by davidwritesbugs 5y ago
ex-lawyer here: I can confirm it is possible to write buggy conventional contracts; I have done so on numerous occasions. I have missed the odd ',', or simlar lexical slips, in a clause. Fortunately no rockets or stablecoins crash
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by davidwritesbugs 5y ago
I was somewhere with no internet connection and an old laptop with Golang on it. I needed a string similarity function. Remembering vaguely hearing there was some kind of 'distance' algorithm to do this I hit on the idea of treati
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by davidwritesbugs 5y ago
Arghhh! Where was Darwin when this video was made?
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by davidwritesbugs 5y ago
ex-lawyer here. Where big money is at stake most sensible judges will, or will /try/ to, look behind absolutist language in a contract (be it smart or not). Courts are very good at looking at contracts and asking what the parties
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by davidwritesbugs 6y ago
My take on legal wigs, as an ex-barrister, is that they are an anachronistic historical decoration. They mean nothing, they are not "Asimovian" or other twaddle like that. They are the vestiages of Office that were never modernise
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by davidwritesbugs 6y ago
Usenet is low key and mainly for file distribution nowadays but it still has its niche. I do like to try implementing the protocol for making servers whenever I'm trying to learn a new language, it's my Hello World. I've nev
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by davidwritesbugs 6y ago
Me. Did a masters in IP law while working as a developer then qualified and moved over. Then sortof moved back. Long story.
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by davidwritesbugs 6y ago
Will you be making this available on nntp servers? Might be nice to see it on a text only nntp server. Sure one of the big usenet providers would want help seems on their interest.
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by davidwritesbugs 6y ago
Was it wisely propogated? It may not have been accepted by many peered servers. If I recall not all groups propagated to all other servers (in theory of not in practice?) so if you were not on an isp's nntp server it may have gone nowh
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by davidwritesbugs 6y ago
"Uh hey? Fella? can you do me a solid and take this small bag through customs and onto London for me? It's, er, floppy disks"
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by davidwritesbugs 6y ago
Interesting language. What is dfinity's business model?
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by davidwritesbugs 6y ago
Thanks. I'd assumed idris2 would replace idris so I didn't try searching for anything else. I've just grabbed it, thanks very much for the tip.
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by davidwritesbugs 6y ago
I'm waiting for someone to update Brew which is currently at 1.3. Installing 2.0 is currently a bit of a faff.
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by davidwritesbugs 6y ago
I recently finished a 2.5 year stint in a UK prison and that was bad enough
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by davidwritesbugs 6y ago
I skimmed the page & the language style sets off buzzers & just think "yuck". It smells of get-rich-quick, dream-selling crap.
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by davidwritesbugs 7y ago
Didn't listen to podcast but from other sources I've hear there is a cultural imperative to accept the police version of events because it is 'disrespectful' to doubt their word. Given Japanese deference to authority tha