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by not_knuth 6y ago
Glad to see I'm not the only one having a hard time figuring out just how they intend to make money. My best guess was that they will offer a tailored Deno to companies that want to embed it (my comment about it is swimming somewhere h
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by not_knuth 6y ago
If I understood correctly this is how they intend to make money: > Not every use-case of server-side JavaScript needs to access the file system; our infrastructure makes it possible to compile out unnecessary bindings. This allows us to
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by not_knuth 6y ago
And rightfully so.
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by not_knuth 6y ago
On another note, rebinding ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-s etc. in the terminal (including Vim) can be confusing, since most ctrl commands will be caught by stty (in most terminal emulators) and never passed on to the running application. If you rea
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by not_knuth 6y ago
I think you'll unfortunately be left unsatisfied since there is no "simple" answer due to the way clipboards work in x11 and the historical baggage a lot of terminal apps drag with them (everyone did text-copying differently
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by not_knuth 6y ago
The more people use it this way, the broader the acceptance of that usage becomes, the more often you will encounter people who will apply the argument you provided to your usage of the word. - yours sincerely, the descriptivists of this wo
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SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping(github.com)
1 points by not_knuth 6y ago|0 comments
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Your comment made me think about using Google Search in a more alternative way to figure out who is hiring at a glance: https://www.google.com/search?q=hiring+well+known+security+f... Edit: If one is not up for the 2min it
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by not_knuth 6y ago
I don't think "handmade" should be taken to literally, but rather be attached the meaning as described below. In my experience there tends to be a strong correlation between a website being hand-written and the quality of the
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Relevant piece of history on timesharing in relation to cloud computing by the legend that is Brian Kernighan: https://youtu.be/O9upVbGSBFo?t=340 (05:40 - 10:50)
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by not_knuth 6y ago
What a well-written and interesting piece that gets to the point! Compared to all the religious texts I've read about Rust, this is a huge breath of fresh air. Thanks for sharing! Bookmarking this.
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Developer Types – Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020(insights.stackoverflow.com)
2 points by not_knuth 6y ago|1 comments
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by not_knuth 6y ago
I'm surprised the SO Developer Survey 2020 hasn't been thoroughly discussed on HN, despite the many submissions. Anyway, I thought I'd specifically share the section on developer types. I still can't get over the fact th
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by not_knuth 6y ago
sshfs?
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The Pace of Modern Life(xkcd.com)
1 points by not_knuth 6y ago|0 comments
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Tell me more about these developers that don't know SQL. How is that possible? What line of work is this in?
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by not_knuth 6y ago
I vaguely remember ISO wanting to make their standards freely available a couple of years back, but the BSI (British Standards Institute) blocking the move, because it conflicted with their business model. I can't find a reference to
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Thank you for taking the time to explain it so succinctly. This has to be one of the best comments I've read in a while. Now I can't wait to take Toit for a drive...
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by not_knuth 6y ago
What was the motivation for including OO capabilities for a language targeted at embedded systems? The docs seem to make quite a fuss about the fact that it can do OO. As someone who doesn't work professionally in this space I was curi
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by not_knuth 6y ago
The area around the black sea is super interesting for archaeology of early history (10000BCE - 2000BCE) imo, since it is quite understudied in comparison to the usual suspects in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Western Europeans also tend to forget
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Where GDPR went wrong [video](youtube.com)
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Can someone please eli5 how this relates to Solid [0]? Is it an alternative? Completely unrelated? Would they work together -- and if, how? [0] https://solidproject.org/
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by not_knuth 6y ago
There was quite a discussion on HN about the podcast joined by Brendan Eich himself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26131043
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Wikiverse: A galactic reimagining of Wikipedia (2016)(wikiverse.io)
2 points by not_knuth 6y ago|0 comments
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Code Graphs of Top Open Source Data Projects (2014)(allthingsgraphed.com)
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by not_knuth 6y ago
That sounds rather plausible and interesting. Does this Wikipedia article [0] cover the topic well or are there some hidden treasures buried by SEO? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Latin
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Does anyone know some good tutorials/explanations for understanding the PDF format at the byte level?
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Wow! I did not expect it to be that early. I was thinking more early 2000s after the onslaught of web-self-taught teenage "hackers".
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by not_knuth 6y ago
> The recent changes in the latest Google re-branding, for example, were anything but well-received. 3 techies made disgruntled noises in their apartments behind drawn blinds and the rest of the world moved on. > The overwhelming majo
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by not_knuth 6y ago
Great thread. Looks like HN has decently chewed on this topic before. Thanks for sharing!

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