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by norswap 8y ago
I don't see how that's implicit in the article at all. Also, I don't see why we need to keep pitting languages against one another like this. Sure, there is a market, but can't we be happy that there is a diverse offerin
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by norswap 8y ago
Would it really be unconstitutional? The right of petition cannot abrogated, but surely one can outlaw the exchange of political favors for money or other forms of compensations. Yes, actually showing that political favors were exchanged fo
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by norswap 8y ago
Unfortunately, no. It's pretty much my only exposure to the idea.
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by norswap 8y ago
For those who wonder what the heck Pijul is about, I'd like to emphasize these two articles linked at the bottom of the page: https://jneem.github.io/merging/ https://jneem.github.io/pijul/
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by norswap 8y ago
You make a convincing case that it's tricky to implement. There's also an (somewhat obvious) case to be made that it isn't for every use case. Doesn't mean it can't be useful sometimes, or maybe, god forbid, often.
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by norswap 8y ago
As far as I can tell, the author deplores that SemVer doesn't tell you the magnitude of changes as used to be the case. Or it could be that it isn't perfect, but clearly neither is the system it replaces. My problem is that it arg
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by norswap 8y ago
Simply put, different markets. Students are now using Google Docs, and Sheets works well enough to plan out your holidays. For someone that spits reports or jangle number all days, G-suite is a poorly thought-out joke. A simple exemple: it&
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by norswap 8y ago
It is a big misconception that the placebo effect must be ineffective — there wouldn't be an effect at all if that was the case. I hear it's sometimes even effective when you're told you're taking a placebo.
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by norswap 8y ago
Mmkay. It's an applause light. What are we even suppose to think/say? https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/dLbkrPu5STNCBLRjr/applaus...
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by norswap 8y ago
If only life had been as simple as dropping an .apk on their phone... I don't expect Facebook to get a whole lot of sympathy, but really, Apple's power on device owned by customers is ridiculous.
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by norswap 8y ago
> Ahead-of-time BMI compilation is a non-starter. I didn't get why - one could imagine parallelizing BMI generation, then parallelizing "normal" compilation. The only issue I see is that you wouldn't know which BMI yo
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by norswap 8y ago
Curious to hear what the consequences of the CS push were.
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by norswap 8y ago
I like these pieces for tempering the hype around driverless cars. But it's also true it is still early and the technology will improve. I personally don't believe it will become as reliable as people think. The last percent are a
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by norswap 8y ago
We're building tanks but we promiiiiise we'll only ever use them for defense!
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by norswap 8y ago
I'm left dreaming of a future when we have to pirate programming languages.
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by norswap 8y ago
Should really be called "Devops: Mostly a hate story". That aside, man! this is relatable!
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by norswap 8y ago
It's a cool experiment, but why post this — there aren't any conclusions yet!
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by norswap 8y ago
I get why this kind of things would be necessary (e.g. calling TypeScript from JS), but man, if it isn't ugly and confusing. Also, the language should proably offer to generate these guards (and the requisite reified type information)
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by norswap 8y ago
Juse because "we can't be absolutely sure" doesn't mean the evidence doesn't point in a direction. There doesn't seem to be ground to overwhelmingly doubt to evidence to the point where the conclusions are radi
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by norswap 8y ago
Yet another Mozilla blunder. When is it going to stop? It's sad, because the world is better for having Firefox as the only competition to Chrome (and more generally Webkit/Chromium browsers).
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by norswap 8y ago
> Taxing capital gains means that everything you ever own will also be taken from you in the form of taxes on inflated dollars. How? You're taxing gains so by definition, what you already own cannot be taken. > The reason this we
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by norswap 8y ago
Based on this and my own investigation of the tech, I predict Spatial OS is going to tank. Hard.
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by norswap 8y ago
Maybe. What isn't seen isn't taken into account: what would have happened if the internet hadn't been. Maybe things could have happened that didn't. It's hard to tell, but it's quite possible.
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by norswap 8y ago
It's anyone's guess why this is even legal in the US...
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by norswap 8y ago
Thanks! I'll check it out.
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by norswap 8y ago
It's very interesting, but it really lacks a good explanation of this theory of patches, even in the documentation. I'm guessing a careful read-through will reveal many insights, however. It's a bit annoying when it's be
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by norswap 8y ago
I was nodding along, until you said that "on OSX things mostly just work". Oh boy. I have fought homebrew, I have fought Apple destroying permissions on each update, and the OS having embarassing mistakes. Linux: not much better.
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by norswap 8y ago
The point being that even so it's already better while simultaneously being easier to remember (because indeed, what did I capitalize again?).
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by norswap 8y ago
I believe it comes from a good place, but this post is bad. Why? Because it doesn't apply the same comparison standard to character-based passwords than to word-based passwords. Sure, we only use a few common dictionary words. But by t
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by norswap 8y ago
Finally gave this a proper read. It's a bit disappointing indeed. Besides removing the index (which, as other commenters have pointed out, is questionable), there is one BIG change from Git to be noted: You can always switch branches,

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