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by vitno 11y ago
Written by Paul Hudak, who recently passed away.
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by vitno 11y ago
Let's Encrypt does exist. I watched a demo where they went from a vanilla apache install to an A scoring HTTPS site in sub 5 minutes at Libreplanet. It's a good idea to publicize the upcoming LARGE change.
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by vitno 11y ago
I had the fortune of meeting Paul a couple of years ago. He was a really nice guy & a very inspiring person to talk with.
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by vitno 12y ago
Hacker News is not proprietary software. It's open source under the Perl Foundation Artistic License 2.0 (FSF compatible). It's even written in Arc Lisp, which is nifty. Some of us do care.
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by vitno 12y ago
While somewhat attached to the name, I think this is a good decision on the part of the higher-ups at the Recurse Center (formerly Hacker School). The new name makes it far more accesible to people outside of the community. P.S. I love the
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Hacker School is now the Recurse Center(recurse.com)
184 points by vitno 12y ago|103 comments
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by vitno 12y ago
I mean, memory leaks are possible in Rust assuming the person explicitly uses unsafe code. However, most code does not use these unsafe blocks... and it should not be possible. Rust has a sound type system that uses linear affine typing. Wh
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by vitno 12y ago
If I start a project on GitHub, I generally put a license in the LICENSE file (at their repo creation). If I don't start it on GitHub and later add it, I generally just put the license in the README(.md, 'cause GitHub). This shoul
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by vitno 12y ago
Signal is open-source while WhatsApp is proprietary. WhatsApp also uses the 2-part ratcheting developed in Aoxotle my understanding is, but they are not mutually compatable on-the-wire transport.
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by vitno 12y ago
why swiffy? Why not use Shumway? Is this just a case of "Not invented here" syndrome?
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by vitno 12y ago
although this post references Java, this doesn't just affect java. This affects anything that uses ISO 8601.
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by vitno 12y ago
The logic here seems... hypocritical, or at least inconsistent. At the beginning: "In class I emphasize the value of a degree as a means to avoid the sort of jobs that I myself go to when those hours in the classroom are over." At
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by vitno 12y ago
When I think Prismatic, I think clojure(script). Did they write their app in Clojure?
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by vitno 12y ago
saying that it is "Technological" is merely dodging what you are actually doing is a technology based form of rebellion. It is the statement that the government is not correct, and that the people can organize and do better. I ver
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by vitno 12y ago
hahah, ethereum. Or you know, you could use practically any other system that doesn't try to be money (or en ethereum's case, an everything wannabe)
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by vitno 12y ago
Om is really cool and David Nolen is an awesome member of the Clojure community. However, I've played around with Om and found it to be a rather complex tool. I think it would be perfect for a high performance web app where I need to c
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by vitno 12y ago
I'm sorry, did you just say "proprietary algorithms" and bitcoin in the same page? The bitcoin community has really changed in the last 3 years.
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by vitno 12y ago
Site is down for me. Text: By Robert J Berger, on July 5th, 2014 First they came for the Whistleblowers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Whistleblower. Then they came for the Boing Boing Readers, and I did not speak out— Becaus
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by vitno 12y ago
The Chinese ones were made first. I had a lot of fun bonding with a guy riding one of these in 西宁. I found it to be a fair amount easier than the author described it. After 5 minutes or so a few friends and I managed to balance and move a l
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by vitno 12y ago
are you kidding? all builds contain a dial-home to google. Why would you ever switch to something that contains that?
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by vitno 12y ago
not true at all. I JUST spent several weeks in Russia, people will go out of their way to bring up Putin and be unhappy about him (at least to foreigners).
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by vitno 12y ago
I'm pretty sure you are always supposed to feel you are successful in some way. If not, than you should have something you progressing towards/working on that WILL make you fell successful. Why would you keep doing something that
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by vitno 12y ago
because it's "Tesla"
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by vitno 12y ago
While initially this seems like a good idea, and I thought things like this for a while... I'm sure they are using a real time operating system. Imagine having things garbage collect for you when trying to fire a missile. This may seem
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by vitno 12y ago
I don't think of Hacker School as a bootcamp. The emphasis is very different than my understanding of what a bootcamp provides. The way I think of HS is as a place where you can focus and learn with like minded people in a conducive en
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by vitno 13y ago
I was gonna scoff at you. then I looked at who you were and I was like rolls eyes oh /n...
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by vitno 13y ago
woah. Getting (the awesome) Mozilla t-shirts is hard enough as is. It takes effort even when working there. :P /me is sitting in my living room rocking a Rust T-shirt right now.
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by vitno 13y ago
webRTC becomes easily usable and almost fully implemented by the end of 2014.
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by vitno 13y ago
He is a DJ :P
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by vitno 13y ago
There is a lot of unwarranted 23andMe hate going on here. Not only do they offer at the end of sign up to delete/remove your genetic sample, you can also inform them you want to do this at any time. DNA is extremely stable at low tempe

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