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by distcs 3y ago
> it's actually hard to represent Python code in regular HTML It is not hard. Just use the right tag. You want the <pre> tag here. Here, fixed it for you: def foo(flag): if flag: print("this is indented
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by distcs 3y ago
> I can not prove it, but I am convinced that they scan the video stream in the device. You can't prove it, alright. But do you mind sharing why you are convinced they scan the video stream?
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by distcs 3y ago
The humor flew right over my head. Care to explain?
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by distcs 3y ago
> I used to be firmly in the one-space camp because my first intro to the subject was from Robin Williams _The Mac Is Not A Typewriter_. So which camp are you in now? I did a 'view source' on your comment. I see you still type
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by distcs 3y ago
What is a use-case for parsing out sentences? I don't think I've ever had to do that. So curious when do you need to parse out sentences?
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by distcs 3y ago
I have to say, that is not a great example. Your earlier point still holds good that there is enough redundancy in English to distinguish these things. Here "Isit?" means "Is it?" and that is obvious from the context.
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by distcs 3y ago
> I adjusted from two spaces to one back in 1999 or so, when I read this book, and the adjustment wasn't as painful as I thought it'd be. Did you switch from two spaces to one space while writing in a text editor using monospac
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by distcs 3y ago
Interesting game. But there are some annoying bugs due to which I can't play it much. Sometimes my clock randomly resets to 0. Sometimes the game ends randomly and makes one person winner when they have not satisfied the winning condit
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by distcs 3y ago
> One approach I take is to make the user type something before taking the destructive action. Make them type IRREVERSIBLY DELETE MY ACCOUNT!, in all caps, with punctuation. The more websites start doing this, the more users will be trai
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by distcs 3y ago
> So time to learn python (remaining) is 0, compared to non-zero for CL. I don't understand your point. The time to learn Python for someone who knows Python is 0, obviously. But then the time to learn CL for someone who knows CL is
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by distcs 3y ago
> I've seen quite a few elegant and within-an-order-of-magnitude-of-semi-optimized-C CL programs throughout the years, but can one make such a statement without benchmarks? What do we mean by high performance? This is someone's
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by distcs 3y ago
> Not everyone has the time to learn Common Lisp. How true is this? I've learnt both CL and Python and it took me an order of magnitude less time to learn CL.
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by distcs 3y ago
Do the affected customers have legal recourse to get back their data AND a hefty compensation for the downtime?
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by distcs 3y ago
Auto migrating data to the closest region cannot be done without legal implications if that region is another country.
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by distcs 3y ago
What I really don't get is why do people even put their data into these types of cloud services which have no proven track record? What value proposition were they providing that is so great that you were willing to risk your critical
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by distcs 3y ago
When do you plan re-run your crawler? HN users are updating that original HN discussion every minute as we speak! It'll be nice to get an updated list sometime today. Possible? And yes, thanks for your work and sharing it!
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by distcs 3y ago
I don't know Go's flavor of regex but is this correct parsing code: https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs/blob... Are you taking care that if the <link> tag spans over multiple li
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by distcs 3y ago
It really saddens me to know that the hacker culture I once so much loved to be part of is rapidly disappearing from the industry.
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by distcs 3y ago
Original title of this HN post was: "Responding to “Are bugs and slow delivery ok?”: The blog post that I’ve hated the most, ever" But if you scroll down to the end of the post: > So thank you, Valentina, for your thought-provo
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by distcs 3y ago
> not sure how to verb Mastodon Why does everything need to become a verb? I have not seen people Linuxing or macOSing or iPhoning or Kubernetesing. Some nouns can remain nouns.
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by distcs 3y ago
> so that the network effects benefits Mastodon better I think this premise is incorrect. Not many people remember but in the first few months after the launch of Twitter, it used to be a nice place for geeks to hang out and share the ne
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by distcs 3y ago
> i mean i guess congrats for getting it to work at all but it's not magical, it's tedious. Magic lies in the eyes of the beholder. So you may not find it magical while I do. But I don't understand how you say that it is t
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by distcs 3y ago
> you can't drive your tooling Can you suggest what tooling actually can help to implement algorithms and data structures libraries with generic types in a clean way?
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by distcs 3y ago
The cross-platform support and screenshots look impressive. Anyone knows how it does that? Does it have runtime dependencies to render those GUIs across OSes? Or is it all baked into the Rust source code?
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by distcs 3y ago
Great question. I'd like to know too! I always thought C is a better target for compiler makers because every target architecture has got a C compiler for it. The number of targets that LLVM support is far less impressive. Also ton of
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by distcs 3y ago
What are you using for the GUI toolkit? The GUI looks awesome.
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by distcs 3y ago
> Man, I wish I still knew people on IRC IRC is still alive. I still know people on IRC. Most opensource channels have thriving communities on IRC with 100s of regulars logged into the channels everyday. The people I knew in the IRC worl
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by distcs 3y ago
> Physical events are not in fact limited to occurring at clock transitions. You seem to be talking about "events". We are not talking about events. We are talking about the clock component of CPU chips that keeps emitting a pe
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by distcs 3y ago
> It's weird that people get mocked for changing their minds. Do they? It could be that I live in a bubble due to the profession I am in and the environment and culture I have grown up in. But in the circle I live in, people are app
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by distcs 3y ago
The link you have cited is good. Thanks! But I was responding to this comment here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36490348 That comment had no statistics to back it up. They only presented their own anecdotes and bi

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