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SoundCloud will lay off 40 percent of its staff to stay afloat(engadget.com)
1 points by norswap 9y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 9y ago
In the same vein by the same author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14695356
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Reconsider(signalvnoise.com)
2 points by norswap 9y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 9y ago
To you, the Dalai Lama must be the biggest asshole ever. But I beg to differ, he just tells people that he believes the prevalent zeitgeist is wrong. I don't see that as particularly brave, cowardly, humble, or arrogant. He just says w
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Random Generation Testing(norswap.com)
1 points by norswap 9y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 9y ago
Related: "In Praise of Idleness" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14676435
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In Praise of Idleness(zpub.com)
3 points by norswap 9y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 9y ago
Excellent question, I'd really like to know as well, to see what's beneath the hype. What I do know: anonymous money transactions. Of course, you'll still have the anonymity loss when converting to/from dollars. While th
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by norswap 9y ago
I get it. I only started programming precisely when the first iphone came out, and I started tinkering a few years before. Even so I long for this sense of wonder that existed when everything was hard, or at least required some thought and
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by norswap 9y ago
The Gang of Four book is terrible. The explanation are very unclear (often because of excessive abstraction, even in the description and discussion). It's been a long time so my memory is hazy on its particular sins, but I've vowe
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by norswap 9y ago
TDD never worked for me, I believe because of the nature of my work: research code, very explorative in nature. I do not now in advance how the interface will turn up, so it's hard to anticipate the interface in my tests (or it leads t
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by norswap 9y ago
Agreed that immutability seems overrated right now. The pendulum will swing back in full force, eventually. But of course, the art is in putting mutability and immutability in the right places. There are no fast rules, but in general mutabi
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by norswap 9y ago
The crispness and terseness is definitely a big part of Kotlin's appeal. What I find suprising is that these ideas don't exactly seem breakthrough. Why aren't more language implementing them or taking them further?
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by norswap 9y ago
> The economy is not developed, making it extremely difficult to convince anybody to buy anything you try to sell them. People are pessimistic and desperate, most of the rich make money through corruption and criminal activities. There i
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by norswap 9y ago
I'm pretty sure they blew through most of their estimates. The projects was always hailed as one of the big crowdfunding break and nothing indicates they considered borrowing to finance the project given the massive amount of money the
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by norswap 9y ago
Precisely, and this has been painfully obvious for a long time. Not even to me (I don't really follow the game) but to a few people whose opinion I respect, including multiple video game journalists.
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by norswap 9y ago
Excepted it wasn't planned like that.
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by norswap 9y ago
Clickbait. Rumors of the guitar's death have been greatly exaggerated.
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by norswap 9y ago
Maybe because there's always the potential that a new version may contain an even bigger bombshell?
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by norswap 9y ago
What the heck does "nation-state activity" means?
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What are the largest US cities by population?(kottke.org)
2 points by norswap 9y ago|0 comments
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The Tragedy of the Commons(norswap.com)
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by norswap 9y ago
I probably won't receive any medals for this, but it is my most humble opinion that most of these AI gimmicks (Siri, Alexa, etc...) are useless. I will concede I get moderate gag value out of Google automatically creating animated gifs
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Multipath TCP on iOS 11(evernote.com)
2 points by norswap 9y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 9y ago
This is the "hacker news"* definition of "hacker". What you're referring too is what HN will call a "cracker" (or "phracker" for cracking communication systems). A "hacker" on here is j
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by norswap 9y ago
True, but the stream API isn't very friendly. You have to get a stream (.stream()), filter, then collect in a collection (.collect(..)) for which you need to find a suitable collector (the stdlib supplies some for lists and maps, but y
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by norswap 9y ago
It's been changed. Lol at that.
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by norswap 9y ago
Now where have I heard that before?
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The French Fracture(newstatesman.com)
2 points by norswap 9y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 9y ago
Since everyone's posting theirs, here is mine: http://qte.tumblr.com/

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