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by hvs 13y ago
PG has made similar comments about the use of Lisp. It doesn't really scale to the IBMs and Googles of the world, though.
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by hvs 13y ago
I suppose we could just wait until it gets worse.
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by hvs 13y ago
Their only goal was to show the Guardian that they are only as free as the Government wants them to be. They know they can't put the Snowden genie back in the bottle, but they can certainly scare the next Snowden into shutting up befor
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by hvs 13y ago
It's not about logic , it's about power . They didn't walk away saying, "Well, we took care of those files!" they walked away saying, "Maybe the Guardian will think twice the next time they cross us!"
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by hvs 13y ago
This was discussed the last time this site came up on HN. It didn't help that the article was basically about how he laughs at users complaints. I'd take everything he says about people with a grain of salt. https://new
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by hvs 13y ago
The Buddhists wouldn't disagree, they would agree and state that it is an axiom of their philosophy. The whole point of Buddhism is that people want more than they need and that it offers a way out.
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by hvs 13y ago
My point is that they tend to be penny-wise and pound-foolish. Killing an idea like 20% time because it'll save money in the short term while destroying a culture of innovation that can lead to gains in the future is precisely what I m
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by hvs 13y ago
Six months after he took the reins, Page announced that Google would adopt a “more wood behind fewer arrows” strategy that would put more of Google’s resources and employees behind a smaller number of projects. There's nothing more s
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by hvs 13y ago
I'm certain only Outbrain can answer your question, but a full software audit of all fields is in order. Sadly, field sanitization (and security in general) is something that is often overlooked in the rush to get software in front of
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by hvs 13y ago
My sarcasm meter must've been on the fritz at the time.
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by hvs 13y ago
Why is it that when we are talking about a "functioning" psychopath, we use the term "sociopath" but reserve the word "psychopath" for "crazy guy who kills without remorse"? Sugar coating by using a t
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by hvs 13y ago
"Scum"? Trying to raise the level of discourse are we?
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by hvs 13y ago
Wasn't that the original selling point of Node? That it used callbacks for async and that it was easier that way?
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by hvs 13y ago
Aw crap. Now I may have to setup my Apple IIGSs and begin another marathon Apple hacking session. My wife always finds these times trying/amusing/annoying.
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by hvs 13y ago
I guess my point was that the advantage of the cloud is that you can start small and scale as needed. If you have to buy the whole cloud yourself, you don't really get that advantage of it.
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by hvs 13y ago
It would seem to me (i.e. someone who knows none of the details of IBM's internal business) that if IBM is so sure that its mainframes are so much better than using "cloud" services, then they should be building a cloud sol
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by hvs 13y ago
That seems like a standard that is not really applied to any other post on HN. Why should it apply in this case?
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Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality(wired.com)
366 points by hvs 13y ago|204 comments
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by hvs 13y ago
Your point is...?
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by hvs 13y ago
Even if that information could get soldiers killed if released to the public? You waive certain rights when you join the U.S. military.
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by hvs 13y ago
I can imagine. Just for reference, I graduated in '98, so things have probably changed quite a bit since I was there. Every class after CS125 used C++ (except AI, which was in Lisp), but C++98 was still in committee and the STL wasn&#x
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by hvs 13y ago
CS125 at UIUC was taught in Scheme (using the SICP book no less) as the first course in CS and it did a pretty thorough job of separating the wheat from the chaff.
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by hvs 13y ago
I find that any time an article references a "generation" it is the product of lazy writing/thinking. Plotting individuals along some imaginary scale based on when they were born is only slightly more useful than using horosc
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by hvs 13y ago
Translation: "Now that I understand that taking freedoms away is why people get angry when we remove features, I can sit back and enjoy making my users angry, secure in the knowledge that I am right and they didn't need those free
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by hvs 13y ago
You may be young, but in your final sentence you speak great wisdom.
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by hvs 13y ago
I'm pretty sure I never thought of IE as a "great browser" and I've been doing web development for 15 years. It is probably closer than ever before to being a standards-compliant browser that doesn't require a thous
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by hvs 13y ago
Even more meta: would you have noticed if the author had said, his ? And would you have felt the need to point it out here?
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by hvs 13y ago
"I'm crushing you! I'm crushing ..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwlAvsPvPfg
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by hvs 13y ago
Makes you wonder who the real terrorists are.
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by hvs 13y ago
For those interested in this subject, I highly recommend "The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation": http://www.amazon.com/The-Apollo-Guidance-Computer-Architect... John Pultorak built a Block I AG

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