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by vog 9y ago
> The metric system While I agree with your sentiment, this one is a bad example. I grew up with the metric system, as did the vast majority of the world. I have an intuition for "meter", "kilograms", "seconds&
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by vog 9y ago
Interestingly, there's not only theorems but also conjectures in this list. Interesting bit: > ITEM 125 (Polya): > CONJECTURE: If a function has a power series with integer coefficients and radius of convergence 1, then either
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by vog 9y ago
> Only send to eval what fits through a matcher for a very small subset of the language That's exactly what I meant by "dedicated expression parser". (Not sure why you name it "matcher", though. Please be aware
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by vog 9y ago
> I fully 100% support people [...] and their right to privacy. [...] So for now, they can have my data. Unfortunately, these are conflicting goals. It is not enough not to tag photos. For example, if you use Gmail, they have your addr
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by vog 9y ago
How does this compare to PyPy in terms of speed and optimizations?
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by vog 9y ago
> I guess you would have to sanitize when you save and/or load the spreadsheet Sanitizing? No chance. Either you have a dedicated expression parser, or you run it directly throgh eval. There is no reliable middle ground. Decad
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by vog 9y ago
Indeed, it's a pity that discussion threads are trees rather than DAGs. In email and usenet, you can specify multiple entries in the "References" header, to theoretically you can refer to multiple parent messages. (Alas, that
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by vog 9y ago
I'm aware that this behaviour is somewhat "popular" on HN, to make their comment kind-of "stand above all other's", but I'm not sure if that is actually a good idea. The authors of those comments almost ce
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by vog 9y ago
> based on the assumption that Google actually are anonymising the data. If you want to disagree with that assumption then that’s a valid viewpoint too, but I see no evidence for it. This is exactly the wrong way around. For every sens
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by vog 9y ago
I'm confused, the article doesn't say anything negative about Microsoft. Did you intend to reply to some specific comment?
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by vog 9y ago
I'm using Firefox and had no trouble viewing the static chart.
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by vog 9y ago
I would have preferred to see this money go to FSF instead of OSI, but of course sponsoring any of these organizations is better than not sponsoring.
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by vog 9y ago
If you want that level of quality, don't use Linux, use instead FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
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by vog 9y ago
I hope this doesn't sound too negative, but if not a single one of these topics is even mentioned in an outline, I wouldn't have much hope that opening an issue (let alone making a PR) would make a difference. This would be like
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by vog 9y ago
Please note that your formatting is totally screwed, making your fine comment almost unreadable. See also the "help" link next to the edit box: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by vog 9y ago
Note that Python has greenlet and gevent, though. It works by monkeypatching all blocking calls in the standard library (and common external libraries such as database client libs like psycopg2).
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by vog 9y ago
> Article says its a banking environment, nobody outside of desktop support will have admin access to their PC/Laptop But then it should be even simpler: Have the desktop support team (or whoever manages all those PC/Laptops)
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by vog 9y ago
The Daily WTF currently shows a 500 error page. Is this a failure or a meta-joke?
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The Daily WTF: 500 – Internal Server Error(thedailywtf.com)
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by vog 9y ago
... or the "original", OCaml, from which Rust was heavily inspired.
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by vog 9y ago
> If you say these things, but means something else, that's on you to adapt your communication, not on me to intuit your message. It is socially unacceptable to misquote. For that, it doesn't matter if you "just" le
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by vog 9y ago
... which itself contains a flap for mice.
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by vog 9y ago
Also, travelling by plane is safer than by train and especially safer than by car. Really, as a rational person, you should be scared by the road more than by any other type of transportation. It's just that all those deaths are scatte
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by vog 9y ago
On the other hand, I like the irony of a backdoor having a backdoor.
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by vog 9y ago
> but Go's tooling is still far easier than pretty much anyone else's (it's actually what brought me to Go). Really? Maybe that's true if you compare it to PIP (Python), Gems (Ruby) or NPM (JavaScript/NodeJS).
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by vog 9y ago
Indeed, those variables are very handy for cross compiling. If you don't do anything else, at least define and use a $(CROSS) prefix. (Or, don't and wait for some cross compiling distro to approach you and to offer a patch that in
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by vog 9y ago
I guess my usage of PC is then to be interpreted double-ironically: I know that the term "barrierefrei" is PC, and I know that quite a lot of people will hate it for that reason alone. I use it nevertheless, because I think that P
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by vog 9y ago
I hope I did so in my first comment (criticism are welcome in case I failed): I introduced the term "barrierefrei" and explained why I prefer that term over the other popular alternative.
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by vog 9y ago
> That's what you do when recommend people who program in a particular language should learn a new one 'to produce rock-solid tools (which they need!)'. Please refrain from strawmen arguments. You (deliberately?) left ou
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by vog 9y ago
I see PC as a way to spread and to communicate empathy: Using words and phrases that don't paint a false picture of reality (and don't trigger prejudices) is IMHO a good start to get to talk with people more openly. Of course, PC

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