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571.
by hughw 12y ago
The right answer to the Patterns interview question is, "Whenever I see a pattern, I abstract it away."
572.
by hughw 12y ago
It mostly happens to a different demographic than the one that reads HN.
573.
by hughw 12y ago
People have agency. They just don't have money.
574.
by hughw 12y ago
Downvotes demonstrating my point.
575.
by hughw 12y ago
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" -- Emerson
576.
by hughw 12y ago
A better deal from Amazon than individual authors could get on their own.
577.
by hughw 12y ago
You could substitute for "paid by the government", "deeply invested in the current system." People who are well off, have good engineering jobs at corporations, drive $50,000 cars, have jumbo mortgages, think the current
578.
by hughw 12y ago
The 11/34 powered the Schlumberger wireline logging units in the offshore Gulf of Mexico, beginning in about 1980. Schlumberger designed dozens of Unibus cards, one as a controller for each logging tool. So most of the system was a gia
579.
by hughw 12y ago
DRM just won't be that useful in a web browser. I can share a link with you, but it won't work for you. If Mozilla omitted this feature, users would just fire up the Netflix app. I honestly doubt it would cause users to switch awa
580.
by hughw 12y ago
Simply run the essay through the patent generator!
581.
by hughw 12y ago
Yes. Many thanks to Steve Yegge. js2-mode is why I use emacs.
582.
by hughw 13y ago
Basic was invented in 1964 at Dartmouth. How early in the 60s do you mean?
583.
by hughw 13y ago
It's not charity to support your old versions. It's customer retention.
584.
by hughw 13y ago
> Just put a Mac with two versions of keynote behind a REST endpoint and charge a buck or two per conversion That would violate the Keynote license agreement. So, we're back to needing Apple to help out here. edit: from Section 2A,
585.
by hughw 13y ago
You make a valid, and well understood point. Ken Thompson's classic paper: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
586.
by hughw 13y ago
You may someday want to build tools to transform javascript code. Suppose you wanted to Typescriptify some legacy code. You'd build your own js code processor, using the libraries this presentation advertises.
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"Broken" Julia sets animation(ibiblio.org)
2 points by hughw 13y ago|0 comments
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Mandelbrot with WebGL GLSL(marcmasip.info)
1 points by hughw 13y ago|0 comments
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Cellular Automata Fiddler(hughw.net)
6 points by hughw 13y ago|0 comments
590.
by hughw 13y ago
Would asm.js do the trick? It has OpenGL -> WebGL mapping.
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by hughw 13y ago
He wasn't saying that his code doesn't crash. He was saying many other people have contributed java libraries his programs can use, so that he doesn't have to hire an expert in HTTP, or computational geometry, or many problem
592.
by hughw 13y ago
I had not considered the privacy implications of fingerprint readers before. So I, for one, got a little benefit from the ancestor post.
593.
by hughw 13y ago
It's frequently important to preserve the original time zone offset of a timestamp. Sending everything as UTC loses that information.
594.
by hughw 13y ago
I seriously wondered whether the blank white page was people's favorite.
595.
by hughw 13y ago
That's a great piece of work there, gwern.
596.
by hughw 13y ago
> "if they can get your information, it's fair game" It's more an acknowledgement that, if they can get your information, they will. It's human nature. They will push the boundaries of any laws, and overstep th
597.
by hughw 13y ago
"...said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the case." Leakers leaking about another leaker.
598.
by hughw 13y ago
On the old analog internet it worked great.
599.
by hughw 13y ago
Are we all violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 by exploiting this weakness? By following a link?
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by hughw 13y ago
No worries, it's certified by TRUSTe http://clicktoverify.truste.com/pvr.php?page=validate&url=ww... edit: not that TRUSTe claims to test this sort of exposure, to my knowledge. But simply to contrast the feeling o

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