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by pi18n 14y ago
This is absolutely correct. Apps should be completely isolated by default but users should be allowed to add access to other resources on a per-resource basis.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Per-application permissions, sandboxing applications, and one-click installs are great for the users. I'd like to have a filesystem like Plan 9's, where an app cannot even see outside of its box unless I let it. But for some apps I'd like t
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by pi18n 14y ago
But also any GPL project can poach from a BSD project, but not the converse, so BSD contributions are (technically) a strict subset of GPL contributions.
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by pi18n 14y ago
What a good observation! Commoditize the complements by dropping a free competitive software that any entity can use and modify. And they've also restricted modifications from other companies with the trademark, so they have control over th
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by pi18n 14y ago
The US companies are disgusting, but it's a far cry from the wretchedness of the legislators that are proposing the laws whispered in their ears.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I understand. I think you are right that it wouldn't make things more hard, I misunderstood that as implying that people wouldn't make memory mistakes under those conditions. So I was writing that one would require a GC to eliminate those k
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by pi18n 14y ago
I think if you have objects and a reference-counting GC already this problem is pretty easy, but I assume the C programmers don't want that for performance or portability or some other reason. NSInvocation has a signature of the variable ty
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by pi18n 14y ago
Also there are plenty of us that are pro-reform and anti-outrageous lawsuits who are also against the infringement as well. When I see a large player in the industry fuck up and "steal" someone's copyrighted work, it's yet another example o
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by pi18n 14y ago
How about Kerlang? Pronounced by adding a k sound to the front of Erlang.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I was thinking this also! The difference between Erlang and an OS seems like little more than device drivers. Moving BEAM into kernel-space would improve the speed of the thread switching and IPC. So Erlang is a particularly good language t
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by pi18n 14y ago
I hope this won't come off as tactless, but is there something going on in there more significant than CAS and writing to the database if it's a different value? Because I do non-blocking programming as a hobby and I'd love to know.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I knew about rlwrap, but hadn't bothered to learn anything in depth. Thanks, keywords are a great feature that I wouldn't have known without this.
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by pi18n 14y ago
This is the best one I've ever seen. The description seems fairly benign, but then one needs a ridiculous number like A(187196) to describe the applications of Ackermann's function to get a weak lower bound . And the first two steps are ra
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by pi18n 14y ago
We've told them multiple times their country is sliding downhill. If Americans want laws "protecting" them from terrorists, let them have it. The ones who get clued in can emigrate to an actually free country.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I just know I've made some mistakes in the past that would have been caught by a type checker, and I'll probably make similar mistakes in the future. I like trying stuff in the REPL, but when an idea has solidified, I'd like to have it full
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by pi18n 14y ago
I don't think there's a mass hysteria, is there? Certainly a few arrogant Haskellers, but I don't see an epidemic. Static typing eliminates an entire class of bugs. It's not like any of us need it, it's just a powerful tool. It might be a n
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by pi18n 14y ago
This is one of the exact scenarios Apple is trying to prevent with Gatekeeper. Although I think Apple implemented it poorly and I strongly object to their code signing policies, I do hope more OS's include application-level permissions and
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by pi18n 14y ago
PDF's don't even work well on my Kindle, let alone my phone. Half of the PDF's I have for research are taller than my screen at a readable size, but inexplicably two-column. PDF is not the ultimate solution to portable documents.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Why wouldn't they just have both?
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by pi18n 14y ago
You would have to hire a lawyer in any state due to the sheer number of laws; this seems to say in CA that lawyer also has to buy public domain papers from a private entity.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I was wondering if Twilight was really that bad or if they had cherry-picked dialog. Every moment cut in from Twilight was painful.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Haha, no, I believe you! Just curious to hear another perspective on it... and I had forgotten that he was getting hours of passive input in addition. It just always sounded interesting because I had reasonable success with flashcards for s
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by pi18n 14y ago
But can't you also use SRS with larger chunks? I think that's what the All Japanese All The Time author does and he's fairly confident about the results.
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by pi18n 14y ago
What you're arguing against is not the point of my statement. If the vendor does not implement something like that, it should still be available as a third-party software. It doesn't need to be a security problem using a system like permiss
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by pi18n 14y ago
I thought they just had special rules for expressions with a car in {set!, lambda, if, quote, ...} such that arguments to those are not evaluated. From there you can construct whatever else. I might be mistaken, I'm not clear on the history
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by pi18n 14y ago
I read that and I am none the wiser. I guess I need to find a tutorial on comonads too :/
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by pi18n 14y ago
Launching other apps can be done by any app right now, but the app package needs some info saying the app is able to handle a certain data type or open a certain URL protocol. I am an Objective-C developer and I love the SDKs on the iPhone,
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by pi18n 14y ago
It's just so weird, because monads are obviously useful :)
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by pi18n 14y ago
I feel the exact same way. I jailbreak to develop on my own device and use Cydia for things they'd never let through. I've never used Installous or anything like it.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I have a friend who used to be very into sleight-of-hand. He described some of his time at a magic camp once, apparently it was a mark of superiority if you managed to putpocket another magician, so they would spend some effort on doing it

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