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by nas 14y ago
I believe the common theory is that there are strong network effects in the mobile OS market. iOS is still an attractive platform for app developers but if the Apple share of the smartphone market keeps shrinking, developers will focus on
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by nas 14y ago
You really need to test the version of the code you are going to commit. See the comment about using "git stash" elsewhere in this thread.
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by nas 14y ago
It's like ultra-sound, takes all the fun out of guessing the sex of the baby. If he methods were less reliable or the race was closer so the result was more in doubt, he would be fine feed for the grist mill. Right now he's just a party p
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by nas 14y ago
> Only the miner who discovers new bitcoins gets "rewarded" by the system And that reward is really just compensation for keeping the whole system difficult to attack. Mining is not cheap, you need expensive hardware and electricity.
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by nas 14y ago
Python's yield was originally a limited co-routine, something we coined as a "generator" (borrowing the word from Icon, which Tim was quite fond of). It was limited to one frame on the stack and could only return values. Recent enhancemen
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by nas 14y ago
My gut feeling is they have more compelling reasons to port Steam to Linux. Look at the growth in the number of relatively powerful personal computing devices (smartphones, tablets, etc) that don't run Windows. It's also been suggested th
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by nas 14y ago
Not as I understand it. The intent was to provide an alternative to "trade secrets". In exchange for disclosing how your great new invention works, you get a limited monopoly on it. Modern patents don't work this way. Seriously, who read
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by nas 14y ago
I was disappointed to read that their solution didn't involve switching to TAI. The kernel should use seconds since epoch and leap seconds should be a user space issue, just like timezones.
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by nas 14y ago
I thought you were kidding. Talk about cheesy.
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by nas 14y ago
"Well, if they’d like to bust my chops for an article that’s about 15 months old, they’re welcome to do so (or at least try)." Well, I guess they did. :-/
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by nas 14y ago
If that's really the case then there's no way Facebook is worth what (most) people think. Instagram launched in October 2010 and were acquired with only 13 employees. If a tiny company like that even has a chance to dent Facebook's market
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by nas 15y ago
I don't think it will but perhaps not for the reason you apparently think. The details are scarce but the crypto doesn't look interesting. The idea of trusted hardware has been around for a long time. I think most cyberpunks don't trust
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by nas 15y ago
I don't enjoy April Fools. At one point people would come up with well-thought out and entertaining tricks. Now it's 99% annoying stuff that's not funny and not creative. Sorry to be a kill-joy but this plugin looks like it would be use
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by nas 15y ago
HN has a love/hate relationship with bitcoin? :-/
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by nas 15y ago
SC2 players hate Battle.net 2.0. I don't think Blizzard cares too much, since they are focusing on the larger casual market. They originally stated that there would be no chat channels ("why would you even what them?"). That makes sens
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by nas 15y ago
If it's like SC2 then they also think they control rights to the content created by the game. For example, they believe they are entitled to royalties if you run a tournament.
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by nas 15y ago
> Google simply has been SEO'd to death. I feel like they have gotten a lot better over the last few months. I guess it depends what subjects you search for. For a while I thought "personal filter" was a good idea but lately I don't f
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by nas 15y ago
I think at first they showed answers. Later they only showed answers to GoogleBot and tried to get you to jump through hoops to see them. Finally, Google smacked them down and they implemented a tricky system where you had to scroll and l
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by nas 15y ago
Even if everyone doesn't switch, having more than one widely used open-source C compiler would be healthy. If anything, it allows some non-portable code to be found and fixed. Also, competition is healthy. The different compiler develope
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by nas 15y ago
This benchmark is pretty pointless but I can't resist. Here is a version in Quixote: https://github.com/nascheme/quixote-shootout It looks like mod_wsgi is quite a dog.
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by nas 15y ago
Even with optimistic estimates, it's going to be years, likely decades, before you can rely on these features being supported by the majorly of browsers. That's kind of sad but is the hard reality. I hope they come up with a good design.
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by nas 15y ago
Neat but way too magical for my taste. The code to figure out what to do in the case of 'from .. import *' is particularly ugly. Perhaps the commands should accessible from an object you import. That's slightly more typing but more explic
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by nas 15y ago
That's my guess too. With digital IO, you can say "drive an output pin high". In the old days that was done with transistors (TTL, later CMOS). It's seems logical if you had hardware connected to a digital IO, you could refer to the soft
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by nas 15y ago
Yes. In Scheme, call/cc is generally not used directly. Instead, you build higher level abstractions, for example full co-routines or perhaps more limited "generators" like Python has. Co-routines have been around for more than 30 years.
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by nas 15y ago
"While we all know and love JavaScript as a language ..." I know it but I don't love it. It's basically the only game in town when it comes to client side scripting. Also, the concurrency model of Node.js does not eliminate concurrency rela
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by nas 15y ago
That hasn't worked for me. I've worked at jobs where I had to get up at 6 am every weekday for months. It gets easier when you do it regularly but I still hate it. I naturally feel more energetic starting around 2 pm and I don't feel lik
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by nas 15y ago
Yeah, there might be a few cases were null terminated strings work okay but mostly they are just a recipe for buffer overflows. Seriously, how many years is this going to take to figure out?
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by nas 15y ago
We are three levels removed from the original post. This all seems very meta. ;-) Anyhow, I don't have much for tips. I was like the OP, too confident from my own good and was almost crushed by a college engineering program. I think my ma
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by nas 15y ago
That's an implementation detail though. Although it's a lot of work to fix, it's not insurmountable. You would need your development browser to support Coffescript natively. It's not really a serious problem if IE7 generates a Javascript
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by nas 15y ago
Yeah, I've got no problem with binary protocols, especially when they need to encapsulate arbitrary data (e.g. containing NULLs, etc). Just keep the protocol design sane and it's trivial to write a pretty printing trace tool. Requiring ma

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