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by eco 9y ago
One disappointing but also reassuring thing about the Filecoin ICO is that it's only open to accredited investors[1]. It shows they are doing it right and legal but that unfortunately locks out non-millionaires. 1. http://ww
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by eco 9y ago
There will be no hard fork for this one. The DAO hard fork fix was only possible because the funds were tied up in a time lock for enough time that they could plan a hard fork. Vitalik on why there will be no hard fork for this: https:&#x2
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by eco 9y ago
It's the same group that rescued funds during The DAO attack so they have a good history of benevolent hacking. They are just going to deploy new multi-sig contracts with a fix and make the original owners the owners of the new contrac
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by eco 9y ago
The Fanboy Annoyances list blocks a lot of these. It should already be in your 3rd Party Filter's list. Just enable it. Edit: Though it didn't block the one on this article...
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by eco 9y ago
The short version is just that it's an ethereum contract/program that implements the ERC20 interface: function totalSupply() constant returns (uint totalSupply); function balanceOf(address _owner) constant returns (uint
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by eco 9y ago
The combination of ranges and UFCS led to it just naturally falling out of the language design. It looks like this (adapted from a LINQ example[1]): auto names = [ "Burke", "Connor", "Frank", "Everet
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by eco 9y ago
But it didn't drive up the complexity. It drastically simplified how a lot of features work. C++ is very difficult to master not because of the number of features in the language (it really isn't even all that featureful compared
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by eco 9y ago
Just more pragmatic, I'd say. D isn't a "big agenda language" (to steal a line from Jonathan Blow). It's extremely multi-paradigm (some might argue to a fault). I think that's why you find people saying D is li
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by eco 9y ago
This is basically the work of one tireless man; Iain Buclaw. Many thanks to him for putting in so much time and energy into this. It took 6 years from first submission to get it in. Here are the slides from his 2017 DConf talk about the wor
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by eco 9y ago
How do you figure? D is C++ with lessons learned. I mean, it's right there in the name. I find very few similarities between Go and D. Also, D is much older than Go so if anything Go would be D if D decided to not be a "systems&qu
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by eco 9y ago
@nogc just causes the compiler to error out when a GC allocation occurs in the region marked @nogc and its call graph. You are then expected to manage memory yourself. You could rename it @c_or_cpp_style_memory_management_only. You can mall
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by eco 9y ago
I'm not understanding what is decentralized about it. It just looks like a bunch of Gallery 2 installations. Do the servers interact in some way? Is the content hosted in a decentralized fashion? I can't find anything on the websi
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by eco 9y ago
I second what you are saying about modern CMake. When I first switched to CMake years ago I grew to regret it. It worked but it was a total mess. Then a couple years ago I saw someone mention "modern CMake" and I googled around an
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by eco 9y ago
Five years ago I signed up for Angie's List because I liked the concept of a paid membership to keep the reviews legitimate and of high quality (I figured the type of person that would pay for a membership would leave better reviews).
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by eco 9y ago
Android has had Trusted Voice for a long time where you train it against your voice by saying "OK Google" three times. The goal is to prevent unauthorized users from accessing your information while the device is locked. It's
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by eco 10y ago
Walter, Andrei, and Herb proposed "static if" in N3329 (after it's big success in D) which was ultimately rejected. Ville Voutilainen explicitly revived it in N4461 with changes. Ville then iterated on that proposal a few tim
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by eco 10y ago
He's a real, acting municipal judge (unlike the daytime television judge shows I'm talking about). Edit: I'd like to add that the Crimetown podcast about Providence, Rhode Island is fantastic.
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by eco 10y ago
Those shows are pretty interesting. The judges aren't real judges (though most of them were judges in the past). You might wonder, as I did, why on earth defendants who are often obviously in the wrong, would agree to go on the show. T
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by eco 10y ago
GMail also lets you download all attachments as a zip instead of downloading them one by one. That's the only reason I hop over to GMail.
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by eco 10y ago
That's pretty funny because Nevada accused Utah of shipping their homeless there in the run up to the 2002 Olympics.
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by eco 10y ago
It could have also been a simple mistake. Several Otto employees came from Waymo. Not hard to send email to John Smith <jsmith@google.com> instead of John Smith <jsmith@otto.com> by mistake if you were in regular contact with th
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by eco 10y ago
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/10/11/sho... Also: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/10/13/fas...
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by eco 10y ago
One of the more interesting approaches I've seen lately is in Andrei Alexandrescu's "An Algebra for Expressing Time Complexity of Generic Functions" article[1]. The gist is you (or more likely, the library writer) annota
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by eco 10y ago
One of the more confusing parts of the C++ standard library algorithms is remove/remove_if. A new user would think calling remove(v.begin(), v.end(), value_to_remove) would result in the value being removed from the container[1]. Inste
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by eco 10y ago
I tried it. I didn't notice any appreciable decrease unfortunately but I loved the idea.
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by eco 10y ago
Not if you ask USPS. They aren't supposed to cross-subsidize using services they have a monopoly on (first class and standard mail which includes bulk advertising). Awhile back UPS, FedEx, and others asked the Postal Regulatory Commiss
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by eco 10y ago
I would hope a "particularly bad location" wouldn't encompass the entire Salt Lake metro area (+1M pop) but my experience has been the same throughout the many places I've lived in the valley. You'd think a bad loca
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by eco 10y ago
I was hoping USPS had improved. Something similar happened to me but with no resolution. About 12 years ago I returned a phone I bought on eBay that arrived non-functioning. The tracking page just stopped updating after it reached the desti
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by eco 10y ago
Kodi's developers didn't, no. The way the streaming boxes work is they add a bunch of piracy streaming plugins to a Kodi installation. It's not easy for casual users to do this though. If you download Kodi today you can'
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by eco 10y ago
They didn't actually air this ad. The kids would call this "fake news". Just a hilarious piece of satire though.

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