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by msla 9y ago
I'd be wary of moving the crypto into the OS, because OS upgrades are few and far between. Browsers are easier to upgrade, as we know from the rather aggressive auto-upgrade cycles of Chrome and Firefox, whereas if you have bad and&#x2
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by msla 9y ago
We've always been machines. Now, we're becoming machines we can program ourselves, as opposed to being programmed exclusively by society and nature.
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by msla 9y ago
People expect more from conversation, as opposed to sloppy thinking where the author projects their own biases out to the world and expects people will agree with them or be polite enough to be silenced. Being "polite" like that w
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by msla 9y ago
Because I don't think I can edit posts yet, this blog post of the author's is very useful in gauging where the books assume their readers are at: https://zedshaw.com/2015/06/16/early-vs-beginning-cod
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by msla 9y ago
It's for people learning how to program for the very first time, to the point they need to be told to enter code into a text editor as opposed to, say, Microsoft Word. Or whatever Microsoft is calling its Word Processing Software Tool
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by msla 9y ago
Wearing a hat indoors? Where were you raised? Show some respect! Seriously, wearing a hat indoors is a strong cultural taboo in some regions.
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by msla 9y ago
> Not sure why you're being downvoted Probably because of the toxic tone.
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by msla 9y ago
Even the traditional Unix tools don't follow the Unix Philosophy extremely well. ls is a prime example: It has too many ways to sort and format its output. It "should", in the Unix Philosophy sense, simply list things in a di
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by msla 9y ago
I won't pretend to be a world expert on market failures, but I can take you through how we come to the conclusion pollution is a result of market failure: It all comes down to negative externalities. In general, an externality is somet
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by msla 9y ago
Because a number of us recognize that market failures, and pollution is a prime example, are best solved by entities outside the market, such as governments, and that a doctrinaire approach to governing is antithetical to solving problems.