jlg23

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by jlg23 8y ago
Your ISP has more options to identify you than a random 3rd party advertisement/tracking partner...
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by jlg23 8y ago
> Like, who actually runs separate HTTP servers on example.com and www.example.com anyway? Everyone is hyperventilating over contrived "the principle of it all" examples. I do. Over and over again. Having been doing that for 2
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by jlg23 8y ago
I received a protestant education and as such Calvinism is part of the curriculum.
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by jlg23 8y ago
Unless you have some references, I'd call this a "nice theory" (to be read with a British accent). Spontaneously: * South America appeared to be more catholic than any Western European or US-American place I've visited,
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by jlg23 8y ago
150ms are client-side read. But without any js-triggered modifications to the DOM tree, this is pretty much the render time (rendering is 2ms on my not-too-beefy laptop).
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by jlg23 8y ago
> Realistically, most apps that aren't Google scale are lucky to get 300ms average latency. I am hosting a quite popular site built with perl and php over 20+ years and with at least 2 round-trips to the DB per request. 150ms laten
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by jlg23 8y ago
> I have heard some people carry on conversations in two or three languages simultaneously, and I am in awe of Mezzofanti. This is the norm here in Morocco: Lots of people speak a Berber dialect as their primary language, followed by Ara
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by jlg23 8y ago
> Java is already suitable for game development, specially with LibGDX. I think it is safe to assume that under "game development" most people understand rather high performance demands, not a solitaire clone (esp since the com
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by jlg23 8y ago
I have not claimed what you claimed I did. Someone who is not doing what everybody else is doing is just very easy to spot and piques my interest. So yes, it is a door-opener when looking for a job with some (like me). That does not mean I&
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by jlg23 8y ago
> I saw a comment in this very HN thread that goes so far as to say that youth who use social media display "intellectual vulnerability," and that _not_ using social media is an asset warranting immediate hire. Not blindly foll
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by jlg23 8y ago
Without anything beyond claims what reality™ is, your response unfortunately just reads like an ad for your company.
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by jlg23 8y ago
Without sarcasm, I wonder how long keyboards will still be relevant.
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by jlg23 8y ago
If you are lucky, there is a maker space within reach. Even if they don't have the tools, maybe some member has. Or the old-fashioned way: Talk with local shops who use the tools you need and get some quotes. Edit: or look for alternat
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by jlg23 8y ago
I dare to disagree: 10MB for a single-class-app is "as dire as some make it out to be". For comparison: Doom 2 came on 4 1.44MB floppy disks, Duke Nukem 3D on 13. Full games, including all assets.... going into a quiet corner for
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by jlg23 8y ago
> just to put it in the context of his actual career motivations. Unless you have some deeper insights into his psychology, your guess is as good as mine: "Scott Aaronson is simply a decent human being."
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by jlg23 8y ago
> If you don’t see the clean syntax and simple utility in that then fair enough, but I do. I see a "cleaner syntax in the example" but the fragments of code you don't like, the literals, are something that you won't s
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by jlg23 8y ago
[on the risks of self-medication] I currently live in the Maghreb and the situation is here as it was described for Saudi Arabia. An important difference to Western countries is that pharmacists seem to play a much more important role here:
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by jlg23 8y ago
> Similarly, if you're still living in the past and / or want to maintain your own server instead of pass it through a 3rd part So, users' privacy is now officially a thing of the past?
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by jlg23 8y ago
I read something about "double glasses with fluid in between them to simulate the horizon" years ago and then spent some minutes duckduckgoing.
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The APL programming language (a subset thereof) compiling to Common Lisp(github.com)
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by jlg23 8y ago
> I think that, while this might work, the approach to managing state and writing the tests is not ideal. I strive to not manage state but to write purely functional code, it makes life so much easier - see your second point as an exampl
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by jlg23 8y ago
A predecessor was patented in the mid-90s: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/pat/PatSchrifteneinsic...
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by jlg23 8y ago
Depending on the capabilities of a debugger, developers might have test failures drop them into an interactive debugger that allows reloads/re-execution of code units. Debuggers can be I instrumented to do a lot of dev-only logging for
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by jlg23 8y ago
Yes. No. Short: Good advice, if you include your expectations as a "default" or "reset" style that is applied before. Long: This advice only works as long as browser vendors or users don't take up the liberty the sp
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by jlg23 8y ago
Not sured what you tried to do, but over the last decade I've done a lot of commercial lisp programming and wonder what is "completely missing or broken". EDIT: always in SBCL and CCL
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by jlg23 8y ago
You keep them out of the loop to some degree and would check against that list during registration. It apparently catches some at least, I am told. I also know of 2 larger conferences in Europe where accounts were monitored and if activity
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by jlg23 8y ago
1) To ensure that known trolls/predators do not show up. 2) Probably because consent can be enforced this way much easier than it can be created in a real discourse. Especially in Germany it is frowned up by leftists to even talk wit
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by jlg23 8y ago
The problem is that is very hard to live on a $15/h job in SF. OTOH we have the same problem in every city that goes through rapid gentrification: People at the local lower end of the pay scale are not able to afford to live where they
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by jlg23 8y ago
> It is true that non-math people, hardware guys, or graphic designers may not be able to understand a complex equation and think it is just some kind of hieroglyph, but the right notation can help to make things more clear. The semantic
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by jlg23 8y ago
This just happened to be two anecdotes with 2 browser dev teams that should not be generalized. Everyone who has to deal with n-th layer tech support regularly (where n > 2) knows that even there it's hit or miss. Sometimes you file

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