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by quchen 13y ago
Apart from pattern matching (which isn't unique among functional languages), this contains zero things about Haskell that make it good (or even usable) - type classes, more complex data types, how reusable the code is etc. I feel like
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by quchen 13y ago
Even for linked lists, which is how [] is defined in Haskell?
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by quchen 13y ago
This comes to mind: http://abstrusegoose.com/249
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by quchen 13y ago
The site seems to be down (o-tone domain expired since Unix epoch) for me. I'm assuming that's a temporary error?
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by quchen 13y ago
This sounds like someone trying to sell me a Turing tarpit of 1995's internet. "You can still create beautiful, functional, and compelling web content" - beautiful sure, compelling maybe if a static site is what you want, but
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by quchen 13y ago
> Snowden Snowden Snowden There should be a prize for ad hominem journalism. Whether Snowden is evil or not is as important as the president's hair color.
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by quchen 13y ago
I agree with this, especially if you keep in mind that there will probably be a large gap between being able to decrypt today's data in individual cases and being able to crunch it on a large scale.
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by quchen 13y ago
They can't look at "it" when it's encrypted. They can look at data that is indistinguishable from random noise, and in case it can be decrypted in the future they will finally be able to do what they're doing with u
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by quchen 13y ago
Changing the font size dismembers the design. It's like it's 2005 again, where everyone had the same screen resolution, and pixel-based layouts were thought to be good webdesign.
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by quchen 13y ago
For a PHP rant this was quite disappointing.
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by quchen 13y ago
"Special characters may not work." I guess we should change our root passwords to "root123" so upgrading becomes easier.
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by quchen 13y ago
Title: "why it is a rape joke" Reason given: "because it is a rape joke and rapists say it" Well that was disappointing.
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by quchen 13y ago
I didn't mean to say you specifically were abusing statistics, it's just very easy to draw dubious conclusions. (Doing this intentionally would be the abuse I was talking about.)
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by quchen 13y ago
> As I'm fairly new to all of this, I'd love to hear how I can turn this into a more viable experiment. The most important thing is getting an estimate of how good your averages are. Try to modify a couple of things, for exampl
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by quchen 13y ago
I think the author's good intentions are taken a little bit too far here. As I understand it, it is claimed that the gender is "correct with 67% confidence", which I assume means "67% of all educated gender guesses are c
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by quchen 13y ago
Sure things like these exist in academia, but you will rarely find a paper that only exists for the sake of promoting others, or otherwise extremely useless ones for that sake. For an unintentionally humorous counterexample consider Tai&#x2
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by quchen 13y ago
I don't see how that is relevant.
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by quchen 13y ago
There's a difference between telling the future and saying things that happen to turn out correct. That sentence has no information content beyond disliking the US. (And in general quoting Bin Laden as ambassador for human rights may a
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by quchen 13y ago
The lawsuit has been posted here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5856829
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by quchen 13y ago
The classical text only version of a website in case your bandwidth is limited: http://www.timecube.com/
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by quchen 13y ago
Every time articles about a language "still being relevant" pop up, my first thought is "oh, it's down to that stage already". Not sure what this article is trying to accomplish.
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by quchen 13y ago
I had to enable JS to find out what you're talking about. The result was 200 megs of memory consumption and the realization I may be using a different kind of internet than most people when using NoScript. (I'm surprised they have
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by quchen 13y ago
Indeed I didn't know about him, thanks.
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by quchen 13y ago
While being an interesting read, the "old world" scenario was kind confusing me every couple of lines. (Could be because I'm not a native speaker.)
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by quchen 13y ago
> F my life, right? Better censor yourself or the NSA will think you're rude. If what you want to say is "fuck" man up and spell it out.
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by quchen 13y ago
I've been doing this with a small volume (1 MiB), but it always kept me wondering how much traffic a minor change in an encrypted volume causes - even a single bit flip should drastically change the container if the encryption is good.
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by quchen 13y ago
It's a very non-non-issue: the client is closed source, for all we know it could do anything. Even if you listen on the data output to verify it's indeed encrypted, you still aren't able to tell whether your private key isn&#
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by quchen 13y ago
Sounds cool! I've been looking for a trustable Dropbox alternative so I don't have to manually encrypt the contents all the time. I'll download and try it out real q- > Make sure Java [...] is installed. :C
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by quchen 13y ago
And here I was hoping it would be aboke Stokes' Theorem ;-(
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by quchen 13y ago
Gold's value, like anything else, is (only) that people are interested in trading it. The reason for that can be manifold, as you mentioned there may be other uses for the material. But then, Bitcoin also has some of these properties: you m

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