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by dpkendal 15y ago
“Never trust Australians. They live a whole day in the future and they never tell us what’s going to happen.” (I bet Samoa will join this conspiracy of silence when they make the jump.)
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Ask HN: Help with programming language design and implementation.
2 points by dpkendal 15y ago|1 comments
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by dpkendal 15y ago
This is an unavoidable part of compilation; there's no way a compiler could write code as well as a human. It applies to all compilers; a human programmer writing assembly language would be hard-pressed to understand the output of a C compi
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by dpkendal 15y ago
The only issue I forsee with this is that such a hotline would get spammed up with idea-mongers who refuse to share anything without signing an NDA, and who equate a TechCrunch link with a guarantee long-term success.
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by dpkendal 15y ago
My favourite part: "... only 9 of the first 275 checks that I've sent out since the beginning of 2006 have actually been cashed. The others have apparently been cached." Partly because it's a good pun, but also because it relies on the read
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by dpkendal 15y ago
I was fortunate to see him in Manchester, England in February. As Manchester is the birthplace of the Small Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), someone asked him: Q: What would you have done with the SSEM if you had access to it? A: Given th
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by dpkendal 15y ago
If you live in Britain and you ever hear seven pips on BBC radio instead of six, there's just been a leap second. That's the Greenwich Time Signal computer compensating for the extra second.
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by dpkendal 15y ago
Bayesian filtering for comments based on downvotes, with failing comments requiring moderation by a human. My guess is that most mean/dumb/ad-hominem comments use the same words/phrases as other mean/dumb/ad-hominem comments. To prevent mod
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by dpkendal 16y ago
Also, let's clarify something -- when Josh says 'college,' he doesn't mean university, as per the American definition of that term, he means Sixth Form: British secondary education from the ages of 16-18, before heading to university.
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by dpkendal 16y ago
Very, very well executed idea, with one exception: hashbang URLs. Really? Reaallly?
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by dpkendal 16y ago
Cool URLs don't break.
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by dpkendal 16y ago
I don't see why it wouldn't be, what with the last few all being webcast. Apple is eager to promote the HTTP Live Streaming technology, so my guess is that they'll use it any time they can.
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by dpkendal 16y ago
I'll be laughing when Lion is released free of charge. (I have no sources, just a hunch.)
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Tunguska, the ternary computer emulator(acc.umu.se)
35 points by dpkendal 16y ago|3 comments
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by dpkendal 16y ago
Kept giving me errors about unbalanced brackets, but the same regexps work perfectly as patterns in BBEdit (PCRE) and in Ruby (Onig).