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by hawkice 10y ago
> And the situation has literally reached biblical proportions. Not sure what part of the bible is literally in proportion here.
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by hawkice 10y ago
Yes, because MD5 digests are much shorter than 32 characters, even if it's just ascii, so by the pidgeonhole principle there must be. If you're asking if there are _known_ collisions between two messages with less than 32 printabl
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by hawkice 10y ago
It's not homophonic with Coke? EDIT: Inria is French (although Google translate insists the less fortunate homophone still exists in French).
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by hawkice 10y ago
But my concern is about how they are scheduling breaking changes to occur so frequently, and almost two years in advance! Why induce that kind of headache over and over so regularly that the short-term issues become a long-term software mai
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by hawkice 10y ago
The real story here is the seemingly casual way they've decided to start treating breaking changes. Deprecation periods are more polite than not having them, but saying that users need to be constantly using the most up to date version
426.
by hawkice 10y ago
This is a bizarrely complex question (it relates to US tax law, so no surprise there). Some households would pay more if married, some would pay more if filing separately. See: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book&#x
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by hawkice 10y ago
There is a spectrum, for people with a certain belief, between 'hypocrisy' and 'principled', which describes how much their actions are in conflict with that belief. There is a conservation of expected probability thing
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by hawkice 10y ago
Ah, the glorious days before the Internet of Things made everything a general purpose washing computer. For instance: http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/home-appliances/laundry/w...
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by hawkice 10y ago
My process has been to read a lot, pay attention to when things aren't as good as they should be, or something important is missing. Have something to say about the world (for instance, "people don't seem to understand kanban
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by hawkice 10y ago
double nitpick: 'neurogenesis' is in the article, it is in the third sentence of the third paragraph. But yes, it is not the focus of the article, because the article has almost no focus. There is an irony in the idea that a runne
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by hawkice 10y ago
If you enjoyed this article it's hard to imagine there exist other things on the subject you wouldn't enjoy much more. Read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, which is mentioned in the article, for instance.
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by hawkice 10y ago
The Elm runtime does tend to bother me, despite it being smaller than jQuery (I've lived in a country with ~40kb/s internet... it's brutal out there if you pile on those kilobytes). But with dead code elimination plus a smart
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by hawkice 10y ago
I like Elm a lot. It's much much simpler than PureScript, lacks some of the advanced features, but as an advanced user of Elm, I've found I don't really mind -- all the important stuff is there (structural types, tagged union
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by hawkice 10y ago
Presumably so they can see how long it takes to handle input events, because that's a good proxy for whether the application is responsive or not. What they don't want is the game freezing. But that's harder to measure direct
435.
by hawkice 10y ago
I've been asked to blank out a screen in a single page web application and re-render after 250ms when people switch 'folders'. My boss thought it was a familiar user interface pattern to draw attention to the page content. Th
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by hawkice 10y ago
"Avoiding politics" is impossible, as the author points out. Every attempt only changes the politics. In this case, hopefully, towards strict focus on smaller technical non-recurring issues that do not need to be fixed. I am not c
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by hawkice 10y ago
There actually have been arguments on HN about surge pricing -- while not every government action is political per se, the subset that provokes arguments on HN is probably out of bounds for the week.
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by hawkice 10y ago
Tax policy is political (and how to tax things online is one of the parts under active debate), so this story does not belong on HN this week.
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by hawkice 10y ago
I too have been taking up this righteous cause, including flagging a story about VC investment in marijuana companies, court software defects, and similar. "No politics" is pretty close to "stick to the monad tutorials, nerds
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by hawkice 10y ago
I used to use Elm + Elixir/Phoenix and am transitioning to Rust/Elm. Both for the same reason: I don't want things breaking. Elixir is pretty great for that, but odd DB connection problems every ~1.5 server-years left me with
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by hawkice 10y ago
I'm unclear on whether, in the this-is-why-you-care section, talking about how "[i]t is important for policy makers" to do something makes it political. I cannot imagine any more explicitly political language, but I do not im
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by hawkice 10y ago
So close to not being a political story, except: “Our criminal justice system is beset by racial and economic biases and ongoing examples of wrongful convictions [...]". Since the software isn't racist I think it's fair to sa
443.
by hawkice 10y ago
Political story that probably wouldn't be political at all if edited differently.
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by hawkice 10y ago
You are describing a hiring process that very possibly breaks federal law, given the EEOC describes it as "evidence of intent to discriminate". If you experienced this, talk to a lawyer instead of / in addition to HN. see: h
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by hawkice 10y ago
Some of that is just because being an "anti-American dictator" entails not just disagreeing with America but making America-hate a topic you never shut up about. China has done pretty well and disagreed with America on lots of pol
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by hawkice 10y ago
So it turns out the SEC lets you use even things like Twitter to give out information, as long as it can go to every shareholder at the same time [I AM NOT YOUR LAWYER, IGNORE ME]. see: https://www.sec.gov/News/PressRel
447.
by hawkice 10y ago
I run dozens of small side projects off a $10/mo DigitalOcean server. I do not mind paying that absurdly low amount.
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by hawkice 10y ago
Or rather, it's why almost every popular tool is popular. Take Rails for instance. It's just that Go competes with C and boy howdy does the comparison look good to anyone who can make the switch.
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by hawkice 10y ago
It might be overselling Arthur C. Clarke, who is largely known for strange stuff like 2001. Three body has a much more salient blend of pure hard sci fi and human drama. Maybe an Orson Scott Card? It is kind of a newer style.
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by hawkice 10y ago
I use Emacs, mostly because my workspace has gotten too big for Atom to be consistently responsive (I've got dozens of projects with tens of thousands of lines of code and who knows how many files deep in the dependency managers intern

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