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   by m3047 7y ago

   I used to use %VAL and %REF in DEC BASIC to do memory management. Most def sadistic. It was simple. It was dangerous. And it failed in the most inscrutable ways, particularly if you were a "normal" BASIC programmer.
2. 812.▲
   by m3047 7y ago

   I think romantically of MACRO-32 and the VAX silicon it ran on. (I have a CVAX2 chip pressed into a luggage tag somewhere around here...)
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   by m3047 7y ago

   The tests comment was meant in good fun. I made it up the corporate ladder as far as Director, but decided I liked programming better. But if I put on my management hat, the question would run somewhat as follows: I see you're expressi
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   by m3047 7y ago

   With or without compiler pragmas?
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   by m3047 7y ago

   Timothy Leary was a pioneer in group psychotherapy, FWTW.
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   by m3047 7y ago

   I don't see anything about the mind maps. Can you give a pointer to loomio.org or gitub which specifically speaks to that?
7. 817.▲
   by m3047 7y ago

   Can you write tests for that?
8. 818.▲
   by m3047 7y ago

   I thought it was fantastic! But my father was a clinical psychiatrist. When I explain to people how the computer thinks I mostly automatically role play, and when they get indignant I don't care, I just shrug it off. But the psychoanal
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   State of Washington Rubbishes Coronivirus Web Page

   2 points by m3047 7y ago|0 comments
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    by m3047 7y ago

    "It means that an ad blocker of the future will have to monitor traffic of the entire network." (towards the end) This is already a concern in the DNS world, with Response Policy Zones (RPZ) on one hand for DNS-based control ( htt
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    by m3047 7y ago

    I've never written a general purpose parser in SQL, I'll be curious to see what you come up with. Might be easier to retrofit your SQL engine so that it will run Python functions. Regarding stemming addresses, you can combine the
12. 822.▲
    by m3047 7y ago

    Some day your luck, or your interests, will change; maybe you'll remember this project and come back and visit us.
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    by m3047 7y ago

    I want to thank HN and the HN community for the awesome free exposure. It means a tremendous amount to a niche open source project. I'm sure I can attribute 6 clones and 20 GitHub stars to this, hopefully some of those turn into users
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    by m3047 7y ago

    I've set up traditional email aliases for years. It was Andrew Lewman's blog article https://lewman.blog/2019/09/02/why-i-have-over-one-thousand-... that goaded me into writing this. I've been
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    by m3047 7y ago

    I await the PR!
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    by m3047 7y ago

    Thank you. Some people view wildcarding the domain as basically turning it into a honeypot (and using the spam to train the spam filter). I wanted to be able to provide feedback, not blowback, and rejecting at SMTP transfer time is the dist
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    Show HN: Self-Validating Email Aliases for Postfix(github.com)

    28 points by m3047 7y ago|26 comments