limmeau

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by limmeau 15y ago
Perhaps "compositional" would be more appropriate.
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by limmeau 15y ago
In Forth, you write ." some text" to print 'some text' without the leading blank. But that's for a completely different reason.
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by limmeau 15y ago
There is also gccgo, which uses (and profits from) the gcc backend.
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by limmeau 15y ago
It's a lot more systematic than in JavaScript, rather similar to Python's semicoloning rules.
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by limmeau 15y ago
It occupies a sweet spot on at least two axes: 1. Procedural -- OO (with its interface subtyping resembling Haskell type classes with default instances for every type) 2. Languages without safe automatic memory management -- languages with
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by limmeau 15y ago
Facebook already has deals in place with mobile operators. For example, Simyo, a German E-Plus reseller, allows its users free access to a special restricted Facebook site 0.facebook.com. They write it's good enough for status updates and m
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by limmeau 15y ago
There is an OpenChronos firmware extension which contains a sleep phase detector. Apparently (I haven't checked it) it works in connection with a PC running a clock program. https://github.com/poelzi/OpenChronos
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by limmeau 15y ago
A lot of people I know don't wear a watch, so yes, I believe that watches are becoming more of a niche thing. As for the optimality of the solution: of course wristwatches aren't perfect. Let's just not sound silly twenty years from now whe
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by limmeau 15y ago
While I appreciate your choice of examples to make your point, I'm not convinced that pulling a slab of electronics out of your pocket every time you need to know the local time is already the peak of perfection.
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by limmeau 15y ago
Have you thought of using your technology to generate Makefiles for projects based on C, Autotools, Pkg-config, etc. ? (Read as: I don't do FPGAs, but those build processes are not particularly fun to set up).
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by limmeau 15y ago
I thought a bitcoin transaction was only considered successful after a sizable number of other bitcoin participants have based their successful computations on it? If that is correct, bitcoin validation isn't fast enough for instantaneous f
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by limmeau 15y ago
The media player Canola from Nokia's Brazilian labs uses EFL and Python to provide a friendly finger full-screen UI on old N8x0s (whose Maemo 4 UI with GTK+/Hildon and a stylus I find uncomfortable). I find it highly plausible that EFL is a
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by limmeau 15y ago
I enjoyed the challenge of finding out what the graphs mean, just by reading numbers and city names. I think the salaries are in the blue bar graphs, separated per years of experience and per city?
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by limmeau 15y ago
Depending on a lot of version numbers, you may have to pass -Dswing.aatext=true -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on to your JVM. I don't know why the default is "ugly 1990s-style", but those settings made Netbeans usab
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by limmeau 15y ago
What kind of work-life-balance does the company you interview for offer?
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by limmeau 15y ago
Perhaps that's a regional thing? A subjective majority of the German blogs I read regularly have a flattr button.
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by limmeau 15y ago
Isn't that how the new Readability was supposed to operate?
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by limmeau 15y ago
There's IPP, there's the printing part of CIFS, even plain old JetDirect (raw print data over a socket). What's nonstandard is the ways of telling the hundreds of ink nozzles of various colors to produce a particular picture. There's of cou
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by limmeau 15y ago
The goal "impossible to delegitimize" is incompatible with almost all sophisticated election modes, and hard to measure. I'd settle for "impossible to delegitimize rationally once you analyse how many people who normally distrust each othe
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by limmeau 15y ago
This sounds like the Liquid Democracy system, which the Pirate Party of Germany uses to decide on party-internal policy questions. (Other organizations may have had it before them, but they're the first I heard it of) The major point of dis
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by limmeau 15y ago
We could use sealed envelopes made of heavy paper instead of the first hash function usage, and then have a guy in a lab coat point at a colourful picture of a fractal to demonstrate the randomness of the second hashing step.
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by limmeau 15y ago
This needs random numbers whose randomness can be demonstrated. You could ask every candidate to commit to his random number, publish a hash of it, and afterwards compute a hash of all candidates' random numbers to get the final random numb
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by limmeau 15y ago
It is rather simple, if you compare it to e.g. the D'Hondt method used in Germany.
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by limmeau 15y ago
The Perkeo database used by some German polices contains hashes of known child-porn image files. Probably not SHA256, though, given that it was started in 1998.
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by limmeau 15y ago
Consider 1) User buys a file from the rights owner and explorers it into his Dropbox 2) User obtains a blockwise hash of the file and runs dropship on it 3) User obtains a public URL from somebody who has the file and downloads the file fro
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by limmeau 15y ago
Just read the reappeared sourcecode (assuming it works as advertised): The hash is an SHA256 of pure 4MB blocks in the input file. They add no message type information which could prevent mixups between Dropbox-deduplication hashes and hash
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by limmeau 15y ago
The employment contract scenario doesn't require download-by-hash, only deduplication. You could just measure the amount of network traffic the client needs to "upload" your file.
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by limmeau 15y ago
As far as I understand the original posting, you can download any file from Dropbox's servers if you know its Dropbox hash, which apparently is a sequence of SHA256 hashes of 4MB blocks. If you have a sub-4MB sensitive file, and you publish
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by limmeau 15y ago
Of course, Dropbox can't prevent people from sharing content out of band. But if Client A and Client B are offering arbitrary byte ranges to complete strangers, they are effectively playing BitTorrent again.
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by limmeau 15y ago
There have been some approaches to client-side image generation in computer games [1][2], but they're not very successful commercially. 1. http://ifarchive.jmac.org/ 2. http://eblong.com/zarf/glulx/

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