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by weland 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you have in mind. Assuming I have something like this: int foo(void) { return bar(1) + 2; } is there any way in which I could arbitrarily modify this function? E.g. to dynamically turn it into int foo
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by weland 13y ago
If we ever end up in the same city, can I get you a beer?
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by weland 13y ago
Aye, I was about to point this out as well. Many of us realize only fitfully that we are at the same forefront of technology that those who created the atomic bombs were. I, for one, have frequent clashes of ethic with my colleagues, and of
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by weland 13y ago
> I will not be ashamed to say "I know not" If every manager would abide this, my chances of ending up in jail for manslaughter would decrease significantly.
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by weland 13y ago
This was, in fact, more or less pioneered in languages that aren't homoiconic in the same manner as Lisp is (code that used self-modification for reasons like time or space optimization was, if not common, at least known of in the earl
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by weland 13y ago
I'm sorry, the difference in cultural context is far too high for me to be able to properly explain this. You have a very optimistic view about how sexual exploitation actually works.
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by weland 13y ago
> If these videochat businesses are employing girls who would otherwise go into prostitution, surely that makes them a good thing? Are you being intentionally thick? These businesses aren't employing girls who would otherwise go int
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by weland 13y ago
The phrase about assumptions being the mother of all fuck-ups comes to mind :-). > I doubt that - two years ago this option didn't exist, but very few people were starving, even in Eastern Europe. Have you actually been there, or ar
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by weland 13y ago
> Actually if you had to do this kind of thing in C or any other non-homoiconic language, the right way to go would be to define data structures that represent your mathematical functions, and manipulate these structures to compute the d
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by weland 13y ago
> Sadly things have reached the point where this is just not realistic anymore. Too many websites just fail to work altogether, and I was spending way too much time whitelisting sites. I have a very simple solution to this: website break
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by weland 13y ago
I'm not saying the people who run such a studio are doing the coercion directly, obviously. They're simply taking advantage of it. The fact that the advantage they are taking is primarily economic in nature does little to change t
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by weland 13y ago
> Bribing regulators to keep the girls poor? That would certainly be an issue if was happening, but I don't think it is. In Romania? Wanna bet? > What are you talking about? This whole line seems very incoherent. This whole lines
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by weland 13y ago
> "The threat of starving tomorrow" is not a condition invented by ruthless capitalist patriarchs No, but when ruthless capitlist patriarchs or whatever intervene with their money in order to maintain its status quo, the differ
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by weland 13y ago
Quines are not quite the same thing. Reasonably simple illustration: in Common Lisp, it is possible to write a function that takes a mathematical expression as an argument and returns another expression, as its derivative. So basically I ca
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by weland 13y ago
Shhh! You're on Hackernews man...
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by weland 13y ago
Is there such a considerable difference between being coerced into sex using the threat of a gun held to one's temple and being coerced into sex using the threat of starving tomorrow? Granted, not all sex work is involuntary, but don&#
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by weland 13y ago
> Leverage your existing web based PHP skills to write all types of software. CLI scripts, desktop software, network servers and more - this book will give you the tools, techniques and background necessary to write just about any type o
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by weland 13y ago
> The state is in a very different (privileged) position to commercial companies and we need an additional layer of protection from the state that is not necessary with companies. I'm definitely not disputing that. I also believe th
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by weland 13y ago
I don't see how this contradicts what I said. There are tons of jobs in the software industry that don't require anything so advanced that you'd need a degree for. The JS hipsterisms are a prime example of those, but they are
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by weland 13y ago
> Now the megacorps are trying to defend our personal liberty and privacy from governments that have gotten too powerful (albeit mostly because it would improve sales)! That's... unexpected. Don't be too quick about it. Once th
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by weland 13y ago
Do you? Half of my colleagues who do web development would be utterly unable to tell you what TLB or virtual memory are, probably don't remember Ohm's law, and while they would probably be able to write a sorting function on their
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by weland 13y ago
> In both teaching/coursework and research, academia is extremely detail-obsessed, constantly burrowing away from larger, important questions towards small, easily-answerable ones. In the research circles, this is simply because sma
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by weland 13y ago
> Of course you still need to get a basic understanding of how computers work with a software engineering degree, but knowing how to mathematical prove some algorithm is O(log n) is pretty pointless for most (not all) jobs in industry. I
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by weland 13y ago
> You seem to, maybe fairly, denigrate startups and industry in general as well as academia. Yeah, this is exactly why I changed my mind halfway through that long post :-). I honestly love the startup environment. I'd much rather wo
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by weland 13y ago
I was about to write a longer post, but this is so incredulously complicated, and I am so biased, that I changed my mind halfway through. I'm honestly too biased about some of its points to provide anything marginally better than flame
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by weland 13y ago
NetBSD does that as well.
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by weland 13y ago
Why the hell would a PDF for public use be more than a hundred megabytes? You'd think the solution to people being too retarded to properly use a PDF conversion tool is teaching them how to use it, not building a website that thrashes
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by weland 13y ago
> So what is really needed is a startup culture that provides for years of uninterrupted development and focus. Just a few wild ideas, what do you think about these alternatives: 1. A more socially-responsible business environment, so th
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by weland 13y ago
What the... 1. Bash is definitely not the default OS shell for "all OSs" except Windows. Most Android devices, most embedded devices running a variation of Linux, a lot of Unix systems and increasingly more desktop Linux systems
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by weland 13y ago
Even if their code could be improved, it's still obnoxious. Downloading something sucks if it's a weird format that requires users to hunt for an application to view it with, but these are PDFs.

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