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901.
by nnq 13y ago
> it will merely search through a search space you will have to determine yourself What makes you think "human imagination" is any different, qualitatively at least? Yes, our minds have a humongous search space at their disposa
902.
by nnq 13y ago
..fist time I've heard of EMET. Is it of any use to a regular (power)user?
903.
by nnq 13y ago
> or something as effective as TDD this is the important part of the sentence: he's actively admitting that TDD may not be the best thing, but it's the best thing he knows, but if you have something else that is at least "
904.
by nnq 13y ago
> reminiscent of graph dbs Why are you talking as if graph dbs are a thing of the past like the "object-oriented dbs"? I'm about to start a project for which a graph db seems the only sane option right now and I'm con
905.
by nnq 13y ago
In a way anything that lowers the minimum cost of living can be bad, because employers will exploit this to justify paying less and society will label the ones that don't want to lower their baseline as "overspenders" (even i
906.
by nnq 13y ago
> it seems like the best leader would be the one who best facilitates the performance of the individual contributors This is just as wrong as a the "perceived leader fallacy" the post is trying to debunk. The person you refer t
907.
by nnq 13y ago
Let me guess, the 'parser for a reasonably complicated language' was actually a Javascript parser written in CL, more exactly what is today http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/parse-js/ ?
908.
by nnq 13y ago
Dis everybody really enjoy Plague Inc. that much? Don't tell me you also paid for on iphone or spent some on they in-app-purchases on android :))
909.
by nnq 13y ago
let me guess, you got this from playing Plague Inc. ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miniclip.p... ) on your phone, right? ...the game is so unrealistic that it almost annoyed me to the point of m
910.
by nnq 13y ago
Viruses and bacteria don't need to evolve "linearly", as you imagine. If two related viruses infect the same host, they can swap genes and the "airborne capability" gene can jump from E. Reston to E. Zair. The Resto
911.
by nnq 13y ago
This an interesting philosophical and liberal political essay he wrote: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bb/babalon210.htm . If you skip some bits of mystical mumbo-jumbo, there is a serious and very original take on
912.
by nnq 13y ago
That's kind of the point of tweets, "leaving a bigger trail" in the minds of people who read them than IRC messages (that can be said and then vanish away in the sea of chatter or get swallowed by the low signal/noise ra
913.
by nnq 13y ago
EDIT: My bad, I retract all reference to Python, its dynamic strong typing really prevents these kings of problems. The behaviors I was thinking on happen in Javascript (and sometimes in Ruby as I recollect).
914.
by nnq 13y ago
You're right, I forgot about this abomination. I retract any praise for PHP :) But I still think having one operator "+" for scalars, one like "&" for strings and another one like "++" for lists makes
915.
by nnq 13y ago
99% of such bugs can be avoided in a weakly typed language by simply having the string concatenation operator different from the "+" operator (PHP has the "." operator for this, VisualBasic has "&" ...Haske
916.
by nnq 13y ago
This source (11 March VK post, 12 March rusbase article) is older than the article (Apr 22).
917.
by nnq 13y ago
Alan Kay said about Lisp: "Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material." ...in a positive sense, because he was also quoted describing Lisp as "the greatest single programming language ever designed"
918.
by nnq 13y ago
Ugh. Great message, horrible presentation . The information density is so low that it makes reading pure pain. It feel like trying to eat bamboo to satisfy your hunger for steak :)
919.
by nnq 13y ago
'digital cameras' == 'real-time intelligence' 'film cameras' == 'non-real-time intelligence' ...not a big deal untill you imagine something like ARGUS ( http://www.extremetech.com&
920.
by nnq 13y ago
Even having a sentence dependent on "how much he cost his victims" is very wrong imho. The sentence should only depend on how violent the crime was, how much effort was made to avoid being caught and how "malevolent" o
921.
by nnq 13y ago
Running a real business requires actual hard work and determination... not just brains. Sometimes the technical brains don't even matter that much because you can hire them. Also, in most parts of the world entrepreneurship is a much h
922.
by nnq 13y ago
It's quite different from "real world stealing". For a hacker, he only steals information and sells it. The actual money is siphoned out further down the chain by the people that buy stolen cc numbers and actually milk them..
923.
by nnq 13y ago
How do people manage to extract value from stolen credit cards without getting caught? To me this is the most interesting part of the whole "hacking chain" and almost nobody can/wants to explain it... And it's also obvio
924.
by nnq 13y ago
And you can even sweeten it with hygienic macros ;) ( http://sweetjs.org/ ) ...but to be honest, in everyday work Javascript feels a lot like a bondage and discipline language, because it lacks so many features and in practic
925.
by nnq 13y ago
Why do they use `::before` instead of `:before`? Is that a typo?
926.
by nnq 13y ago
This sums up quite a lot about Lisps in general. I'm amazed OP got so fast to this "insight" :) (And this is probably Lisp's greatest weakness as well – with this level of possible diversity, everyone has to us
927.
by nnq 13y ago
Are any other companies besides (well funded) startups actually hiring people as "full stack developers"? I mean, yeah, it's normal to look for candidates with full stack experience , but not to hire them in an actual job p
928.
by nnq 13y ago
...still waiting for an article about a team of super-heroes starting to rewrite OpenSSL in Haskell
929.
by nnq 13y ago
Just curious: how is FreeBSD's development process founded, in comparison? ...I know software quality is in no way proportional to investment, but the fact that there is so little money invested in OpenBSD's development might alon
930.
by nnq 13y ago
This is so brilliant that they should be sued for doing it :)

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