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by seisvelas 7y ago
What is the podcast?
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by seisvelas 7y ago
Okay, you got me. I am in the camp that says calling the library is (in the general case) obviously the better choice. My (camp's) reasoning: 1. Your handrolled solution is likely worse than the library anyway 2. You're wasting ef
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by seisvelas 7y ago
Some good stuff in there! I really like this one: Forgiveness Users like to explore an interface and often learn by trial and error. An effective interface allows for interactive discovery. It provides only appropriate sets of choices and w
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Ask HN: What cool cybersecurity things am I missing out on?
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by seisvelas 7y ago
Racket has already been mentioned in this thread, but I think https://beautifulracket.com/ deserves a special mention. It is a diamond of programming literature and fabulously teaches the topic of language oriented programm
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by seisvelas 7y ago
>That’s why they call it “the orient”. Not challenging your claim that East-on-top is common (since I have no idea), but: it's called the orient because oriens is Latin for rising, and the sun rises in the east. Many other languages
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by seisvelas 7y ago
What is Wasp implemented in? It has the feel of a Racket project for some reason and I'm curious if my intuition is right. But either way, curious to know how this was made. Pretty cool
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by seisvelas 7y ago
While <marquee> support is near universal, I was sad to find out that <blink> has not fared so well. I'm sure a lot of you already know this easter egg, but if you search "blink tag" in Google, Google makes all th
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by seisvelas 7y ago
One way to avoid poverty in that case would be to not buy a yacht, for example. Any amount of money is nearly poverty level if you spend it all on luxuries. Edit: I am dumb and completely missed the joke. Poe's law in action!
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by seisvelas 7y ago
I used to agree, but the name actually seems to have an ironic marketing benefit: Everyone ascribes Cockroach's success to its technical merit. I've never heard Cockroach criticized as another dumb web dev trend caused by marketin
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by seisvelas 7y ago
I completely agree with your overall point, I was just making an aside about the tendency of more inherently secure systems to sometimes lead to dev laziness. The same thing can happen to Rust devs, but I wouldn't argue that it isn&#x2
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by seisvelas 7y ago
> I'm very unlikely to find XSS in a simple React app I do offensive security. A lot of developers are ignorant of when/how React apps tend to be XSS vulnerable. Since it has a reputation as being 'safe' from XSS, dev
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by seisvelas 7y ago
>He is not, in truth, an anarchist. He's also the creator of the Anarchist Yacht Club and has produced voice content for Audio Anarchy audiobooks. In his documentary about sailing (Hold Fast, it's really good) he flies a black
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by seisvelas 7y ago
> mIRC Ha! Never thought I'd hear mIRC described as a top-class client. Unix has irssi, and I'd opine that even Xchat is better than mIRC. I hadn't though of mIRC in so long. It makes me think back to the days of planning
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by seisvelas 7y ago
My Python code ultimately runs on a circuit, but it feels lacking to say that my program is the circuitry. The program itself only has meaning inside of my mind, and in fact could exist equally well on paper. It exists conceptually even
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by seisvelas 7y ago
Beej's guide is fantastic. I found it from the suggested reading on one of the OverTheWire wargames. I think of it as the true sequel to K&R.
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by seisvelas 7y ago
I worked for years as a sysadmin grepping through history because I'm just learning this from you. Thanks!
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by seisvelas 7y ago
What are the ongoing CCC talks? Sounds interesting.
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by seisvelas 7y ago
"Second to last"
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by seisvelas 7y ago
Interesting! Imagine a world in which GNU had been more successful in developing their Hurd kernel and their vision of Guile as the general embedded scripting language for GNU applications. Had that happened, the GNU OS could have had a mor
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by seisvelas 7y ago
I'm currently creating a SQL dialect with Racket. It's great!
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by seisvelas 7y ago
Awesome! I've loved Racket for years, but sometimes I question whether I'd be better off investing all of that energy into building experience with more career relevant technologies. In reality, though, I just can't let go of
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by seisvelas 7y ago
Cool! Aside from satisfying the preference for a non-Schemey syntax, what is the advantage of Fleck over the Scheme shell (who's manual page contains this classic gem of a rant: https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.
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by seisvelas 7y ago
I think that to use PHP embedded in HTML documents (the classical way, with <?php ?> tags) is effectively just using mod_php for Apache as your templating/page serving system, right? I haven't used PHP in many many years, an
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by seisvelas 7y ago
I think the difference is that the Indians were subjected to colonization, whereas the American rebels were themselves the colonists. It would be more similar to a rebellion of the British governors/Raj in India against the Crown, wh
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by seisvelas 7y ago
Sincere question here - was it really that lucky? Other colonies that didn't separate seem to have a similar (occasionally even higher) standard of living than the US. Were a lot of really good things caused by the independence of the
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by seisvelas 7y ago
>"The Internet" is a particular internet running a particular protocol suite (TCP/IP) This is nitpicky, but I think a lot of traffic considered part of 'The Internet' UDP as well these days.
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by seisvelas 7y ago
>I’ve lived in rural Tokyo Did you mean to say rural Japan?
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by seisvelas 7y ago
>In most other languages, a string is extremely straightforward because it was designed into the language from the start. I think one of the classic advantages of C++ over C is that you have the option of std::string instead of char arra
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by seisvelas 7y ago
What does orthogonal mean as an adjective for a programming language? I've never heard that word outside of math and I always get excited by a word that might expand my ability to think about code.

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