lectrick

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by lectrick 11y ago
Matrix looks interesting!
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by lectrick 11y ago
irccloud.com (disclaimer: I'm a subscriber) addresses a number of the deficiencies of standard IRC. A lot of the other deficiencies are a consequence of any decentralized, open resource, due to "tragedy of the commons" effect
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by lectrick 11y ago
I actually read the article this time and wish I could delete this comment. It's a good article and it's not a communication problem.
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by lectrick 11y ago
Well, that's what happens when your software lies. At least EFF had a small win here https://supporters.eff.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=1... despite losing the fight against idiotic CISA.
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by lectrick 11y ago
"Communication"
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by lectrick 11y ago
Thank you for reminding me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... . I knew this was a thing, but I forgot the name of it.
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by lectrick 11y ago
Really nice way to show off the language features!
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by lectrick 11y ago
Humans are also predated on by sharks (and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!)
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by lectrick 11y ago
If they want to fight ADHD, I have a feeling meditation would be a better treatment. (Too bad you can't make money off it.) And this is coming from a HUGE fan of games (17 days till Fallout 4, OMG). http://www.feelguide.com&
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by lectrick 11y ago
Yes. But the guard code are just macros, so... ;) But I do believe that Erlang underneath does have actual limits.
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by lectrick 11y ago
> Cars are legally required to do so, aren't they? As an owner of a Tesla, no, there is no such thing (at least in the US), and please stop spreading misinformation (if you are talking about the US). And the car is not COMPLETELY si
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by lectrick 11y ago
Ah, the car that fakes internal combustion engine noise when it's running on electric... No thanks. Nice demo though!
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by lectrick 11y ago
I'm glad that Upwork is allowing first world folks to pay second and third world folks to earn great income (for them) at doing remote IT work, but I don't see Upwork as a way for unfairly-economically-isolated first-worlders to e
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by lectrick 11y ago
> if you want to learn Elixir, learn Erlang. After spending a few months with Elixir (at least in my case), you pretty much DO know Erlang. You just don't prefer to work in it. ;) I mean, the easy interop is right there, the semanti
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by lectrick 11y ago
people have thought proof-of-work to death and what we have now is the best that they've come up with. every other scheme that people suggest replacing it with runs into difficulties because you can't predict the amount of time (r
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by lectrick 11y ago
So it's a leader-electing decentralized scheme? What if the leader goes down? What if 2 leaders get accidentally elected in the wake of that? What if the elected leader is a bad agent? I don't like non-leaderless decentralization
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by lectrick 11y ago
> it's discovered to have an incurable security flaw. AFAIK, that's not possible. Secure hashing algorithms tend to fracture instead of completely break, so there will be some warning; to change to a new algorithm, simply more
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by lectrick 11y ago
What's your impression of Elixir coming from Clojure, other than that? I wanted to get into Clojure but I really wanted a language that almost entirely forced me to forego mutability (due to the large class of bugs I've seen in th
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by lectrick 11y ago
As a person who once struggled to parallelize a test suite when the entire thing was not written with parallelization in mind (until its runtime became onerous)... I would highly, highly recommend using some parallelization framework from t
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by lectrick 11y ago
I really liked the Elm talk as well as Garth Hitchens' talk on Embedded Elixir, which was a pretty effin' sweet demo if I say so myself
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by lectrick 11y ago
You meant "lose," not "loose." ;) Good grammar never gets old. In fact, it boosts your income: http://www.forbes.com/sites/cherylsnappconner/2013/03/11/rep... > Now, producing
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by lectrick 11y ago
Given the number of other sites that work with Github authentication, it seems silly to me to not want to save some effort and... just sign up for Github Disclaimer: I'm pro-Github... well, other than the fact that it's centralizi
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by lectrick 11y ago
Erlang (and by association Elixir) tooling has a nice progressive approach to managing state. Agent -> ets -> dets -> mnesia -> riak (or sql tooling etc.) (Agent http://elixir-lang.org/docs/v1.1/elixir&
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by lectrick 11y ago
Looks like MORIA (1975) predates even that. Damn. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moria_(PLATO)
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by lectrick 11y ago
I can't tell you how happy this makes me. This game was LEGENDARYYYYY back in the day. I remember the day I got it in 1986, I was 14. Incredibly hard, incredibly addictive. And it showed off the Mac's digitized sound and high-res
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by lectrick 11y ago
What does "publication" mean in an Internet Age when anyone can publish anything? If you mean "vetted by a tiny handful of fallibly-human organizations such as Nature and Cell who may or may not decide to accept your paper re
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by lectrick 11y ago
I'm going to suggest Long Beach, NY as a possible east-coast outpost. Lived there for a couple years, it feels like it could support a young startup scene (I've worked for startups for at least 10 years). Artsy surfer town, great
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by lectrick 11y ago
(disclaimer: I am a programmer who works for startups, but I've always admired scientists and researchers and have often contemplated a career switch to biotech.) How can an entire discipline that is supposedly based on rational eviden
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by lectrick 11y ago
I guess I meant, "that is not LastPass" lol
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by lectrick 11y ago
I've played with Linux and never figured this out- What's the difference between Chrome and Chromium? Nevermind, I remembered how to Google... http://www.howtogeek.com/202825/what’s-the-difference-betwee...

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