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by undoware 13y ago
Bump this n times. As I said before, it's a new world -- we know about MUSCULAR. More relevantly, but less recently, we also know about what took out the uranium enrichment facility at Na'antz (sp?): the virus Israel and the U.S.
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by undoware 13y ago
As an analytic phil PhD dropout and a Haskell lover I can say with confidence that (a) Gottlob Frege (the philosopher) was awesome (I still want a 'morning star != evening star' tattoo) and (b) Frege sounds lovely too. I'd
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by undoware 13y ago
Think about what you're asking for by implication. Constraint-free purchase of health insurance would mean that I could sell you health insurance that would 'insure' that you could only be doctored by me, on my yoga mat, with
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by undoware 13y ago
...anyone else seeing 'out of stock' for all configurations and models? Yep, definitely another high-grade Google Play user experience....
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by undoware 13y ago
I admit the journalism is sensationalistic and the datafiles uncompelling, but so is the response here on HNN. Literally the DAY AFTER we learn about MUSCULAR, which far exceeds PRISM in its scope, extralegality and generalized dastardality
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by undoware 13y ago
As much as possible, yes -- my employer has only recently gotten into sponsoring FOSS, so I have to do a lot of comforting around the, "but what if someone else takes this and copies us" question. Which is fair: They (still) don&#
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by undoware 13y ago
Yes. But it is demo code, meaning that the use case isn't production, it's education. And the UX of education is a lot worse when you have to begin by saying, "this will look different from yours" and "here's
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by undoware 13y ago
Think of it like this: 1. Any application layer is in effect a transform, with security and sanity constraints, on user input. 2. There is at least the degenerate case where user input does not need to be transformed, only constrained 3. An
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by undoware 13y ago
I'm surprised more people haven't heard of PouchDB, so good on Cloudant for donating buzz to an excellent FOSS project. And thanks again, Dale Harvey, for being a fscking genius. :) My boss tells me I'll be making a whole pri
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by undoware 13y ago
Great -- now the fragment of code I wrote for the kernel make s me potentially party to killing. The long-term ethics of producing open source are fascinating -- you know we're all pretty gross if the NRA is wrong, don't you? Abou
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by undoware 13y ago
...the PS5, on the other hand, will be built by the players themselves, as the games will just be transforms on robot-guiding, chip-stamping, box-printing...
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by undoware 13y ago
I just can't wait to rewrite the next generation of GNU Makefiles so I can build them from /usr/ports.
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by undoware 13y ago
Finally! An answer to all the clamour for a Guile-based extension language to an increasingly nonstandard implementation of an increasingly fragmented 'POSIX' 'standard'.
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by undoware 13y ago
Sorry to be rude, but did you read that link before posting it? " In an 8–0 ruling on Simon & Schuster v. Crime Victims Board, the court ruled the law unconstitutional.[5] The majority opinion was that the law was overinclusive, an
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by undoware 13y ago
There's a flip side of course<br/> Just like there always is<br/> Writing, whether text or source<br/> Is about tradeoffs, not the biz<br/> Of perfect solutions. For example, you will find&lt
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by undoware 13y ago
Without getting into the IT-sexism-blah-blah, 'your mother wears combat boots' isn't just a folksy turn of phrase: it's a fifties-era impugnment of lesbianism. So unless you want to sound a lot more Republican than you w
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by undoware 13y ago
As a node junkie and LiveScript apologist, I'm surprised I hadn't heard these complaints against callbacks before -- fascinating stuff. I might be doing more things in Go from now on. ;)
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by undoware 13y ago
Terrible. This is so embarrassing. We're losing you, Marissa.
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by undoware 13y ago
It's not just sunlight. A building that widens as it goes up will also focus wind. The effects are a bit more 'wave' than 'particle' - no beams, just constructive interference - but the principle is the same. This
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by undoware 13y ago
Here's my take. Nokia's downfall has literally been the biggest business failure in the history of the planet - see communities-dominate.blogs.com for backstory. (As I mentioned in a previous post; I'm largely summarizing thi
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by undoware 13y ago
Wow. Some call Tomi. For copious, copious background on the MS/Nokia debacle, 'burning platform' to present: communities-dominate.blogs.com (Not affiliated, just an avid fan of this mobile industry analyst-become-blogger who
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by undoware 13y ago
This dude fails the understanding-LiveScript test. Next time you bash something, read up about it, okay? 'backcalls' are purely syntactical -- they're callbacks, but with a special syntax so you don't have to indent.
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User-side development: Why UX is more than the front end(undoware.ca)
1 points by undoware 13y ago|1 comments
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by undoware 13y ago
Keeping your identity 'small' is really easy when you're rich and don't need to team up to effect change. Identities are what form motivated groups, and groups -- or parties -- are, for better or for worse, what our form
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by undoware 13y ago
Terrible. Thanks for pointing this out.
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LiveScript 1.2.0 released Get to know LiveScript before it's cool. ;)(livescript.net)
5 points by undoware 13y ago|0 comments
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Gay teens tortured, killed in Texas: USA still worse than Russia(gaystarnews.com)
5 points by undoware 13y ago|3 comments
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by undoware 13y ago
I always get a kick out of Krebs' relationship with the thesaurus. "Miscreants" "goons" "fraudsters" Seriously, 'goons'? What is this, an Archie comic? But, yes, fascinating article, nonetheless.
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by undoware 13y ago
This is just MacOS nonsense. It plays in the Valley and at the mall, and nowhere else. The only reason it is on the front page of Hacker News is that we can't see outside our own event horizon. Poke me when a popular web email service
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by undoware 13y ago
This is a semantic quibble. Your point could be restated as, "if you're not filtering potentially dangerous data out of your SQL queries (i.e. you're not using a fixed vocabulary of properly-quoted phrases) then you are vul

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