robinh

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91.
by robinh 14y ago
Theoretically, one could write an interpreter specifically for the purpose of nesting other interpreters, which would then (nearly) remove itself from memory as it transfers control to the second interpreter, but I know I'm not quite insane
92.
by robinh 14y ago
Curiously, that episode was on TV where I live just an hour ago.
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by robinh 14y ago
It would be interesting to see how many languages you could nest before the interpreter becomes too slow to be of use.
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Shooter Boys and At-Risk Girls(m.vice.com)
4 points by robinh 14y ago|0 comments
95.
by robinh 14y ago
Or we simply break all forms of DRM protection, like we've done in the past?
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by robinh 14y ago
Why should people not be able to commit suicide in the easiest possible way?
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by robinh 14y ago
Well, no. There are some exceptions, but most databases add a whole lot of bloat you don't necessarily need. Simple files can be just as fast or even faster than using a big database - which is the most important metric to me.
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by robinh 14y ago
Also Half Life 3.
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by robinh 14y ago
I would like to point out that 200 students per class in a public high school does not appear to be a worldwide phenomenon. High school classes in Europe appear to be much smaller.
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by robinh 14y ago
Agreed. I would heartily recommend reading the article you linked to, I certainly liked it a lot. The project you've worked on looks interesting, too! It's a little late for me to be reading too much code, but I'll make sure to take a good
101.
by robinh 14y ago
Author here: I'm sorry to hear you didn't like the post. I'll make sure to include nudity in the next version.
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by robinh 14y ago
Hi, I'm the author. In this particular example, I basically skipped the compiler and linker to create an executable directly, yes. It's certainly a lot of fun, but if you're really trying to become proficient at programming in assembly lang
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by robinh 14y ago
Instinctive reaction to headline: "What do you mean, new?"
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Second Higgs possibility pops up in CERN data(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by robinh 14y ago|0 comments
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Copyright trolls, biz scum, freetards - it's NOT black and white(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by robinh 14y ago|0 comments
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Book Review: Against Security(schneier.com)
2 points by robinh 14y ago|0 comments
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by robinh 14y ago
You mean like cats? (That's not a rhetorical question, by the way. When you domesticate tigers, would they be very different from what we now consider a cat?)
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Disk Encryption (ArchWiki)(wiki.archlinux.org)
1 points by robinh 14y ago|0 comments
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Stephen Hawking pushes for posthumous pardon for Alan Turing(theregister.co.uk)
83 points by robinh 14y ago|29 comments
110.
by robinh 14y ago
"Having nothing currently in hand (or seeming to) is not proof of lack of seriousness." Yes it is. Ten years ago it might not have been, but these days, when vast troves of information are at virtually everyone's fingertips, there is no exc
111.
by robinh 14y ago
I don't really think that's how communication works.
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by robinh 14y ago
Of course it matters, because decisions like these don't exist in a vacuum. The rest of the world has an effect on what decisions get made, (well, in the countries we're talking about anyway), so if if a government has to resort to much mor
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by robinh 14y ago
"In the special case of floating overlays, I am a strange, strange person. I will not click on the close button, because I don't like clicking on an ad, even to close it. Instead, I will fire up the debugger and delete the ad from the DOM."
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Brainstorm with HN: Let's fix ridiculously expensive education
12 points by robinh 14y ago|12 comments
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by robinh 14y ago
If security is a priority, then set up a Tor node! :)
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by robinh 14y ago
Please see my comment below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4833953
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by robinh 14y ago
"I know this is a cliche, but before writing comments like this ask yourself if a) you are unnecessarily discouraging somebody for no reason and b) you would have said the same thing about successful projects when they were first started."
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by robinh 14y ago
My point wasn't that OS development is impossible in VS. However, given how much the OP seems to know about the subject, and the fact that virtually all resources about it presume that one is using a Linuxesque environment, I wouldn't recom
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by robinh 14y ago
Oh dear... overly ambitious plans, changing everything for the sake of change, fearing assembly, using VS for OS development, and not even knowing how the GDT and IDT work. There's so much wrong with this I don't even know where to begin. I