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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
That's just not possible, and for good reason: some things happen now, and some things happen later, and if you need ultra-fine-grained control over what happens when, then you need to be very explicit about what's happening and
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
Now, what do you do when you want to return from that function after loadRealImage() finishes? function loadImage(src) { loadRealImage(src).then(img => /*... return img from loadImage ...?*/); } "Just make it
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
I like the idea of "dynamically reconfiguring the syscalls", but I'm not sure what I would use it for. Exactly this. Little things, like why can't you just write `fs.readFileSync(<server URL>)`? That's all y
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
A friend of mine is a far better webdev than I could hope to be. She knows CSS inside and out, and seems to make it a point of pride to know every little detail. She did it in three years of focused effort, with no prior programming experie
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
It's remarkable how similar this is to learning programming. Anyone remember the lightbulb moment of grokking pointers? And there you were writing C for an arbitrary amount of time t for 0 < t < need for sleep. React devs probabl
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
Start here. Work through all 5 parts. http://chrishecker.com/Miscellaneous_Technical_Articles You'll have to implement each part yourself to understand them. It's not something that can be skimmed. But it's s
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
One interesting aspect of webassembly is that it's feasible to do some advanced program-specific architectures. Consider a website whose img src references are not actually strings, but instead are pointers to memory addresses. Your ap
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
This slide stood out: https://i.imgur.com/t7DAgJo.jpg Failure was accepted as a part of the culture. Today it seems the opposite. Any hint of failure and people seem to distance themselves from your future ambitions. More a
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Stupid Float Tricks (2012)(randomascii.wordpress.com)
8 points by sillysaurus3 8y ago|0 comments
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
> Peter Thiel, six months back, you announced to move your company to Los Angeles, citing doubts about the future of Silicon Valley. And yet, here we are at the headquarters of Thiel Capital in San Francisco! We are moving in August, ke
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
I have no friends who are fascists and I've dropped people because they start espousing those ideas. To me these are ideologies that go beyond just disagreement about how best to structure a society, how powerful government should b
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The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1973)(jofreeman.com)
115 points by sillysaurus3 8y ago|20 comments
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
First of all, I don't have to prove anything Yes, you do. That's pentesting 101. Think of it this way. Would it be reasonable for pentesters to say "You're critically vulnerable. But I haven't verified this"?
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
The quality of HN is more important than winning. Let's have a conversation worth reading. The reason I laid out some creds is because you seemed to ignore the substantive part of my comment, twice now. It is tradition in the security
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
I'm a former pentester. I used to do this kind of work for a living. Secondly, the Snowden leaks were one of the most important events in modern history, and you're on here using them as a cheap way to push your own agenda. Thirdl
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
Your point #11 is a bit distasteful. Beyond that, npm is far more vulnerable. But it rarely matters. The reason is culture and community.
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
The other side in this situation is far into the barrel. But it's mistaken to say HN is a free marketplace of ideas. I could give some substantive points in support of this statement, but it's an old conversation and I've got
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
https://www.blockchain.com/en/btc/address/1LQv8aKtQoiY5M5zka...
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
Amazon prime 2hour delivery. $22 has it at my doorstep in two hours. If I want it faster than that, or cheaper, I walk to the home depot a mile away.
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
I hope the first HN comment is always a book suggestion. :) I recently got rid of my car after four years of living in a city. I don't know why I held onto it for so long, but my life has improved dramatically. Not only can I go anywhe
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
This is a really unique point of view. I think conversations would be improved with this mentality. It might be a bit hard to swallow, though. Who's to say that a streamer is less qualified to analyze character writing in MMOs? After a
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
This ArenaNet situation sounds interesting. Could you post a link to it? I don't see much in search results.
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
mic drop Thank you. This was a legendary answer. I really have been hunting this question for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13764917 This seems like how he did it. Error correcting codes are a natural domain
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
Here's a Feynman mystery that I've asked about for years: http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine... By the end of that summer of 1983, Richard had completed his analysis of the behavior
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
This is an awesome tip. Thanks for the ray of hope. I'll look into it.
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
My too-expensive 2015 MBP has a nonfunctional keyboard. I have to type using external keyboards, which is quite "fun". Apple wants $500. Dragging an old $10 USB keyboard around with you makes you look like you really like mechan
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
I'm trying to imagine the architecture that led to this.
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
Whoops, that's Anarki, not Arc. pg's and rtm's original arc3.1 is on the "official" branch: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/official news.arc is the old HN source code. You
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
To see how quickly HN changed in the old days, skim the feature requests thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 Some feature requests were a matter of days, like user profiles: https://news.ycombinator.
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by sillysaurus3 8y ago
As of 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006 FreeBSD 10.1 Nginx 1.7.10 Racket 6.1.1 with some HN and FreeBSD specific patches. 2x 3GHz Intel Xeon-IvyBridge (E5-2690-V2-DecaCore) 8x16GB Kingston 16GB

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