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   by papaf 14y ago

   As far as I know, nobody has extended the standard email formats and protocols to support new message types that have caught on lately. Actions like "Post photo", "Tag photo", "Take a special action defined by this third party which should
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   by papaf 14y ago

   The simple proof that Go's approach is wrong is to look for all the Hello World examples. I have yet to find one that looks at the error return of the println, just like none look at the return of C's printf. The builtin println does not
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   by papaf 14y ago

   This is an excellent article (or I could be particularly stupid). I have been playing with webapps using Go for about 6 months and this shows a much more intelligent use of templates than the naive methods that I have been using.
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   by papaf 14y ago

   I don't think the purpose of going renewable is to save money -- it is more about energy security.
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   by papaf 14y ago

   When I code without a debugger I tend to write smaller, easier testable code because I lack a real way to step through a convoluted process. I feel this encourages a simpler application (but I have no study to prove that). I was talking t
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   by papaf 14y ago

   This is a really impressive piece of macro and template hackery.
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   by papaf 14y ago

   Have you considered using a mix of languages? For instance Python with C in areas that are performance critical. I'm seeing this used increasingly on scientific projects and I have heard no complaints. The reason I suggest a mix of language
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   by papaf 14y ago

   Would it be possible to get the browser to generate a random key, use the current mechanism to encrypt that key and then upload a file, that has been encrypted with the original key, to a third party? The reason I ask is that something like
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   by papaf 15y ago

   Can anyone knowledgeable about compilers/GCs say why GO went with a conservative garbage collector? From any GO source code its trivial to pick out pointers from values. Is this information hard to preserve at runtime?
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    by papaf 15y ago

    I would suggest to anybody that is considering ditching Linux to give a thought to trying another distribution. I've had very few problems with the following: Lubuntu - simple, elegant and fast Fedora 16 - pretty and lots of features out th
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    by papaf 15y ago

    It would be workable if browsers stopped loudly complaining about self-signed certificates and gracefully fell back to using something like TOFU/POP [1] or Convergence [2]. [1] http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2010/07/06/tofu-online-trust-and..
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    by papaf 15y ago

    I completely agree. I just saw a C++ thread where someone has posted decent enough code and its greyed out without a response. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3757762 How code can be greyed out on "Hacker" News while opinion gets high
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    by papaf 15y ago

    I agree with what you're saying but C can be persuaded to make template like code: http://attractivechaos.awardspace.com/ksort.h.html
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    by papaf 15y ago

    All the volumes are a good read - just skip the maths and assembly sections in the first book. The rest of the work is understandable/readable without them.
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    by papaf 15y ago

    Another option is checking server side using whatever is your language equivalent of: http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Email-Valid-0.188/lib/Email/Val... This checks email addresses using regexps and DNS.
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    by papaf 15y ago

    This looks really cool. Is NTRU at the point now where decryption works 100% ?
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    by papaf 15y ago

    1. An algorithm per day - website that puts up links to a new algorithm every day. 2. A site that takes in many tech-related RSS feeds and uses a recommendation algorithm to suggest stories to read based on what you look at.
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    by papaf 15y ago

    You'd be surprised. I found a good introduction to this ideal in the book "The Undercover Economist": http://www.amazon.com/Undercover-Economist-Exposing-Poor---D...
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    by papaf 15y ago

    I was running a UK company from Germany using: http://www.companiesmadesimple.com/ They provide registration, a UK registered office address and mail forwarding to your address outside the UK. Each of the services costs extra and I'd esti
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    by papaf 15y ago

    This famous Zen Shaw talk is good (its not only about ACLs and leads on to surviving dead end jobs): http://vimeo.com/2723800
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    by papaf 15y ago

    I've learnt and used both. Even after programming in Clojure for a year, I'm more productive in Scala because of its familiarity and because there is less of an "impedance mismatch" between Scala and available Java libraries. However, I wou
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    by papaf 15y ago

    I wrote a static page publishing system in the mid-nighties. They're harder to do than dynamic based systems -- calculating which pages link to a given page and need to be updated, say when a title changes, is a pain. I think static page ba
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    by papaf 15y ago

    Meta comment: HN is becoming an incredibly sad place when the developer of the shootout benchmark site makes a technically valid and polite point - and people mark him down simply because they don't agree with it. And the irony is the shoot
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    by papaf 15y ago

    I found the following classic an interesting guide: http://www.amazon.com/True-Believer-Thoughts-Movements-Peren...
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    by papaf 15y ago

    I missed the drama so I probably don't have anything insightful to add. However, I find that when trying out frameworks its nice to know what kind of overhead they have for the convenience they provide.
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    by papaf 15y ago

    I looked a Scalatra recently. I found it a little slow but don't take my word for it. I would suggest hitting whatever you're looking at with apache bench to see how it copes with 'hello world'. I ended up using Jetty and servlets written i
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    by papaf 15y ago

    The last time I looked at nginx it parsed the HTTP request with a hand-coded state machine but routes that are defined by regular expression matching were handled one expression at a time. Routes that are not defined by regular expressions
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    by papaf 15y ago

    My understanding is that in lex/flex the expressions are known at compile time and c is generated from them. For a web server the regular expressions are held in a configuration file and are not known until runtime.
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    by papaf 15y ago

    Its a rewrite of CVS with the emphasis on security: http://www.opencvs.org/ Edit: this project may not have actually happened - my apologies.
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    by papaf 15y ago

    Thats an interesting article you linked to but the original article is about peer reviewed academic papers. Meta comment: I find that downvoting people are aren't being rude and abusive is bad manners.