samhw

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by samhw 5y ago
Could it not be knock-on effects of earlier changes? Or indeed post-review changes from scared/precarious engineers?
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist, but it's hard to resist that conclusion, given the facts (as is the gist of my other replies above). Well, it's either a conspiracy or a fuckup - or more likely a combination of t
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by samhw 5y ago
Oh no, I didn't mean it in a critical way. I was just hedging my agreement by acknowledging that it sounds a bit mad, but it does seem to be practically the only interpretation which actually coheres with the facts. My guess is that, l
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by samhw 5y ago
It feels a bit tin-foil-hattish (I mean: why?), but, aside from my stupefaction at the possible motivation behind why they would do that, logically I find it pretty hard to deny that conclusion. They identify AQ/ISIS plots which are f
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by samhw 5y ago
Absolutely. Coming from philosophy to CS, I definitely appreciate I had much more power in the former. Hell, you can see the power of philosophy (or cod philosophy) if you read Facebook or Twitter comments about people's political stan
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by samhw 5y ago
All that intelligence and they still can't figure out how to stop a bunch of unemployed basementarians from organising on Facebook to storm one of their principal seats of government... (Sorry for the Twitter-grade comment - but I do s
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by samhw 5y ago
The 'right-clicker mentality' seems to be effectively another word for hacker culture, no?
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by samhw 5y ago
And what about 100? 25? 10?
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by samhw 5y ago
Ignore this person. This is ludicrous. The OP plagiarised this site, posted this on Show HN as "I built [this site]", and wrote a blog post about how he "built" it, with no mention of the original which he cut-and-pasted
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by samhw 5y ago
> You will get 98% of the way there. "Kills 98% of viruses" is good enough for hand soap, but it's not good enough for the vital infrastructure that basically all software relies on. Now that we have self-driving cars, roc
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by samhw 5y ago
And, like I wrote above, literally the 'Inspired by' section itself was stolen from the original website. I'm sorry for repeating myself, but I'm in awe of how brazen this guy is.
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by samhw 5y ago
Well, it's generally frowned upon to pass off someone else's work as your own. Hell, he wrote an entire blog post detailing the process of 'building' this website (linked above). It's staggeringly brazen. The only t
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, it's hosted at https://cric-code.pankajtanwar.in/ ;)
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by samhw 5y ago
Plus, like I said elsewhere, even the "Inspired by" section itself is copied from the original site. The entire page is copied verbatim, with only the text switched out for his cricket theme. I'm sorry to the OP, but you just
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by samhw 5y ago
Hmm, it's pretty crap not to mention where the overwhelming majority of the code was clearly taken from – given they wrote a diary documenting how 'they' built this project, and then posted it on HN. And it's not 'i
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by samhw 5y ago
Haha, at a multi-billion-dollar company too, in my case. The truth is that companies don't tend towards the best code possible, they tend towards the worst code allowable to serve their purposes.
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by samhw 5y ago
That's true, but the main argument made by the website is about the space advantage, so it's very relevant that that space advantage is basically nullified by the widespread use of compression. If your worry is parsing speed, then
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by samhw 5y ago
> Though I'm sure someone's going to step in and say "Have you not heard of [stupendously niche use case]?" > they might hand-edit a machine-generated one to make a change someplace in it Ah, there's [stupendo
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by samhw 5y ago
If you have gigabytes of handwritten JSON (if it's not handwritten, trailing vs non-trailing commas surely don't matter), then I feel like you're doing something wrong. Though I'm sure someone's going to step in and
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by samhw 5y ago
> the very sweet business owner was concerned about the modem getting too cold with the winter weather and had wrapped it in a blanket That's adorable. Thanks for sharing it :)
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by samhw 5y ago
This site is notionally devoted to Unix timestamps, but it covers a few popular formats: https://www.unixtimestamp.com/
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by samhw 5y ago
> If a compact columnar representation is what you're after to avoid having to repeat every field name in an array of objects (which CSV is good for) Plus, as I wrote elsewhere, gzipping your JSON will result in essentially "av
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by samhw 5y ago
Precisely. Many people don't realise how exceptionally well JSON compresses. Provided you're using it the way most do, to send arrays of objects which share the same set of keys (or some subset thereof), then all the keys will end
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by samhw 5y ago
> There are things known as facts, and things known as lies. Yes, I understand that. But if you want to give the state the power to ban speech (or 'throttle' speech, whatever that means) then you need to give someone the power
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by samhw 5y ago
You keep not understanding that the problem is using words like 'legitimate' and 'known'. You can't keep sneaking those in, in such a factive way. In real life, people don't have labels floating above their hea
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm alarmed by anyone who can genuinely talk of 'legitimate speech' and not see the issues here.
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by samhw 5y ago
I've read about that. It's astonishing. That's much more of a worry, admittedly, the way they target local news. It's still much less potent than Facebook-grade targeting, but it's a rung above national news, grante
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by samhw 5y ago
Thank you. I hate this increasingly common attitude that free speech should be constrained because [political candidate or movement which I don't like] is in the ascendancy. You can really see someone's ideals in what they do unde
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by samhw 5y ago
Agreed. This is straightforward fraud: they promised to find the lowest possible prices, and instead deliberately overcharged people in order to line their own pockets. In a properly regulated industry, this would be a violation of their fi
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by samhw 5y ago
It really is. They use stuff like political wedge issues to hook people in, not unlike like the payload delivery mechanism that installs the daemon which enrolls your computer in the botnet. And then they use their botnet against the actua

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