stevekl

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by stevekl 12y ago
And don't forget the end-to-end project[1], which is the javascript crypto library by google. The significance of these types of project extend beyond browser privacy. As crypto-currency become more prominent, we NEED better, carefully
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by stevekl 12y ago
Great, another proprietary format. While I want everything to be open and interoperable, I personally work in a startup that aims to make profit. So I also understand the commercial reasons of proprietary technologies. So, I am torn, what s
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by stevekl 12y ago
I always have a mixed feeling about ruby. The "magic-ism" of ruby is something that I just cannot deal with. "require" gives you methods that appear out of nowhere (unlike other language where they are name spaced), meth
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by stevekl 12y ago
Yeah right. Good luck getting me back onto their platform. Last year, our startup was heavily relying on their yahoo local API. One day, we started having a lot of errors. We inspected the errors and it said "NO RESPONSE". We star
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by stevekl 12y ago
I want to use this opportunity to open a discussion and get hacker news community's thoughts on preparing code examples. I always find many contrieved examples in coding guides such as: class Bicycle def initialize(size_of_whee
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by stevekl 12y ago
I am not a functional programmer and I always find that when I read clojure it just looks like layers and layers of nested code. Personally, I find it visually hard to parse. Can someone enlighten me why clojure seems to be the trending lan
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by stevekl 12y ago
I use TOR and I would really like to get a call from comcast so that I can inform Comcast I am using a Navy funded project.
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by stevekl 12y ago
I am so glad that this started off with REGEX. So many coding lessons are so irrelevant to business / law people. No, business people don't need to really learn how to code. They want to learn how to parse / clean messy sprea
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by stevekl 12y ago
Does it mean we can finally have web-based popcorn time? This is REVOLUTIONARY