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by nudq 7y ago
> help make the front page more of what you want by upvoting what you like An increasingly frequent experience on HN is to get into a front page submission, leave a minute later, and see the thing has entirely disappeared from sight, for
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by nudq 7y ago
It means you're a Jew. It's the chosen people , not the chosen random punk who "identifies" as a Jew.
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by nudq 7y ago
> The racially and economically diverse cohort We already know that the races differ in speed of maturation and various measures of adversity. Was race controlled for? (Paper is paywalled for me.)
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by nudq 7y ago
Those stupid jokes are why we'll have to rename the planet in the future (according to Futurama). It'll be called Urectum. Also a great name for Memo and Task apps.
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by nudq 7y ago
> first class environments Which are notorious for being unoptimizably slow > It reminds me of pcostanza's work on Context Oriented Programming and ContextL I'm not reminded at all. Can you expound?
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by nudq 7y ago
> hundreds of billions of times a day How lucky for them the EU won't treat them the way RIAA persecuted file sharers. Hundreds of billions of violations every day, each single one a separate "count"!
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by nudq 7y ago
Life is an eternal struggle between Good and Google
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by nudq 7y ago
> There's no controversy here Maybe you missed it. A lot of controversy over what Kay said, when he said it, how much "jurisdiction" he has over the use of the word "Object" by others, how often he gets to amend
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by nudq 7y ago
> While 63,841 men and women were called in for the examination of persons liable for military service in 2012 (mandatory for men), 9265 were conscripted Sounds like all men are tested, not all serve.
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by nudq 7y ago
On the other hand, in a few years you won't need even basic literacy to thrive in developed countries. It'll be enough to grunt in the general direction of the nearest piece of smart furniture. Amazon will know everything abou
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by nudq 7y ago
What a strange conclusion. Not likely, but much more likely than that, is that they'll force foreign companies to use Go and other products controlled by US corporations.
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by nudq 7y ago
I think Haskell was largely derived from Miranda, a commercial product.
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by nudq 7y ago
What's GHC's bus factor? (Actual question.)
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by nudq 7y ago
Occam's Razor: Did he really make up a strange claim that reflects negatively on his employer, or was something very much like what he said actually part of his brief? I believe it was the latter, the twist being that it was forward
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by nudq 7y ago
> Alan Kay says he did How sad if true! I'm reserving the right to think you misunderstood what he was trying to say there.
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by nudq 7y ago
> stop pretending you're a monk In a question entirely unrelated to Rust, how long does a cult have to exist until it has permission to have monks?
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by nudq 7y ago
https://lobste.rs/s/8yohqt/alan_kay_oo_programming#c_5xo7on >> He doesn’t have random opinions about “objects”, he invented the word > Kay did not invent the term “object”.
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by nudq 7y ago
The worst kind of stability is short-lived stability.
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by nudq 7y ago
I think I've seen cute infographics on what a tiny, tiny fraction of earth history is "human history".
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by nudq 7y ago
> Mining is very inefficient Compared to what?
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by nudq 7y ago
Nontechnical speculation: Just a power struggle with Valve. Mostly technical speculation: The horrible binary compatibility story of Linux userland. Socio-technical speculation because everything is now multiplayer: Less effective DRM on Li
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by nudq 7y ago
We'd start by making sure these lifetimes need distinguishing, i.e. that they aren't actually equivalent.
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by nudq 7y ago
Life is an eternal struggle between Good and Google.
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by nudq 7y ago
It reflects on the suitability of Rust as a systems programming language.