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by swolchok 17y ago
I thought you weren't a real celebrity without both fame and money anyway.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Arc: MzScheme core, then Arc.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Can you please restore the word "Explaining" to the front of the title? It appears to appeal to a different audience without that word.
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by swolchok 17y ago
A pricing model that is not cost-plus pricing?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Is this a joke? The URL spells "panic".
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by swolchok 17y ago
There is a really good rebuttal to said implementation entitled "What Colour are your Bits?" at http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506986 ).
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by swolchok 17y ago
Funny, flexibility is touted as a Django benefit. It's easy to just not use all of those Django things as well.
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by swolchok 17y ago
The point is that the cost of defending against all possible attacks may very well be too high to be worthwhile. If you argue that this is impossible, consider the extreme case where the cost is equal to our GDP (or an appreciable fraction
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by swolchok 17y ago
Read the FAQ.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I thought Unladen Swallow had good reasons to be on 2.x, such as the fact that Google is on 2.x internally. Maybe Google's decided it's time to migrate? EDIT: the FAQ I was thinking of is at the top of http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swal
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by swolchok 17y ago
They can grab all your passwords, because you're going to type them into their service, and because it's a web service, they can switch the implementation as they please. If it's implemented as they seem to imply (server just sends you an
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by swolchok 17y ago
I bet it involves A*.
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by swolchok 17y ago
So the Google Voice app doesn't do any fancy VoIP, it just uses the phone as a phone? What happens if you just have WiFi and try to use GV?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Started yesterday: Lark, a toy Arc-like language implemented on top of Python instead of Scheme. ( http://www.github.com/swolchok/lark ) I've never implemented a Lisp or used it for anything serious, and I've been trying to figure out for m
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by swolchok 17y ago
Sometimes it's bad luck. "You fall into a pit! The spikes were poisoned! The poison was deadly! You die..." before you could get poison resistance, for example. The classic example is the early-game gnome that gets generated with wand of de
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by swolchok 17y ago
I did not disagree with the author's main point, merely the assertion I singled out.
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by swolchok 17y ago
The author says that UW students taking Atmospheric Sciences s101 "should be the creme of the crop of our high school graduates with high GPAs". 1) Atmospheric Sciences 101 sounds like a "blowoff" class that liberal arts students would take
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by swolchok 17y ago
The thing about SSH for loops is that they're as secure as SSH. They're vague on how they achieve confidentiality and I can't be bothered to read their code.
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by swolchok 17y ago
My iPod touch is all smudgey from thumb and index finger use. Now you want me to pay 2x-4x for a multitouch device and rub my whole hand all over it?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Let's take it as granted that you and I can type faster than we can write for many kinds of inputs. Can Joe Six-Pack?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Because some handwavy analogue to Moore's Law says that said laptop ought to cost about $400 now (and in fact it's hard to justify blowing $1k on a laptop). Have you priced something equivalent (compute-wise, screens are still expensive) la
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by swolchok 17y ago
Why are phones so bloody expensive? The iPod Touch can be had for $200ish, so why does adding the "phone part" double the cost? (full disclosure: I'm on the iPod Touch curmudgeon phone plan -- I pay Skype $3/mo for outgoing calls and insist
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by swolchok 17y ago
I think that puzzle is dumb because it's a gimmick, not anything to do with the geometry of the situation.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Surely, law enforcement would find an excuse (quite possibly even a legitimate one) to put said store front under surveillance.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Yikes! This might be an ill-defined problem in some cases -- optimization based on referential transparency in the original functions means that you may not really know how many times these functions were called. Either you have that prob
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by swolchok 17y ago
Python is well documented so Python users just go to http://docs.python.org/ . Don't know about Ruby, but I suspect you could make that argument about any language.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Can you please add (2008) to this? I clicked, hoping for a new PG article.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I'd like to see a rebuttal to the core criticism: Imagine you’ve implemented a large program in a purely functional way. All the data is properly threaded in and out of functions, and there are no truly destructive updates to speak of. Now
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by swolchok 17y ago
GIYF, "hacker news noprocrast"
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Nigerian Charged in Northwest Bomb Attempt(online.wsj.com)
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