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by obtu 15y ago
Github is convenient and all, but for a popularity contest like that couldn't you accept just any email/account url? Or Ohloh committers, which are looked up in a number of forges?
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by obtu 15y ago
Unfortunately I've no idea how the various GCs deal with the trade-offs; my point is that (memory bandwidth / memory size) in these embedded things is high enough that garbage-collection is fast, contrary to popular wisdom. I was looking at
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by obtu 15y ago
Found the effect: the three links (location, etc) trigger scrolling. Not really comparable to the scrolling transitions in the OP, but it doesn't have the problem of mystery meat.
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by obtu 15y ago
Garbage-collected languages can still be fast on microcontrollers. When there isn't a lot of memory it only takes a few milliseconds to run a collection cycle. The problem would be when you need real-time and can't deal with the jitter.
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by obtu 15y ago
Macros can be band-aid to overly verbose languages, but plenty of languages are concise without (whereas C is particularly bad). Higher order functions and an expressive type system (features it shares with OCaml, Oz, etc) are where the mag
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by obtu 15y ago
return/continue/break really jump out with keyword highlighting.
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by obtu 15y ago
You probably wouldn't be creating anything on your commute. And podcasts aren't easily skimmed, they should give you enough headspace for reflection.
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by obtu 15y ago
For extroverts maybe? I could totally identify with that part of the post and the _why quote. Impostor syndrome is another example of better-tuned filters getting in the way.
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by obtu 15y ago
The other side of that conversation can also be a rubber duck ;) http://lists.ethernal.org/oldarchives/cantlug-0211/msg00174.... https://pay.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/83i5n/the_rubb... http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking
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by obtu 15y ago
It's both. Google gets (ab)used by the US government at least; here is a high-profile case, where they fought the secrecy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3096888 . Governments are asking for warrantless wiretapping, and the centralis
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by obtu 15y ago
There's a hitchhiker's guide to packaging that covers all aspects of the package lifecycle very well: http://guide.python-distribute.org/ In fact I'm a bit annoyed at seeing this new effort reuse the name, because the hitchhiker's guide t
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by obtu 15y ago
IRC time is pretty convenient: Greet with good morning when joining, good night when leaving.
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by obtu 15y ago
A single pseudorandom byte chosen at container initialisation would work here, because url hashes are ephemeral. Persistent structures on the other hand are already DOS-prone, but need attacks more tailored to the application.
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by obtu 15y ago
10^4 attempts (worst case) to bruteforce the first four digits using the early NACK, 10^3 attempts (worst case) to bruteforce the entire pin once you know the first four (this part only has to iterate on three digits of the second half, and
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by obtu 15y ago
Not really, there were martian addresses in there last time I looked.
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by obtu 15y ago
Waited for del.icio.us to implode on relaunch, mostly. The efforts to make it fandom-friendly also stem from that.
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by obtu 15y ago
Hey, I'm sure Twilight has novelty value. You could appreciate the parodies with a new depth.
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by obtu 15y ago
Crackpot, because I couldn't go through the first page with a straight face. It is attacking science for lacking rigor (why not, depending on your standards and the field) and ignoring a momentous event, then proceeds to put forth an explan
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by obtu 15y ago
Declare, by Tim Powers. Very well-written and convincing, considering the subject matter (a spy thriller with elements of horror).
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by obtu 15y ago
From the link: > Waffles apps are thin wrappers around functionality in a well-documented C++ class library.
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by obtu 15y ago
This was discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3355876
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by obtu 15y ago
They might be combining some low-accuracy image similarity to match on images from his friends list, and infer the location from those other images.
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by obtu 15y ago
That breaks when sites use images that match their background. You get a lot of white squares in random places.
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by obtu 15y ago
You need some external source of light somewhere behind your monitor to prevent your pupils from dilating (bias lighting). Adjust screen luminosity so that the screen isn't your reference light source.
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by obtu 15y ago
I would really love color correction for the browser content area to be (ab)used to fix this. Everything else is themeable, but websites in their glorious variety can't really handle less radical forms of restyling.
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by obtu 15y ago
yield was first introduced as a statement similar to return. In Python not every statement is an expression; another example of non-expression statement is assignment, which was banned from expressions so that it couldn't be confused with =
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by obtu 15y ago
It's not that accessibility is something you should add, it's that you're actively mucking it up with about a hundred text links, glossy buttons, social junk on all sides, and the page splits. I'm guessing you're driving away enough visitor
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by obtu 15y ago
That can be gamed as well. The OP could have let himself be pushed further by getting it done faster, but he did the "silly but adorable" thing of solving it with some mumbling and hesitation, which seemed to convince the interviewer they h
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by obtu 15y ago
It's interesting, but are bandwidth hotspots so unpredictable that one can't lay a few wires to alleviate them, without adding new hardware?
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by obtu 15y ago
python3 -m http.server 8080 is a useful one-liner to serve a directory over http. There's no good reason to have it in the standard library — mapping directories to html listings and http paths to filesystem paths is a bit idiosyncr

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