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An ASP.NET bug from 1973(metaltheater.com)
2 points by robzyb 12y ago|0 comments
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by robzyb 12y ago
Yes. In this context 5 or 10 are less arbitrary. This is due to their regular usage.
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by robzyb 12y ago
> The rental process can be quite complicated though. I can't even begin to imagine how to rent a flat directly without getting everything arranged through the company that hired you. By finding a real estate agent that has experien
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by robzyb 12y ago
> I don't expect Github to go away anytime soon 4 years ago someone might've said the same about Google Code. Expectations change, and then Github might go away.
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by robzyb 12y ago
GZIP would not apply very much compression, at all, to purely random data. So the compressed data + gzip decompressor would very likely be a greater size than the original data.
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by robzyb 12y ago
I understand your point. Perhaps I went a bit too gung-ho with my POV. I'd note, though, that long compile times shouldn't be too dependant on language design, should it? I feel that an argument could be made that if a programming
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by robzyb 12y ago
Compilier design and programming language design are two very diffierent things. Perhaps someone could even make the argument that a programming language is BEST designed by someone who doesn't know how to make a compiler? The choices
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by robzyb 12y ago
I'm Jewish, and I grew up in Australia, and I never got to eat bamba with my friends as a child because of my peanut allergy.
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by robzyb 12y ago
> the only difference is that Haskell annotates effects with its type system. I kind of disagree. Haskell doesn't only annotate effects with its type system. Haskell goes much further than that. It encourages an explicit and clear s
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by robzyb 12y ago
> You can't implement cat in cpp+C Yes you can. I think that you missed the point of the article. Just write a cpp macro that outputs a cat implementation in C.
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by robzyb 12y ago
Fun fact: The term "inflation" usually refers to price inflation. Indexing passive income to price inflation makes sense in the short term. However in the long term, especially when talking about retirement income, wage inflation
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by robzyb 12y ago
As an Australian living in Japan, I quickly recognised that as the Japanese word for ten thousands! :P
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OpenCorporates API(api.opencorporates.com)
2 points by robzyb 12y ago|0 comments
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by robzyb 12y ago
I think that carapace didn't mean "how did he design the circuit" but rather "how did he design the physical manifestation of the circuit?" Akin to "how did he layout that PCB?"
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Modern web browsers are the emacs of this decade(reddit.com)
17 points by robzyb 12y ago|4 comments
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by robzyb 12y ago
I'm an Australian living in Japan. I moved here 2 months ago. Most Japanese get around 3 weeks of annual leave per year - but each day expires after 24 months. It is quite common for leave to expire.
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by robzyb 12y ago
> They are hashed So what if they are hashed? Facebook has the solution to all the hashes.
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by robzyb 12y ago
I would've guessed that most nuclear plants would be able to withstand a drone-load of explosive, especially after 9/11. Am I mistaken?
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Your API Here(yourapihere.com)
3 points by robzyb 12y ago|0 comments
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by robzyb 12y ago
Argh. I haven't even thought of that. Moving into a new apartment in Tokyo in 1 weeks time.
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by robzyb 12y ago
It doesn't make me any less respectable or a bad person in my own eyes... but other people's eyes count for a lot.
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by robzyb 12y ago
From an engineering perspective that contraption is cool. From a practical perspective... what would Steve Jobs say?
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by robzyb 12y ago
I care about public attitude towards sex. But that's not the reason that I'd be interested in teledildonics. You hit the nail on the head with your second point - the money to be made. Just think about how much money the online po
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by robzyb 12y ago
You run your "verified" software on hardware, right? How do you know the hardware is verified?
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by robzyb 12y ago
I think that there's opportunity in teledildonics as well. If it wasn't for it being, well, teledildonics, I'd be interested in pursuing it.
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by robzyb 12y ago
I disagree. It seems to me like english is "more perfect" if you are trying to build a straightforward model of a language like a software developer might. The article suggests that there are some convoluted rules in other languag
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by robzyb 12y ago
The author is someone who is trying to apply a simple and consistent set of rules to non-perfect systems. The author of course gets 'angry' with the super-non-perfect systems. Those languages are very difficult to deal with, and h
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by robzyb 12y ago
> The article may have been written in anger, and thus it provokes anger. Good! Programmers who don't get angry while solving hard, inconvenient, uncomfortable problems are, in my experience, unlikely to truly solve those problems -
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by robzyb 12y ago
And SATA! Please someone give me SATA, gigabit ethernet, and a cheap/easy way to do DMA!
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by robzyb 12y ago
> He was a practicing civil rights attorney, taught constitutional law and was president of Harvard Law Review. That's a bit like saying that an Electronics Engineer who can build a CPU is a good person to hire to write Javascript.

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