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by jarcane 11y ago
It is fucking expensive . A solution like this is a clever hack, because it's taking advantage of an immense economy of scale provided by a company with really deep pockets operating on a multinational pool of servers that still on ba
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by jarcane 11y ago
OnLive tried it already. It failed spectacularly.
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by jarcane 11y ago
I think perhaps partly because it's just not being told? It wouldn't be the first time, after all. There's another great piece here on just how out-of-control the German narrative of events has become here: http://
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A Pain in the Athens: Why Greece Isn't to Blame for the Crisis(foreignaffairs.com)
15 points by jarcane 11y ago|6 comments
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by jarcane 11y ago
I have no idea how this will turn out, but i have some intuition. Suppose you shorted bitcoins in 2010, selling 10,000 bitcoins you didn't for $0.10 apiece. You'd earn yourself a profit of $1,000 - and if you didn't pay them
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by jarcane 11y ago
The founder of Reaxxion, in his own words: "While walking to my place, I realized how drunk she was. In America, having sex with her would have been rape, since she legally couldn’t give her consent. It didn’t help matters that I was
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by jarcane 11y ago
I never thought much of Derek Smart, especially after being suckered by the promise of no less than three of his hideously broken excuses for games, but writing for a shitty neoreactionary Gamergate site[1] is perhaps the absolute low of hi
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by jarcane 11y ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-06/piketty-germany-has... I should think after WWI, Germans of all people would see the danger in driving a European country to ruin with onerous debts, but maybe everyone the
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by jarcane 11y ago
And the funny thing is? It wasn't austerity that got the US out of that depression. It was FDR's New Deal, probably still the most left-wing plan ever enacted by a US government. Rather than 'tightening belts,' FDR respo
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by jarcane 11y ago
If you're interested in coding interfaces on mobile, I've yet to see an on-mobile coding app as slick as Lisping[1]. Touch C[2] on WP8 showed potential, but sadly seems to be all but abandoned. [1] http://slidetocode.co
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Show HN: A simple utility for counting word frequency, written in Rust(github.com)
2 points by jarcane 11y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 11y ago
merely that F# apps are not usually massive distributed systems. That's not really true, there's quite a lot of F# use for "big data"/"data science" stuff going on, and one of the other big sells is use
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by jarcane 11y ago
I've actually done it myself for fun in Haskell; it's one of the CodeWars challenges.
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by jarcane 11y ago
It is simply that I found Racket to be the most pleasant and inviting to use. An all-in-one toolset, with a large and vigorously well documented standard library, and some of the best books on programming there are. As a sometimes-aspiring
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by jarcane 11y ago
I wish I was. That little gopher is adorable. Rust, on the other hand, gives me palpitations.
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by jarcane 11y ago
I fell in love with Lisps and FP precisely because they were an easier, more straightforward way of just getting the job done than the alternative. How many times have you written a dozen lines of for-loop that could've been one map&
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by jarcane 11y ago
Same reason I still hate doing dishes at home after using a professional-grade dish machine at work for a decade.
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by jarcane 11y ago
Going from Python to Lisp to Racket was an absolutely mind-blowing experience. It literally changed my life, my perspective on programming, even what jobs I sought out.
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by jarcane 11y ago
Don't get me wrong; I'm not knocking it. I definitely see the value in these kinds of features. Like zippers, I'm sure it's another case of "If you understand it, it's really useful." The point is, you don
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by jarcane 11y ago
honestly, I use Clojure 1.7 for work every day and I don't even know what a transducer is. It's easy to overstate the necessity of advanced features, ones very few programmers probably actually use.
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Releasing a Commercial ASCII Roguelike, a Post-Mortem(gridsagegames.com)
95 points by jarcane 11y ago|47 comments
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U.S. top court declines to hear Google appeal in Oracle Java fight(reuters.com)
2 points by jarcane 11y ago|0 comments
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by jarcane 11y ago
If it takes you more than 30 seconds to come to "An app that allows anonymous public messages on a social network currently wracked by abuse is not a good idea", you haven't been thinking.
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by jarcane 11y ago
It's called forethought. I know that doesn't fit well with the whole "move fast, break stuff" attitude in SV, but then, tech people usually aren't the ones being broken.
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by jarcane 11y ago
Yes. I would say I'm shocked anyone thought this was a good idea, but I'm not, sadly. Privileged nerds seem perpetually oblivious of any problem that doesn't personally harm them.
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Replete: A Standalone iOS CLJS REPL(blog.fikesfarm.com)
49 points by jarcane 11y ago|0 comments
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Caught up in a riot? Uber can charge you up to $250 for damage to their cars(pando.com)
14 points by jarcane 11y ago|3 comments
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by jarcane 11y ago
Man, talk about throwing a battleship at a tugboat's problem. This is why we get hot new editors that take a gig of RAM to do what a 40 year old editor can do with a dozen megs. If I were to touch a Python GUI app again, I'd proba
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by jarcane 11y ago
I just wind up getting irritated having to rewrite the same code all the time. Some popular languages will generally come with a pre-filled template with the I/O already covered, but quite a lot of the FP stuff didn't.
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by jarcane 11y ago
Disappointing that this is 1) proprietary, and 2) Windows/MSVC only. Impressive results though.

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