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by pc 19y ago
It's hard to take a tech commentator who still writes "MicroSoft" seriously.
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by pc 19y ago
That's optimal only if your opponents also act randomly. (Or in the absence of any information.)
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by pc 19y ago
"Using a SlutBut with the intent (intent is a critical element of entrapment and most crimes) to entrap someone is no different than chatting with the person personally" What the government actually _does_ determines whether there was entra
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by pc 19y ago
"The fact that the chat is automated has nothing to do with it, of course it is still entrapment, just like you can't shoot somebody and claim the gun did it." I don't follow your gun analogy. IANAL, but my understanding of the case law sur
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by pc 19y ago
Like a lot of articles on the topic, this one misrepresents (or misunderstands) the Turing Test. In a _true_ Turing Test, the humans aren't blindly conversing with the assumption that their conversant is human -- they're actively seeking to
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by pc 19y ago
"C#/C++" is about as valid as "Java/JavaScript".
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by pc 19y ago
Who shortens Silicon Valley to "Silicon" instead of "Valley"?
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by pc 19y ago
"I actually have no idea what "non-corroborative evidence for an idea" means." It's the opposite of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corroborating_evidence
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by pc 19y ago
My signup mail sent my password in cleartext. Please, please don't store it like that, and especially don't send it over the wire like this. Update: having used it for the past few hours, the product itself is very well done. Nice work.
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by pc 19y ago
Me three. Drop me a line -- patrick#collison#ie.
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by pc 19y ago
You don't have to use a browser to write the code.
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by pc 19y ago
"Scalability, performance and QOS are matters of system administration" I think Heroku would say that that's exactly the point.
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by pc 19y ago
Hey, YC news doesn't do homework.
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by pc 19y ago
Apparently I sat the Leaving Cert exam (there's even a question on when), which is kinda odd, since I never did. Is dropping out really so unacceptable? Well, at least they got the clothing right.
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by pc 19y ago
"Every byte that is in your Javascript that has to be downloaded to the client is another millisecond or more of response time." How many people still use 1KB/s net connections?
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Reclaim Reddit: Greasemonkey script to remove Ron Paul stories(reddit.com)
15 points by pc 19y ago|48 comments
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by pc 19y ago
Berkeley, Northeastern, Indiana, Caltech, Brown, Yale (kinda)
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by pc 19y ago
If you want a tiling WM, ratpoison runs just fine under X11.app on the Mac -- and you can have it replace the standard Quartz WM via .xinitrc
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by pc 19y ago
In general, yes. In news.yc's case, no.
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by pc 19y ago
s/erotic/exotic. Hopefully.
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by pc 19y ago
This article is a little inaccurate. For the record: - Enterprise Ireland never actually turned us down (though I guess investors rarely explicitly do). - Auctomatic was a WFP '07 company, and myself and John didn't merge 'till April. A lot
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by pc 19y ago
I'm waiting for the day when someone cracks jokes about Lisp that don't involve parens. Still, 50 years on, I'm really not holding my breath.
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by pc 19y ago
Facebook does a lot of almost invisible but extremely smart things. Two examples: when you specify the type of relationship when adding a friend, Facebook uses the info to decide how much information to present about the person in your news
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by pc 19y ago
Hmm, I've always found it odd how many people say they use emacs, but not for "quick" tasks. It's not like it takes long to start it up -- on my machine, emacs -f kill-emacs takes 0.12 seconds.
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by pc 19y ago
PluggableTextMorph
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by pc 19y ago
You can criticise many aspects of Facebook... but it does a lot of impressive things.
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by pc 19y ago
interactive error-handling It's pretty good, but the Lisp world has stagnated, and you'll find equivalent (and better stuff) in other environments, like Squeak.
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by pc 19y ago
Well, if you really want to use Lisp code and Python libraries, and are prepared to write a compiler, why not do the translation in the reverse direction? Write a compiler from Python to Lisp, and bring Python libraries to Lisp. [edit: irre
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by pc 19y ago
"I know it is a much better VM." SBCL isn't a VM. It's a Lisp implementation with a compiler that generates native code. Admittedly, many dynamic languages folks seem to find this concept odd. The idea that {dynamic typing, garbage coll
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by pc 19y ago
"I was thinking myself that it would be pretty neat to write a Lisp dialect that compiled down to Python" That would be an incredibly bad idea. The implementation of SBCL (and CMUCL, upon which SBCL is based) is second to none--it has a

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