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by oconnore 15y ago
If only we had cheap bandwidth and SSL by default it wouldn't matter...
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by oconnore 15y ago
That read like it was written by a Haskell programmer pretending to be an Enterprise-y Java coder™. Sort of condescending, but maybe I like it?
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by oconnore 15y ago
What do you propose for a group of people who have little to no political power, and are being oppressed by some current law? They can run around telling people their argument all day long, but it is protests, and civil disobedience that ha
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by oconnore 15y ago
Dissent is the expression of opposing opinions from the law. This often takes the form of crime. When Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus, she was expressing dissent. But she was also violating the law, and therefore committing a crime.
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by oconnore 15y ago
<a href="/user/foo" onmouseover="alert(1)">foo" onmouseover="alert(1)</a> I put this example into my browser and there was no attack. Replace the second mouseover with alert(2) and it's clear that it is never parse
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by oconnore 16y ago
Also no choppiness on my HP dm1z netbook. :)
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by oconnore 16y ago
It seems to me that most successful lisp programs use voluntary expressive names to cope with the lack of type information. (defun turn-cat-into-dog (cat-or-nil) ...) From such a definition, it is clear that this is f:[cat,ni
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by oconnore 16y ago
That's a fairly pessimistic view of "most writers." I would hope that most authors would pick topics based on their own intellectual curiosity, and enjoy readership/influence/money as a secondary benefit of their work. But perhaps I am bein
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by oconnore 16y ago
[Meta] What is it about Lisp that makes it the subject of so many blog posts by people who almost certainly don't use it on a day to day basis? Is it some sort of insecurity about their current environment? Is it just a go to topic when you
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by oconnore 16y ago
Here is a post from 2 years ago explaining that they have access to private keys, don't do client side encryption, etc. http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=7421&replies=14#p... And anyone who wants those features should be using so
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by oconnore 16y ago
Please explain?
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by oconnore 16y ago
Isn't one of the major cool things about dropbox that if your computer hard drive gets smashed (and thus the key is destroyed), you can still access your files somewhere else?
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by oconnore 16y ago
Why not just modify the Redis code to modularize the server part, and define a user friendly API? It seems like a waste to re-implement all of the data structures, since they will eventually do exactly the same thing. This seems like a bad
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by oconnore 16y ago
All innovators are unconventional. That is a conditional statement, not a biconditional. Which is why for every single successful innovator, we can often find thousands of nutcases, inventing floating shoes, helmet mounted rifles, and Forth
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San Francisco keeps Twitter(online.wsj.com)
2 points by oconnore 16y ago|0 comments
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by oconnore 16y ago
There really is no argument here. Either SF wants to keep Twitter, or they don't. They aren't going to guilt trip Twitter into staying, so there is absolutely no chain of events that ends in Twitter paying the SF payroll tax. Case closed?
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by oconnore 16y ago
But yet they said yes... I wonder if I call them up and ask, "hey, Samsung CS, did you guys install a flurb-yulb-gumbler on my new laptop?", will they say, "yes, we use those to violate your privacy."
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by oconnore 16y ago
No, the equivalent would be to click reply , and then type "I think that your point of view is dangerous."
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by oconnore 16y ago
I think that it's highly likely that a person who can't work out a binary search algorithm probably cannot solve interesting problems in pet projects, unless by interesting, you mean simple web applications or something of that nature.
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by oconnore 16y ago
It might be more cost effective to have the robots install mosquito netting.
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by oconnore 16y ago
I noticed it too with Firefox 4//Win7.
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by oconnore 16y ago
The competition has to be good enough to outweigh the economy of scale.
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by oconnore 16y ago
The other point is getting lots of smart people to cooperate, instead of reinventing everything under the sun.
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by oconnore 16y ago
Common Lisp macros allow the programmer to capture variables if they desire and/or are ignorant of the semantics of the language. Sometimes this is nice, like in the anaphora package. Defining hygienic macros is not hard though.
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by oconnore 16y ago
You can't talk to your colleagues without a Scrum meeting? That seems to be a personal issue, not a methodology issue.
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by oconnore 16y ago
You would prefer to be at the mercy of Apple for your updates? Software written for a specific piece of hardware can be a very good thing.
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by oconnore 16y ago
"Google can now use the “clean” Bionic headers to create a non-GPL’d fork of the Linux kernel, one that can be extended under proprietary license terms." No, Google can only write non-GPL'd programs on top of the existin
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by oconnore 16y ago
I never wrote that hierarchy is the only way to organize data. Search and tagging are very important, too. But where did you get the idea that hierarchies are useless?
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by oconnore 16y ago
I think composition turns into extensibility when you start working on larger programs. For example, you cannot pipe the output of Vim or Emacs into another program, but you can write 100 lines of Python/Lisp/Lua/Perl/etc. that will let one
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by oconnore 16y ago
Pulseaudio is so horribly broken for me (Toshiba nb305 and HP dv6000 laptops)

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