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by laureny 13y ago
There are plenty of other scenarios possible, including one dictated by Occam's razor: 3) No backchannel negotiation of any sort has taken place. Putin is just looking at the situation pragmatically and he understands that harboring Sn
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by laureny 13y ago
This is the heart of the matter: > But over the week that Mr. Snowden has spent at Sheremetyevo airport, top Russian officials have tried to remain neutral on whether Mr. Snowden should be granted asylum, perhaps because they are wary of
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by laureny 13y ago
Most enlightening quote from Tarn: > I feel like I'm still working on basic features
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by laureny 13y ago
Hear, hear. I just spent 5mn reading his post and then a few comments, then switched back to Hacker News and for about 20 seconds, my eyes were popping greed dots on my retina like fireworks. Very, very painful.
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by laureny 13y ago
> "What we know is that we're following all the appropriate legal channels and working with various other countries to make sure the rule of law is observed" This seems to be the exact correct thing to say, though. Would y
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by laureny 13y ago
It certainly was the shizzle until AngularJS came out. Now, these constant HN front pages for every RC that comes out every other week certainly look a lot more like astroturfing than genuine evidence of popularity.
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by laureny 13y ago
Very painful to read and I detect signs of growing paranoia in his text. It seems like he no longer has full mental sanity.
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by laureny 13y ago
> A few weeks ago, Edward Snowden blew the whistle on an ongoing program - involving the Obama administration, the intelligence community and the internet services giants - to spy on everyone in the world. Er... no.
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by laureny 13y ago
> These are political charges What does this mean exactly? "Political charge" is absurd. Besides, are you seriously suggesting that a petition should be enough to drop criminal charges brought upon someone? That's not how
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by laureny 13y ago
> At it's heart, web design should be about words. If you're going to praise the power of words, you might want to start with spelling them correctly.
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by laureny 13y ago
I wish web sites would allow me to specify a separate email address specifically for password recovery. This would make my account much more secure. Regular: foo@gmail.com Password recovery: foo.special.admin.email@gmail.com
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by laureny 13y ago
> Like everything with Scalaz, the tools are great but almost completely undocumented. Exactly. I will start considering scalaz once its authors grow up and realize that the lack of documentation is not a sign of quality.
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by laureny 13y ago
I think Kotlin would be a better candidate for this. Scala's surface area is way too big for this purpose.
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by laureny 13y ago
> If one is not careful and adhering to a formal style guide, it would easy to end up with an unreadable mess of inconsistent code. This reminds me a lot of C++: powerful but unless you agree on a consistent style and only using a subset
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by laureny 13y ago
The main problem I have with actors is that they are untyped. What's the point of having a powerful type system like Scala's and then throw it out of the window just so I can use a distributed framework?
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by laureny 13y ago
> I believe it's unlikely that "not even close" is at all accurate. Especially since the opening argument of the author is that AngularJS is gaining momentum because "it is simpler". My personal experience is tha
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by laureny 13y ago
Pretty lame of DuckDuckGo to use this controversy to gain some cheap exposure. Besides, there are zero guarantees that they are immune to the kind of accusation currently aimed at Google and co.
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by laureny 13y ago
The difference here is that Snowden is going to be wanted for criminal charges, not political ones, so his case for pleading asylum is very, very weak. It's like someone being accused of murder and trying to seek asylum in another coun
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by laureny 13y ago
Fair enough, but I still find the philosophy behind it repulsive. "Don't pay for it, just use the one that somebody else paid for". He follows the same idea with cell phones, and with food (I've also interacted with him at bars after confer
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by laureny 13y ago
Stallman on Harry Potter: > I don't say you shouldn't read these books. That I leave to the author. I only urge you not to pay for them. Quite the upstanding citizen. His justification for this is even more bizarre, he accuses JK Rowlin
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by laureny 13y ago
The question burning everyone's lips is: "What's the intersection between the Javascript 'Important' and 'Good' parts?
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by laureny 13y ago
> I got the link from Daring Fireball. Shocking.
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by laureny 13y ago
It would be nice to normalize everything to "price per mile". Shouldn't be too hard to come up with reasonable numbers for each state.
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by laureny 13y ago
> In Haskell, the type system--thanks to typeclasses--can figure out how to generate random inputs automatically, just based on what type is expected. No. The reason why the type system is able to generate these values is because of alg
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by laureny 13y ago
> there's something wrong with cursing in the first place. There is when it's used in regular speech for no reason, like using "like" every other sentence instead of just pausing.
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by laureny 13y ago
I don't think you really understand what "begging the question" means because these two excerpts are nowhere near doing that.
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by laureny 13y ago
> as an American, I find my countrymen (oh crap, should that be countrypersons?!) are indeed eye-rollingly oversensitive about profanity and political correctness in general. I know it sounds trite, but it's mostly about the children. I
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by laureny 13y ago
As much as I have qualms about Java, if there is one thing that it perfectly nailed, it's enums. The Java enums can be as concise as the C/C++ one but since it's also a class, you can add all kinds of interesting stuff to decorate it such a
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by laureny 13y ago
> I don't think I agree with the people who seem to think of transparent terminals as massively important feature, though I do find them nice. I don't like transparent terminals myself but the bottom line is that Linux users spend a lot
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by laureny 13y ago
> Persch was very devious with this one. He hid the removal among very unrelated changes (gtk to gsettings switch) and spread the rmeoval across more than one commit. Such that you cannot easily revert it. What is wrong with these peopl

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