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by saljam 13y ago
These hardware KV interfaces are still fairly low-level. Fixed-size values, etc. So you'll still need to have some abstraction layer that handles that. You might not call it a filesystem but I bet it'll look a lot like one.
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by saljam 13y ago
Fair point. They make an effort with the Browser Bundle but I just tried it and it broke on the second run... Now I want to write a Tor compatible client that 'just works'. Just one static binary that implements the proxy. It embe
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by saljam 13y ago
This sounds good. But how is it better than just installing Tor?
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by saljam 13y ago
I see this request very frequently, but I wonder how feasible it really is. The Android API is very Javasque, a 1:1 mapping to Go would just be unnatural. Or are you suggesting they rewrite the API for Go? My knowledge of the internals of t
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by saljam 13y ago
A few years ago I applied with my sister, she got hers straight away, while I (Arab, early 20s, with a rather pathetic beard) got a letter telling me to wait and not ask them about its status. About half a year later I got another letter as
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by saljam 13y ago
ah, so you can! brilliant. thanks for that!
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by saljam 13y ago
I feel I should mention Plan 9's pipeline branching. Not named pipes, but something which I guess served a significant subset of named pipes' use cases. The Plan 9 shell, rc, had a feature where when a subprocess was invoked with
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by saljam 13y ago
I find Neil deGrasse Tyson's case is particularly amusing, where he himself corrected it multiple times only to find it changed back to "atheist" (from "agnostic"). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzS
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by saljam 13y ago
You are correct, I overlooked that detail. You can cross Nepal from that list, and my point still stands though.
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by saljam 13y ago
Way to go on creating an completely irrelevant religious flamewar. As others have said, Islam has nothing to do with this. This, as others have pointed out, is a case of rich-exploits-poor. Unsurprisingly, with the full support of the law.
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by saljam 13y ago
That's incorrect. The word kafalah roughly translates to sponsorship. Migrant worker sponsorship and adoption have nothing to do with each other.
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by saljam 13y ago
I guess it's also worth mentioning Mirah, a JVM language heavily inspired by Ruby. Unlike JRuby, it compiles down to byte code ahead of time and needs not support libraries. http://www.mirah.org
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by saljam 13y ago
> But some of the narratives into which he frames that material seem questionable. Mostly this. I think it's because he's essentially making entertainment out of history, which is pretty much impossible to do without missing pa
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by saljam 13y ago
While I normally dislike Adam Curtis's work, I totally agree with you about the ending on that article. That's certainly the sentiment I sense, as an Arab currently in the UK.
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by saljam 13y ago
My grandmother (a Muslim) used to put some on my cuts when I was a kid. I started experimenting more recently. (Conveniently as I picked up mountain biking—no shortage of cuts!) It certainly seems like the cuts on which I apply some honey h
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by saljam 13y ago
Am I the only one who thinks fake bars are an awful idea? If you don't know how long the operation is going to take, why not just use a throbber or an oscillating bar or something? A fake bar just messes up the conceptual model that pe
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by saljam 13y ago
Not quite what the article was talking about, but what worries me about modern democracies is where the responsibility of government decisions lies. In theory the voters should bear it, since they chose the government. But in practice they
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by saljam 13y ago
I grew up in a country with mandatory web filtering. ("For pornography", but naturally, dissent forums always end up in that list.) Virtually every kid I knew was comfortable using Tor, Bittorrent, or a plain old web proxy (in the
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by saljam 13y ago
Brilliant! I had always hoped CoffeeScript or somehow a JS library would add blocking channels like this. Writing JavaScript is a pain after being spoilt by Go. I'm quite curious about what the compiled code looks like. (On a mobile no
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by saljam 13y ago
I've been thinking about this (and the more general keychain problem) recently. Wouldn't it make sense to have your keychain stored on your smartphone, and allow applications access over a standard protocol using NFC/USB&#x2F
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by saljam 13y ago
Furthermore, Java is quite happy to let you do COLS[1] = "Green". All that is constant about that array is the reference.
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by saljam 13y ago
People often underestimate the power of ed. It's very useful when terminals are misbehaving and curses editors no longer work, or in shell scripts which modify files. (Ed commands in here documents.) Ed anecdote: A friend of mine once wante
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by saljam 13y ago
Forth is brilliant, but my favourite concatenative language is PostScript. Most view PostScript as nothing more than a dated binary format for vector graphics. However, writing plots and diagrams in pure PS is incredibly flexible and pretty
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by saljam 14y ago
Wow, I remember reading about foaf+ssl years ago. Glad to see it's still alive!
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by saljam 14y ago
I agree. To me, Webfinger+OpenID seems like a more sensible solution. At least in principle. The only downside is that OpenID lacks BrowserID's privacy bits. http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/
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by saljam 14y ago
You should also count for the people who switched to an RSS reader that isn't Feedly. I, for one, started using The Old Reader.
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by saljam 14y ago
Well, you can sort of already have that with a bit of JS and NoVNC. http://kanaka.github.com/noVNC/
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by saljam 14y ago
I hacked together an open source VNC viewer which can run on the ARM Chromebooks[0] earlier this year. Source code at [1]. It't far from perfect but it did what I needed it to do. [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vnc-viewer/ek
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by saljam 14y ago
I think the OP meant automatic inlining. I.e. by a compiler.
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by saljam 14y ago
More or less related; one of the nicest paradigms I've used for handling UI was concurrent lightweight processes with synchronous channel-based communication. That's a mouthful! But it's essentially the model languages like Go use. In fact,

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