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by lorddoig 11y ago
Another technology for those who have not yet realised that what they really need in their lives is some Lisp.
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by lorddoig 11y ago
> this works in 2015? I'm pretty sure I remember people trying this and website owners deploying countermeasures in the '90s. Oh yes, it works. It works wonders. It can very often quadruple the d/l rate.
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by lorddoig 11y ago
> For small spreadsheets this will take a minute or so. For large spreadsheets it is best to run it overnight. Ah, Ruby.
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by lorddoig 11y ago
Maybe I don't fully understand the issues at play here but I remember reading about so-called 'unums'[0], an alternative binary number representation that seems quite amazing. I don't understand why it doesn't get
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by lorddoig 11y ago
Now it decides I can reply. It's revenue, not profit, because I'm coming at this from the perspective of money (potentially) wasted. It's all in the first link.
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by lorddoig 11y ago
It's a number I found some time ago that on further investigation appears to be quite wrong as you say. It seems it's closer to 1tn USD annually, which would rank around number 16 in world GDP tables. Edit because HN isn't a
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by lorddoig 11y ago
I profoundly disagree. You may very well be right about the majority of that money servicing large corporations, but bear in mind that we're talking about a pot of money the size of Jupiter here. Payment processing alone is worth som
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by lorddoig 11y ago
> Should all the financial regulation exist? Almost certainly not. The regulatory burden of operating in the finance industry is overwhelming - innovation is not so much stifled as killed. The big boys thrive because the little guy doe
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by lorddoig 11y ago
> How is this different to how Apple (Microsoft, IBM, Oracle etc.) play the game? At what point has coercion come in to putting a iDevice in your hand? Sure we could have that argument about advertising but Apple doesn't do a who
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by lorddoig 11y ago
I'm not sure it's the same you know. Lands are conquered and retained with politics (i.e. charismatic bullshit) and the application of brute force. It's about suppressing the wills of others whereas winning at commerce in a
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by lorddoig 11y ago
There are a lot of valid criticisms that can be thrown at Apple these days, and maybe they're not "our" friend. But I find myself thinking more and more that when a company becomes the most valuable private entity in the hist
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by lorddoig 11y ago
I didn't intend to ruffle anyone's feathers with that comment. Yes I suppose I am misreading it, but I don't think I can be blamed for walking away from that exchange thinking transpilation to JS was the last word on the sub
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by lorddoig 11y ago
Praise the lord, that was sooner than I expected. Next up: the DOM. Then there will be peace on Earth. Does anyone know when all this started? I ask because only 83 days ago Brendan was on here telling us pretty emphatically that this wa
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by lorddoig 11y ago
> Although I'm sympathetic to the author, it really is Stripe's prerogative to do business (or not do business) with anyone they want. While of course this is true, it's not really a defence in the grander scheme of things
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by lorddoig 11y ago
Is it high-risk though? Or is it just perceived that way? It wouldn't surprise me if Stripe and/or the banks saw the word "weed" and shat a brick without actually performing any kind of analysis.
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by lorddoig 11y ago
> A good wine, recommended by your local -serious- cavista could change your life too. Which did it for you?
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by lorddoig 11y ago
This argument can be extended to any luxury good - why buy a Porsche when a VW will get you there? Why buy a silk sweater when you've a perfectly serviceable woollen hand-me-down? Obviously these things are not equivalent. The car yo
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by lorddoig 11y ago
Excuse me, non-American here, but a passage from an article linked within states[0]: > The nine justices request that U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr., the government's top lawyer before the Supreme Court, weigh in on abo
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by lorddoig 11y ago
Using Uber with certain disabilities appears to be a real problem, this is true, but there's a very real risk that regulating Uber to within an inch of it's life will make it just another cab company -- and then what? What's
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by lorddoig 11y ago
Although your suggestion may be popular, it is, in fact, suboptimal. If one believes that "JS is the worst thing to happen to the web" and that "some other language would miraculously solve all of the problems" then goin
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by lorddoig 11y ago
New to programming? I've been coding since I was 12 and only recently have I become confident in the procedure to exit emacs. I shouldn't have said paredit - I thought it had become a general term (is there one?) Most of my expe
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by lorddoig 11y ago
I was thinking the other day, after reading the post about the Unison project, that graphical editing could be a really neat idea - "there is no syntax, you manipulate the AST directly" kind of thing. Then I started to try to fle
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by lorddoig 11y ago
From everything I've read I'm pretty sure that if it's a complete rewrite in another language then it's legally "divorced" from the original project. You can own (and ergo license) an implementation of an id
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by lorddoig 11y ago
I think there are some issues here. Browser vendors have indirectly created the money sucking machine that is the certification industry by requiring potential root CAs to have been audited to a very thorough standard (e.g. WebTrust).[0] M
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by lorddoig 11y ago
8pts, 6 comments and already the site's buckled. Sometimes this place makes me think that not putting a caching proxy in front of your blog should be a crime.
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How feasible would it be to introduce online voting?(bbc.co.uk)
12 points by lorddoig 11y ago|18 comments
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by lorddoig 11y ago
If the victim/complainant/whatever was the one with the camera, you'd still get most if not more of the benefits of accountability. So how can we make that happen instead? Simple - have the police there in two distinct role
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by lorddoig 11y ago
"Perfect" isn't a loaded word here, it just means maximally rational. Take 2 bundles of products - A & B. They both cost the same, but bundle A would bring you 2x as much joy/utility/whatever-you-want-to-call-i
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by lorddoig 11y ago
> Isn't it depressing to see how technology is turning us into perfect consumers? I don't know what somebody on the street would consider a 'perfect consumer', but an economist would use that term to describe someone
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by lorddoig 11y ago
I haven't written go in a while, but I recall being rather dissatisfied with the so-called 'if-hell'. I've been wondering lately - is there any reason why you couldn't/shouldn't use monads for this? Noth

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