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by greyfade 14y ago
Well, the meaning of >>= is impossible to grok in this context because the meaning of "bind" isn't clear. In fact, most of the Monad interface (bind, lift, etc.) is pretty unclear to most people because, I think, it doesn't map onto
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by greyfade 14y ago
This list is unfortunately missing the O'Reilly-published "Practical C++ Programming" by Steve Oualline, which is a truly terrible text, and the only O'Reilly book I actively tell people to burn. It's filled with errors, code samples riddle
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by greyfade 14y ago
I think by "web," he meant Applets. Which was the big thing. Servlets were much less part of their marketing, as I recall.
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by greyfade 14y ago
I find it more likely that terrorists don't think it's worth doing in the first place, security or no. Killing a few dozen people in mid-air might startle a bunch of people on the ground and ground a few flights for a while, but it doesn't
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by greyfade 14y ago
I find it annoying, and I haven't flown since before the TSA was founded.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Most other bureaucracies weren't created out of a misguided attempt to solve a problem that didn't actually exist and aren't an undue financial burden on an already financially strained system. I realize almost all bureaucracies waste money
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by greyfade 14y ago
What people don't seem to realize is that ammunition is simple to manufacture at home with untraceable materials. Lead bullets? Go down to the auto shop and ask for a stack of their discarded wheel balancing weights. Take them home, melt th
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by greyfade 14y ago
You can even remove bullets from the market and still easily make your own. A proper die can be machined by anyone with the proper tools, and lead can be easily obtained from any auto repair or tire shop, as they frequently discard large qu
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by greyfade 14y ago
Speaking for myself, I know first-hand just how powerful a force this inner rage is, that the article talks about. I grew up in a largely similar situation where I, too, was teased and bullied - to the point where I lost control and lashed
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by greyfade 14y ago
Don't think anyone said it is. But is the UN (where the many despotic nations would have influential votes) any better? At least for the moment, the Internet is Free and Open.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Haiku is written in C++ because BeOS 5 was written in C++, using the GCC-2.95 compiler. BeOS used C++ because when it was written, C++ was the new trendy OOP language. They use GCC-2.95 because the GCC 2.96 compiler was badly broken and GCC
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by greyfade 14y ago
Given the actual average cost for bandwidth is less than a dime per gigabyte, working out to less than $50 per month per household, I'd say it's extremely profitable. [1] The only reason no one is pursuing it is because the incumbent provid
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by greyfade 14y ago
Given the response to Google's call for selection just from municipalities, I'd say the political environment is extremely favorable. Several cities have shown a willingness to rush through new ordinances to make it possible to issue permit
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by greyfade 14y ago
This was only a preliminary office action. Apple can still appeal and modify the claims of the patent to make it more acceptable. There is a chance that the patent will survive, potentially with stronger claims that Apple can use against
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by greyfade 14y ago
He makes some useful observations and good points after that. But most of what he says is on my "List of Reasons to Never Use PHP Ever Again."
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by greyfade 14y ago
It doesn't turn SSL on for everything. It only turns on SSL for sites that are known to have SSL and that are otherwise poorly-configured.
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by greyfade 14y ago
I was speaking of amendments to bills, not amendments to the Constitution.
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by greyfade 14y ago
I sometimes wonder if perhaps there should be criminal penalties associated with a government official drafting a bill or amendment or action or whathaveyou that clearly violates the Constitution. I mean, Congress seems to want to try to at
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by greyfade 14y ago
It's fun sometimes to go through the beer aisle and look at the company information on the bottom of the bottle 6-pack. You'd be surprised who owns what.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Because no one on HN actually believes the Ouya is anything more than vaporware, despite their announcement of having working hardware in hand and initial units in manufacturing.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Ouya is just stock android plus APIs for the controllers and UI. It will probably support Android games with little or no modification. As I understand it, the only departure from standard Android UIs is that there's a sort of in-game menu,
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by greyfade 14y ago
But the behavior is both counter-intuitive and wrong. And the resolution is "won't fix" because it's "too hard."
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by greyfade 14y ago
> Do they have a citation for this? I can't find anything. The Guardian made the claim: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/24/gangnam-... It's a bit dubious, and there are no other sources I could find.
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by greyfade 14y ago
I found three when I had to do this. None of them worked correctly, and the JQuery plugin I found had a very poor API. I ended up writing my own, because the bar set by the existing software was so low. Filepicker.io was one of the ones I l
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by greyfade 14y ago
Personally, Node.js+MongoDB is counter to my intended use cases. NoSQL databases are incompatible with my data models. Node.js has limitations in responsiveness, especially for complex (read: data/code-heavy) responses. It simply doesn't me
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by greyfade 14y ago
And Pro Bono work isn't on the table because...?
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by greyfade 14y ago
Menu -> Settings -> Advanced -> Privacy -> Content Settings -> "Do not show any images"
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by greyfade 14y ago
You'd be surprised. There are quite a few "programmers" who can't. I've met a few. Hell, I've even heard someone claim years experience and they couldn't write a simple loop.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Indeed. Using a math package seems like cheating, somehow.
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by greyfade 14y ago
It seems trivial, but yes, to some degree, it requires a little analytical thinking to get over the hurdle of deciding what to print and when. It's shocking just how many "programmers" can't figure it out, even with a little prompting.

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