maninalift

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by maninalift 11y ago
Is anyone aware of any line-breaking algorithm which penalises for rivers or typesetting algorithm which adjusts spacing to compensate for it. I'm interested that rivers are such a concern of manual typesetting but I have never heard m
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by maninalift 12y ago
dumb question: "more ht2000 lines of code" - is that a typo of "more than...", is "ht2000" something I don't know and can't google, or are are these hacks in some way related to an antique motherboar
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by maninalift 12y ago
ghost what?
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by maninalift 12y ago
yes, that's exactly what stepstep said
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by maninalift 12y ago
The description notes the replacement of many uses of "tasks" with native OS threads. Tasks may map to threads or may be managed as green threads. Threads unlike tasks must be detached if they are too be allowed to outlive their p
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by maninalift 12y ago
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarg awesome!
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by maninalift 12y ago
even if software is formally verified, and even assuming the specification is both totally accurate and complete, there is plenty of room for issues at software deployment in a multi-component system such as this
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by maninalift 12y ago
This appears not to actually solve the hard problems of cryptography. It simply generates a random key, them XORs your message with it. The key and the message are independently just random data and don't reveal anything about the cont
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by maninalift 12y ago
Readers may be interested to cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corecursion
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by maninalift 12y ago
A nice demonstration of lambda calculus using Church Encoding in Ruby, without saying that that's what he's doing. I guess at the end of the video, he will probably reveal what the thing he's been doing is called.
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by maninalift 12y ago
Voted down? It's just a quick, weak joke, I don't see the harm.
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by maninalift 12y ago
unmatched </semisarcasm> at (3,123)
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by maninalift 12y ago
I heartily recommend this short accessible article to anyone interested in loeb: https://github.com/quchen/articles/blob/master/loeb-moeb.md
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by maninalift 12y ago
I usually skip the start-up advice posts on HN but this was worth reading for the first point along "focus on the problem not the solution". Good advice for hackers as well as entrepreneurs.
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by maninalift 12y ago
Put enough ground coffee into a cup that a spoon shushed into it goes "thunk" like a spade into sand and stands up. Pour over hot water to just cover, stir until saturated, fill cup, allow to settle, drink. No need for filters or
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by maninalift 12y ago
Ew, now you can have an awkward weak implementation of some FP ideas in Go too. Yeah, I'm a bitch.
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by maninalift 12y ago
Am I shallow that it made me feel good getting all the answers right even though I knew most of the people who tried it would?
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by maninalift 12y ago
I just read the first one 8718462, and I actually think it might be worse than the "photographs on a white background" patent linked to in article.
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by maninalift 12y ago
"positioned in a longitudinal axis intersecting" = "pointing at" obfuscation is the name of the game You wouldn't get away with horrendous babble like this in essay in any subject at any level of education.
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by maninalift 12y ago
Surely the key point is that most of us read indentation first, it doesn't matter whether you are witting C with semicolons and curlies or ruby with no semicolons and "end"s or lisp with parens, what the programmer really rea
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by maninalift 12y ago
Why so many articles about how you don't need the cool hip new technology to be successful? Surely this is a news site populated by people who like playing with cool new technology. I don't want to be successful it sounds stressfu
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by maninalift 13y ago
except me of course cos I don't write bugs
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by maninalift 13y ago
...but that's great. Wow, this is a wonderful thing. I would go as far as to say it is the tool every developer wanted and most thought was impossible (the low overhead part at least). Only recording the nondeterministic parts and repl
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by maninalift 13y ago
I think the m.prop getter/setter creation is a good compromise between the "magical" creation of properties employed by Vue and Ractive and the cumbersome use of SomeFramework.set("propertyname", value) employed by
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by maninalift 13y ago
I like the small, unmagical, well-defined API. That strength is also a weakness though. Particularly because for coffeescript (or my favourite, the related LiveScript) it doesn't result in the super-cute syntax of e.g. TeaCup[1][2]. [1
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by maninalift 13y ago
Really? It just makes me feel sea-sick. As my eyes scan the words, I can't help the feeling that the colours are changing and staying the same at the same time, it's a most disconcerting optical illusion.
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by maninalift 13y ago
yes I meant used cars. I'm the sort of cheap-ass who wouldn't even consider buying a car new.
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by maninalift 13y ago
No it's not It's meaning is quite clear. That's not to say you can't argue that it should be ignored but please have a grown-up argument about it rather than resorting to rhetoric.
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by maninalift 13y ago
I have been told that Spain has a big black market economy, it is part of ordinary life there to pay for say a car with "black money". However I think even there the idea of setting up a tech company with more than a million euros
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by maninalift 13y ago
I thought they were investment-scamming techno-cons who had never been releasing video demonstrations for years without ever releasing a product.

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