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by vog 10y ago
> with a dynamically assigned className or something equally silly. How is that silly? Assume e.g. a very simply dynamic list, where you just want highlight rows after clicking on them. Should it set the CSS properties of the <tr&gt
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by vog 10y ago
The point is that the title mentions explicitly Signal and WhatsApp, generating the false impression that it was a weakness in these applications. However, it was a weakness in the OS, so a proper title would have been: | WikiLeaks: CIA ma
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by vog 10y ago
Indeed! More generally, functions are not only about abstraction, but also about decomposition. The only thing that may hurt readability is when the decomposition itself is too much nested. Usually, it's best to split a large task pure
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by vog 10y ago
Also, MigrageOS is amazingly fast, and can use tons of existing OCaml libraries.
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by vog 10y ago
Okay, so organizations like CCC do not count as "intentional community". Thanks for clarifying!
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by vog 10y ago
[deleted] Stupid misunderstanding. Sorry, forget what I wrote. I wanted to delete my comment, as it provides no insight and not even an interesting question. But unfortunately the delete button disappeared here in Hacker News.
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by vog 10y ago
I just had a look at it, and this thesis is really well-written. A beautiful piece of work, with the right mix of concrete examples, abstract concepts, and meta-concepts that describe why and how the author developed their concepts. Can&#x2
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by vog 10y ago
> This behaviour is described on the home page. This should be a big, fat warning with a clear description on how to install your package without the root cronjob. And that warning should appear right on the front site, not just some s
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by vog 10y ago
It doesn't have to be that way. There are certain common patterns in communities who stay healthy without losing their ideals. Does the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Germany count as intentional community? This community is ever growing
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by vog 10y ago
Yes, that was exactly my line of thinking. One minor nitpick: f(x)=1/x maps [-1,1] to [-inf,-1]u[+1,+inf] ... that is, 1 and -1 are in both sets and mapped onto themselves. However, this detail doesn't affect the argument much.
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by vog 10y ago
> the interesting bit is that half of floats are in the interval [-1, 1] This is not so surprising once you realize that this just means you have the same precision for 1/x as for x, which makes a lot of sense for scientific calcu
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by vog 10y ago
Why 3 more? Grandparent already counted one of the border points, so the correct number is either 1 more or 2 more, depending on whether you consider the floating point number -0 to be in the closed interval [0,1] or not. See my other posti
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by vog 10y ago
The correct answer is 1,065,353,217. You have an off-by-one error in the following line of argument: > The number of values between the two is 0x3f800000 - 0x00000000 == 0x3f800000 This should be corrected to: > The number of val
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by vog 10y ago
More generally, if a company uses software X (open-source or not), they need to: a) make a contract with a company that takes responsibility for X, or b) hire somebody who takes responsibility for X, or c) take responsibility for X on your
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by vog 10y ago
I like the "bank teller" analogy used in the article. > it would be like hiring a bank teller who was trained to hand over all the money in the vault if asked to do so politely, and then entrusting that teller with the key. Th
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by vog 10y ago
Is this really the different country with the different language, or "just" the other people? As far as I know, everybody behaves differently towards old school friends than towards later friends, colleagues at work, their spouse,
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by vog 10y ago
This. Exactly this is the problem with semi-popular Free Software projects, and what annoys me most with almost-but-not-quite unmaintained projects. It is really no problem if somebody's time is limited. But it is a problem if they don
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by vog 10y ago
Oh no, it isn't. It just takes quite a while to load.
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by vog 10y ago
Site is down (again?).
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by vog 10y ago
That's Adobe. Look at their other formats, and PDF seems to be one of their better ones. Compare to SWF, PSD, AI and so on. PDF is the successor of PostScript. PostScript is a stack-based programming language where anything can happen,
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by vog 10y ago
Care to elaborate? What's wrong with the word "coders"?
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by vog 10y ago
So many paragraphs in the beginning, just to finally read: > Do we want to migrate to another hash? Yes. Wouldn't all that time trying to explain away the SHA-1 issues be better spent on developing a safe transition plan? Work on
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by vog 10y ago
Obligatory prog21 article on that topic: "A Worst Case for Functional Programming?" http://prog21.dadgum.com/189.html Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7043644
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Mplayer ktracing - Inefficiencies in Mplayer's MP3 decoder(tedunangst.com)
2 points by vog 10y ago|0 comments
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by vog 10y ago
> Mule ESB is more like a framework for declaratively creating (and executing these) flows that run through a series of components that react to events, in a sort of universal design pattern I hope I don't sound too snarky here, b
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by vog 10y ago
How is this different from any other large company? Not disagreeing with that behaviour being toxic to society, but I highly doubt that this is specific to banks. In particular, I don't see a direct connection between dealing with fina
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by vog 10y ago
> does superior athletic and musical performance lead to higher reproduction? Is this really the relevant criterion here? As long as it doesn't lead to badly reduced reproduction, these properties will remain within our human gene
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by vog 10y ago
While I applaud Python to have established a well-designed[1] layer on top of the math/numeric libraries written in Fortran, C and C++, I hope that one day Rust will smoothen the corners. While Rust might not become a replacement for t
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by vog 10y ago
Such a Digital Geneva Convention will be utterly useless, and perhaps even counter-productive, until we have solved the attribution problem.[1] Until that is solved, we risk misuse of a Digital Geneva Convention to impose sanctions against
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Activities in Berlin for “I love Free Software” day 2017(fsfe.org)
43 points by vog 10y ago|1 comments

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