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Theranos will close labs and wellness centers, laying off hundreds of employees(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by seertaak 10y ago|0 comments
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by seertaak 11y ago
I don't think the libraries are the only reason python has a strong following -- after all, perl also has a huge collection of libraries. I realize there's a healthy dollop of subjectivity in all this, but here are what I think th
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by seertaak 11y ago
<rant> It's sad that clojure opted, for no good reason IMHO (ease of implementation, perhaps?), not to allow reader macros. I know, they claim that reader macros lead to "snowflake" code. But this is lisp . If you don&
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by seertaak 11y ago
Ok, yeah, you're right -- I forgot those other cases. Thanks for the clarification.
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by seertaak 11y ago
Assuming x is not a boolean, I think not x would be sufficient in the case of Python.
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by seertaak 11y ago
It was a while ago, and I tried using it at work -- for simple tasks, tasks that would have taken tens of minutes using either Java or Python. With Haskell it would invariably take much, much longer. It would look really beautiful at the en
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by seertaak 11y ago
I have to say, as a C++ developer, I'm really impressed with Rust's progress in the last year. Creating a browser rendering engine is a complicated task -- it's a very strong proof that the language is practical. Rust also se
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by seertaak 11y ago
The Paul Krugman delusion : thinking a little or a lot more of the policies that have produced little to no improvement will suddenly work if we do it just one more time .
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by seertaak 12y ago
> There are countless fables about record company executives dropping by the mastering studio to hear the new hit in its finished form. There are, but equally, there are tales of real genius among record company bosses too. Here's a
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by seertaak 12y ago
Probably gonna get downvoted for this, but I'm a fan of the python-style syntax. Nice work!
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by seertaak 12y ago
I love this plugin -- it's not perfect, but it gives me just enough of vim to make XCode pleasant to use.
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by seertaak 12y ago
Exactly -- the problem is regulatory arbitrage. Mrs. Kross, like so many other clueless pols, is so dazzled by the money and intelligence of these firms that she has lost her ability to think critically about what they are doing .
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by seertaak 12y ago
That's not the evil part. The evil part is how they appropriate, to varying degrees, the works of content creators, and then sell advertising on top.
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by seertaak 12y ago
> This is the exact opposite of what I want in C++. This is the exact response I was expecting to go to the top of hacker news -- negative and dismissive. Also, it's nonsense. Go to a Python mailing list, and count the number of ema
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by seertaak 12y ago
I've been using TextSecure for my private messaging and am a big fan. I can't wait for WhisperSystems to release the iPhone version of the app -- at that point, all my family's communications will go through TextSecure.
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by seertaak 12y ago
> There are also some optimizations around move semantics That piqued my curiosity -- would you mind going into a little more detail, or point me to somewhere where these are discussed?
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by seertaak 13y ago
I don't think it's really that different -- either Scala does some magic to desugar the operators into method calls taking into account operator preference , or you're going to get results that don't match expectations.
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by seertaak 13y ago
You really should be saying that to bluntly_said -- his/her comments are far more unhinged than Kuranamon. e.g. "fucking PATHETIC" "yo FUCKHEAD" "FUCK YOU" "...you're a bully. A fucking FUCKHEAD
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by seertaak 13y ago
I do agree and I think it's really swell that you appreciate my agreement.
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by seertaak 13y ago
As Karunamon states, no more evidence is needed than his financial support for a bigoted law, and his subsequent failure to rescind this support. It's kind of sad that this needs to be repeated so often, but Proposition 8 was an attemp
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by seertaak 13y ago
He does mention SSE: "Replacing the _mm_andnot_si128 intrinsic with an actual and-not on vectors caused gcc to use other, slower instructions instead of the vmovq to move the result out of the SSE registers for reasons I don't par
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by seertaak 13y ago
Ever since Facebook bought whatsapp, my partner, family and I have switched to TextSecure, and we've been very happy so far. If you're concerned about Facebook's record on privacy, TextSecure is the way to go. They recently a
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by seertaak 13y ago
Is TextSecure only for SMS messages, or does it use the internet? I'm asking because of the need to send text messages abroad (at a reasonable price). Also, is there a desktop client for TextSecure? I would love something like WhatsApp
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by seertaak 13y ago
Because I'm writing an app in Objective-C/C++ at the same time, and I'd like to focus on that :)
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by seertaak 13y ago
That's kind of the direction I'm leaning -- anyway, there are pretty good pre-made templates, so I could always use on of them. Thanks for your advice.
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Ask HN: What's a fair price for an "app" website, and related blog?
1 points by seertaak 13y ago|5 comments
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by seertaak 13y ago
At the risk of sounding like a complete idiot: can't they send on slightly different frequencies or wavelengths? Or: why don't they just copy the design of antennas in mobile phones? What's different technically from mobile p
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by seertaak 13y ago
Isn't that pedantry? ;)
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by seertaak 13y ago
True, but append "while retaining access to my favourite high-level abstractions like classes, generic containers and algorithms" and now it is no longer true. That's the difference: in C++ you get the abstractions -- just li
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by seertaak 13y ago
Any ARM experts around? The sagacity of the move to 64-bit is explained in terms of getting rid of cruft, and via analogy to a similar move by Intel on the x86 line. But I thought that the largest boost to that line comes from the many addi

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