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811.
by lmkg 9y ago
I have the suspicion that one possible future of HTML is to be a legacy delivery wrapper for WASM code and a <canvas> element.
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by lmkg 9y ago
> harder it should have been to produce I guarantee you, it was extremely hard to produce. $10k for three initial designs, $150k for dozens of meetings gaining approval from twelve tiers of managers, $50k to consolidate and synthesize
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by lmkg 9y ago
C macros are text substitution, implemented in a separate less-expressive language (the C pre-processor). Lisp macros access the input program fragment as structured data, and manipulate that using the same Lisp functions and data structure
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by lmkg 9y ago
If your language is not Turing Complete, then it might be possible to always prove certain properties of programs. Canonically, you might be able to prove that the program will always complete and exit in finite time on any input. Other pro
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by lmkg 9y ago
The distinction is significant, despite their relationship they're from totally different universes. Science is empirical : truth is validated by observation of the real world. Math is logical : truth is validated purely by internal
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by lmkg 9y ago
Any brick you see on a building in California is ornamental to begin with. Brick turns to liquid during an earthquake, so it can't be used as a load-bearing component anywhere with seismic activity.
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by lmkg 9y ago
Proper citation means that you're not violating academic integrity. That has very little to do with copyright.
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by lmkg 9y ago
I doubt the PRNG will have an effect, unless it's a bad one. For any individual, the flow out is fixed at 1 dollar per round, but the flow in is unbounded. This favors wealth accumulation. If five people happen to select the same donor
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by lmkg 9y ago
Recurring weekly appointment "Hunt for Breakfast" (We eventually found out Hunt was a person's name).
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by lmkg 9y ago
Linear means called exactly once. Linearity requires proof that the value is definitely used, which is tricky. Affine types are more common in practice, even though people will call them linear.
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by lmkg 9y ago
Google Analytics documentation on transport method: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection... GA does not store any data that persists from page to page other than the client ID cookie.
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by lmkg 9y ago
Google Analytics does not capture any DOM events. Data gets into the "Events" report in the GA interface when a developer explicitly makes a function call like `ga('send', 'event', Category, Action, Label);`. G
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by lmkg 9y ago
Web Assembly (and also asm.js) are "closer to the metal" even though they run in the browser. The execution model is meant to map pretty closely to assembly, not to JavaScript. The browser is supposed to be doing static verificati
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by lmkg 9y ago
Texts would be an example of "sexual harassment." Some types of sexual assault can be proven by medical examination, if the exam happens soon after, although many actions that qualify as sexual assault will either not show up on a
825.
by lmkg 9y ago
I apologize if I wasn't clear, I didn't mean to say that continue/throw are similar to modern gotos. Renamed gotos such as continue, break, and throw address the primary drawbacks of raw gotos. Unrelatedly, the gotos that one
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by lmkg 9y ago
Yes. Because giving it a different name addresses the problem with goto. The problem with goto is that it is opaque. It has no structure, it has no constraints, and it communicates no intent. It says "execute the code behind this label
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by lmkg 9y ago
I tend to use the term "function-oriented" rather than "functional" since I think it fits the spirit of the phrase better. You're right that language features alone won't distinguish enough, and that means that
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by lmkg 9y ago
It publicly releasing the IRL identity (name, address, etc) of the person behind an anonymous online identity. The term applies more to places like reddit/twitter/4chan than to someone's own blog, but it's generally cons
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by lmkg 9y ago
Your suggestion is that if your employer tries to pull this unethical behavior against you, is that you should lie, run, hide, and sacrifice your own personal relationships? There are better ways of dealing with this than acting like what y
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by lmkg 10y ago
I would actually hope for the opposite. If your application needs unsafe code, it would be better for that code to be isolated into a "blessed" (i.e. widely vetted by those with the relevant expertise) library with a safe interfac
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by lmkg 10y ago
But that's the point. "She poisons" is more likely to be the plot of the story than "he poisons."
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by lmkg 10y ago
IANAL A contract is what lets you sue someone over a private transaction. That's what it does, that's all it does. If for whatever reason you're not willing to bring a contract dispute to court, then your contract doesn'
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by lmkg 10y ago
At one point, Netflix video streaming accounted for something absurd like 20% of all Internet traffic in the country. Regardless of whether it "scaled incredibly well," I would imagine there are still novel issues with that much s
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by lmkg 10y ago
There's already research that being sleep-deprived has similar cognitive effects to being drunk, especially with regards to driving safety. This new result implies that may be more than a coincidence, as the biological underpinnings ma
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by lmkg 10y ago
Optimizely is A/B testing. It's not strictly analytics (in that it's not a Google Analytics replacement), but it re-implements some of that functionality for audience targeting. Krux is an ad tracking service. jsmd.js appears
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by lmkg 10y ago
Made me think of the following Doctorow quote: There are no airplanes, only computers that fly. There are no cars, only computers we sit in. There are no hearing aids, only computers we put in our ears. There are no 3D printers
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by lmkg 10y ago
Waymo does a lot of driving in suburban Austin and suburban Mountain View. Their claim is that this is more difficult than most driving, since stop-and-go traffic with intersections every quarter-mile and pedestrians around is a more comple
838.
by lmkg 10y ago
Charitable interpretation: Comcast thinks that being the one ISP not to sell your browser history will be a market differentiator. Uncharitable interpretation: Comcast is a content provider in addition to an ISP. Their interest is in using
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by lmkg 10y ago
Depends on what you mean by "preparing." If the tax code is simpler, that means that there are less lines to fill out and fewer pieces of supporting documentation to find and attach. When people talk about making filing simple
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by lmkg 10y ago
Ok, this is one of those ideas that is clearly dumb but still just might work... you could hack a personal history report out of Google Analytics. You create a browser extension that adds the GA pagetag to every site you visit. Have the Cli

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