noblethrasher

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by noblethrasher 9y ago
> I can't really imagine how everybody on a train in Delhi is going to talk to their digital assistants without a noise proof helmet on their head. (or going crazy) Eventually, “our” devices will be able to read lips[1] and recogniz
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by noblethrasher 9y ago
Yep, that's what I mean. I originally started to write something that explicitly called out some of the other examples as cases of talented amateurs (in the best possible sense of the term, and only vis-à-vis actual coding as opposed t
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by noblethrasher 9y ago
Dave Cutler (b 1942) has been continuously paid to write code for 53 years.
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by noblethrasher 9y ago
Don Norman (The Design of Everyday Things) discussed this at the Business of Software Confence almost a decade ago: https://vimeo.com/96714148 He specifically talks about the case of benevolently deceptive progress bars vis
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by noblethrasher 9y ago
I don't agree with 'ageofwant’s prediction (though I really wish that I could), but command discovery is a solved problem: Pharo Smalltalk has a nifty feature whereby you can find methods by example[1]. E.g. typing 'hel
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An MTA-STS web server is also used for policy discovery, and the HTTPS requirement ensures that the policy is authentic.
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by noblethrasher 9y ago
The system needs to be able to authenticate a DNS-resolved endpoint. HTTPS provides this. Of course, they could have gone with DNSSEC, but HTTPS has the virtue of solving the same problem (modulo proper configuration), while also being more
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by noblethrasher 9y ago
On the other hand, Ted has commanded the admiration of some people that you probably consider to be great minds, such as Drs. Engelbart and Kay.
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LangSec says that we should use the weakest model of computation that can get the job done. Patterson specifically recommends hewing to regular expressions as much as possible, but otherwise going no higher than deterministic context-free f
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by noblethrasher 9y ago
Since I've started paying attention, I've noticed that most of the code I write doesn't need anything more powerful than formal regular expressions, and vanishingly rarely needs to go beyond deterministic context-free.
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You cannot prevent one or more of your friends from being a proxy for someone that is not one of your friends. On the other hand, you can log everything, which renders propositions like "I can trust friend X not to share resource Y&quo
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by noblethrasher 9y ago
Indeed, one of the maxims of capability-based security is "don't try to prohibit what you can't prevent".
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Well, in a few of his presentations, he talks about the difference between invention , which is what PARC did, and innovation , which is what companies like Apple do.
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A server is just a name; you can't infer the number of machines (physical or virtual) that are behind a name.
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by noblethrasher 9y ago
On the other hand, Google had a huge head start in developing robust voice recognition with GOOG-411. Whereas Alexa and Siri are more or less at parity, from what I've heard. But, I own neither an Echo, nor an Android, and I'm sti
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I took a precision driving training class a couple of years ago. The instructor, a retired state trooper, said that many first responder departments have begun referring to them as "crashes" for the very reason that you mentioned.
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by noblethrasher 9y ago
> I'm not saying he's entirely wrong, but a lot of what he's saying sounds very much like how TV was once described. Calling attention to Neil Postman’s __Amusing Ourselves to Death__ is the usual rejoinder to a statement
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Vector Functional Programming: A Tour of the Q Language(youtube.com)
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Q was the subject of an awesome presentation by Tim Thornton at YOW! Lambda Jam 2016. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGIPmC6wi7E
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My Latin teacher often reminded us that ”Spanish is just lazy Latin“.
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Brevity is the feature, not anonymity. What C# actually lacks is syntax sugar. But, a few years ago, I spent an hour or so implementing `Ad-hoc` classes for most of the interfaces and abstract classes that I thought I would ever need, and i
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by noblethrasher 9y ago
Yes, but we can recover all of the power of anonymous inner classes by building up a (usually small) set of "ad-hoc" classes that just wrap delegates, as I explain here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/207
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by noblethrasher 9y ago
> And the biggest thing. I can pass it in to a method that already takes a class and not a delegate. One solution is the build a small inventory of "ad-hoc" classes that just wrap a delegate (usually a closure), as described he
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But, they're equivalently powerful with respect to an API. In Java, a method might expect one instance of a class, to which you can pass an instance of anonymous class, whereas in C# a method might expect a set of delegates, to which y
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Delegates and anonymous inner classes are equivalent, modulo API: //Java Bax.addHandler(new Foo() { @Override public void Bar()
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Anonymous delegates (which have been available since 2.0) are the equivalent feature in C#, at least as far as use cases go.
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> In the end, Apple decided to reveal the iPhone several months ahead of its official June launch because it could not keep the secret any more. Apple has to file with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the permits needed to
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by noblethrasher 9y ago
I've never heard him claim that MS actually lost the source code to Word, only that they couldn't find the cause of a decades-old bug (related to selection and text-justification as I recall), even though it had thousands of bug r
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I came here to suggest Fielding’s dissertation as well. It's eminently readable and doesn't demand any background in mathematics.
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> but there are way more languages targeting the JVM than the CLR these days This is often repeated, but it turns out that the JVM and CLR have roughly the same number of high profile languages: Specifically, the CLR enjoys the following

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