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by etatoby 10y ago
I've only used a debugger a few times, when the program did not seem to behave according to the source code. That was invariably due to a third-party bug (compiler, library, OS) or to me failing to understand a subtle point about the l
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by etatoby 10y ago
Keep in mind that cookies are just one of the many "storage backends" that websites can potentially use to track you. There are stealth techniques such as browser cache hits, browser configuration fingerprinting, and even system c
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by etatoby 10y ago
> why are we sure that we're not just reading off a random number generator that's set from the same seed? We aren't. In fact, according to the decoherence / many-world interpretation (and possibly others) that&#x27
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by etatoby 10y ago
I never understood that feature. I have been putting `set +H` for decades on every profile of every system I touch.
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by etatoby 10y ago
Why would you want to time nothing? What does it output, real 0s user 0s system 0s?
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by etatoby 10y ago
Forbes started by asking nicely for people to disable ad blocking on their site, stating that their ads were not obnoxious nor dangerous. I complied, just to find myself overwhelmed by some of the most obnoxious, heavy, and dangerous ads a
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by etatoby 10y ago
I, for one, agree with them. We started blocking ads because they had become 1. obnoxious, interfering with the fruition of the actual content; 2. dangerous, being a vector for malware and disrespecting our privacy; and 3. costly, for those
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by etatoby 10y ago
I think your sarcasm goggles are broken ;-)
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by etatoby 10y ago
They should take that single feature and package it into a Harry Potter-themed app, along with some sepia filters and parchment textures. It would be a blast! In fact, I might start using it like that, as soon as the Android version comes o
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by etatoby 10y ago
Your thinly veiled racism is not welcome here.
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by etatoby 10y ago
I agree that Chicken is based on a brilliant idea that turned out to work really well in practice. It's a very practical language / implementation.
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by etatoby 10y ago
That's pretty scary. I can see everybody walking around with their AirPods tucked in their ears, ripe for a cyber-terrorist to unfold an antenna on top of a building, hack into the AirPods' firmware, and send an infrasound to knoc
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by etatoby 10y ago
Back-references may not be part of the mathematical definition of regular language, but they are definitely part of the traditional (UNIX) definition of regular expressions. The regexp in the article is perfectly compatible with UNIX grep:
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by etatoby 10y ago
No, no. When they say "text a photo," they mean "describe the photo in your own words," then somebody from their staff goes out looking for a postcard that matches the description and mails it for you. TBH, I think they
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by etatoby 10y ago
Anonymous yes, decentralized no. The bill in your hand is printed by a central authority, is given value (or taken away, at their whim) by that same central authority, is protected by law, and is technically not even your property. It'
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by etatoby 10y ago
That's probably the entire purpose behind WhatsApp "encryption": to have their cake and eat it too.
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by etatoby 10y ago
Very solid and long-standing provider. They target their offer a bit differently than other providers and this puts off some people, who don't appreciate the tradeoffs. The details and tradeoffs are a bit too many to list here, but bas
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by etatoby 10y ago
So what is the name of this (future?) 2D rotoscoped parkour game? I, for one, am very interested.
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by etatoby 10y ago
On the other hand, a language & tooling that by default compiles to a static executable, such as Go, means no dependency trouble or installation steps at all, now or in the future. Just copy 1 file to all your machines and you have that
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by etatoby 10y ago
Does anybody know what the author means by "lead" (noun)? I don't think it's any of the regular meanings: http://www.ldoceonline.com/search/?q=Lead But it doesn't seem to be any of these slang
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by etatoby 10y ago
If you have ever done any non-trivial coding in C, you will have come across the need (or the advantages) of using goto for local error handling within a function. You can write the error handler code for a given function (which usually jus
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by etatoby 10y ago
Considering the number of characters in that crazy language, you'd need 1000s of lessons (which in fact you do in order to learn it.) I think OP is in another business :-)
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by etatoby 10y ago
LOL I like the toroidal shape in the first sketch!
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by etatoby 10y ago
Why? What is the advantage of using a different symbol for each word, that offsets the huge disadvantages of having to learn and remember a different symbol for each word? Especially considering that the spoken language already distin
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by etatoby 10y ago
Finally SVG has an over-engineered, bloated, complex machinery capable of emulating a conical gradient (hi-fi metal knob effect.) We can now retire and give up this life of crime. PS: CorelDRAW had it in 1992 and didn't need a CSS pars
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by etatoby 10y ago
> they believed I was a pishtaco, an evil person who had come to steal the oil from their bodies. > in the sixteenth century, [...] some of the Spaniards, frustrated that their muskets and cannons rusted so quickly in the jungle hu
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by etatoby 10y ago
> you will be kicking yourself really hard because if you'd only prepared, you could've been paying LTCG... AMT... illiquid stock... IRS... CA FTB... ACME... Road Runner... Look, I won't be kicking myself neither hard no
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by etatoby 10y ago
> So it's entirely possible that the company has an negative expected value for an employee and also a positive expected value for the VC Which is exactly the scenario the article is warning about: share dilution, refinancing, and
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by etatoby 10y ago
My 4¢: 1. I wouldn't call it a game unless it has a gaming element. Then, I wouldn't value it for its simulation capabilities as much as for its gaming properties (entertaining, addictive, not too easy, not too hard? etc.) The rea
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by etatoby 10y ago
Which means we are on the right track towards standard science fiction "power packs," which notoriously double as improvised bombs.

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