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by jmgrosen 12y ago
This is particularly amusing because 6 or so months ago I had to write a résumé as part of a "career unit" in my Engish class. I was fed up with the whole thing -- what we had been taught seemed totally obvious to me and I was pre
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
What's so appalling about JS and Python? They're both fairly similar to other high-level languages of today, and I don't see how they "will teach bad expectations of future languages." I love Python and use it nearl
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
I don't think that's a coincidence -- they didn't want to participate, and now that it's out there, it's hurting their bottom line.
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
Tumblr actually does this already -- they actually put them on Github itself, e.g. https://github.com/tumblr/policy/commit/35a9f50f9e8b1f419057...
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
Would that be good or bad, though? I'm still not sure what to make of it. There's the "viable third competitor" argument, but four is more than three...
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Meet the new Apple(theverge.com)
4 points by jmgrosen 12y ago|0 comments
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
Oh, you're totally right. Sorry, my parser is buggy! Why couldn't he have just have written "(Swift ∖ ObjC) ∩ Rust"? :)
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
To be fair, you can also do `optional.map(|concrete| { ... })`. I'll admit that's not quite as nice as Swift's, though.
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
To name a few: safety enforced at compile-time without any sort of GC/ARC (probably the biggest), more precise control over the hardware (e.g. more concrete pointers), the lack of a required runtime -- basically it has much better supp
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple ends up open sourcing Swift after it cleans it up, perhaps even making it an LLVM project. I see it similarly to how they handled their own AArch64 backend -- proprietary at first, but mostly for secrec
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
He seems to generally like it -- similar to Rust in a lot of ways, but a little higher-level, which is appropriate for its intended uses (iOS and OS X apps). He nor I seem to think that it can replace Rust (especially if they don't ope
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
It's my default search engine... but I find myself going to Google for about 75% of searches -- at least for my searches, they just aren't good enough yet.
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
I hope to someday reach the level of expertise the author of this post has... for now, though, I think I'll stick to playing CTFs. Fantastic work, even if (s)he didn't find the vulnerability her-/himself.
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
This is probably the easier way of solving the challenge; indeed, this is exactly how my team did it. However, there's a somewhat more interesting solution, exploiting a badly implemented doubly-linked list: https://blog.sku
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
Having just reverse engineered some 16-bit DOS code, I agree with your last statement wholeheartedly. That was scary .
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
Same here, on Firefox 32 / OS X 10.9. There are a few that show some broken-looking elements but nothing ever happens.
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
My dad and I have ordered all sorts of cool stuff off of Tindie, from Launchpad Boosterpacks to RGB LED matrices. I just wanted to say thanks for this cool service you've provided to sellers and buyers alike!
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by jmgrosen 12y ago
Does anyone have any good ways to inform teenagers about the perils of mass surveillance? Practically none of my peers care about it.
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MotherBonePiOne – a peripheral motherboard for BeagleBone Black and Raspberry Pi(kickstarter.com)
2 points by jmgrosen 12y ago|0 comments
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White House Report Calls for Transparency in Online Data Collection(nytimes.com)
3 points by jmgrosen 12y ago|0 comments
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Google now selling Nest Thermostat on Google Play(play.google.com)
4 points by jmgrosen 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmgrosen 13y ago
Well, this one has about ~6x the computing power (if their numbers are to be believed), and it has an ARM core rather than x86. Some differences at the least.
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by jmgrosen 13y ago
My guess is those times are assuming a 2A charger, which isn't particularly uncommon nowadays.
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by jmgrosen 13y ago
Of course, the kicker is how they define "indies". Still, it seems like an irresistible deal, especially considering they have a free version as well. No source code like you get with Unreal Engine 4, but also no 5% royalty. Anyon
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Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo(mail.mozilla.org)
21 points by jmgrosen 13y ago|3 comments
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by jmgrosen 13y ago
That's one of the greatest use cases for 3D printers! Whether ordering from Shapeways or printing on your own, making custom cases for projects is pretty awesome.
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Judge Refuses to Alter Pandora’s Payments to Songwriters(nytimes.com)
21 points by jmgrosen 13y ago|14 comments
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by jmgrosen 13y ago
No, RWArc definitely allows more than one writer. One writer at a time , sure, but you can have multiple tasks try to write to it at the same time and the first will get access while the others will block. EDIT: Oh, I see what you mean now
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by jmgrosen 13y ago
I think the reason I don't like Nimrod is the same as the reason I don't like C++(11): it has too many features. Rust's (relative) simplicity and memory safety make it much more attractive to me.
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by jmgrosen 13y ago
I'd hardly call a Xeon a desktop-grade processor; for the rest, be wary, but don't completely disregard them.

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