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by ptest1 7y ago
This is literally a feature of XML everyone complained about when JSON was the hottest thing, though.
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by ptest1 7y ago
TOML is extremely verbose for lists. It’s ridiculous. Sure it had less features than YAML but it also looks considerably worse in all the common use cases. Looks like INI
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by ptest1 7y ago
I wholeheartedly and in ironically disagree! We have all we need. If you want a full featured language, use that. Beyond that, we have JSON, YAML, INI and more. If you want something more complicated you can create your own DSL for your app
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by ptest1 7y ago
Stop commenting on every HN post, thanks
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by ptest1 7y ago
So..why not use XML?
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by ptest1 7y ago
Schemas, interesting. I wonder where we’ve seen that before..
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by ptest1 7y ago
This harkens me back to the era of random publicity “multimedia” CD-ROMs. I remember being /thrilled/ that I got a free CD-ROM from Toyota! Before websites were really a thing, having your own multimedia CD-ROM to give out was som
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by ptest1 7y ago
In 2017, Tumblr had ~400 employees. If each employee had a modest $50k retention bonus, that’s at least an additional $20M. So I’m not sure the total cost for the purchase as $3M- maybe that was just for the corporate assets.
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by ptest1 7y ago
I may have spoken too generally here. By “people” I meant e.g. engineers at Google, Facebook, Reddit, news outlets, that kind of thing. I see it a bit like a security disclosure.
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by ptest1 7y ago
Another argument the author may not have considered is that by prematurely releasing his implementation, he may be making it more (not less!) likely that future discoveries are hidden away from the public. It seems OpenAI wanted to release
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by ptest1 8y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. But it’s still wrong!
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by ptest1 8y ago
I don’t get it- the title is totally incorrect. He hasn’t written a third of what’s on Wikipedia.
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by ptest1 8y ago
That makes a lot more sense, thanks.
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by ptest1 8y ago
But it isn’t a clock because it doesn’t tell us how much time has passed. PoW allows for the creation of an ordering. I’m not sure these metaphors are helpful.
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by ptest1 9y ago
While I understand your frustration, shutting down a service — especially if you have no money to spend a lot of time on the shutdown — is always hard. It looks like these folks have provided an export option and a reasonable shutdown windo
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by ptest1 9y ago
And if you find the vertical back angle more natural, you should try high bar squatting. With high bar you will also benefit from having your heels slightly raised with a plate under your heel or weightlifting shoes.
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by ptest1 9y ago
Statements like the above are one of the reason we don’t see voting system reform in the US. Every time someone discusses reform, people make over-the-top claims like the above (“almost as bad a plurality voting.”) To the reader: approval &
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US telcos are selling direct, non-anonymized access to phone data(medium.com)
6 points by ptest1 9y ago|0 comments
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by ptest1 10y ago
Snowden worked at the NSA and took a bunch of stuff. These leaks are from that time period. This isn't crazy. Edit: His "it's time" tweet happened less than 48 hours after the first TheShadowBrokers account (reddit) was
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by ptest1 10y ago
Unless this leak was part of that very protection arrangement, or part of some larger play. It's possible Snowden had all this stuff and the timing works out (right?). And let's not forget the mysterious "it's time"
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Biscuit: a multi-region key value store for your AWS infrastructure secrets(github.com)
111 points by ptest1 10y ago|18 comments
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by ptest1 11y ago
It's not just competent management: the WMF is a weird beast. Most savvy managers haven't worked in at nonprofit before, much less a nearly 100% transparent, community-driven nonprofit. Processes are very different, and I think th
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by ptest1 11y ago
The crux of it is that she just lost the faith of senior staff. The cause of that probably can't be known by outsiders. But the issue blew up in the wider community when the grant was posted.
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by ptest1 11y ago
Some background here: http://mollywhite.net/wikimedia-timeline/ The above conflates a lot of highly unrelated events, but it's a cool visualization. But the reality is that she lost the support of senior staff, an
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Python Extension Proposal 498: Literal String Formatting(python.org)
107 points by ptest1 11y ago|97 comments
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by ptest1 13y ago
This stuck out to me as well. Her Wikipedia page reads like a vanity article.