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by weland 13y ago
I'm gonna make an Internet of my own. With hookers and blackjack and threaded newsreaders :-).
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by weland 13y ago
> This realization is important because it changes what sort of caution should be used with drinks in clubs. This is very, very sound advice! I have a somewhat unusually high tolerance to alcohol, which means that by the time everyone ar
603.
by weland 13y ago
Why not just use bookmarks? Hitting one takes even less time than searching for the URL...
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by weland 13y ago
Nice try, Google PR.
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by weland 13y ago
My browsing habits are pretty much along the same lines, but I expect it will become much harder to do so in the following years. Between the feature creep and the monetization of idiocy, I expect we will lose even more diversity than we al
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by weland 13y ago
> I imagine MySpace were saying something similar for a couple of years as Facebook started really taking off, and Yahoo probably thought no new search engines were a threat a year or two before Google arrived. On the other hand, MySpace
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by weland 13y ago
Yes, it can. Where exactly are they going to go? Even the really few of us who care about it enough to stop using Google search , turning to duckduckgo, still need to go back to Google every once in a while, when DDG obviously doesn't
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by weland 13y ago
> Why? Because you can attach a business model to that improvement and extract revenues. I don't think that is a reason to attach more value to something. I realize this is not everyone's opinion, of course.
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by weland 13y ago
> Arguably, there is nothing more important for a human being as an sentient organism than an endorphin fix obtained from various sources: love, surprise, food, etc. On one hand, the balance of values is more complex than "there is
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by weland 13y ago
True, but at least Hyperloop can actually be useful for someone and improve people's lives. To me, the thought that 3 billion were paid for Snapchat is not hilarious, it's horrifying.
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by weland 13y ago
> Can 3B dollars fund a small semiconductor company that will have a sustainable competitive advantage against Intel, AMD and TSMC? Semiconductor does not automatically mean CPUs for the consumer market. 3B can fund a small, very profita
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by weland 13y ago
Go back to 4chan, kid.
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by weland 13y ago
It's been a long time since I had anything to do with Smalltalk, so I may be shitting you -- unfortunately, I'm also on the run and cannot properly check the following statement, so please take this with a grain of salt -- Smallta
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by weland 13y ago
> Correct. The main problem I see with OOP is that some people advocate it as the only correct way to write maintainable code, which, of course is completely wrong. Yes, my opinion is similar. There are problems that naturally lend thems
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by weland 13y ago
> But isn't the main point of the article that OOP just doesn't always fit the problem domain, that sometimes you want to model something in a way where forcing it into objects (nouns and verbs) only adds complexity without ben
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by weland 13y ago
Indeed; I'm used to writing systems software, so user interaction tends to elude me :). That being said, I would dare say that the business layer is the one which would benefit the most from a FP perspective. I can think of dozens of b
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by weland 13y ago
> At heart, the Stanford company in the story is greenwashing and repackaging a product that's already available. I have trouble getting excited about getting more people to pay more for a product that's already available. Isn&
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by weland 13y ago
This article is remarkably low on arguments , despite being so long. Just a few of its gems: > OOP is wrong because of its definition of an “object”, and its attempt of trying to fit everything into it. When that goes to the extreme, yo
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by weland 13y ago
> Yes, but then there is also a ton of best practices, what works and what doesn't work, basic circuit design principles etc. which to my knowledge isn't really condensed in any one book, but rather in lots of trade articles et
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by weland 13y ago
The GUI I use everyday is very much like that. I have been using windowmaker as a my window manager of choice for at least six years, if not more. There is literally zero integration with any social networking stuff -- save for the occasion
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by weland 13y ago
> You never hear about a new team successfully making a high-performance microprocessor. Not on Hackernews, but this does happen. Microprocessors do get less spotlight because the costs involved in developing and producing them are huge.
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by weland 13y ago
There are plenty of excellent good books, but the entry barrier is somewhat higher. You simply need at least a basic understanding of calculus if you are to actually understand any of the processes that occur in semiconductors, and some b
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by weland 13y ago
Arduino is a bunch of stuff around an Atmel microcontroller. For all intents and purposes, it is an existing microcontroller, except that the platform itself is outrageously expensive, far too expensive to be of any commercial use.
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by weland 13y ago
> Whether it's an acceptable risk for the users of these services is up to them, and many of them are deciding it is not, because these services can be so easily closed. Sounds fair to me. I think an important bottom-line to this is
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by weland 13y ago
> And mucking around with home-built PCs running some Linux distro doesn't have the same appeal to me it had 10 years ago. We're not ten years ago, you don't need to do that anymore. There are enough reputable vendors sell
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by weland 13y ago
> The point is why do we need something specific for math. You seem not to have been around when we had to do it over plain text. It sucked. MathML is a huge gain for sharing thoughts over scientific matters. Of course, they aren't
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by weland 13y ago
Yes, of course it is a red herring! OP's rage was against the JS community taking it as an excuse for shity implementation, that's all I was trying to clarify...
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by weland 13y ago
> No dammit, javascript does not coerce numbers to strings when comparing them, a "weak typing" implementation would behave exactly as he wants. Please note that I wrote it's a broken implementation over weak typing, not
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by weland 13y ago
> No, it does not. You could define the exact same default function in Java, Haskell (requiring that the sorted type be a Show instance) or Python (hell, getting the exact same behavior in Python could hardly be simpler: `ar.sort(key=str
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by weland 13y ago
They can validate their social network graph with ease and therefore ensure they are selling perfectly valid data. It's really disgusting to see people willfully submitting to this.

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