gypsyharlot

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by gypsyharlot 5y ago
When you don't do the EU's bidding, their propaganda machinery will work so hard that even Goebbels would be impressed. Then comes the sanctions and other bullying approaches to force your ways. God I hope more countries follow th
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by gypsyharlot 5y ago
Let's not confuse this with skill, though. I think ego is the reason why this has been allowed to go on for this long... The "skill" is mainly pointless memorization of a bunch of idioms. I've attended C++ training with
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by gypsyharlot 5y ago
Excellent advice! Thank you for sharing
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
I would like to add that by introducing too many "special features" into browsers and such, you are making your fingerprint really unique.
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
Thanks for finding those resources. In this one: https://wingolog.org/archives/2019/10/08/thoughts-on-rms-and... He says: "The result, sadly, is that a significant proportion of those that have stuc
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
Exactly. Unfortunately, there are activists within the GNU movement, like Andy Wingo, that have done everything they can to have RMS removed from everything he has built.
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
Thank you. I guess I'll have a look at Common Lisp then :-)
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Ask HN: Gnu Guile or Racket for Performance?
7 points by gypsyharlot 6y ago|6 comments
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
Sorry, I updated the title to reflect that this is a question. Specifically I was thinking about really high performance applications. I guess Lisp is maybe a good candidate for that.
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Ask HN: C with a Borrow-Checker
3 points by gypsyharlot 6y ago|4 comments
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
Thank you for putting into words exactly how I feel about Rust. I wish there was a C with a borrow-checker like Rust, but without everything else.
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
Only if you don't use a keyboard the way it was intended. For example, Ctrl-c should involve both hands. If you press Ctrl-c with only your left hand (there's a reason your keyboard has a right Ctrl), you will gradually hurt your
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
"> Would you want a bunch of foreign companies sitting in your network, siphoning all your hard work out for free? I don't care. Its up to my stakeholders, I don't work for my granpas company." Enough said.
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
"If you don't have a problem, there is no need to fix it" You really need to think a bit deeper about this. You obviously don't have much experience with security and you make a lot of assumptions here. First of all, you
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
And the industry's experts who are famous for writing "idiomatic C" keep making mistakes constantly that result in new CVEs.
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
Be very wary of always chasing the latest and greatest. You can easily spend a decade or two pursuing the latest trends. Be open to new technology, but pick something and stick with it until you master it. You should probably pick something
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
I disagree. You can spend 90% of your time doing e.g. data science, and then one day you need to integrate with a DB or make a cross-platform desktop GUI application, as an example. Should you learn C++ (it takes a decade to become a very m
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
Julia is probably excellent. How large are the benefits to using Julia compared to Python? Are the benefits great enough to compensate for the time spent: - Training your entire team to use Julia instead of learning about other relevant thi
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
I spent a few decades chasing "the next great language", and I regret it. I wish I had spent those hours learning about statistics or cryptography or algorightms. Things that are timeless. If you want to be a jack of all trades, m
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
You're entirely forgetting the benefits. 1) Scientists, hobbyists etc. can be super productive with Python while disregarding types. 2) Software developers can write serious applications with type checking. Statically typed languages e
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
Thank you for the feedback! In what way is Guile more fun?
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
I am interested in LISP-type languages, but I have a serious case of decision paralysis. GNU Guile? Common Lisp? Clojure (JVM)? Racket? Judging by my understanding of the difference between Common Lisp and Scheme, I think I am more of a Sch
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
So he links to a post that wants to change the law such that pedophiles can more easily get caught, but you disagree, and feel that he linked to it in some sinister motivation that isn't expressed in said article. Alright... If I said
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
See my answer to the guy below. He's arguing for a law such that child molesters can more easily get prosecuted, instead of prosecuting teenagers who have pictures of their girlfriends/boyfriends.
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
Did you actually read those links? The very first paragraph on the falkvinge-page: "This article argues that our current laws on the topic are counterproductive, because they protect child molesters instead of bringing them to justice,
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
Could you show us an instance of RMS being "actively supportive of pedophilia"? This is a claim that will both ruin a man's career, life and reputation, so you better have some decent sources.
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
Oh my. One of our maintainers wrote the following on his personal blog: "It sounds horrible: "UN peacekeepers accused of child rape in South Sudan." But the article makes it pretty clear that the "children" involved
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
Incredibly well put. Hats off to you sir. I don't think it's simply the unwillingness to think things though that make people attack him though. I think that halfway through writing their heated response, people realize their mist
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
No, it wasn't Guix maintainers. It was one guy saying "A bunch of us have had enough", "we've just about had it" and basically pretending that the community was against RMS. And there wasn't anything hatef
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by gypsyharlot 6y ago
"I've always felt writing in C++ requires much more skill, and that alone is a very rewarding experience. I can tune things like arena allocators and make string operations insanely fast, things I agree most problems simply don&#x

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