thirsteh

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by thirsteh 12y ago
I'm 99% sure this is the way to do it. You can't explain any field of math, much less category theory, without doing exercises.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
To my understanding, being an early employee is the best deal because they still get substantial equity, but don't face nearly the same level of risk as the founders. Somebody did the numbers on HN a while back and showed that you ha
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Shh, we don't talk about that!
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by thirsteh 12y ago
People who make ad hominem attacks usually can't do that.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Sorry, yes.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Just once it'd be nice if the author was somebody other than Brian Greene. Seems like he's the only advocate for string theory these days.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
RWMutex (or Mutex if every op is a write op) is faster since it's just a couple counters and atomic AddInt. Channels are more intuitive for some tasks, and less for others. Don't try to use channels anywhere, especially when you&#
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Developers also have the ability to avoid buffer overflows in C, yet they happen all the time, even for some of the most seasoned developers. This is an indication that there are issues with the language.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
It's not a benefit. Most other modern languages are also async, they just don't force the programmer to think about it. Go, for example, is just as "async" when it comes to efficiency as Node.js (more so, actually, since
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Most of the callback spaghetti and event loop blocking stuff is just a critique of Node.js, not developer ability. Most other languages don't have these problems.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
The problem with not doing this is you're just leaving the hole open, and when vendors haven't bothered to respond before the deadline there's very little chance that they will do anything at all if it passes and there's
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Mistakes Node.js Developers Make, or a critique of Node.js?
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Is that supposed to be derogatory? Don't be peanut butter and jealous.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
I guess it's possible that small and curved multi-directional roads are safer than larger, mostly one-directional roads (or in a grid system) simply because they force you to pay attention.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
As someone who's lived in Sweden and now America: The vast majority of Swedes drive small sedans/station wagons, not 4WD trucks. Ironically most Americans I ask about their unnecessarily large trucks cite safety as the reason they
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by thirsteh 12y ago
...and it's completely pointless when your browser enables DNT by default, putting us back to square one.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Indeed. Some interesting research is being done on this: https://github.com/ghostwords/chameleon
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Take a look at the results on http://www.areweprivateyet.com/ The methodology is described here: https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2011/09/tracking-trackers... Even the DNT header, which is
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by thirsteh 12y ago
This would be the only problem it solves, then, since blocking 3rd party cookies does almost nothing to stop tracking.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Performance. This isn't for security, or it wouldn't be yet another critical piece of software written in C.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
You mean the literal usage? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally (#2) * long sigh * Happy festivus!
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by thirsteh 12y ago
It's a mix of both. There are judges that don't care about the technical details -- that's wrong. But there are also people who think they won't be convicted of a crime because of an irrelevant technical detail. The fact
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by thirsteh 12y ago
At no point has anyone said that X, Y or Z action was meaningless because he e.g. disowned his daughter for the first half of her life. Someone didn't understand how anyone could dislike Steve Jobs, a couple of reasons why were given,
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Nobody is actually doing that. If anything, you're making the argument that because he did some good acts, his other actions can't be criticized.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Interesting.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
I wonder if this is still true after the switch from first-to-invent to first-to-file.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
It's crap to say "everyone has flaws" as if every flaw is equally bad, and in that way dismiss any criticism of Jobs, although I realize we're on Hacker News, so undoubtedly anything critical of Steve Jobs will be downvo
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by thirsteh 12y ago
It's not knee-jerk hate. He was a business genius, but a fairly rotten person. The latter is why a lot of people don't like him. To see why, read about his behavior at Apple, his daughter Lisa, and check out the movie Pirates of S
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Yes, but like urandom the general intent (at least when performance is desired) is you use it to seed your own PRNG and avoid making system calls every time you need random data.
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by thirsteh 12y ago
Perfect. Small world.

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