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by technomancy 10y ago
> And it's hard to explain why I like GitLab so much more. In my case having the Atlassian all tools look the same seems to have backfired; every time I go to BitBucket it makes me think of Jira, which makes me cringe and wish I wer
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by technomancy 10y ago
Nope; it's absolutely clear right on the front page that it's a subset of Scheme.
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by technomancy 10y ago
You mean libre or gratis?
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by technomancy 10y ago
If you build a compiler without runtime eval, you can use all the AVR's memory for user data. Still tiny, but not as cramped as this interpreter: http://microscheme.org Then again, if it doesn't have runtime eval, is i
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by technomancy 10y ago
I think you'll find the slowed pace happened a good deal before the managers came in if you look at the history more closely.
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by technomancy 10y ago
> Remote work is fine when you already know the domain, but that's not really what intern programs are for. I'd argue that it depends on the rest of the team. The OP didn't mention whether he was the only remote or not, bu
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by technomancy 10y ago
There's a world of difference between a well-designed pubkey interface like ssh-agent and what you get in today's browsers. I don't know how feasible it would be to replace passwords for the general public, but if browser ven
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by technomancy 10y ago
Teaching both would work for older kids, but a lot of Papert's work suggests that most kids under 12 haven't yet developed enough capability for abstract thought to use explicitly mathematical concepts to model the world, so teach
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by technomancy 10y ago
I strongly disagree that there is any overall prerequisite relationship between the two fields. If you want to be a good writer, it's important to understand grammar, but telling children that they are not allowed to write at all until
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by technomancy 10y ago
> There is an obvious reason to oppose such things: opportunity cost. learning anything takes time, and the curriculum is full. The way I see it the bigger bottleneck is not time but motivation. You can fill a whole day with studies that
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by technomancy 10y ago
Python and Java are both compiled to bytecode and both interpreted as bytecode. It has absolutely nothing to do with compilers.
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by technomancy 10y ago
> Another thing is strict typing and debugging: since Python is an interpreted language, finding bugs wasn’t as easy Wait, what? How is its interpreter remotely relevant to its semantics? > if you have a syntax error in C, the program
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by technomancy 10y ago
Weird, I thought that Python was trying to discourage functional programming with its extremely limited lambdas and the proposal to move map and reduce out of the core language.
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by technomancy 10y ago
It works fine; you just have to know up front to not just click "yes" for everything during the sign-up process. Not a big deal for people who already know how GPG works, but the whole point of Keybase is to make it easier to use
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by technomancy 10y ago
> I'm sure Minecraft does a lot of impressive things on a technical level. Actually, Minecraft is widely derided as being extremely wasteful with resources. And yet yeah, it still runs on my kids' 9-year-old laptop.
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by technomancy 10y ago
TOTP is overall more secure, but if Kenneth had used TOTP in this case, he would not have found out about the attack.
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by technomancy 10y ago
> It is not enough to use some strong passwords for the things you think are sensitive. Every weak password is a weak link in your total identity chain. I get what you're saying here, but this is patently false. My HN account is not
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by technomancy 10y ago
> It runs Android 4.4.4, thus far I've not seen a valid reason for wanting something newer. I have an Android 4.4 phone, and while it has worked acceptably for me right now as I am self-employed, if I were working for a company that
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by technomancy 10y ago
Interesting; how is it possible for `ldd` to report the dependency resolution incorrectly? Is it possible to fix this with `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`? I would like to avoid running one-off commands on my /lib directory that I don't underst
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by technomancy 10y ago
Damn; I assumed since it was shipped in Debian Stable it had all the same guarantees as the rest of the distro, but I guess the browser codebases tend to be such security disasters that they can't necessarily keep up.
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by technomancy 10y ago
It's worrying to me that they imply ESR is less secure; isn't the whole point that it gets security fixes applied to it? Less churn should make it more secure.
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by technomancy 10y ago
Looks like fun. I wish I could play it, but after manually chmodding and avoiding the tarbomb I get "./DLS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by ./
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by technomancy 10y ago
Well, unfortunately I don't have many contributors yet, so I can't speak much to the collaboration features. The only thing I can think of is that it would be nice if it were easier to get CI failures announced in Freenode channel
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by technomancy 10y ago
I highly recommend using Löve; the simplicity is very compelling. I wrote a bit about testing on my blog, but it's more about the architecture of how the user-input system meshes with the internal reprogrammability. There's a bit
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by technomancy 10y ago
> people in developing countries who might not have access to a smartphone I live across a river from Burma, and I can tell you it's at least an order of magnitude easier for people there to get access to a smartphone than a desktop
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by technomancy 10y ago
I was pretty impressed with how easy it was to get free CI runs on pushes and merge requests with my OSS game: https://gitlab.com/technomancy/bussard/commit/73e84d11ed33ff...
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by technomancy 10y ago
> Additionally, just because a title isn't easily available for purchase, or available through your desired channels, that doesn't magically invalidate copyright. I think most people understand that legal/illegal is only l
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by technomancy 10y ago
Emacs users came up with Cider, but they were able to do it because there were a whole ton of them. Cider has had 154 contributors: https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/graphs/contributors
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by technomancy 10y ago
Atom did this with the backing of a very well-financed company, and it still doesn't fare all that well with niche languages. I agree with the general gist of your first post, but I think it's important to recognize that unless yo
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by technomancy 10y ago
What the hell is wrong with you?

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