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by seles 15y ago
"As the post states, it's certainly not needed for REPL interaction with a browser" Ok, it is not needed per se, but how can it be done without also writing your own parser and evalulator? I didn't see mention of the how in the article. Als
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by seles 15y ago
Static analysis is already being done, since it is being compiled. Supercompilation taken to the extreme is very slow, but don't take it to the extreme, doing just enough to evaluate the expressions which are passed into eval would be fine
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by seles 15y ago
One idea: instead of making the formula for article placement based on the points and decay based on time of creation, don't use time of creation in the formula at all, and instead make just the points themselves decay. This way old things
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by seles 15y ago
A large advantage of lisp like languages is the data-as-code paradigm. To give up eval is to give up this. It is definitely impossible to efficiently compile code with evals for all possible programs, but lots of code using the data-as-code
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by seles 15y ago
Only if IBM knows Microsoft is using XYZ
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by seles 15y ago
"Patent trolls are hard to fight precisely because they create nothing. Big companies are safe from being sued by other big companies because they can threaten a counter-suit. But because patent trolls don't make anything, there's nothing t
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by seles 15y ago
"This is mostly about the property-auction rule, which I can confirm that nobody ever knows about." And still no one knows about it, because it was never explained in that article either. For the curious: If the player lands on an unowned p
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by seles 15y ago
Microsoft, here is a marketing tip: release ideas like this in the winter!...
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by seles 15y ago
> > Friends let friends login. > Every OS ever has had this feature. It's called "Users" Uh, not iphones/pads (iOS)... so yes that is a big deal
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by seles 15y ago
This would be "certainly" only if the system worked perfectly. I think there will way more false positives than actual preventions (at least in the near term).
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by seles 15y ago
Alerting driver of potential pedestrian = good Automatically making a decision (that the human is better at making) and potentially causing an accident due to a random sudden stop = bad
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by seles 15y ago
I kept expecting lodsys to just go away. It is now clear they won't. Now that they have demonstrated how profitable it can be to exploit the laws of patents, there probably will be new companies popping up trying to do the same thing, and i
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by seles 15y ago
This and window, middle, aisle ordered boarding have an obvious fault: it will breakup groups. This will cause confusion and stress, especially for families.
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by seles 15y ago
Thank goodness for HN, wouldn't have wanted to miss that.
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by seles 15y ago
Could you elaborate on this please, how did google force samsung to release a phone with gps?
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by seles 15y ago
I realize it is in bad taste to comment before reading the whole article (only 1/3 through yet). But I cannot help but see the irony in taking so many words to say that size is bad for programs.
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by seles 15y ago
Hmm, at first glance, his rating is pretty low. But he made a total of $124. I am guessing this is because he was an early adopter of topcoder and they gave out prizes easier back then. I think this probably is the real Zuckerberg because o
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by seles 15y ago
This type of reasoning is bad: you don't die 15 years earlier, your life deteriorates earlier, making the good years less.
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by seles 15y ago
That is just how much people search for it. Here is traffic: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/facebook.com#
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by seles 15y ago
Yes, SMS is not going anywhere as a result of this. Google voice has been around, and it already enables SMS less SMSs but doesn't suffer the weakness iMessage does: google voice is inter-operable with other carriers. The reasons google voi
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by seles 15y ago
Another opposite extreme is an OOP language which has no methods. And instead each "method" is really just a data variable which is a closure, making it behave nearly identically to a real method. You could avoid needing these "methods" def
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by seles 15y ago
This whole hoarding argument is bogus: it assumes bitcoin will fail because bitcoin will be so successful that people will hoard.
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by seles 15y ago
What is wrong with data?
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by seles 15y ago
Everyone keeps debating whether or not the built in deflation is good or bad. But... how does bitcoin have built in deflation? It only has a decreasing rate of inflation, which can't go negative (since bitcoins aren't destroyed). So assumin
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by seles 15y ago
Agreed. Was I the only one that interpreted the title as meaning, Team17 will teach you one small change that can make YOUR game a hit?
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by seles 15y ago
"a unique wiki where every article is simultaneously a document and a piece of code" <- except that article
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by seles 15y ago
I'm trying to parse this but it still doesn't make perfect sense What did you want to bring that book that I didn't want to be read to out of up for
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by seles 15y ago
I doubt this will every successfully result in a stolen camera being recovered. But, it is a cool new idea that certainly has other obvious applications such as finding other photos by the same camera. Would it be better rebranded to a diff
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by seles 15y ago
"Burn, 6 years later." shh, be a quiet professional
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by seles 15y ago
But 52% of quoted statistics are false

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