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by kwantam 17y ago
Flash on every device is not diversity. And Apple's walled garden does nothing to promote either diversity or interoperability. Separate your dislike of Flash from your reasoning on this subject for just a moment. What if it were Sun wan
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by kwantam 17y ago
You make a good point. While it is useful for web apps, JavaScript in Mobile Safari is not sufficient for creating the vast majority of standalone applications. Flash, while hardly a world-class systems programming language, is a step beyon
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by kwantam 17y ago
Adobe should make flash work decently on other platforms before making one for the iphone... Do you believe that this opinion both motivates and justifies Apple's refusal to allow Flash on the iPhone?
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by kwantam 17y ago
Wow, I'm being downvoted into oblivion for observing that other mobile devices can run flash apps and pointing out that Apple keeps tight control over their platform. Neither of these are particularly controversial, as I see it. I realize
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by kwantam 17y ago
Agreed, this "story" smells fishy. How is it that flash works acceptably on other platforms but not the iPhone? A much more likely explanation is the one everyone has been assuming, viz., Apple doesn't want any code they haven't approved r
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by kwantam 17y ago
The AK-47 is like PHP. Even the retards can make one work. That is so unfair to the AK. PHP is more or less universally reviled by clueful people. The AK is well respected for what it does by almost everyone. I don't know what to compar
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by kwantam 17y ago
Oh, and the SKS was designed by Simonov, not Kalashnikov. You are 100% right. My bad. I mostly agree with your assessment of the AR, but I was trying to give it a fair shake. Iraq and Afghanistan are really pretty terrible places to hav
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by kwantam 17y ago
Well, not as reliable as the Kalashnikovs. But literally no other autoloading small arm ever created is. The Kalashnikov is a masterful design. It is simple, easy and cheap to manufacture by any of a number of processes (stamping, milling
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by kwantam 17y ago
Equivalence relations are non-directed. There is no formal sense in which one or the other can be said to be backwards. It's only personal preference that leads you to say that, and in this case, for the reasons cited above, it is deeply s
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by kwantam 17y ago
My understanding (which is incomplete) is that this is only a signing key. Even if they are somehow relying on this key to prevent cloning, are they seriously under the impression that a 512-bit key is sufficient to keep a bunch of guys in
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by kwantam 17y ago
The more fundamental question here: can the DMCA really be used to prevent a person from factoring a number and disclosing the results? This is insanity.
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by kwantam 17y ago
I think the thing here is that in, say, Scheme, the performance and actual execution semantics of your function vary wildly depending on how much you mangle your algorithm. Precisely the same thing is true with recur in Clojure. The only
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by kwantam 17y ago
Many kudos to Linux for creating an awesome DOS 6.2, but I don't think it's a good investment of time for the HN userbase. Linux is hard to configure and set up, and hard to work with. I'd rather stick with Windows and have everything Ju
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by kwantam 17y ago
I think your reflexive anti-reflexively contrarian reaction is blinding you to the point the author is trying to make. The politics surrounding questioning the flu shot, even within the medical research community, are such that Jackson et
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by kwantam 17y ago
The reason we don't like 1 being prime is because it makes stating lots of theorems that involve primes (in particular, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic) really tedious. No, it makes the FTA wrong! If one were prime, then every numb
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by kwantam 17y ago
Who is downvoting this comment!? It's a non-inflammatory, relatively accurate portrayal of Alpha. WA does some things well (sure, more than just CAS) but at the end of the day its cool factor far exceeds its useful factor for the vast maj
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by kwantam 17y ago
Apple might dispute this given their position on iPhone jailbreaking. (I'm not saying you're incorrect, but being right doesn't make it any cheaper to defend yourself against a dedicated opponent with deep pockets.)
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by kwantam 17y ago
I don't understand where you get the notion that Arduino is not geared towards beginners. Arduino centers around pre-built, (mostly) solderless modules, included libraries for doing almost everything complicated, and a high level developmen
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by kwantam 17y ago
My application essay was not even remotely close to the 500 word number. The MIT application had an option where you could ignore their essay questions and just choose one of your own, so I basically made my Q/A a long-form joke. That was
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by kwantam 17y ago
Unlikely. Most violinists play their own instrument far and away better than other instruments. (I come from a family of professional violinists, and very nearly became one myself, so I am at least tangentially qualified to comment on this
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by kwantam 17y ago
Regardless of your personal taste on the matter (with which I am admittedly sympathetic), the fact that the software _fails_ to support it---and in particular, fails to the exclusion of other mail!---is inexcusable. "Can't send messages la
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by kwantam 17y ago
You're not disagreeing with what the article said. The article claimed (rightly or not, I cannot comment) that the iPhone software claimed to the Exchange server that it did support encryption, then just didn't encrypt anything. I don't be
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by kwantam 17y ago
No, definitely not. I agree with you 100%. The claim that somehow this retains all qualities of Lisp is absolutely ridiculous. The single most important property of Lisp is that programs are lists, i.e., code==data. "Indented" lisp break
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That course was called 6.001, and it used SICP as the text. This course plus 6.01 (approximately) replace it. Damn shame that politics forced the department to abandon Scheme. Now half the classes are taught in Python and the other half i
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by kwantam 17y ago
Further robotrout's point: a friend of mine did some research on actual sound quality for generic versus high-price cables. He measured the noise floor with Monster cables at about -160dB, whereas cheap crappy cables were about -125dB. How
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by kwantam 17y ago
This guy takes the "anti-audiophile" sentiment a bit too far. If you know what a FLAC is, you must also have more money than sense and want oxygen-free copper cables? FLAC is a good means of conveying audio losslessly. Monster Cables are
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by kwantam 17y ago
> There's a reason why even open leaning Google has a review process for their app store. You're either misinformed or being somewhat disingenuous comparing the Android review process to the App Store one. The Android review process co
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GHC commentary: architecture documents for Haskell's flagship compiler(hackage.haskell.org)
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The Reasoned Schemer by Friedman, Byrd, and Kiselyov Purely Functional Data Structures by Okasaki Programming Language Pragmatics, 3rd ed by Scott Fast Analytical Techniques for Electrical and Electronic Circuits by Vorperian
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RFC 1738 section 2.1 specifies the colon between the scheme (e.g., "http") and the scheme-specific-part (e.g., //news.ycombinator.com). The // is specified in section 3.1 as part of the "common internet scheme syntax." Specifically, the /

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