singular

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   by singular 16y ago

   I was using ubuntu on my desktop for a year and a half, and it is most definitely a capable system - these days I just don't think windows on the desktop is an option for the serious hacker - unix tools are just too damn useful, too many op
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   by singular 16y ago

   Sure, I agree it's always worth asking and as I said the key is obtaining as much real-world data to go on, so if you can get it, the feedback is invaluable. I have had many, many incidents where they have given very brief, obviously untrue
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   by singular 16y ago

   Two interesting things about that thread - 1. he's gathering real data on women not just theorising, which is smart, 2. something you can't control - looks (fundamentally, obviously if you're very overweight [like me] you can fix that, sa
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   by singular 16y ago

   You forget the impact interviewing has on you emotionally - if you fail x number of interviews, each accompanied by the typical deafening silence as to why, exactly, they don't want you, things start to grate pretty bad. I think it's better
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   by singular 16y ago

   Thanks, good point. Fixed :)
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   by singular 16y ago

   I'm also interested, specifically in parsing techniques, especially GLR :) @terseguy
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   by singular 16y ago

   I found it fascinating that you can actually implement something seemingly so magical in such a small amount of code. I'm down as 22 lines of C#, though to be fair I am cheating vastly and the lines are huge :) http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/2
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   by singular 16y ago

   Actually, fair enough - I suppose I feel there is an an ethical aspect to hacking - you do it because you love it, not for any other compromised reason, I like to think it's better than that. I get the impression the music is just a means t
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   by singular 16y ago

   True, but there is no denying the conventionality of her actual music; she's a product of the same old awful music industry machine, producing meaningless trash, whether or not she 'hacks' weird outfits which get her attention. There is a s
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    by singular 16y ago

    Actually, I heard the bot computers were provided by volunteers. Regardless, the fact that the attacks affect those who have taken neither side, i.e. customers of the sites being targeting, I still feel the behaviour is immoral, not to ment
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    by singular 16y ago

    running a mirror of wikileaks :)
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    by singular 16y ago

    I really don't think this kind of behaviour helps anything. Though we may disagree with the actions of these corporations, using thousands of ordinary people's computers to flood sites many people use for things that have nothing to do with
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    by singular 16y ago

    A real-life example:- a significant chunk of people I have worked with, who are working with computers every day , don't know how to open an application if the application's icon does not appear on the desktop. Seriously.
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    by singular 16y ago

    You miss the point, so let me rephrase it for you. [snip] Okay, well if that is indeed all that is being suggested - fine and I couldn't agree more - but it is so often the case that people want more than the simple system allows them, ve
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    by singular 16y ago

    The question isn't whether it'd be great for people, I agree it would, but rather whether it is at all possible - I honestly think people wouldn't be able to do it beyond a simple level. It's hard to say that without sounding patronising, b
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    by singular 16y ago

    This is such a common idea brought up time and time again - the problem is that most people can't program beyond a very simple level. The fact is that once you get past the simplest level, you are effectively programming, whether or not t
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    by singular 16y ago

    I think the key, underlying, fundamental thing is applicable to all programming - as far as possible, write your code to be understood by other human beings. To me all good practices stem from this - I often get annoyed by cargo-cult, dogma
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    by singular 16y ago

    Please do, very interested :)
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    by singular 16y ago

    Great blog post. Has anybody benefited from using tmux with emacs? Or, when in emacs, is running tmux too overkill?
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    by singular 16y ago

    Thanks for this, very interesting. You didn't mention mocking in the article - to what degree do you use mocking, and where does it fit in the testing pipeline?
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    Rare disorder which renders you insensitive to pain(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by singular 16y ago|0 comments
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    by singular 16y ago

    I absolutely apply the same standard to communism, socialism or any political/economic system. There are alternatives to extremes, which both communism and neoliberalism can safely be described as I think - a Keynesian approach has a great
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    by singular 16y ago

    I've got a copy and will definitely read through it. I've already gained a great deal of pleasure despite having only read a small part of it so far.
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    by singular 16y ago

    thanks all, I can't tell you how much these comments provide relief on this subject!! :)
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    Ask HN: Coding Mistakes = Bad Coder?

    14 points by singular 16y ago|11 comments
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    by singular 16y ago

    > Fair enough. China, Cuba, the USSR.... Hardly wonderful examples of corruption-free parts of the world!! Or ought there be a sarcasm indicator in that message? :)
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    by singular 16y ago

    Risking downvotes but here I go anyway... It's interesting to compare his theory against the country where his theories were first, and arguably most purely put into practice - Pinochet-era Chile. The measures put forward by Friedman + his
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    by singular 16y ago

    It is very tastefully designed, most notably 'true' interfaces, e.g.:- type Foo interface { Bar() Baz() string } type Something struct { // ... } func (s *Something) Bar() { // ... } func (s *Something)
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    by singular 16y ago

    Sure, and I don't claim to be a great programmer by any stretch, rather it's the willingness to improve and to be open to things, within practicality. 'Smart and Gets Things Done' :) Although I do like 'Done and Gets Things Smart' - http:/
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    by singular 16y ago

    I do think the perils of dirty code are often overlooked, especially by management who want a 'quick fix' and feel code quality is vanity. The primary problem with dirty code is that it adds a cognitive tax to the code base - anybody coming