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by ilikebits 8y ago
No deletes or edits is a really bad idea, especially for health data. In theory, it's pretty neat; in practice, it's a legal, compliance, and privacy nightmare.
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by ilikebits 8y ago
We call this type of optimisation "stream fusion". In an ideal world, the compiler would always know to do this for us. In practice, it's very difficult (in most languages) to determine whether this optimisation is correct. I
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by ilikebits 9y ago
If this is a serious concern for you, you can do an on-premises installation instead. In that case, none of your data ever leaves your intranet.
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by ilikebits 9y ago
You can run an on-premises instance.
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by ilikebits 9y ago
I get that cynicism is sort of an HN thing, but this (building a SaaS company and then building and open sourcing a developer tool) seems like an incredibly expensive way to be an IP troll. There are way lower hanging fruit for IP trolling.
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by ilikebits 9y ago
The issue with this is that operations on text don't necessarily preserve a valid AST. Doing `git merge` on the plain text of a source file may result in invalid code, at which point you have other annoying questions to answer about ho
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by ilikebits 9y ago
You've described a unikernel. Check out MirageOS and HaLVM; they're very similar to what you've described. One interesting thing I've noticed about these kernels is their tendency for full-stack language integration a la
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by ilikebits 9y ago
I think their intrinsic value is backed by their usefulness as a medium of exchange for the use cases described in the parent comment. Solving the crypto problem seems more like something that makes them useful for exchanging.
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by ilikebits 10y ago
You've just described phishing.
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by ilikebits 10y ago
My favourite is "The New Way Things Work" by David Macaulay. Loved this book as a kid, it really got me into trying to figure out how the world worked (the title really nailed it).
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by ilikebits 10y ago
Yes! We emphasise MacBooks because it's easier to find supply for those (and we tend to find better discounts), but that's what our "other" tab is for :)
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by ilikebits 10y ago
This is actually also an issue in the Silicon Valley, where you see lots of startups throwing away perfectly functional electronics because they reached enterprise end-of-life or they raised a new round and want to buy everyone the latest l
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Show HN: OpThrift – used laptops and automated QA(opthrift.com)
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Show HN: Graph of subreddits connected by sidebar links(github.com)
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