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by norswap 12y ago
For those who don't get the reference in the name: http://vimeo.com/91715361
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by norswap 12y ago
Frameworks are most often a bad idea. Use libraries instead. Sometimes they are useful though. For instance, they make sense when routing. But in those cases, they should more like libraries as well: more lightweight. Something like Express
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by norswap 12y ago
The article makes an interesting point I hadn't considered when I first heard about Google disclosing MS's vulnerabilities. And then I thought how rare this was (and not because I'm a person of great insight) and it made me s
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by norswap 12y ago
All this talk about "reasonable doubt" reminded me of "12 Angry Men" (1), a 1957 movie that follows a jury in its deliberation of whether a man committed murder or not. The whole movie takes place in a single room, with
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by norswap 12y ago
What I'm worried about this is that it builds on shell precisely. So to debug it / understand how it behaves, you need to understand shell (I suppose bash for most people) + shellfire. bash is already full of pitfalls, I'm no
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by norswap 12y ago
I nearly choked when Steve Jobs described iTunes for Windows as "a glass of water for someone in hell". More like "a bucket of lava for someone somewhere reasonable".
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by norswap 12y ago
It is.
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by norswap 12y ago
This confuses programming culture with "the tech world", which might or might not mean silicon valley, but at least something similar. One of my very favourite comment on hacker news was about Notch (Minecraft's creator) just
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by norswap 12y ago
For things that the standard library can do, it is usually the best choice. It's code that's already sitting on the user's machine, why use something else? And also, those are generally relatively straightforward things whose
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by norswap 12y ago
Does this affect online poker websites in any way? It should be possible to build a bot that never loses. If the bot uses recognition over screen capture and mouse events, it cannot be distinguished from a human player.
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by norswap 12y ago
I wish people would stop using the word "awesome" as punctuation. Otherwise it's a nice list, kudos for the effort.
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by norswap 12y ago
To contrast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat... So from this I get that there is ~60% (0.83*0.72) of non-hispanic whites in the population. Is that about right?
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by norswap 12y ago
I don't know, but I would like to. There's a large body of text I would like to read comments on. Heck, even videos and music (not only lyrics). Annotated Matrix or Neon Genesis Evangelion? These comments and analyzes sometimes ex
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by norswap 12y ago
>In Java I need "factory objects", "visitors", and other such pieces of "design patterns". In lisp, I have never needed to write a "factory". The whole "visitor" pattern becomes a 1-line
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by norswap 12y ago
It's been replaced with the text of the above blog post. Old version: https://web.archive.org/web/20140816220513/http://c.learncod...
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by norswap 12y ago
The big difference: programming is a creative endeavour (1) whereas accounting for the most part, is not (2). (1) Even when working on a precise assignment, the latitude of choice, style and tools one can employ is much wider than in most o
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by norswap 12y ago
Isn't the 256 char limit somewhat (or actually, greatly) restrictive?
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by norswap 12y ago
I think what underlies Page's thoughts is that he thinks Musk is more effective than most charity. He sees charity as a sink that will provide no long term improvement of the human condition. Honestly, it's hard to disagree. Excep
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by norswap 12y ago
One does not simply code C in Mordor.
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by norswap 12y ago
Surprise! It even has the NodeJS rap: Javascript is the shit so nodeJS kinda kills it Armed with my laptop, running NodeJS Got my callback functions, you know I'm dangerous Hit that localhost, cruisin on express if you&#x
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by norswap 12y ago
Missing an explanation :/ Is there something that really justifies the "forever", or is it just "forever for how long the service stays online", which would turn the headline into "Read Quotes and save those yo
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by norswap 12y ago
I know, that was my point about making the random delay large enough that recovering the signal would be less efficient than a brute-force attack. And I also suggest a scheme that is about rounding to a fixed delay.
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by norswap 12y ago
Came here to say this. If that's deemed too heavyweight, you can just add "delay" as a random amount of computation overhead (say a loop that does nothing but does not get optimized away). The trick is to make the delay large
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by norswap 12y ago
For me, in find that the distinguishing factor is how familiar I am with the music. Familiar music will help improve my (perceived) productivity (or at least, it does not hurt it significantly), while unfamiliar music is very distracting.
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by norswap 12y ago
What I never see discussed is how this borrowing system works in the presence of global state. Can't you have two global variables that reference the same value? How do you then go about building indexes and things like that, is there
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by norswap 12y ago
But is an expert "politician" what we really need in office? It's true that you need some political acumen and clout though. Anyway, we certainly don't want Carly Fiorina there either.
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by norswap 12y ago
Ah I was about to inquire were the system calls for async I/O were. That explains it.
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by norswap 12y ago
What can I use this "coprocessor" for?
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by norswap 12y ago
By Betteridge's law of headlines: no. Also, common sense.
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by norswap 12y ago
Is this only about cursive handwriting? Because I'm baffled how people would find handwriting a useless skill. I find taking note by hand much more easy than using a keyboard (maybe if there was a quality note-taking software around, b

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