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by wtbob 10y ago
> There's proof of electrons There's also proof of God: to borrow Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph, si monumentum requiris, circumspice . I don't mind a little atheist boy proclaiming his disbelief in preschool, but I
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Can we just create a community standard of plain-jane HTML to separate it from all this "publisher" junk that AMP stands for, and then build a gigantic web ring and a search engine and all that? These guys might be a good fir
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by wtbob 10y ago
People always point to that, but the Islamic Golden Age was no more Islamic than Bonnie & Clyde's benders were financed by Bonnie & Clyde (rather than the folks whose money they'd stolen from banks). The fruits of the so-
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by wtbob 10y ago
> First, I would argue that prolonged periods of political stability are required in order for resources to be put towards something other than conflict. That took Westphalian sovereignty, not a treatise on fluid dynamics or even a theor
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by wtbob 10y ago
Since they've switched to a Go compiler from the previous C one, compile times have been pretty terrible.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Which is probably why Google don't mind seeing it go — they use JavaScript for all their privacy violations.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> One case although, is to keep a simple password you'll remember to access your client-side encrypted cloud backups of your password manager db. Otherwise you could end up in a case where you've lost all of your passwords and
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by wtbob 10y ago
> These banks want to maintain complete control over their customers. And Apple want to maintain complete control over their customers. No-one has clean hands in this. I trust that Apple's cage has much nicer gilding than the ban
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by wtbob 10y ago
> But then folks like you need to be willing to pay the game developer whatever it costs them to hire an engineering bench to maintain a linux port - ideally with significantly higher profitability than the windows version to make it wor
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Why fight this losing trend when you could easily dual boot or even have a dedicated gaming rig? Because I don't want to pay Microsoft. Because I don't want Microsoft to collect my data. Because I care about my freedom. Wh
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by wtbob 10y ago
> What I have a hard time understanding is why the ancient, simple communication form of text is given second seat. The truth of the matter is that, especially under the constraint of distributed teams, it's difficult to beat text.
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by wtbob 10y ago
All the more interesting because it comes from a heavy Scheme user (indeed, call/cc is one of my major issues with Scheme as opposed to Lisp).
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An argument against call/cc(okmij.org)
3 points by wtbob 10y ago|1 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
From the spec: > Delegated trust can be revoked at any time by the delegating role signing new metadata that indicates the delegated role is no longer trusted. This is a mistake, as it means that a client must receive the new metadata in
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by wtbob 10y ago
> And as someone who isn't from the US, I find it incredibly bizarre that you haven't had a female leader yet. Why? For that matter, we don't have a 'leader'; we have a President.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Plenty of nations have successfully abolished constitutional monarchy in the past couple of hundred years. And generally, one sees that it's been a mistake. A constitutional monarch can be a good defense against certain types of d
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by wtbob 10y ago
Those are definitely some interesting ideas, but I'm uncertain to what extent they're actually true. I think that Common Lisp really does make choices for its programmers, and asks that they develop in a fashion such that their
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Software libraries don't have to suck(akkartik.name)
1 points by wtbob 10y ago|0 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Interlingua is very Latin and Romance-heavy, so if your experience is more with German, it may not feel as familiar, but it's almost sure to be easier than Volapük for anyone familiar with multiple European languages. :-) Well, if
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by wtbob 10y ago
From the description, it sounds like the necessity is the lack of a single way to do I/O in Python. If that's right, then this shows the real advantage of Go's io.Reader/Writer/&c. interfaces, which enable th
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by wtbob 10y ago
> > most people don't care about their privacy online > Apple are betting they will do No they're not. iCloud is still not end-to-end encrypted; iMessage users still trust Apple to verify identity; macOS and iOS users sti
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by wtbob 10y ago
dang, he was making a perfectly civil and substantive point (one I'll admit to agreeing with): that police who abuse their powers should be executed. Like it or not, the death penalty is perfectly within the norms of the civilised worl
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by wtbob 10y ago
> One of our biggest headaches is people who are evading bans by using VPNs (public or not), VPSes, etc. Although we've outright blocked some large chunks of IPs (AWS, for instance) Please don't do this. It's perfectly le
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by wtbob 10y ago
I prefer serif fonts, but that looks nice enough.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Heck, just look what happened when the parent tried to write the current year, after successfully expressing an older two decade range ;) Argh, I blame an unfamiliar keyboard. And being half-asleep. Sigh
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The political scientist Ken Waltz made this point quite forcefully ( https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/waltz1.htm ): even if one or two nuclear bombs are exchanged, there is still every incentive for the pa
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Bill Clinton allegedly misplaced the biscuit and didn’t tell anyone for months. Boggle.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Have you ever dreamed of a programming language as beautiful as Ruby but as fast as C? Yeah, I discovered Common Lisp back in 2006 and have been using it ever since … I discovered Go back in 2009 and have been using it ever since, too.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I must say that this website comes across as very unprofessional due to the total lack of any design elements which would make it more easy to consume the content (spacing, choice of font). Say what? On the contrary, I think that it&#x
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by wtbob 10y ago
True enough. Any password for a remote site should be 128 bits (22 digits & mixed-case letters are sufficient), and thus need not change, pretty much ever. 172PLIK4PKnkjm1EVd0pQz and wvsH35et6ljj6bd78ngIMd are perfect passwords, and d

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