iamsohungry

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by iamsohungry 11y ago
Anyone care to enlighten me as to why I'm being downvoted?
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> So politicians and intelligence services calling for encryption want, institutionally, to keep people safe. How can tech companies do that without breaking or backdooring encryption? That's the real problem to solve, and the first
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
But if we are talking about server code it could be written in a better language.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
Because you might want Google to index your website. Because you might want an integer or a float type. Because you might want to be able to test the logic of your code on one environment, the only environment where it will be run. Because
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
A lot of these problems are mitigated by just keeping it simple. You don't, for example, need to design the templating language. Use an existing, successful language, and invert how it parses strings, and add a nicety for expressions.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> The Attorney General of Texas Child Support website It would not surprise me at all if this password hell was intentional.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
Not trivially, no. Naive implementations in Haskell/F# are almost universally slower than naive implementations of the same algorithm in OCaml. In Haskell, this is partly due to lazy evaluation (which many production Haskell projects t
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
I think you missed one of the most compelling things about OCaml: it's very arguably most performant system in existence which also provides the user with a strong type system. C/C++ provide performance but not a strong type syste
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
This topic is, I think, most succinctly explained in Isaac Asimov's The Relativity of Wrong [1]. These concepts which rely on categories that you describe are wrong, but they're far less wrong than many other ideas. Don't fo
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
Meh, I guess it's kind of neat, but if you're getting serious enough about photography that you need more magnification you should likely just get an actual camera.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
I just don't understand why the responses to this post are all defending working remotely. Working remotely can be hard and still be the right thing for you. Getting defensive and downplaying all the problems with working remotely just
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
If you don't have any choice in the people you work with and you can't find topics to discuss due to the strictness of conversational rules at your job, the problems at your workplace run far deeper than can be solved by going rem
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> If anything, we should, in a secular state, agree that people differ in their view of morality, and we should be tolerant of each other's needs, perceived or otherwise. The problem is that some people's perceived needs are no
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
I can't speak for seibelj, but I don't think you that telling people to stop being offended so easily amounts to telling disadvantaged groups to buck up and be quiet. Personally, I want people to start a conversation with me if I
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
I'm not sure I see the causal relationship here. Why does increased competition mean that people are not publishing? I think the problem is that the metrics which academics are competing to maximize are poor. If your metric is "Ho
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
It's a partial solution, not in the sense that it improves anything by itself, but in the sense that combined with getting other countries to stop sharing data with the US, it would prevent Europeans from being spied on by the US.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
Another interesting example is Stuart Gulliver, CEO of HSBC when they were fined 5 weeks of income for laundering money for Mexican and Columbian drug cartels. HSBC lawyers persuaded prosecutors "not to indict HSBC, the London-based ba
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> Mainly because it's not as interesting. For every positive result researchers find there are dozens of things they test that just don't work. That seems to be the core of the problem. Reality doesn't have a bias toward r
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
That would likely be completely counterproductive. There's no such thing as a separate neutral group of practitioners. More likely what will happen is it will have a chilling effect on what science gets done. The Kinsey studies, for ex
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
I don't entirely understand why the pressure to publish at all costs is the issue here. The article says: > This particular plot is a statistical smoking gun, and suggests that the positive results from the original studies (black d
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> Data hosted in Germany won't be accessible to Microsoft US nor the US government. How do we know? Is Microsoft planning to release the source code? > If the German government can access that data so what? Do you really expect
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> Only if there is a Safe Harbor II coming where the US guarantees to not spy on data without warrant/open procedure and legal recourse by EU citizens. That guarantee would be completely unbelievable at this point. > I know this
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
You're correct that doubling income is not the same as improving quality of life, but I don't think stress and mental illness are particularly good examples of this. A better example might be African countries where increased inco
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> Even assuming that the money your spending is being put to good use (and there is at least some evidence that makes people skeptical) This is a legitimate criticism of NGOs, but it's also one of the ways in which capitalism is cou
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/rwss/docs/2010/fullreport.pdf Ugh. Don't post things that you haven't read as if they proved your point. You'll find that the word "capitalism&q
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
Why are you crediting this to capitalism? Having worked in a nonprofit that works on obtaining foreign aid, it's my opinion that these improvements have occurred despite capitalism due to the hard work of people like me, not because of
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> Wages lag production so debt is required. An alternative would be for wages to not lag production, and for the ultra-rich to make less money.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> This is what you want to happen. Uh, no, I don't want my dependencies to break out from under me, thanks. This is a major problem with the JS culture that I cannot stand. Too many JS devs can't be bothered to write software t
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
God, "unicorn" is already stupid enough.
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by iamsohungry 11y ago
> Not if the ad scripts are mixed in with the content-rendering scripts, in which case you'll need to do some on-the-fly modifying of scripts. This is true, but it's not problem unique to WASM. In fact, your proposed pattern ma

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