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by nemoniac 9y ago
I just bought a Thinkpad x230 to replace the one that I bought new soon after they first came out. It cost me €250. The original one cost more like €2000. It has a rock-solid build with metal hinges, i7, 16GB RAM. For me it's an ideal
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by nemoniac 9y ago
"improperly shared"
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by nemoniac 9y ago
Why do you think that US (federal) courts have anything to say about this? It's an EU law governing companies holding data about EU citizens. It means that EU courts can rule over the activity of such companies, whether the companies c
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by nemoniac 9y ago
> In the last couple months I decided that I needed to stop tweaking every last thing and wasting so much time and compromise by using the tools that allow me to be the most productive. There's a great reddit posting today about twe
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by nemoniac 9y ago
To streamline it even more use aggressive-indent-mode in emacs. Your code is indented correctly after every keystroke and you have even fewer formatting worries.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
That requirement applies to over-the-top communications providers, not to communication in general.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
Europe's GDPR data law contains no such stipulation.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
Brilliant! A search for "gu n" yields "Did you mean gun" and offers gun related products.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
It does return results containing "guns". If you search for "germs" and "steel", it returns the book "Guns, Germs and Steel". However it does not appear to return results if you search for "guns&
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Facebook personal data use and privacy settings ruled illegal by German court(theguardian.com)
4 points by nemoniac 9y ago|0 comments
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by nemoniac 9y ago
This makes me nostalgic for the days when emacs was disparagingly said to be an acronym for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. Eight hundred megs for a code editor would have been unimaginable back then.
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Outperforming Rust with Functional Programming(blog.vmchale.com)
16 points by nemoniac 9y ago|5 comments
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Metcalfe's Law as a Model for Bitcoin's Value(papers.ssrn.com)
3 points by nemoniac 9y ago|0 comments
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by nemoniac 9y ago
As a European who frequently visits other European countries on business, I can say that Google behaviour has always been painful. I would like to get search results in a handful of languages of my choice but Google makes it a struggle.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
I had been wondering about this already but this puts me over the edge. There is a bunch of hn frontend websites. Can any of them be configured to filter out stories linking to medium or to other paywall sites?
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by nemoniac 9y ago
In that case you were doing it wrong. With a touch of hyperbole you could say that emacs is there to do 100% of the boilerplate stuff for you so that you can spend 100% of your time thinking.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
Already a handful of "how does this compare...?" postings but the standard for a systems-programming scheme is scsh, a find abstraction layer over POSIX dating from the nineties. https://scsh.net/
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by nemoniac 9y ago
Two contrasting headlines side by side on HN today. The WSJ says Blockchain is the Internet of Money The Economist says Bitcoin is fiat. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15315813
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by nemoniac 9y ago
If you're enjoying that, you'll find even more connections with Forth, also a very cool programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)
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by nemoniac 9y ago
Another one for that list is Hackett, a promising language in development that I'm following closely. It too piggybacks on Racket and aims to bring together the best features of Haskell and of Lispiness. https://lexi-lambda.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
So, functional programming then?
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by nemoniac 9y ago
A huge part of the appeal of the standard HN page for me is the simple, straightforward, sensible headline without the discration of images. The title guidelines and the insistence on adhering to them are a big plus in this regard.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
And even then you could be in emacs: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Edit_with_Emacs or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
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by nemoniac 9y ago
Amusingly, not once does the article mention that it's about English-language Scrabble and not Thai-language Scrabble.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
These are clearly English place names and bear no relation to the rest of Britain.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
What time zone is "GMT+0100 (IST)" supposed to be? India Standard Time is something like GMT+5.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
Clearly Facebook "can". The judge ruled that they "may".
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by nemoniac 9y ago
Neat idea. It draws directly from the approach to learning functions of multiple complex arguments in www.htdp.org Looking forward to 3D syntax for functions of 3 arguments.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
Out of curiosity I tried github.com and one of my servers. To my surprise it judges my server to be far more secure than github.
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by nemoniac 9y ago
In Lisp, programs are data.

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