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931.
by norswap 11y ago
It is indeed a bit underwhelming, especially if you consider for how long it has been in the pipeline.
932.
by norswap 11y ago
> almost every technology featured on HN could be described as "an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data." Really? I feel like it's more: "usable, powerful and reliable: choose one
933.
by norswap 11y ago
Why use command processing (e.g. `libcox_exec(pHandle,&pResult,"uname",-1)`) rather than plain function (could be `libcox_uname(pHandle, &pResult)` for instance) ?
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The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think(theatlantic.com)
1 points by norswap 11y ago|0 comments
935.
by norswap 11y ago
As it explains quite clearly, this is "portable system calls". Lightweight indeed, it's the whole point! So if you ask this question, you might as well ask why system calls are not more expansive in their capabilities. I thin
936.
by norswap 11y ago
Unrelated to the topic of the article. But I find such devices (kid surveillance, it's what it is) heinous.
937.
Kernighan's Lever (2012)(linusakesson.net)
6 points by norswap 11y ago|3 comments
938.
How to Get Tenure(matt.might.net)
308 points by norswap 11y ago|50 comments
939.
by norswap 11y ago
Java (the most popular programming language in the world by many metrics, if you didn't know) works exactly like this. I understand that C and Java have (sometimes) different use cases, still I feel reasonably confident that 32-bit ari
940.
by norswap 11y ago
This reads exactly like Atlas Shrugged, complete with politicians bankrupting the system, unwarranted charity, non-objective scholars and a collapsing railroad system. I don't know of the situation in Sweden, but I kept wondering if th
941.
by norswap 11y ago
of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures fame. A person of disreputable morality indeed.
942.
Git Nested Repositories(norswap.com)
2 points by norswap 11y ago|0 comments
943.
by norswap 12y ago
Gandhi didn't wear a suit, but he did wear a uniform of sorts (his white tunic).
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Procedural ANSI Face Genereration(ultimaratioregum.co.uk)
2 points by norswap 12y ago|0 comments
945.
by norswap 12y ago
Goes a long way to show the "power of juice". WoW is game that just feels good on the keyboard, and is intuitive. The controls and the UI are pretty great. It did not have, even at the time of the release, any new features, quite
946.
by norswap 12y ago
I disagree somewhat. At the very beginning of the game (before any expansions came out), leveling was very slow. It might have been an order of magnitude slower ( ). The consequence is that people took the time spent leveling seriously at t
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Procedural Altar Generation(ultimaratioregum.co.uk)
69 points by norswap 12y ago|8 comments
948.
by norswap 12y ago
What about dual licensing? People who don't pay get GPL, while those who pay get BSD/MIT?
949.
The Most Useful Java Function(norswap.com)
2 points by norswap 12y ago|0 comments
950.
by norswap 12y ago
Yeah right, but that makes a bar stool into a purely functional language as well; so the point is kinda pedantic. Not being able to recurse makes the language awful to use for almost everything excepted simple substitution, which is effecti
951.
by norswap 12y ago
The C Preprocessor might be functional in the same sense as the lambda calculus but that's about it. And actually it isn't really: it needs to be supplied "evaluations" to work. Evaluation is naturally recursive but cpp
952.
by norswap 12y ago
> Instead, my job will be outsourced to a datacenter. Everything I do professionally, from reading and giving feedback on specs to estimating development schedules to architecting and typing in the code and writing unit tests to reviewin
953.
by norswap 12y ago
Correlation, causation, same old, same old.
954.
by norswap 12y ago
2015 most original project name award.
955.
by norswap 12y ago
Being a day behind does not explain why he missed it though. He should just have becoming aware of it one day later. I'm puzzled.
956.
by norswap 12y ago
Amazing, this was sorely needed!
957.
by norswap 12y ago
The idea that there is a magical technological improvement that will solve all (or "most", or even just "more than two") is about as plausible as the heralded arrival of the singularity. The solution is to harden a bunch
958.
by norswap 12y ago
Assuming this is not rhetorical; yes there is: http://www.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/
959.
by norswap 12y ago
I must have missed the part where he asked for new loans.
960.
by norswap 12y ago
Trying to sway the jury with emotional impact rather than appeals to reason is not how it should be done.

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