thirsteh

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by thirsteh 14y ago
If they contributed to the Haskell type system and they are commenting on the inferiority of the type systems of other languages, absolutely yes. This is far from his first Haskell-bashing exercise. Take a look at the Wikipedia page for Has
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by thirsteh 14y ago
He should at least preface these kinds of posts with, or add something to the sidebar, that reveals that he is positively and absolutely biased toward SML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Harper_(computer_scienti... I get an odd taste
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Hopefully sarcastic.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
If those tweets actually appeared in text somewhere on Hacker News, they are foolish regardless of the context they were taken from. Dropping down to node.js to get close to the metal? Come on! Love it.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Why submit this? Just submit http://www.computer.org/portal/web/swebok , or at least add some commentary.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Millions? Doubt many of the users of the application care about ads, so unless they charge for impressions...
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by thirsteh 14y ago
I pile up on PHP because it's a shitty language, and basically the only argument for using it nowadays is that it's relatively ubiquitous among budget shared hosting providers. I don't think I ever tried to hide that I hate it. Now you're t
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by thirsteh 14y ago
I've used PHP for 15 years. You keep making these "I-know-better-because-I-use-PHP" statements, but ironically you probably have never even touched Go. Give it a try. Don't be the guy who hates anything that's new. ("Poor library support" i
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by thirsteh 14y ago
I meant as widely deployed as PHP. I'm not sure that that is a measure of anything at all though, except that itself. It's certainly not an indicator of any kind of code or API quality.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Most web developers who read Hacker News don't host their stuff with a hosting provider that doesn't even provide shell. With Go you just need to be able to execute a binary. You sounded a lot like Go hasn't proved it's viable for "web scal
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by thirsteh 14y ago
It powers YouTube, among other things: http://code.google.com/p/vitess/ Go documentation is very good, the standard library is extensive, and it has a very active community, but it does lack certain libraries that web developers might fin
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by thirsteh 14y ago
I'm guessing there's no basis, beside that approach being what we heard about most recently with Dropbox. It would be a little ironic if a company that's been strongly advocating the use of multi-factor authentication for many years now did
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Everybody here loves bcrypt, but you don't hear about how it has a max input size of 55 bytes >:) There's no good reason the max should be so low, but you should not hurt your users by silently truncating input or exceeding the entropy
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by thirsteh 14y ago
This is one of the more annoying "security features" I've seen. Makes it a massive pain to use automatically generated passwords.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
It is also, unfortunately, infeasible to use in web applications without some kind of plugin, much less across many different browsers. Blizzard still needs people to be able to log into battle.net to renew their subscriptions and buy vanit
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Welcome to the walled gardens in the cloud.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
The critique was written by a competitor. Isn't the motive obvious?
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by thirsteh 14y ago
wget https://raw.github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt/master/decrypt.py ; chmod +x decrypt.py; ls -la | ./decrypt.py It doesn't bite.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Loved the email: "Hi friend, We've made some REALLY BIG changes to the way that notifications work at GitHub. We're sending you this email because we love you. Also, the amount of email you receive from GitHub notifications is going to chan
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by thirsteh 14y ago
It's classic syndication ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_syndication ). You said it yourself: pageviews.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Pen and paper? Nobody ever said it had to be done using a computer :)
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Go, for the same reasons as Java, but because Go is nicer than Java (to me.) The stdlib net/http library is also insanely fast, handling ~40,000 (dynamic, but not DB-backed) req/s without a sweat, and without requiring any kind of callback
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Apparently not great stability :)
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by thirsteh 14y ago
"I talk to people on a daily basis." Sounds tough.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
You should always limit the password length to whatever size at which the underlying storage or scrambling mechanism stops working or loses entropy. Likely, Microsoft uses a shitty hash function to scramble passwords. The common gospel arou
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Of course you can. You only need it for the initial login.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Since gdb is the parent of your process, it's running as level03, not root. You can't use gdb on a setuid binary unless you run gdb itself as root.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Richard Cotton is general council AND EVP of NBCUniversal: http://www.nbcuni.com/corporate/management/senior-corporate-...
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Two quotes are better than one quote: "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be
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by thirsteh 15y ago
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." -- Mark Twain

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