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by mckoss 10y ago
Except for a few cases where Typescript let's you transpile ES6 syntax to JavaScript ES5, the compiler does not change your code; it just checks it for type errors. The point of the example is that Typescript recently added support for
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by mckoss 10y ago
Maybe my bug? I wrote most of the original Excel text-based file import code in 1984 (including the SLYK format, which was the main way we migrated files from Multiplan to Excel).
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by mckoss 10y ago
"Almost late" === "on time".
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by mckoss 10y ago
I've never noticed the "web" link before - that works for me (should this not be "search", btw). Thanks.
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by mckoss 10y ago
True enough. I was just proposing, for a site like HN that is about open discourse between members, that posting content that excludes many of our members is a poor choice.
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by mckoss 10y ago
So now I'm left playing link roulette - maybe we could only allow nyt links for the first 10 days of the month!
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by mckoss 10y ago
I know that. So why not post the search link instead - i.e. one that will work for everyone? Or HN could implement a "search on Google" feature to get around it. Requiring readers to a) know this hack and b) perform it on a mob
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by mckoss 10y ago
Can we stop posting articles that are behind a pay wall? What's the point of sharing if the link won't work for many readers?
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by mckoss 10y ago
That got to me too with the museum representatives smugly ripping off the owner and telling her to "keep the change".
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by mckoss 11y ago
Yes, but it's not "fail-safe". Building a massive dam above a million person flood plain, that requires continuous aggressive maintenance seems short sighted at best.
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by mckoss 11y ago
A possible compromise would be to add a backdoor to the security module that would unlock the phone in exchange for a proof of work. It would be relatively easy for the chip to offer a challenge and accept, say, a $100,000 proof of work to
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by mckoss 11y ago
As a grad student, I remember shooting the bull with Minsky and Hillis (1983). The CIA had offices across the hall and we were discussing how we might grab one of their bags of shredded documents and use a computer to piece together all th
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by mckoss 11y ago
For those that are not familiar with commercial rental quotes, they are stated in units of $/sq ft/year. A good rule of thumb is that you need about 200 sq ft per worker. So, at $72/ft, your 10-person startup needs to spend
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by mckoss 11y ago
"Suitably scaled, its summit sits at a telltale value: √2N" Doesn't this statement apply the any function with a maximum?
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by mckoss 11y ago
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/3116706556
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by mckoss 11y ago
Skimming on phone and I missed it-thanks!
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by mckoss 11y ago
Why no mention of window.crypto.getRandomValues?
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by mckoss 11y ago
Also called DAWGs (Directed Acyclic Word Graphs [1]). John Resig blogged about a similar problem 5 years ago, for which I wrote a JavaScript solution [2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_word_graph
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by mckoss 11y ago
A transpiler is specifically a "source-to-source" language translator.
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by mckoss 11y ago
Similar to a namespace package I've been using for 6 years. https://github.com/mckoss/namespace
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by mckoss 11y ago
You are older than NaN people on the planet.
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by mckoss 11y ago
I personally dislike this style of "fluent api". It is not more "for humans" just because it reads as English sentences. In fact, it can be quite difficult to reason about. What, for example is "schedule. every(10
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by mckoss 11y ago
Often times authors of articles are not the same people who write their titles ... it may even be changed without their knowledge (until the paper is actually printed).
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by mckoss 11y ago
An aileron roll will experience -1G - something you really don't want to do in an airliner. A barrel roll is specifically named because its like driving around the inside of a barrel; the plane always maintains positive Gs.
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by mckoss 11y ago
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
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by mckoss 11y ago
I was surprised to see a recommdation for The Information. Gleick seems the epitome of a rambling author who says almost nothing. I made it through Chaos, but could not get through Feynman or The Information. This kind of InfoJunk is wha
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by mckoss 11y ago
Ironically, you can only refuse to provide your name if you have a "reasonable belief" that doing so could incriminate you! ----- Justice Kennedy wrote, "While we recognize petitioner's strong belief that he should not h
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by mckoss 11y ago
A knowingly false DMCA claim can result in a perjury charge. https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2004/10/15
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by mckoss 11y ago
I would think that the only reason you can be arrested for refusing to answer #1 is because driving requires a license. Being stopped on the street or while not operating the vehicle does not require you identify yourself to the police. T
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by mckoss 11y ago
Cliff is a highly respected meteorologist in the NW. He debunks your citation in his blog (see his response to comments in this post).

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