drblast

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   by drblast 13y ago

   Java is a likable language. It's not a lovable language. It occupies a weird middle ground where you give up the capability to code to bare metal or easily interface with C functions in exchange for nearly being able to quickly and su
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   by drblast 13y ago

   I'm baffled by the logic of people who recoil at the idea of a basic income because it's "socialist", but if you were to ask many of them if lowering taxes for nearly everyone by X% is a good idea, they'd scream &qu
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   by drblast 13y ago

   And how is that different than eliminating a minimum wage and providing a basic income, other that the basic job is much more complex?
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   by drblast 13y ago

   You're young, you're immature, and sounds like you're prone to drama. What you're doing isn't working. Go back to school and finish.
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   by drblast 13y ago

   Hey now, that's really unfair. Nobody I know who has a CISSP cert got it willingly. Other than that though, carry on.
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   by drblast 13y ago

   Allow me to plug #ddeeff. I think it very nicely complements the orange Y and the gray background, and it's easy to remember. I'm mildly colorblind, however, so take my recommendation with a large grain of salt. But if you'
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   by drblast 13y ago

   I think we have laws that cover those cases. Attempted murder not being the same as actual murder even though the only difference might be bad aim and all that. If by firing randomly you were assured nobody else would be hurt, would anyone
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   by drblast 13y ago

   You can provide a service that is a net loss overall, but still a benefit to a few. It's the tragedy of the commons. Let's make it simple and say there are two villages. Some people in village A decide to start raiding crops fro
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   by drblast 13y ago

   Oooh, this looks really nice. I'm so happy that high-pixel density screens are becoming available. It's about time. But with a built-in battery...ahh, almost had me. Sticking to Thinkpads. I'd gladly sacrifice some thinne
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    by drblast 13y ago

    One cool thing about Haskell that really struck me and that usually isn't emphasized is partial application of function arguments. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Partial_application I'm not sure if it&#x2
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    by drblast 13y ago

    Great comment, thanks!
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    by drblast 13y ago

    We didn't need any stupid CSS borders, either, just nested tables with cellpadding=1 and a black background.
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    by drblast 13y ago

    Ok, that JavaScript under Pressure is a lot of fun and it would make a great ice-breaker.
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    by drblast 13y ago

    Well, I thought it was an insightful article, and I'm just hanging around waiting to be mortified by the comments.
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    by drblast 13y ago

    If you're like me and this is the first time you're hearing about this, and want to know more about the implementation, check the bottom of this page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona?redirectlocale
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    by drblast 13y ago

    This started off being about discussions about Netflix shows, and then turned into a philosophical article about life. Nice! I'm glad that I can watch House of Cards all at once, and that this article exists.
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    by drblast 13y ago

    The point is that you'd have to read that data somehow, and likely from a user-level process, so you'd have to make some sort of system call to do that. Unless the entropy that's the input key is something ephemeral, it'
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    by drblast 13y ago

    Anything like that is not really fundamentally different from a password, and for the program to work correctly (decrypt itself) it has to collect the password somehow. The outer layer that does this really has no defense other than obfusc
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    by drblast 13y ago

    What I value most in a programming language: 1. I'm able to concisely express what I'm trying to do. 2. I never, never have to copy/paste or otherwise do repetitive work because one case is slightly different than another.
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    by drblast 13y ago

    Joe wins the Powerball lottery. Now he's set for life, with his 250 million dollars. Joe's contribution to society was purchasing a lottery ticket. There is a high demand for lottery tickets, so Joe believes that if it weren&#x
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    by drblast 13y ago

    Thanks, these articles are excellent. In particular, the first that explains ML syntax in terms that I can relate to other languages before you launch into the concepts is great. Almost every Haskell intro I've read tries to explain
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    by drblast 13y ago

    I always feel like I'm at least seven or eight layers removed from anything I can relate to when I read about category theory. I'll think, "Hey, let me check this out on Wikipedia..." and I'm six linked articles dee
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    by drblast 13y ago

    Thanks! Always nice to read the full research.
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    by drblast 13y ago

    Whenever you try to describe a large data set with a single number, you lose a lot of information, like you said. Having more measurements helps, but I think the larger point is that we don't have to do this anymore, we could publish
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    by drblast 13y ago

    Don't think of it as public speaking, think of it as a performance. You wouldn't go try to perform a play without scripting it and memorizing your script first, nor should you do that with your presentation. Once you do that you
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    by drblast 13y ago

    Thanks! I forgot about indie game... is that the one about fez and super meat boy? That was fantastic.
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    by drblast 13y ago

    Cosmos is wonderful. But I'd mostly rather read to learn, it's faster. I'm a huge fan of documentaries that aren't mind-expanding and focus on quirky subcultures: King of Kong - Never cared about professional video game
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    by drblast 13y ago

    Sounds about right. My experience with Amazon's hiring process was that it was extremely flaky, which surprised me because it was nothing like my great experiences with Amazon as a customer. Did well on the phone interview, got an ema
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    by drblast 13y ago

    It's not just you, lights on most cars are just too damn bright and severely affect other drivers' night vision. I have no idea why they are considered "safe." However, BMW's new ultra bright lights will surely fai
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    by drblast 13y ago

    I always liked Common Lisp for this, since you could so easily inspect data structures like hashes at run time. I think CMUCL had a really interesting and unique hash implementation that relied on two identically sized arrays, one for the k