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by sedachv 10y ago
No need to wonder. That is exactly how C++ vtables work.
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by sedachv 10y ago
Eben Moglen said the same thing during the Q&A at his HOPE 2012 talk: I don't think that the problem of collecting too much is now primarily a byproduct of careless regulation. The problem of collecting too much arises from the fa
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Have the expression for your configuration just perfect? Need to build on multiple VMs, machines, EC2? +1. Dependency management and deployment is the biggest problem Nix solves and it is the only system that actually does so instead o
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Gonna play devil's advocate: shouldn't we wait a generation or something like 10 years to evaluate the situation ? Cannabis is not a "recent situation" - people have been consuming cannabis since prehistoric times.
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by sedachv 10y ago
I looked into this a little bit. Alternatives include OpenRC (complements but does not replace init), runit, upstart (looks like most distributions that used upstart are switching to systemd), and GNU Shepherd. I am looking at trying out GN
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by sedachv 10y ago
> In philosophy, later philosophers may suggest a counterargument to the early philosopher, but as philosophy does not normally deal in absolutes it is impossible to say the later philosopher is now more correct and worth reading instead
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by sedachv 10y ago
Here are a few of the books on my bookshelf that are not available as ebooks for purchase and would probably be very hard to find pirated copies of: The Psychology of Computer Programming The Paralation Model Handbook of Human
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by sedachv 10y ago
No need to quit your job or move to Italy. Turn notifications off on your phone, get an espresso machine for your home, buy some decent table wine. Get the books you want to read and start reading them. Go to the library on the weekends. Ar
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by sedachv 10y ago
I still think that John Reppy's Concurrent ML design is the best thought out way to do non-blocking IO and event handling. There has been a lot of progress on CML but Reppy's 1992 PhD dissertation remains a very readable introduct
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by sedachv 10y ago
According to what I remember reading in https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engine-not-camera before the Black-Scholes formula started being applied by traders, the market prices did not correspond to the prices predicted b
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by sedachv 10y ago
The Voice of America has been operating since 1942: http://www.insidevoa.com/p/5831.html
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by sedachv 10y ago
ESR is Eric S Raymond, a troll that made his fame from writing about/antagonizing the Free Software community. His "accomplishments" include starting the "Open Source vs Free Software" naming controversy and ruining
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by sedachv 10y ago
You should read this article about Internet use in Saudi Arabia: http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/your-app-isnt-helping-the-p...
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Am I missing something? Yes: the common sense to not troll Lisp threads. How annoying would it be if for every Haskell thread someone jumped in with a comment like "Haskell is not homoiconic or reflective, I feel I've lost th
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by sedachv 10y ago
Another reason to pass on Kaby Lake is the hardware digital restrictions management built into the chip: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/11/netflix-4k-streaming-...
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by sedachv 10y ago
Do you know about the Common Lisp loop macro? You can write the same list comprehension as in the article with almost exactly the same syntax using CL loop for , if and collect clauses. It is hard to take criticism like "<Lan
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by sedachv 10y ago
Pretty much. The history of technology/human-built objects is fascinating and a lot more nuanced and involved than most people realize. The tiniest details in design and production processes can have a huge impact. We are at a point in
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by sedachv 10y ago
> The JVM is written in C, Python/Perl/Ruby/v8 etc. are written in C or C++. This is disingenuous - that's exactly like saying that ZetaC on the Lisp Machine was written in Lisp and not in microcode, so Symbolics is a
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by sedachv 10y ago
> The OS clearly seems to be going in the direction of Smalltalk or a Lisp machine as an environment. What would it look like, or what would be the limitations of a merged OS/programming environment with something like a single SQLi
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by sedachv 10y ago
Functions can be memoized, procedures cannot. This means that you cannot use anything from mathematical logic for compiler optimizations or program checking/linting or verification. It basically means that you go from at least the poss
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by sedachv 10y ago
I think it is no exaggeration to say that until Eelco Dolstra's 2006 PhD dissertation there is nothing worthwhile to mention: http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Unix is polyglot by design; that's a feature and not a bug. No it is not. Unix was always built around C with other languages as an afterthought, even late in its development. Here are some quotes from my copy of the UNIX time-s
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by sedachv 10y ago
There are magnitudes more alcoholic doctors and other professionals out there. By your logic we should be bringing back the prohibition.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Studying the correct things does. Free education in no way encourages people to study the correct things (the in-demand skills that pay). Your argument implies that everyone is too stupid to go to school for the "correct things.&q
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> I know I don't want parents/grandparents ODing on heroin in a parking lot with a child in the back of the car. [1] So where does society start to fix this? 1. Provide universal access to free abortions and contraception so th
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by sedachv 10y ago
> If government gave retraining - by which I mean REAL retraining rather than a cheap (lowest private sector bidder running it, minimal quality requirements) course to draft a CV and perhaps import some low job security call centre work.
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Your App Isn't Helping the People of Saudi Arabia(theconcourse.deadspin.com)
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Reversal of Fortune is a 2005 Showtime documentary that asks the question "What would a homeless person do if they were given $100,000?" That sounds like such a great film about this issue. Ted sounds like a really hard-worki
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by sedachv 10y ago
> They may in fact look more similar to the upper middle class of 20 years ago, albeit with smaller, crappier homes. If the conjecture is true, it would be a really powerful example of how great wealth inequality has gotten, and how abso
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What is a gib? http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gib

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