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by fab13n 16y ago
I had to make some evolutions in an Eclipse plug-in which was written in Scala (the module wasn't intended to manipulate Scala code, it just happened to be the implementation language). I initially had a positive prejudice, as a OCaml enthu
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by fab13n 16y ago
One of the key design principles behind Java was to be a cleaner C++: remove all the hippie stuff which make programs too hard to read back, which makes one thing look like it's something else entirely, etc. The result is a boring but relia
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by fab13n 16y ago
That's most likely a direct transposition from French "secretaire d'etat", which is just a junior minister.
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by fab13n 16y ago
Same for me, let's wait and see, it might take a while to activate itself.
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by fab13n 16y ago
It's the operator that allows to chain two statements together. It's written ";" in Pascal, and is often implicit in other languages. When a language explicitly talks about monads, it's because it lets you overload that operator, i.e. it le
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by fab13n 16y ago
> Not that many people have the technical proficiency This is already addressed another way: Wikileaks started giving access to the leaks in advance to the journalists. This way, they can report about it when it's still news, and they d
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by fab13n 16y ago
Cool, they'll have to distribute their content over hard-to-control media (Tor, P2P etc.), thus helping such technologies becoming widespread. Throw in a P2P-based DNS sponsored by COICA, and those elder, digitally illiterate baby-boomer le
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by fab13n 16y ago
the shifting-by-one is probably not intended to throw off people, but search engine indexers. They probably don't want to contain their competitors' names.
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by fab13n 16y ago
Time to apply for a YNews startup offering uncensored DNSes :) If you're willing to do Evil to monetize it, you might even get to resell sex.com and a couple of expensive domains. Or just explain to investor that one day, when you'll be big
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by fab13n 16y ago
If this turns into a complete and mature implementation, I won't miss anything when Ubuntu drops X11 next year, quite the opposite!
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by fab13n 16y ago
It would become harder to get caught, but could remain illegal nonetheless; which prevents from building a legit economic activity around them. As for radar signature, the smaller drones are already barely bigger than a large bird, so I gue
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As long as an iPhone is used by Parrot as the controller, you're stuck with the AppStore's diktats; in this case, Apple won't let them record videos. Also, Parrot's drone is fun to play with. The idea with sensefly is that you don't control
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by fab13n 16y ago
Win the race in terms of volume, most likely: their product is pretty decent, and they aim at comoditizing phones and carriers. But the race that matters is the race in terms of profits, and Apple seems on track to remain the most profitabl
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by fab13n 16y ago
The point that made it counter-intuitive, here, is the "under the wind" part. The (false) idea is, if a 20km/h wind pushes your back, once you're close to 20km/h, you've got almost zero relative wind, so you shouldn't be able to accelerate
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by fab13n 16y ago
Agreed, salaries are the main expense; but not writing code goes faster than writing code in a productive language! Unless you go to a completely unchartered territory (as e.g. Viaweb did), and there's no library to get you halfway done, yo
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by fab13n 16y ago
Agreed, Python hits a sweet spot, largely because GvR managed to maintain a strong anti-not-invent-here culture in the community. Also agreed, I'm quite binary, if not caricatural, in my characterization. But it gets the point across, and I
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I'm suspicious about people who put too much importance into their language choice, maybe because I'm tempted to be one of them. You can love beautiful programs, or programs that get things done. The former people tend to gravitate toward t
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by fab13n 16y ago
You're arguing that Jobs could fix Sony, which is probably true. But there are many companies which could be fixed by a CEO such as Jobs. What brick would Sony bring to Apple's offer that makes sense to buy rather than make? * brand recogni
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by fab13n 16y ago
I don't believe it's completely ineffective; it can certainly save your scalp from some road rash, and I'm sure you can find a couple of cases where a helmet avoided genuine head trauma. But I'm not convince that the benefit of helmets fo
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by fab13n 16y ago
Tested at 20km/h; IIRC that's how normal bike helmets are tested too. My problem is, I'd bet that crashes causing serious harm happen way faster than that: 20km/h is the average speed of a champion marathon runner, and no one runs with an h
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by fab13n 16y ago
Uh? I don't know about vim, but emacs doesn't even get syntax highlight right for most languages. It's a great text editor, and I appreciate it as such, but it understands way too little of programming languages other than Lisp to deserve b
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by fab13n 16y ago
Monaco is a nice place to spend your wealth, but it's a poor place to produce wealth. No real estate (not at a realistic price anyway), no skilled workforce except in fiscal optimization (although they might call themselves bankers), no nat
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> they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier. That's the limiting factor indeed. However, even if taxation is much lower in Bolivia or Burma or Afghanistan, I doubt they'd be happier there even with 0
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You sound like you're joking; some did it: http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
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> it's not especially culturally acceptable for a woman to conceive a child from a man who isn't her life partner. Beyond cultural acceptability, there is objective optimality. Since men thrive to validate themselves by providing more t
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by fab13n 16y ago
"Why Wired Didn't use HTML5 for their iPad App?" Because consumers are not trained to pay for web sites, whereas they're trained to pay AppStore-delivered apps, that's why. 80% of iPhone/iPad applications, both accepted and rejected ones, w
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by fab13n 16y ago
As seen on Reddit, post something obscene as a profile pic, and they'll do it for you. Which I can't help finding brilliant. Actually, I'd absolutely love to see it become viral; I wonder how FB would cope with having more dicks displayed b
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by fab13n 16y ago
This seems to let you host media on your computer, and to work around the need to have a fix IP address or a dyndns account. It doesn't seem to know about graphs of friends, which is the central principle of FB. FB is not about videos, YouT
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Decentralized = much harder to police by governments, authorities, big corps. This can unlock radically new usages. For instance, in a fully decentralized system, you can get rid of storage limitations by storing stuff on your computer (o
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Not another, pretty much the same. If you add to "goto" the required stuff to play nice with closures, you get a continuation.

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