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by merijnv 15y ago
Well, my impression was that in the US you need to establish some kind of credit history to get a good credit score. Whereas here it is normal for people with no credit history to get loans and mortgages.
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by merijnv 15y ago
non-US perspective: In the Netherlands we have the "Burea of Credit Registration" which registers most debts, storing: - amount - start date - expected end date - actual end date - type of credit - miscellaneous no
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by merijnv 15y ago
You seem to be, as are many others in this online debate, using the fallacious assumption that all of the world is the US. > There's no inalienable human right to data about you Eh...yes there is. Maybe not for you, but I, and others wh
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by merijnv 15y ago
> Oh, and as an aside, if one page of PHP is your web programming experience, then you really should probably not be shipping an HTTP server. I disagree. How are webprogramming skills applicable to writing a HTTP server? Seems to me the
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by merijnv 15y ago
tl;dr: Let's all reinvent an even less standardised X11 in JavaScript and HTTP!
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by merijnv 15y ago
I think this holds for significant parts of the non-US world. In the Netherlands (and for that matter any European country I've visited) credit cards seem extremely uncommon. I am one of two people in my circle of acquaintances who owns a c
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by merijnv 15y ago
In an attempt to increase my productivity I turned off e-mail notifications, now I only notice new messages when I mouse-over the OSX dock or manually check my mail client. The result is messages only catch my attention when I was already c
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by merijnv 15y ago
He means "any account with local access " is effectively a root account, which is true. Resetting passwords is trivial when you can reboot and have an install disk.
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by merijnv 15y ago
Eh, the code does look for the string terminator. It calls strlen, which indexes the char* until it finds a NULL byte. If the string doesn't have a NULL byte then strlen will happily continue reading past the boundary until it either segf
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by merijnv 15y ago
You are not the only person to think so, it has been turned into a font multiple times (for example, here: http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Uncategorized/34398/Dijks... ).
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by merijnv 15y ago
TCP is already out as a protocol for our galactic internet, see relevant comment from Linux TCP implementation: /* * [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum * possible RTT. I guess we'll have to us
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by merijnv 15y ago
In my experience vanity items with no effect on gameplay attract droves of people with to much disposable income. When I was still playing WoW lots of people were buying things like pets and mounts with no benefit other then looking cool an
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by merijnv 15y ago
Oh, I think it is perfectly possible to do webprogramming in Haskell. In fact, Haskell would be my first choice if doing web development. In my opinion the reason there is not much focus on web programming in Haskell is that (based on my ob
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by merijnv 15y ago
Unless, of course, you're hardware has been backdoor-ed when it was created (or do you trust all hardware manufacturers, including those in China under potential pressure from government...). See for example King et al. on "Designing and im
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by merijnv 15y ago
Not really, no. I had one of the original iPhones and with heavy 3G usage the battery drains like nobody's business (it barely lasted half a day if I used it to stream music on the train to work). Right now I have a HTC Dream (also known as
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by merijnv 15y ago
Yes, but Tarsnap (as far as I know) only dedupes your data i.e., if I upload the same file twice it will be stored once. This is easy, because two identical files encrypted by the same key (i.e., mine) are still identical. Dropbox dedupes
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by merijnv 16y ago
My bad the other one was supposed to be http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322920 Bit of a copy and paste fail...
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by merijnv 16y ago
It is when your reduce operation is associative. (Example: sum, or --- less trivially --- merge sort)
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by merijnv 16y ago
I agree Erlang is also very interesting. I think some of the features looks absolutely fascinating (hot updatable code!), etc. I just haven't found the the time to learn it yet. I wish Erlang's syntax was more like Haskell, though :\
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by merijnv 16y ago
I would recommend Haskell over Lisp, because Haskell will force you to do functional programming, where-as Lisp is less rigid in that regard. In addition the #haskell IRC channel on FreeNode is filled with people who have infinite patienc
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by merijnv 16y ago
To dupe the key they would need access to your system, though. At which point they would also have access to all your files anyway. Now, if you fix your system to no longer be vulnerable the duped key will allow them to keep snooping your f
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by merijnv 16y ago
That would be because recursion and loops are isomorphic. Anything you can do with recursion can be done in a loop and vice versa. It's just that one or the other may be clearer or easier depending on what you're doing.
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by merijnv 16y ago
Not to mention that Haskell's sort function is actually quite a bit more complex than the stereotypical "quicksort" example shown.
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by merijnv 16y ago
Well, I would argue that they are doing something wrong. You're absolutely right to say that there is no reason to do something other then just storing the key locally (since someone who has local access to the key, can presumably access
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by merijnv 16y ago
That's not necessarily true. I prefer Mercurial over Git but I prefer GitHub over Bitbucket/Google Code. That's why the fine folks over at GitHub implemented their hg-git plugin which allows Mercurial to interact with Git repositories. That
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by merijnv 16y ago
In my opinion it should be perfectly possible for someone with C# and C experience to start learning Python and Django at the same time (you can go over the tutorial at docs.python.org. in a handful of hours tops and that should be plenty t
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by merijnv 16y ago
Since you already know C/C++ I'm willing to wager you are able to pick up Python or Ruby in a few days if not less. Both have frameworks quite well suited to web programming (Django or one of the other WSGI frameworks for Python) and obviou
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by merijnv 16y ago
Lisp can modify its own syntax at runtime, Python most definitely cannot.
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by merijnv 16y ago
Isn't the lack of adequate judgement (moral or other) the definition of being a kid?
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by merijnv 16y ago
Absolutely not, I'd be perfectly happy to pay a reasonable fee (for music I now have a Spotify subscription and I love it!) or be forced to watch adds or whatnot. I keep waiting for hulu.com and similar sites to eventually (hopefully) open

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