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by thinkpad20 9y ago
This is pretty amazing, thanks for the share
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
Considering all of the lack of public trust of police departments these days, I'd prefer that they don't use encryption. But, I'm sure there is more than one side to the issue.
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
Even if the findings challenge what evolution is (which doesn’t seem to be the case — the course of human evolution is only one of millions of species over the years), the wording “challenges evolution” suggests that the findings cast the t
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
You couldn’t show them the address written down?
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
The article laid out a detailed explanation of shortcomings of REST. You might not agree with everything in it, but you offer no real rebuttal, instead dismissing it as a “hateful hipsteresque opinion,” without acknowledging any of the actu
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
> I have trouble understanding the usefulness of this. Well for one thing, sometimes projects are just for fun, or to explore uncharted territory, without thinking about a specific use case. For another, there are definitely use cases fo
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
So containers are as vulnerable as the operating system? It seems like if your kernel has been pwned you’re already SOL? Or couldn’t someone in that position just as easily pwn a VM, or run the same exploit on multiple vms? I’m not sure if
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
> containers are not secure, anywhere. Virtual machines are. Can you (or someone else) ELI5 what makes containers insecure? Not a low level Linux or security expert.
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
> There is an entire undeserved niche from the dialup crowd who are extremely unhappy paying more than $10 a month A low-speed broadband plan (or even dialup) would serve those customers fine, no? > As for caps - which do you think wo
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
That's exactly how I feel about express middleware...
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
I suppose some of us don't have to be enthusiastic to donate a million dollars...?
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
I’m not a rust user per se, but I’m surprised to see it listed alongside Python and Go as a language without a lot of depth. Rust not only has quite an advanced type system (not Haskell level, but certainly the most powerful of any other la
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
Be that as it may, that doesn’t address the apparent fact that it doesn’t work in all major browsers — certainly IE11 would be considered one by most.
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
I don’t know when you were last looking but for as long as I’ve been using nix (since early 2015) nixpkgs has had definitions of the vast majority of commonly used software, and pre-built binaries of most of those. Definitely worth another
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, or perhaps you have an incorrect understanding of how Haskell works. Of course data is still checked at runtime; for example a parser will check that a string is formatted in valid way, or a lookup in a hash
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
I've tried learning Vim several times, but the need to switch modes and back for cursor movement has been a huge turnoff, especially considering the location of the ESC key. It seems to just conflict with the way that I type, where I a
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
I don't have it in front of me but I would assume the FromJSON instance for Float expects a JSON number, not a string. If the remote API makes the (puzzling) decision to put numeric values in strings, then parsing those will be necessa
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
The article mentions that even "homeless people promoting charity magazines" use cards, but I really wonder how the homeless population, or others who typically make money through cash such as buskers and street performers, fare i
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
I agree and disagree. There is nothing about the usage of Cofree and other similar concepts which is "not programming". I think it's a completely viable way to write software within a particular scope (e.g. depending on the t
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
I would argue that when you're talking about free software, having documentation for common problems in popular software is the only reasonable expectation. Also that many/most of the most popular Linux tools have extensive docume
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
The term "mad skills" comes to mind. I would love to see a breakdown of some of the techniques he used to construct this.
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
The only thing that comes to mind is the sunk costs fallacy. Although it's hard to imagine Theranos ever becoming a success (and certainly, I won't be rooting for it), it might be harder for those who poured millions into the comp
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
> Driver related? Not sure. Well, is the bluetooth as good when your wife is driving the Rav4?
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
Why is that range so popular? When presented with what appears (perhaps naively) to be a vast range of frequencies to use, why do so many wireless specs settle on the same thing?
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
> During the year Murdoch was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she composed a note that was downright ominous. “My dear,” she wrote, “I am now going away for some time. I hope you will be well . . .” She set aside the sheet, took up a second
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
Really? I write almost nix every day at work and I have no problem with the syntax. I think it's pretty elegant and well-suited to its use case. There are a few minor tweaks I would make but nothing big at the syntactic level. EDIT: pr
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
This isn't a conspiracy theory; it's exactly what the article is arguing. Now that net neutrality might hurt Netflix rather than benefit them, not only are they not motivated to advocate for it (which, as the above comment pointed
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
a) It was created by a comedian, and it's an amusing name b) It's easy to remember c) Many people are legitimately angry about this kind of thing and using profane language (such as it were) seems warranted
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
This has always bugged me too. I don't understand why people make such a big deal about pass-by-value and pass-by-reference when the latter is essentially a small layer of syntactic sugar over the former. Anything you can do with refer
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by thinkpad20 9y ago
Super cool project! I hope this isn't taken as a frivolous or mean-spirited comment, but the code samples on the blog would be much more readable with some kind of syntax highlighting.

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