lectrick

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   by lectrick 11y ago

   Are you sure this isn't just another way of saying that decentralized authentication is too hard? ;)
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   by lectrick 11y ago

   Martin Fowler's seminal essay on why privacy is important at a societal-change level is also relevant: http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html
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   by lectrick 11y ago

   https://code.google.com/p/vectorized-playing-cards/
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   by lectrick 11y ago

   lol. then I guess I will step off my pedestal and agree. I mean... I think Figlet does a better job than all of these, but anyway
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   by lectrick 11y ago

   Yeah, it's beautiful if 1) you think mutable variables are beautiful 2) you think stuffing everything into one file is beautiful 3) you think defining functions at the root namespace is beautiful 4) you think consecutive repeated prope
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   by lectrick 11y ago

   Yes, and maybe. ;) http://elixir-lang.org/ So far I love it. It's bent my brain into pretty shapes. It borrows a lot from Erlang, which it sits on top of, such as incredibly fast process spawning, and the OTP library.
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   by lectrick 11y ago

   I was impressed by both of those papers which is part of the reason I decided to focus on Elixir for now.
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   by lectrick 11y ago

   Rust seems like a fantastic candidate for a C++-layer replacement. I went into my thoughts on Go here, a week or 2 ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9409803 I went into my thoughts on Elixir here, around the same tim
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   by lectrick 11y ago

   I’m 43 and I do worry about this. But… not so much. Been programming since 1982 when I was 10... on a Commodore PET. I was instantly addicted, even though it was a green on black screen, needed to load code on a slow cassette-tape device, a
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    If you don't like "keep it simple stupid" and determinism in your language of choice (much less immutability)... you're basically everything wrong with programming in the year 2015
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    PHP doesn't even pass its own test suite. That's right... they consider certain tests failing OK, a certain number of failures OK, tests failing nondeterministically OK. Just saying... Who gives a shit about programmer headaches
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    The manager of the datacenter kicked in a comment 9 minutes ago or so defending the decision (with facts) at the same level of your comment, if you want to check that out.
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    As a recent Mac Pro owner, those things are beautiful beasts.
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    This will only cause people to flee to the virtual currency and stay there, over time. It literally incentivizes staying in the virtual currency... just like people like to "stay" in cash, now (in fact, just today a contractor o
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    I really wanted that customized joystick. Damn...
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    It reminded me of Martin Fowler's "Event Sourcing" paper from the enterprise world http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html So as a bluntly simple example, assume the entire world's state i
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    If you could make all events reversible (exactly), then why would you need to rewind to state 1 and play back to the requested time for every frame? Also, sweet game! I actually just introduced it to my gf last week.
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    I'll never forget the day I got an escort to Ironforge from Menethil Harbor. It was a walk that took close to an hour, as nobody had mounts then. I was a lowbie night elf from Darnassus, before it had an auction house (or flight paths,
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    I think that the mechanistic worldview may be flawed, but that this attack on it is fairly impotent.
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    Could someone who becomes "addicted" to an MMORPG be a variety of that? (Because it requires suspension of disbelief, which is a form of imagination, I feel)
21. 351.▲
    by lectrick 11y ago

    I was playing WoW when this happened and witnessed it. They call it "abusing game mechanics" now, but personally I find the act of discovery of this sort of thing possibly the most fun aspect of games. WoW was particularly vulnera
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    Apparently, if you want millions of requests per second, your app has to be built on Erlang ;)
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    "brew install jq"
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    I agree with that... Perhaps it's limited that way on purpose?
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    Also this real-world example: http://www.bigdatalittlegeek.com/blog/2014/7/10/ruby-vs-elix...
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    This is like a case study in why any computer architecture from the metal to the top should try like hell never to lose determinism. If only to have deterministic test cases...
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    I would swear I saw this somewhere, but in the meantime, this shows up to 6x http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    I spent over 10 years writing and working on (and debugging... many hours of debugging) Ruby code. Towards the end I started to write all my Ruby code, as much as possible, as so-called PORO objects (Plain Ol' Ruby Objects). These feat
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    There are many, many other selling points to Elixir/Erlang over Ruby, if you already like Ruby (and its syntax, some of its conventions, etc.) 1) Immutable data throughout- prevents certain classes of bugs 2) 10x faster- obvious benefi
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    by lectrick 11y ago

    Related: I literally bought a book to try to help wrap my head around the mathy ideas in Haskell (recommended by someone here, I believe). I am about to start it: http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Book_of_Abstr