didroe

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by didroe 17y ago
>wall outlets are usually behind a local fuse even before a home's circuit breaker I live in the UK and I don't know anyone with fuses in the actual outlet. We normally have a circuit breaker and fuse in the plug. For things like my PC,
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by didroe 17y ago
One thing that's weird in the example is that there's a confirm password box. The only utility I can see for Chroma Hash is in removing the need to confirm passwords. You'd need widespread use for people to remember their hashes though.
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by didroe 17y ago
Depends on what your definition of registry is. If the current registry is stored in two non consecutive disk blocks (due to fragmentation), is that still a registry? Think of per application files as disk blocks, with the registry API ca
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by didroe 17y ago
Yeah, the registry is great. It would be much better though if the data was stored in application specific data files. They could still provide a unifying API but make it really easy to remove an application.
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by didroe 17y ago
You could have a removable chain. Or use a belt and design it so it can fold over or something.
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by didroe 17y ago
12 seconds in you can clearly see two pedals.
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by didroe 17y ago
Geolocation is bad for detecting the language, the HTTP Accept-Language header is better for that. But Geolocation can be good for localising content. If I'm in Germany and search for fast food, I want to see the results in English (if poss
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by didroe 17y ago
Well you are reading an English language site so the articles are obviously going to be in English. The complaint applies to anyone travelling to a country that speaks a different language. There are also comments from people in other count
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by didroe 17y ago
A good compromise would be if you could specify an object as being "replacable" and then it would have the extra layer of indirection (the table) to make it fast. That way you don't pay a penalty when you're not using that feature and/or do
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by didroe 17y ago
The solution to that is a complete change in the way society views education. If education were seen as a lifelong thing and it was the norm for people to pick up new skills then things would be so much better. The current system forces peo
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by didroe 17y ago
I'd be willing to bet that most general purpose languages that are in mainstream use could easily share the majority of their compiler/interpreter code. The main differences are in which combination of features are included and the syntax t
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by didroe 17y ago
It's not just Twitter, it's Bubble 2.0 TM. Everyone seems to think if you have the words 'cloud' and 'social' in your business description then money just magically appears. I can't wait for investors to wise up so we can get back to some f
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by didroe 17y ago
I stand corrected. Don't you still have to do lots of messing around (in comparison to an imperitive language) to simulate state though?
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by didroe 17y ago
Just had a skim, looks like the kind of thing I was thinking altough clearly he's thought it through a bit more. Thanks for the link, I'll take a look properly later.
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by didroe 17y ago
It will have some of the attributes of Twitter, but it is NOT a simple Twitter clone. Are you actually going to have a business model then? :)
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by didroe 17y ago
This is exactly the idea I had a while ago. I was talking with a friend and we were designing a language where you would have pure and impure functions. That way you can easily see what's going on and what to expect but you don't have to ju
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by didroe 17y ago
How do you solve the problems he mentioned in his followup post? He seems to be saying that there are a lot of people going on about how easy it is but no examples beyond simple games.
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by didroe 17y ago
Couldn't you do the same thing by just not using global variables in an imperative language? Then you get the benefits you're mentioning without lots of pointless data copying. You just pass a reference to the world object and you can see e
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by didroe 17y ago
Indeed, it might be sometimes frustrating to pass around state that in C would be directly modifiable, but the benefits are huge. Such as? Ok, so you get better multithreaded behaviour but now you're copying state all the time and having
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by didroe 17y ago
Conditions can do a lot more than substitute a value. Think of it like an exception in reverse, you can resume with different "types" that cause it to take a different path. And they might pass new data in. Say you have a function that is b
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by didroe 17y ago
I thought this was the best bit: >Mono implements an international standard albeit one from a convicted monopolist. If this is a problem, why do people use C, the standard from convicted monopolist AT&T? Mono implements an improved,
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by didroe 17y ago
IE compatibility mode is broken. It has two "modes", one of which changes the user agent version and one that doesn't (but still changes the functionality of the browser). Guess where the sniffer scripts get the version from. The only way t
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by didroe 17y ago
Some Googling has revealed a little more information from Greenstein: http://www.pokerroad.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6953
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by didroe 17y ago
The query optimiser should be dealing with that. If you're doing an outer join and checking for the key being NULL then it can easily see that the operation can be short circuited. It's all implementation details. I've worked with databases
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by didroe 17y ago
I think the point was that the big DBs have better ways to deal with scaling than sharding.
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by didroe 17y ago
>There are some lazy and irresponsible journalists out there. It's just the nature of the beast these days. With the revenue slowly disappearing, journalists have to provide cheaper articles. That's why almost every news article is a re
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by didroe 17y ago
I thought the secret was that there is no business model. :)
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by didroe 17y ago
Mine too! Scary stuff.
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by didroe 17y ago
Anymore? When has discussion of beliefs and important issues ever been clear or rational?
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by didroe 18y ago
It'd be really nice if the RSS feed went to HN and not directly to the article. The RSS feed is useless to me as I have to have the HN page open anyway to get to people's comments.

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