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by pekk 12y ago
You mean like this tutorial on writing an interpreter using PyPy? [2011] http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/04/tutorial-writing-interp...
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by pekk 12y ago
This makes the false assumption that resources put into Python 3 somehow prevented "native browser support," something that has always been firmly in the hands of browser vendors and was never blocked by insufficient loyalty to Py
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by pekk 12y ago
I hope you at least wait until those standards are thoroughly supported "in the wild" because the wild provides the entire point of choosing Javascript. Even then, the argument that ES6+ will make everything better ignores that th
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by pekk 12y ago
Wolves essentially never attack humans, particularly by comparison with the frequency of tiger attacks. They are different species, of different sizes, with different diets, with different behaviors. Comparing wolves and tigers is not reall
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by pekk 12y ago
Is there some reason in principle why you can't constructively MITM yourself without using piles of Javascript in the browser?
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by pekk 12y ago
I think I have a radical idea: use a language which solves this problem by design from the beginning. Much simpler.
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by pekk 12y ago
What do you think that nation-states do?
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by pekk 12y ago
It would only be a "fallacy" if it were literally not possible to optimize using C extensions. It has been done, many times, for many real jobs. There is no fallacy.
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by pekk 12y ago
The Python 3 migration hasn't been tough, it was just subjected to a political campaign. That kind of risk can only be controlled by never changing anything.
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by pekk 12y ago
You've implied that 0 data points are better than 20. With 0 data points, consider the source: I will make a "model" to exactly reflect whatever my agenda is, rather than generating one at random.
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by pekk 12y ago
Is it more useless than shooting from the hip with completely uninformed opinions?
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by pekk 12y ago
AI is just software. So any discussion about AI gone wrong is really a discussion about malware and other kinds of software which are used by people to do bad things. If my software runs a power plant for an evil facility (full of sharks wi
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by pekk 12y ago
It's a great comparison, and related to the folk wisdom of "you catch more flies with honey." Using punishment on animals often causes avoidance and aggression, which isn't usually the overt objective. So maybe we should
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by pekk 12y ago
How did you determine that you are not one of the coders who believe themselves better than they are? Because if you are misled about your own ability, you might also be misled about which feedback is useful. Is it possible that there is a
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by pekk 12y ago
The dismissive criticism was not only present, but in a large proportion of messages; and those criticisms were supported by upvotes. These facts make a very clear statement about HN. I'm not sure what you are trying to prove with your
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by pekk 12y ago
By extension, language builtins should also never be the place for the best facilities to do $WHATEVER_PARTICULAR_TASK. The line between builtins and standard libraries is extremely variable between languages.
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by pekk 12y ago
Nobody asked you how good he was as a web designer.
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by pekk 12y ago
The sales pitch makes it sound like I can have the Java experience without the JVM, with junk like multiple inheritance, using syntax from ALGOL. Where is the "fun" and "painless" and "bug-free" going to come f
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by pekk 12y ago
I would rather use reference counting...
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by pekk 12y ago
"Premature" means "before measuring"
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by pekk 12y ago
If all it takes to convince you that someone is a good candidate is for them to say one paragraph of nice sounding words in public, then you are the problem with the electorate.
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by pekk 12y ago
What was exceptional about the Sony hack? Lots of companies have been owned due to various oversights.
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by pekk 12y ago
"A language a year" is pretty pointless, especially if practice in any given language is not good.
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by pekk 12y ago
Some centuries ago, there were periods when many people would get accused of consorting with the devil, and multiple witnesses would be brought forward to substantiate this, and many people were burned as a result. That's not just a pr
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by pekk 12y ago
Most of us will never use TempleOS, few will appreciate the skill shown here and fewer will understand Davis' religious goals. But you could also look at TempleOS as a research prototype, roughly the kind of thing which once might hav
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by pekk 12y ago
Why did you leave out the parts that are inconvenient to the narrative you're making up? "Europe should be blue" - is that racist? I guess the technical achievement means nothing. Where is your certificate of political correc
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by pekk 12y ago
The question is, for any taxi service, how many rapes we define as acceptable before we start insisting on specific, effective measures to improve safety. It cannot be axiomatic that it is not fair to ask Uber ever to do anything to make th
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by pekk 12y ago
Why would someone falsely accuse an Uber driver of rape? Humor me.
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by pekk 12y ago
They don't involve a "startup" whose raison d'etre is to bypass regulation and break laws in order to achieve competitive advantage.
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by pekk 12y ago
More like "if the person who wrote this code didn't want to use the var keyword"

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