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ema
13y ago
The mill CPU [1] has a single address space and they plan to port linux to it. [1] http://millcomputing.com/
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ema
13y ago
I think a lot of the data for these is in Wikipedia.
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ema
13y ago
You can just throw away a dollar bill with illegal stuff on it. You can not throw away the data of a bitcoin transaction without throwing away all transaction which occurred later on the block chain.
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ema
14y ago
Couldn't you solve that by hashing it again on the sever?
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ema
14y ago
Clojure is currently my favorite language, partly for the pragmatic choices it made, but these pragmatic choices will limit its continued use. Hygienic macros often prevent one from shooting oneself into the foot, but they prevent also some
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ema
14y ago
> I think you can check if a function is native or not by casting the function to a string you can swap the toString method too.
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14y ago
You also have to ensure that "window.crypto.getRandomValues = function(y) {};" wasn't executed earlier.
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ema
14y ago
But if the government can confiscate the server they also can make it deliver modified JS. If you can't trust the server you also can't trust the JS it gives you.
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14y ago
> The more of the heavy lifting you can do unconsciously, a vastly higher level of output one is able to produce for the same amount of mental effort. I agree, but working from the standard library has it backwards. One should subconsci
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ema
14y ago
It's only broken for the female voice, with the male voice it works fine. But i have no idea how google choses which voice to use.
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ema
14y ago
I don't pay for air, but i am not the product of the plants.
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ema
14y ago
took a while to get that reference.
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ema
14y ago
The last Apollo mission was almost a decade before the first flight of a space shuttle.
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ema
14y ago
Well i learned to program before i learned English. But i agree without understanding English i would never have gotten to the level i am now on.
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ema
14y ago
Also not that long ago it was way harder to quickly schedule meetings when you weren't at the same location.
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ema
14y ago
When human lives or expensive equipment are at stake then it makes sense to be software conservative by your definition. But for these kinds of requirements Java is way to lenient.
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ema
14y ago
Yeah by your definition i would be a liberal. I can see good reasons for every position on Steve Yegge's spectrum. But i have a way harder time seeing a good reason to be conservative on your spectrum. Which makes IMO Steve Yegge's spectrum
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ema
14y ago
I don't think it has much to do with the liberal-conservative distinction. I'm at the conservative end (Clojure, Haskell) and prefer a lot of liberal languages over Java.
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ema
14y ago
Why would he need to cover up that he is working for a government agency? Considering that you apparently aren't fooled by that cover up, it can't be that much worth anyway.
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ema
14y ago
It is less embarrassing to fail in a strange situation than in known surroundings.
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ema
14y ago
>I think it's something everyone should do. Nah, i don't think so, because most people (me included) wouldn't actually care and then it would devolve into meaningless politeness. I prefer that only the people (like you) who actually car
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ema
14y ago
They have both have immutable data structures and i realized just now, that is after GC the second most important feature i want in a high level language.
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14y ago
If that is the price the world has to pay for the occasional google so be it.
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ema
14y ago
Just because Tufte has taste doesn't mean he can't deal with ugliness.
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ema
14y ago
Then it is a good way to train your foot / finger coordination.
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14y ago
> PPDE is now the third largest party in Germany by member count. According to their own wiki[1] they are number 7. Even if you count cdu and csu as one party they are 6. place. [1] http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Mitglieder#Mitglieder_im_
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ema
14y ago
I'm skeptical about this. Lets see in 8 years[1] if i was right. [1] http://predictionbook.com/predictions/6696
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ema
15y ago
> And in October we reached $100 million in pledges and had our one millionth backer. probably includes 2010 > Dollars Pledged: $99,344,382 only 2011
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ema
15y ago
It is not wrong to wonder about this stuff, but i don't think knowing it will help you.
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ema
15y ago
Look at Duckduckgo they have a competitor who launched years earlier and has a hell lot more funding.
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