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by mahmud 10y ago
Wouldn't trade Aus for the anywhere in the world, mate. I'm home.
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by mahmud 10y ago
Australia is corrupt? Compared to where? I immigrated here from the U.S. and the only contact I have with the "government" is my annual tax filing. Where previously I had nearly 6-monthly encounters with police just for (I guess)
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by mahmud 10y ago
Indeed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh
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by mahmud 10y ago
Of course Google Trends lags behind, it tracks waves of trends as they ripple through the public consciousness. YC applicants are a small, and a very technically advanced, minority of the larger population.
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by mahmud 10y ago
You can externalize Common Lisp type specialization with its own platform-specific file full of DEFTYPE and/or declaim forms. Read Henry Baker's paper on the CL-84 type inference engine. The intellectual ancestor of all modern dyn
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by mahmud 10y ago
[Edit: Julia prides itself in being a fully generic language. From its paper: "Generic functions have appeared in several object systems in the past, notably CLOS [15] and Dylan [28]. Julia is distinguished from these in that it uses
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by mahmud 10y ago
CL-USER> (defun f (x) (* x x)) F CL-USER> (f 2.0) 4.0 CL-USER> (disassemble 'f) ; disassembly for F ; Size: 37 bytes. Origin: #x1002B10BDC ; BDC: 498B4C2460 MOV RCX, [R12+96]
38.
by mahmud 11y ago
Way too cute.
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by mahmud 11y ago
This is a very cynical view to take. Much of your life is shaped by emulating people you have never known directly. And for the better. Every time you read a book, you're engaging in a dialogue with someone you have likely never known
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by mahmud 11y ago
That is not what I got from the article at all. It's about people being inspired to live a fuller life by someone they look up to. Setting time aside for reflection, self-improvement, and giving back.
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by mahmud 11y ago
Unix the kernel is from the 70s. Unix the userland is from today. Unix the API is eternal! :-)
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by mahmud 11y ago
What you consider today "Windows" is actually Windows NT. Dave Cuttler was a lead architect of both NT and VMS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler Cuttler and a core of VMS team exited en masse to work
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by mahmud 11y ago
This is the best explanation. Besides engineering, the is another field that offers similar opportunities for upward mobility: medicine. But medicine has a humanizing nature, just by virtue of having the betterment of the human condition
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by mahmud 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor
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by mahmud 11y ago
This is insensitive and rude. 1) His comment is already dead'ed. 2) Do you think he _chooses_ to write like that? You already know he has a mental condition that he can't help. The onus is on you to either ignore him, or extend to
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by mahmud 11y ago
I use a Google Drive directory full of markdown notes for this purpose. Edit with Writeily, the amazing Android markdown editory, or Macdown on desktop. Done.
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by mahmud 11y ago
We didn't. I met a girl overseas and within 24 hours we moved in together. Obsessive, all encompassing, "can't take my eyes off you" love. I moved continents to be with her; 8 years together, married for 4. Then suddenly
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by mahmud 11y ago
How long have you been in the software industry? Github would be lucky to be half its current size in 5 years, if it's not entirely gone by then.
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by mahmud 11y ago
Right, meant to say "the platform that powers this site". Arc itself is an interpreter written in Racket. The site runs on racket.
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by mahmud 11y ago
The language that this site is written in.
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by mahmud 11y ago
Good on ya, Jacques.
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by mahmud 11y ago
The Wikipedia page does a good enough job. It shouldn't take more than 1-3 pages, it's a fairly simple concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form#Examp... I stumbled into compilers by acc
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by mahmud 11y ago
Or you can edit it yourself.
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by mahmud 11y ago
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_%28programmer%29 It's fairly common in hacker culture to use pseudonyms.
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by mahmud 11y ago
> At some level you need to add actual integers together. For that you need to access the internal representation of both integers at once Not necessarily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding
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by mahmud 11y ago
Not really. I have been to Kashmir. All I associate with it is sheer beauty. Just ignore the two big babies with the big guns, fighting over it.
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by mahmud 11y ago
Hang in there, mate. Love your work :-)
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by mahmud 11y ago
Since when is content theft "hacking"?
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by mahmud 11y ago
Yes, but it's not a constant , but more of a configurable option; change can be made trivially, and as often as needed. Unix init scripts for networking can do MAC changes for you every time an interface goes up.
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by mahmud 11y ago
MAC address can be easily changed, with ifconfig(8). Nearly every Unix has an ioctl(2) request for this. So does NT. But on mobile you might need a "rooted" device. I have the following script in my OS X toolbox to allow me to con

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