sitharus

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811.
by sitharus 12y ago
The problem with that is these people planned for what was promised to them. As a younger person in a skilled occupation, like most HNers I expect, I have no expectation on the state to provide for me and consequently have my own provisions
812.
by sitharus 12y ago
To add to that, Markdown was created to scratch one person's itch with no real desire to support a wider community. It was put online and other people liked it and modified it, but the original site doesn't have any of this.
813.
by sitharus 12y ago
But there isn't a standardised version of Markdown. There's John Gruber's original syntax, and there are dozens if not hundreds of variants. When some enterprising people declared they had created "Standard Markdown&quot
814.
by sitharus 12y ago
I used to run my own mailserver. It was alright, but occasionally I'd screw up the config and not notice for days, or my auto-update of spamassassin would fail and I'd get heaps of spam. I moved to Google Apps when it was in beta,
815.
by sitharus 12y ago
That's actually a solved problem! As the article mentioned, it works the other way around - the browser specifies what it can receive. Since this wasn't around from day 1 it's really opt-in. Sure, sometimes Google make a SNAF
816.
by sitharus 12y ago
Fortunately Postgres is getting a lot more replication love. You can already do a lot with the warm-standby and FDWs to do basic sharding, and they're rolling in a lot more to 9.4 and 9.5. EnterpriseDB are the place to look for that to
817.
by sitharus 12y ago
You are correct, fork() is part of the POSIX specification, Windows does not implement POSIX.
818.
by sitharus 12y ago
The strangest part of my recent trip to Canada was places using cash. It was odd having that bulky stuff in my wallet, I haven't paid in cash for at least 5 years, for anything. However, New Zealand has the world's largest use of
819.
by sitharus 12y ago
Because they're intentionally breaking your property. Sure it can be fixed, but it's the intent that's worrying. Simply refusing to work - perhaps logging something to the event log about counterfeit products - would be fine.
820.
by sitharus 12y ago
on my 2012 rMBP running 10.10: Firefox 33: 33.255 Safari 8.0: 16.454 Chrome 38: 22.048 I should install Windows 10 tech preview underbootcamp and see how that goes.
821.
by sitharus 12y ago
As a fellow coeliac I have also had those experiences, no idea what caused them but they went away with the gluten free diet. After being gluten free for 10 years now it's so easy to tell when I've eaten something that contains gl
822.
by sitharus 12y ago
Currently it's Location, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, various internet accounts (Twitter, Facebook etc) and Accessibility - which is required for an app to read/control what's on screen. A lot of game launchers (Origin, Wo
823.
by sitharus 12y ago
That's true, but "Lol that sucks" helps nobody. Most people are fine with constructive or subjective criticism, like "I don't like Objective-C because I really like pushing the shift key for my braces". From th
824.
by sitharus 12y ago
When I started programming it was ZX Spectrum BASIC. No abstractions other than some symbols. Then I moved on to Perl, then PHP and eventually C# - all increasing abstraction from the hardware, but all mutable state and based off how hardwa
825.
by sitharus 12y ago
As someone quite familiar with the situation, you're better off saying "Fuck you Intuit". They spend millions of dollars a year lobbying to keep the tax system complex. You can start here: http://www.propublica.or
826.
by sitharus 12y ago
Despite being a socialist in most respects, I have to agree with you. Property is either public, with the state responsible for all incidents and maintenance, or private with a landowner responsible and within their rights to control access
827.
by sitharus 12y ago
While I'm unsure of what a http query api would look like it would be hugely useful. Every language has some sort of http and xml or Json library, and so do many monitoring tools. I probably wouldn't use it for an application, but
828.
by sitharus 12y ago
Postgres has had hot standby replication since 9.1, along with streaming replication. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Hot_Standby As for scaling horizontally at the db level that can be achieved with foreign data wrap
829.
by sitharus 12y ago
It's certainly true that there are women in the sex industry against their will, and still more who would rather not be in that industry. I don't see how making it illegal would change that though. Personally I agree on a basic in
830.
by sitharus 12y ago
Actually, Roslyn targets Mono as a first-class citizen, so it'll run on any Mono-supported platform :) Not sure how much progress they've made on that yet though as it's not release ready.
831.
by sitharus 12y ago
Immutability is an excellent tool to manage mutability. It lets you make guarantees about what won't change, which allows for some really great optimisations - like safe cross-thread reads without locks. I agree it's not right for
832.
by sitharus 12y ago
Slight correction - it wasn't NASA that recovered the video, rather NASASpaceflight.com, an independent community of spaceflight fans.
833.
by sitharus 12y ago
Not the same, but they had the same problem - GC pauses when it likes, not when you like. If you know calling move_hero() takes 23ms, 15 of which is ARC you can plan for that. You can't plan for move_hero() taking 7ms, except when GC h
834.
by sitharus 12y ago
ARC may be slower than a good GC, but what it has is deterministic behaviour. A 10ms pause could be tolerable if you know when it will happen. A fair few years ago I worked in the murky world of J2ME games, and a common pattern was byte[] _
835.
by sitharus 12y ago
Except with pattern matching, built-in immutability, extensible classes, curried function and tagged unions. More like F# 2.0 in feature set.
836.
by sitharus 12y ago
I'm 30. I don't remember everything, but I do know the basics, and most importantly I remember what it is and what problems it can solve.
837.
by sitharus 12y ago
Same, I run 10.9.3 on five machines - 6 year old Mac Pro, a 2 year old 13" MacBook Pro, a 2 year old retina MacBook Pro and a 6 month old MacBook Air. I use AirPlay, external monitors and projectors all the time. No problems here. As w
838.
by sitharus 12y ago
The immediate window is fairly limited. It can't evaluate lambdas for example, so you can't quickly write linq. Possibly more like linqpad?
839.
by sitharus 12y ago
Javascript represents all numbers as IEEE 754 floating point. Base 2 floating point isn't good for representing base 10 decimals.
840.
by sitharus 13y ago
With the new sgen GC it's viable. The old Bohem-based GC was pretty terrible with F# as it allocates a huge number of transient objects. As for tools, beyond frameworks Xamarin Studio has a good-enough F# environment. There's also

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