thirsteh

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by thirsteh 13y ago
You seem to be downplaying the seriousness of the bug to the point of making it seem trivial, and while I agree that there are many, much more serious types of bugs that 1. don't require active MITM, and 2. the press don't give pr
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by thirsteh 13y ago
$1B isn't a small offer, though.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
What I'm saying is I don't see a language where hello world is module Main main = println "Hello World" as inferior to a language where it is println "Hello World" simply because of t
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Why does this surprise you? The goal of most languages isn't to have a very terse way of writing a program that does nothing but print "hello world".
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by thirsteh 13y ago
You missed both of my points: No matter your intended audience, there is always somebody who will need a dictionary. It's not shameful to look up words, and it's easier than ever to do so. You've shifted to arguing about conv
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by thirsteh 13y ago
It's a bad idea to encrypt passwords, but that's beside the point. > If a dictionary visit is required, you've failed the audience. If you take this to its logical conclusion, we end up in a world where English ceases to b
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by thirsteh 13y ago
> STM is about parallelism of your computations, not about concurrency (or any kind of IO). I'm sorry, what? STM is entirely a concurrency construct. You wouldn't need it if you didn't have concurrency... The whole idea is
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by thirsteh 13y ago
It's done all the time to get search engines to rank the page higher for the keywords mentioned and listed.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Maybe that was the joke.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
> So you're saying that the net positive migration from countries like Sweden to countries like the US is due to the fact that generally only relatively successful people have the ability to immigrate? And that if all classes of soc
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by thirsteh 13y ago
See my reply to tptacek: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7164350
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by thirsteh 13y ago
I don't think so. When I say better off, I'm talking about quality of life, not money. Surely many of the American poor would want to live in Sweden if they knew how high the quality of life is for low-income earners in comparison
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by thirsteh 13y ago
It sounds like you're suggesting that Windows 8 would've been fine if they had just forced Metro, but people dislike Windows 8 because its default view is so obviously designed for tablets and touch, not because they're able
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Indeed.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
No it doesn't. And it's quite laughable that you seem to be calling Germany and Sweden poor countries.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Or, perhaps, it's easier for someone of means to emigrate to a country where they can earn more money than it is for someone with few means to emigrate to a country where they would be better off.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
> Looking at net immigration rates is, I think, the best way to determine where people prefer to live. I don't think it is. I would prefer to live in the U.S. because my family lives here, but it has been tremendously difficult for
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by thirsteh 13y ago
It sounds like you're looking to feed confirmation bias. Picking a country that most Americans love to hate isn't really going to give you accurate results. Try comparing the U.S. to Germany and Switzerland, or the U.S. to the Sca
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by thirsteh 13y ago
You seem to equate riches with inequality. Just because a country is richer doesn't mean there is more inequality. In fact, many of the poor countries have startling inequality in comparison. Now compare Western Europe and the U.S.: Th
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by thirsteh 13y ago
I think there's definitely a rule against dismissing Y combinators on news.ycombinator.com.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Yeah, let's ignore Canada and all the European countries.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Most people aren't rich. "America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, “It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, bu
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by thirsteh 13y ago
That never stopped JavaScript, Python and friends from giving them equal truthiness.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
Am I implying that it does? Yes. 1. We do that for other reasons too, anyway, like minifying and optimization. For other things, keepalive has worked fairly well. 2. Sure. 3. This has nothing to do with the protocol. I don't really dis
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by thirsteh 13y ago
> Remote execution holes in the scrollbar code? You make it sound like that's not fathomable, but an astonishing number of security issues are caused by insecure font and UI rendering. > How about if they fix series security issu
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by thirsteh 13y ago
> There is a reason why silent updates/auto-updates aren't popular in the server/enterprise world because it could sometimes break things. Thankfully we're seeing a shift where people will accept this if it means seri
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by thirsteh 13y ago
He wrote PuTTY and all of the assorted tools. I'd say that's a fairly large codebase. Also, one of the main reasons Go was created was that the authors were tired of the compile times caused largely by preprocessing.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
I'm sorry, but are you really implying that HTTP doesn't scale?
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by thirsteh 13y ago
The word robot means slave.
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by thirsteh 13y ago
It is Litecoin with the font changed to Comic Sans.

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