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by spb 11y ago
Holy cow, that is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing that.
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by spb 11y ago
I'm much more of the http://adblockbar.neocities.org/ mindset, and following the Twittersphere right now, there's a growing front among tech's thought leaders right now that agrees with this.
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by spb 11y ago
> The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies. > When Microsoft and Apple were founded. http://paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html
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by spb 11y ago
Homestar's most recent releases have launched same-day on YouTube so that viewers don't have to be burdened with Flash.
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by spb 11y ago
> So, during this window, if you over price it, it isn't better/faster/cheaper. If it is priced competively, people benefit. The only "losers" are those that have to wait 10 years to rip off your research and clo
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by spb 11y ago
> All it does is add a third case that every application needs to support from here on out. You need to do your sniffing, then register mouse events or touch events or pointer events as necessary. And write similar but different code pat
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by spb 11y ago
For those not already acquainted with TempleOS: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer
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by spb 11y ago
If you think of `var` as a syntactic sugar for a `let` declaration that gets hoisted to the top of its containing function, `let` actually simplifies scoping.
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by spb 11y ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-cod... > You know what, though? Cobol has a great data-description language. If you spend a lot of time formatting dates and currency, and so forth, it’s got
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by spb 11y ago
This is supposed to be an introduction just to the abstract concept of code, yet it includes a section that asks the reader to take a test on whether or not they agree with the author on the effectiveness of domain-specific snippets of Ja
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by spb 11y ago
> Smalltalk’s history is often described as slightly tragic, because many of its best ideas never permeated the culture of code. But it’s still around, still has users, and anyone can use Squeak or Pharo. Also— > > 1. Java is an ob
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by spb 11y ago
Yes, it's possible to have strings for two different things. In what world are those strings going to be cross-evaluated?
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by spb 11y ago
> I've always wanted to attempt this piece: to take all the many layers of abstraction that we deal with, parse them, convert them, and render them through my formidable linguistic talents into one elegant, beautifully constructed p
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by spb 11y ago
> How does someone with that line of thinking even get a job in the gaming industry? The page I linked spells it out in pretty plain terms. In short: being in the right place (in terms of general business experience and family connection
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by spb 11y ago
> Intro articles like this do a lot to reveal biases and misunderstandings. This is one of the reasons I barely recommend any intro articles in Lean Notes ( http://www.leannotes.com/ ): almost every single one is just a st
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by spb 11y ago
There are always going to be people like this, in any field. TSR (of Dungeons & Dragons fame) actually had a CEO who forbid her employees from playtesting their products during work hours, calling it "playing games on company time.
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by spb 11y ago
"How often are you going to be multiplying sevens and cats? Soooo much." Where the fuck does this meme of "fundamental type mismatches come up all the time in ordinary code" come from? What kind of defective system are p
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by spb 11y ago
> Part of me looks at this and thinks, "This is preaching to the choir"...because while the engineer in me appreciates all the layers and explorations...It must be incredibly bewildering to anyone who is not a coder, which is t
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by spb 11y ago
Whenever I read Western diatribes about China now, I can only think of http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/for-american-pundits-...
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by spb 11y ago
As exemplified in Jurassic Park: https://twitter.com/stuartpb/status/474494275212685312 (long-form: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/2j7jo4/r... )
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by spb 11y ago
This is one of the reasons publishing a blog via GitHub Pages is so nice: somebody wants to do copy-editing for you, they can go through the work of creating a pull request, and all you have to do is click the merge button.
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by spb 11y ago
Interesting. I wrote a similar script, in Bash, for my meta.sh project: http://meta.sh/index.sh
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by spb 11y ago
Do you have a link to said talk?
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by spb 11y ago
Vocus appears to be a subsidiary of Cision.
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by spb 11y ago
Does anybody know what license they're going to be going for?
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by spb 11y ago
It's "How to Win Friends and Influence People", and it's one of Paul Graham's recommended books (see http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfaq.html ), along with the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. T
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by spb 11y ago
I generally assume the opposite. If an engineer is outstanding, their actions can speak for themselves, and they won't have to put on airs; if an engineer is mediocre, their only option to hide it will be arrogance.
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by spb 11y ago
Why not both? In general, strive to follow the robustness principle: be liberal (forgiving) in what you accept, and conservative (delicate) in what you output.
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by spb 11y ago
To make it a little more fixed-size and built of known primitives, what about just signing a mutated hash of the content a la HMAC?
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by spb 11y ago
Well, yeah, but as BoppreH said, that's still present in the original article's design. What BoppreH's solution doesn't allow (which is the problem the article raises) is the tricking of Alice into signing arbitrary da

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