mhaymo

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by mhaymo 13y ago
> I am not advocating that at all. That's exactly what you're advocating for. Pornography is all of those things. It is not evil.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
Restricting certain (legal, normal, non-violent, even educational) materials because some people think that maybe they might possibly lead to undesirable behaviour, is to my mind a clear overstepping of government power. Like you I am curre
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by mhaymo 13y ago
> The fact is the prevelance and ease of accessibility of porn is resulting in a huge spike in sexual violence and disturbed behaviour in teens. Citation needed.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
We're expending considerable effort in the opposite direction. Let's just stop doing that.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
So install a filter on your own home connection. What's it got to do with the rest of us? And why allow the government to define what is and isn't objectionable for you?
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by mhaymo 13y ago
Brings new meaning to the word "digital". I'll be here all night.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
Your link is broke. Here it is fixed: https://modules.ceylon-lang.org/modules/ceylon.language/1.0.... Very cool type annotations. As a mostly Java developer, I wish API's had this level of documentation, to h
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by mhaymo 13y ago
Ok, so in a default non-nullable type system, nullable types are equivalent to maybes.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
I don't understand the difference, and a quick search turned up nothing. Care to educate?
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by mhaymo 13y ago
Hyper Text Markup Language. It's in the name. If you're going to be pedantic, at least be correct.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
> Earning more money doesn’t increase satisfaction with life. It just compensates for the lack of satisfaction (“Utility” in the formula) caused by longer commutes. I don't understand this line. How can money compensate for a loss o
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by mhaymo 13y ago
So turn them off. You can do that in Firefox, I don't know about Chrome, but if you're using that then you already are trusting Google just as much as if you use this extension.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
> stating that Git was "the first system that was deliberately built around" branching is too arrogant. Do you have a counter-example?
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by mhaymo 13y ago
The less that is described by the signature, the more necessary it is to document a function. In C++/C#/Java, while the parameters and return values are often fairly obvious, exceptions are completely undocumented by the type syst
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by mhaymo 13y ago
> The main cost of using the multitenant JVM is that tenants are less isolated than multiple applications that run in separate JVMs. For example, a native crash in the multitenant JVM affects all tenants. Does anyone know what exactly is
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by mhaymo 13y ago
The article states that Google has refused to comment on whether the data is encrypted on their servers. So it seems fair to assume it isn't.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
Define "slimy". Offering someone something which you have a very good reason to think they'd want seems like about the best that marketing can ever be.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
> attack ads, like Super PACs, are unimaginable here, legally and culturally. Legally? There are laws preventing certain kinds of criticism of political parties, and we're celebrating this? Perhaps it's because I haven't s
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by mhaymo 13y ago
Citation needed.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
This has the additional advantage of separating the specification from the implementation. If e.g. a javadoc comment says "@throws IllegalStateException when foo", then I know if I change the method, I have to preserve that behavi
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by mhaymo 13y ago
The keyword.URL setting ( http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyword.URL ) was also removed, and of course addons have been made to re-enable it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keywordurl
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by mhaymo 13y ago
This one actually includes all the practical material. Thanks :)
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by mhaymo 13y ago
This seems incomplete without the labs and assignments included. The github link on the assignments page leads nowhere.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
I'm surprised by how dramatic the difference is between the speed of C and Haskell. One of my professors (at The University of Glasgow, so appropriately a Haskell fan) once claimed that it had "c-like performance". I suppose
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by mhaymo 13y ago
If certificates are broken then public key crypto is broken, because a trusted third-party certificate is necessary to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, no?
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by mhaymo 13y ago
And how does this solution achieve that better than putting the option in the Privacy menu, labelled "Disable unique identification (this may break some apps)"?
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by mhaymo 13y ago
Without such reasoning, this article is kind of worthless, and I'm not sure how it got to the top of HN.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
Seeing as the government can demand any information on you from Google if it really wants it, Google-proofing is a prerequisite for NSA-proofing. And Google can't imprison you.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
Because that's a more general claim which cannot be made from this study, and may very well be false.
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by mhaymo 13y ago
- disabling javascript via about:config is no harder than through the settings if you know about it - How does removing the status bar hurt usability? You still see links when you hover over them, and the add-on bar can be toggled instantly

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