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by pkinsky 13y ago
More like Why Stadium-Scale Sound Systems Rock (even if you play shit music on them). JVM != Java
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Evil and lawful are separate axes in morality space.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Tendril: the CIA might have a use for smart power networks that could detect non-authorized devices (bugs) drawing power.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
The government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>Tax enforcement schemes are conceived, enacted, and executed by governments because they have a monopoly over the taxing power. Enacted and executed perhaps, but I would be very surprised if lobbyists hired by 'vultures' didn&
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by pkinsky 13y ago
With the new string interpolation syntax you could define config"key": Option{Result] and even config"base/userdata/$user/$key": Option[Result].
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Martin Luther King was spied on and blackmailed by the FBI. It's a bit dated, but a good place to start. http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/01/21/the-fbi-wrote-a-lette...
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>Another downside of Scala is its HUGE syntax. Processing strings? Here's a ten million ways to do it.. (a bit over-exaggerating). Oh and if you chose this way, then you should use this syntax. No, not that one, THIS one. Oh no, not
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Sure, but you'd better be able to tell if the servers you hire are doing a good job. Ditto for cooks, cleaners, dishwashers. You shouldn't need to hire someone to look for flecks of food on your 'clean' dishes.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>no public keys on pgp.mit.edu-- where he was "planning" all this out >a heavily encrypted link layer and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) that I developed I'm inclined to believe that he's able to set up a decent s
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Saying Boo To A Ghost: It's No Secret Why Congress Fears Crossing The NSA(nsfwcorp.com)
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>Obviously they don't have the resources to care about your "personal life", so they're just hunting the Worst of the Worst, right? Even this argument is flawed, there are FBI documents showing they very much cared ab
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Every empire has a propaganda apparatus. I'm sure he thought he was doing the right thing, more or less, when he joined.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
How would this be enforced? I suppose it could end up being more of a problem for the hiring company after this practice became more widely known.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
This is ridiculous, are people still claiming that no illegality was revealed by Snowden? If nothing else, we have Clapper's admitted lie to Congress.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Thanks, sent!
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Is it realistic to split long chains of Option into subfunctions returning Option? If long chains of Options are hard to effectively reason about, breaking them up could ameliorate the problem. I suppose that conceptually, I consider return
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by pkinsky 13y ago
sent, thanks!
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Isn't the point of options to statically rule out the possibility of NPE's? def f1:Option[Int] = Some(1) def f2(a: Int):Option[Int] = Some(a + 1) val r = for { a <- f1 b <- f2(a) c = a
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by pkinsky 13y ago
In my (limited) experience, for expressions make for some of the most concise code I've seen. So many problems can be represented as a chain of Options or Futures mixed with standard {val x = expression y} expressions.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>Our figure is valid; the classified information that goes into the number is more complicated than what’s in your calculation. >Our overall number is valid. I’m not sure why you’re calling this a “discrepancy” when the number in the
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I'm probably missing something, but isn't Idea 4: Chaining Deferreds just flatMap over Futures? Scala may have spoiled me somewhat.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I'm on the other side of the pond, sadly.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I've finished Martin Odersky's Scala Course. I've built a few small play2.0 apps. I've used Scala to solve ~20 Project Euler problems, and I'm fiddling around with parsers and scalaz. However, all the Scala position
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by pkinsky 13y ago
So is this Grindr for straight people? (With some nifty features, granted)
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>The information carrier is exempted from legal action, the party that filed the false DMCA notice has made themselves liable to be sued Sure, just prove that they didn't believe they were filing a valid claim at the time.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
What a cowardly title. Clapper himself admitted to giving Congress the 'least untruthful' answer. He's an admitted liar, not an accused liar.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
As I understand it, if you want to receive bitcoins with wallet A and send those same bitcoins with wallet B, you would need to transfer said bitcoins from wallet A to B. And each transfer is recorded in the blockchain.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Have you considered adding Scala? You're already running jvms for Java, and you could do incremental compilation with SBT to keep everything responsive.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
With a generous helping of FUD, any bar owner who doesn't buy one of these will be assumed to be a creeper. -OR- Clubs catering to really, really rich people. (at least, until the price comes down)

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