jswrenn

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by jswrenn 10y ago
The characterization of the adversary here being some malicious third party, though traditional, is something of a bogeyman as far as actual risk is concerned. Institutions running large mesh networks are in a privileged position to track u
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Speaking as a Providence resident: Pawtucket begins where the comfortable-walking-distance-to-the-Providence-station ends. Pawtucket and Central Falls are languishing. Providence, generally speaking, is more affordable than Boston to live i
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by jswrenn 10y ago
My friends and I all grew up listening to Garrison Keillor, raised by parents who themselves grew up listening to Garrison Keillor. Keillor's retirement has very much felt like abruptly losing contact with many old friends at once. I j
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Racket
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> Maybe it's unnecessary, maybe not, but that's subjective and most people would rather have images and decent UI. The rise and success of cruft-stripping-as-a-service offerings like Readability, Pocket, Instapaper, etc., seems
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by jswrenn 11y ago
Back in 2009, Google Talk toyed with a similar idea of realtime chat as a platform for other applications to build on. [0] The demos were very neat at the time, but it turned out to be a brief detour along a road that ended with Google stri
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Thanks! PhD in the PLT group; I still know virtually nothing about NLP. In fact, if this had been an NLP project from the get-go, I probably wouldn't have started it. This project began with me creating wiki software for the campus his
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by jswrenn 11y ago
I haven't had much time to study history since I started a CS grad program, so this side project was my way of scratching that itch. It far exceeded expectations, and University Archives has expressed interest in making it the official
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Show HN: Liber Brunoniana – Hacking a Better Encyclopedia(liber-brunoniana.github.io)
23 points by jswrenn 11y ago|5 comments
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Some feedback: The cost is a non-starter. The main reason I go through the hassle of writing compilers for my websites is that I want them to be long-lived. Presently, I use Nearly Free Speech as my hosting provider. Their pricing scheme fo
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> Most advanced statically typed languages completely SUCK in the programmability department. Unless you are some genius of course. Is this a common opinion? I've certainly heard the criticism that statically typed languages slow yo
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This feels much more offensive than the act of capturing video, but I can't justify that feeling. There's something so wonderfully disobedient about neutralizing cameras with lasers that I'm tempted to ask: is this legal? Doe
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Show HN: Liber Brunoniana – Hacking a Better Encyclopedia(liber-brunoniana.github.io)
3 points by jswrenn 11y ago|1 comments