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by merijnv 16y ago
If you are able to invest some time I highly recommend you take a look at Haskell or OCaml. I used to think strong typing was something stupid, inconvenient, etc. Then I started learning Haskell and realized I didn't hate strong typing, I j
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by merijnv 16y ago
Oh, I agree that not trusting information on the internet is the sensible default. However, there are plenty of people who will be copying his examples directly without any investigation. Some will probably post the exact same stuff on thei
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by merijnv 16y ago
This likely because a lot of people (the majority?), like me, find VLC to "Just Work" (TM) and don't find any reason to sign up for the forums. I try and make it a point to thank authors of open source software I use, but often times I don'
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by merijnv 16y ago
What annoys me about a lot of tech blog posts like this one is that they're essentially voodoo. People like the author write instructions about what you should do without even understanding the instructions themselves. "I’m not entire
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Ask HN: When to colocate/VPS/etc.
1 points by merijnv 16y ago|0 comments
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by merijnv 16y ago
Do people here think there's any importance to how professional/personal the domain name of your site is? For example, I registered inconsistent.nl (currently sadly empty because I nuked my web server in an experiment and still haven't go
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Argos - An emulator for capturing zero-day attacks(few.vu.nl)
3 points by merijnv 16y ago|1 comments
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by merijnv 16y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "why do we need Twitter?". While I consider it a useless service there are obviously a huge amount of people in disagreement with me, which would imply that it serves some purpose. What I am saying is "W
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by merijnv 16y ago
I don't think Twitter can ever really replace RSS/ATOM. I have a handful of sites I follow (as in really read every update) and Opera having integrated RSS I get a nice reminder popup whenever there's an update. For me Twitter wouldn't work
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by merijnv 16y ago
Disclaimer: I never "got" really Twitter. The service still strikes me as mostly useless. Now this could just be me but he says: "Twitter needs to decentralize [...] my belief that all communications media will inevitably be decentralized,
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by merijnv 16y ago
I disagree with their assessment that replacing the "known-bad" model with a "known-good" model means Intel expects to become the sole gatekeeper of what software is allowed to run. This is quite obviously infeasible and I'm sure Intel know
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by merijnv 17y ago
I've been busy learning Haskell on and off between classes since December. And the main points I noticed so far are: tl;dr version: 1) It's a pretty language. 2) It's fast. 3) Static typing (and its optional companion "formal verification")
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by merijnv 17y ago
> Oh, and re. the "programmer-friendly" comment in your article - I'm one and I don't find those sites at all friendly... I think he means the "easy to program" kind of programmer-friendly, not the "easy to use" kind of programmer-frien
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by merijnv 17y ago
More actively paying attention to my environment is something I have been trying to teach myself as well. Not much success so far. As far as the writing is concerned, it was engaging enough to keep me interested until the end. Which is more