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   Putin bans VPNs to stop Russians accessing prohibited websites(reuters.com)

   3 points by rumcajz 9y ago|0 comments
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   by rumcajz 9y ago

   "In a Robot Economy, All Humans Will Be Consumers."
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   by rumcajz 9y ago

   Easy. Make raw articles public, then let publishers do the the value-add and sell the result.
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   by rumcajz 9y ago

   Yep. And lack of exceptions in languages like C or Go makes it harder to pretend you have done the right thing, if you in fact did not, given that it forces you handle every single error condition explicitly.
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   by rumcajz 9y ago

   Depends on the app. In GUI, yes, why not, display an error message and you are done. In infrastructure software, OTOH, you want to handle errors in thoughtful manner. If you can't it's often better to crash the application than to
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   by rumcajz 9y ago

   When it comes to book recommendations I would recommend Umberto Eco's The Search for the Perfect Language.
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   by rumcajz 9y ago

   The investigation here goes in the opposite direction. It's not "wouldn't it be nice if computers understood natural language" but rather "wouldn't it be nice if people understood programming languages". T
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   Romeo and Juliet Meet Trademark Law(250bpm.com)

   2 points by rumcajz 9y ago|0 comments
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   Linguistics and Programming Languages(250bpm.com)

   77 points by rumcajz 9y ago|50 comments
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    Romeo and Juliet Meet Reputation Engineering(250bpm.com)

    2 points by rumcajz 9y ago|0 comments
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    South Africa did disarm.
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    Note on Homesteading the Noosphere(250bpm.com)

    1 points by rumcajz 9y ago|0 comments
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    Solving the Romeo and Juliet Problem(250bpm.com)

    1 points by rumcajz 9y ago|0 comments
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    Note that even genome hes this hierarchical structure. It's composed of genes, which are composed of codons, which are composed of bases. It may be that the property is not just a way human brain works. It may be that it just happens t
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    Interesting that nobody mentioned Borges here. Labyrinthine books are one of the recurring themes in his writing. In one short story he proposes a kind of reverse CYOA book: A book with many beginnings but only one ending.
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    Thanks. I'll take a look.
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    I want to write a book about crypto for kids using the similar idea. The map will be more linear-ish, or rather one mail path with side loops -- imagine passing levels in a game, you are provided ways to practice a new skill until you are a
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    Planting $50 million to get $2 million. Not a terribly good deal.
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    That's the obvious part of it. One would except laguage spoken by non-native speakers to lose most of the complexity in inflection. But what about, for instance, how the same word can be used as distinct lexical categories. The extreme
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    When I started learning Chinese I was like: Huh, this is basically English with a different vocabulary. May it be that languages with a lot on non-native speakers (I assume Han was imposed on most of it speakers over the course of history,
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    The article assumes that making money is the primary goal of a corporation. If it was, then sure, WFH would make sense. However, the corporation is not a sentient entity. It cannot desire anything, be it money or something else. It's o
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    I've seen a project with 100% unit test coverage, yet no e2e tests. Nobody knew whether the product worked at all.
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    If everybody has it, it's not wealth signaling.
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    I find the cave example non-intuitive. At some point I would like to write a book about crypto for children. Here's a dump of material I have w.r.t. zero-knowledge: https://github.com/sustrik/crypto-for-kids/b
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    Unlike with imperative languages which are dozen a dime, there's almost no alternative to SQL when it comes to relational languages. That being the case, people rarely even think about whether SQL is a good language or a bad language,
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    Thanks! That looks a bit nicer. As for the comment about stored data, that's actually the reason why I haven't considered SQL an option at first. The use case doesn't involve any stored data, so SQL intuitively doesn't s
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    Can you share your experience? I've tried to rewrite the testsuite example to SQL, but it's quite ugly. Also, I am not sure how to model the inheritance relationship: CREATE TEMP VIEW boxes AS SELECT 'box1' AS
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    I think that comment goes in the right direction. It's kind of like relational programming but with focus on generation of data rather than querying it. While writing this kind of thing in SQL would be a headache, maybe a simpler langu
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    What about cartesian programming?(250bpm.com)

    96 points by rumcajz 9y ago|40 comments
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    by rumcajz 9y ago

    You are conflating term "decentralized" with term "unorganized". Switzerland is both highly decentralized and highly organized.