swartkrans

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by swartkrans 12y ago
I flagged this article not because of the actual article, but because of the discussion here which has turned pretty negative and sordid. The anti-american comments and politics are a huge turn off.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I have had chocolat installed for a long time and I sometimes use it when I don't want to look at a file in vim, which is pretty often when I just want to read the code. I hang out in the #chocolat channel on Freenode. My take on it is
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> FTP Please do not use FTP, FTP sends everything over the wire in clear text, across the entire internet. You should not be using FTP for anything ever. Use SFTP, scp, HTTPS from the server, but not FTP.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> I'm taking bets on what the name of the next revision will be when Android TV fails. Chrome TV
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Is that running Google TV?
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by swartkrans 12y ago
As an aside, I don't think you are using the word "nerf" correctly here. "nerf" is a gaming term that means turning a powerful weapon into basically a nerf gun. It means to make something cause less damage or make s
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> making apps for Microsoft platforms. They're both not great, so you would just be trading one set of problems for another. You might want to look at building web applications, which also has problems. There is no perfect platform.
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Revenge of the Unforgiven(nytimes.com)
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I didn't downvote you, I can't since you replied to me, but you are selectively quoting the article, which may have been the reason. The article also said the Elk population was reduced by the wolves, and that this impacted plant
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by swartkrans 12y ago
How could you know what your threads are doing at the time you call fork? That doesn't sound safe. I write such code in a way that threads communicate with each other when they need to, but if I start assuming what those threads are do
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by swartkrans 12y ago
That opinion piece says the impacts affecting the park are more nuanced and complicated than the popular narrative of the reintroduction of wolves would lead one to believe, it doesn't say it's entirely wrong.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
For those that can't watch the video, aka tldr, the deers in Yellowstone National Park were apparently very destructive, and the harm caused by them was lessened when wolves arrived. The wolves also reduced the coyote population. Fores
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I'd really like to see Bart extend to Marin County. Like why isn't that even an option when a second transbay tube is? An extension to San Rafael, Marin City and maybe even Novato would be greatly appreciated.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I'd say Go is becoming mainstream pretty quickly. I think Clojure isn't far away and Rust is showing big promise. I doubt based on probably under-informed personal observation that Haskell, Scheme or Julia will ever become widely
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Do you still work for NASA, and did your paper succeed?
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> And governments can’t shut them down. This is not true. Mesh networks are vulnerable to electronic warfare. Governments can use measures usually reserved for electronic warfare[1] to disrupt all signals except the ones the government n
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by swartkrans 12y ago
What a waste. Such talent and skill destroyed in an instant, forever.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
What software could someone write today and finish in an evening that would be as widely known and useful as PING is?
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by swartkrans 12y ago
With owncloud if there's a fire in your house, or your cat knocks over a pitcher of water over your server, you lose your stuff. Plus it would be slow as dirt, since upload is limited by your ISP, and especially slow if you're tra
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> You could build your own dropbox. It's not that complex. It would be incredibly complex to build your own Dropbox. Maybe it wouldn't be "complex" to use rsync to automatically copy files over to some other drive if
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Persona is also defunct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364465 http://identity.mozilla.com/post/78873831485/transitioning-p...
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by swartkrans 12y ago
This article makes me genuinely angry for burying the explanation for why 12 foot traffic lanes are dangerous beneath many paragraphs of what the author clearly thought must have been clever banter, wasting my time. Note to authors: put the
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I wonder how he felt about his fame, you can't shake that off. Maybe I misunderstand his argument, but it seems like he could have used that argument to just always write anonymously.
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by swartkrans 12y ago
His answer was painful to watch. That was not a good answer, even naive given how she asked the question. Not asking for a raise is a superpower when so many women are experiencing a pay gap that is attributed, in part, to not asking for r
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Why do you think it's an anti-pattern?
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by swartkrans 12y ago
What is Disney's interest in this type of technology?
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I like the idea of prefetching data if it is done apart from serving the HTTP response, blocking an HTTP response for an API call seems problematic. Hacker News doesn't update that frequently so it could be scheduled independently of a
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by swartkrans 12y ago
I like it and I very much like react.js, but there's a very bad flash of no content followed by quick iterative loading, a frequent problem with pure JavaScript applications. I bet your react component's render is calling multiple
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by swartkrans 12y ago
Seems like given the above problems you would only want to use this with non-critical data of which you didn't care a great deal about its integrity. This doesn't describe a lot of use cases. It's not too hard to get memcache
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by swartkrans 12y ago
> Not every toddler needs 24/7 supervision Yes, every toddler needs 24/7 supervision. > and once they identify harming things Some of those harming things are really bad, even life threatening. > I strongly believe that t

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