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by fao_ 11y ago
That was the joke. I thought the fnord elucidated it...
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by fao_ 11y ago
fnord. Hmm, this seems very well thought out and interesting; I wonder what the rest of HN thinks.
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by fao_ 11y ago
These are great; my favourites are: > How I rewrote Bash in javascript. > I decided to re-implement Javascript in Javascript. It failed. Here is my story. > [450 points] Why I have private Github repos at my startup but everyone el
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by fao_ 11y ago
Most developers touting OOP don't know those languages; so why should we care what their opinions are concerning OOP as a paradigm. If you exclude one person because they disagree with X and don't know Y, then you must equally d
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Ask HN: Are there koan-type lessons for things other than PLs
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by fao_ 11y ago
Does it have to be unique? A small project that you use now and then that needs an upgrade would probably benefit from being written in lisp (in some manner).
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by fao_ 11y ago
I feel that there's too much of an innate trust in password managers these days. One 'short int' problem ( heartbleed reference! Look at me I'm so hip and zany :) ) and the passwords are compromised. OTOH there's th
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by fao_ 11y ago
And as a last resort, one could always resort to telnet :)
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by fao_ 11y ago
(I don't mean to come across as standoffish -- quite the opposite. I'm just being curious) How that could be taken as an insult?
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by fao_ 11y ago
In reply to both this and the original discovery[1], I wonder if this is a valid (albeit morally dubious) method of backing up (or at least ensuring the survival of) information that is at risk from government/<insert 'bad per
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by fao_ 11y ago
Ah, thank you.
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by fao_ 11y ago
Read the link. It has a moderately-sized list of examples from Microsoft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish...
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by fao_ 11y ago
CSP == Continuation Style Passing or?
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by fao_ 11y ago
That only works if you don't have self referential structures though. ( Disclaimer: I've never actually used one /or/ seen an example of one being used... (See, those AI Koans do have useful tidbits of knowledge in them!
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by fao_ 11y ago
We'll write AIs (heh). On a more serious note, if program writing neural-nets develop much further I can see the field putting more of an emphasis on the theoretical aspect, and leaving implementations to the AIs -- a bit like the way
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by fao_ 11y ago
But, your analogy is flawed; the situations are incomparable. You're not forced to use Rails for your server application, many other software exists as well as Rails: Django, PHP, etc. However you /are/ forced to use Javasc
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by fao_ 11y ago
Genome sequencing is extrememly useful for targeting things like cancer treatments[1][2], etc. It's still in its infancy, and needs some more time. [1](Couldn't find a better source): http://www.forbes.com/sites&#x
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by fao_ 11y ago
It's on my viewing list! To be honest I don't think that Gattaca at is that much risk of happening. Given the current state of the technology, actual non-vital changes to the embryo (or perhaps even those too) would most likely be
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by fao_ 11y ago
This seems interesting. How long until people are sequenced at birth and their ailments predicted from that? (I know they're already doing it on a small scale, but I'm talking of it as a routine procedure). How long still until ou
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by fao_ 11y ago
Bitbucket /and/ https://gitlab.com/
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by fao_ 11y ago
I'd love this to be true, but sadly it isn't. http://www.snopes.com/computer/program/stroustrup.asp Surprised this got to the front page :0
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by fao_ 11y ago
I recently tripped over this when I created a "reason.h" and discovered that Windows had a file of the same name deep inside MFC. It is my understanding that that would be solved by placing your file in a local directory called
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by fao_ 11y ago
That's roughtly what I was thinking, yeah.
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by fao_ 11y ago
Perhaps approaching it the way (I assume) TPB does it, and have the comments section, etc, handled through BitTorrent?
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by fao_ 12y ago
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