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by wtbob 10y ago
> You could make your username be some random hash? Why not? 285e5c0452918bf77370c4a013317be4cf5e1ff690cc33a7346e837f59cdca58@foobarbaz.invalid is, I believe, a valid email address. If that's too long, you can always truncate it.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The correct pronoun is 'her', not 'him/her' No, the correct pronoun is 'him.' Chelsea Manning, despite his self-perception and despite his name change, is and always will be a man. Gender is an obje
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by wtbob 10y ago
I like to imagine that something like containers could provide a rationalised POSIX successor like Plan 9 while still cooperating in the main with a less-clean kernel like Linux. Not certain exactly how that'd work, but it might provid
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Whither Plan 9? History and motivation(pub.gajendra.net)
109 points by wtbob 10y ago|17 comments
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How one man saved a generation of premature babies(bbc.co.uk)
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by wtbob 10y ago
Aaand this is yet another reason to disable JavaScript. Why should a site I'm visiting be able to *$&% with my clipboard without my consent?
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Only real way to prevent it is disable javascript. Oh, darn … /s
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Node doesn't aim to have one correct way of doing one thing as Rails often does. Or any correct way of doing one thing, starting with the language (JavaScript) and moving on from there …
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by wtbob 10y ago
> It feels like the early language wins were due to the languages themselves introducing new concepts, not just syntax changes. Allowing higher-level reasoning. I was looking for somewhere in these threads to post my comments, and I thin
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by wtbob 10y ago
> How many people are now identifiably being turned down for jobs, apartments, dates, and airplane tickets based what the four or five companies that define our identities online record, store, calculate, and sell? Brendan Eich lost his
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by wtbob 10y ago
This is simple: if (str.length < 6) { str = ' '.repeat(6-str.length) + str; } This is easy: leftPad = require('left-pad') leftPad(str, 6) (note: my JavaScript is rusty; there may be s
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Web apps are definitely getting better, I haven't used an actual email client in 10 years Oddly enough, just yesterday I started using an email client once more (emacs+gnus, for Gmail). It just felt so _nice_. And fast too!
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by wtbob 10y ago
Bussing seems terribly bad for the environment when kids could walk to school instead.
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by wtbob 10y ago
>> white families who "don’t want to be in a small minority," > Oh really? why not? Because race in America is (very, very unfortunately) a proxy for class, and people of one class do not like being a minority amongst ano
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by wtbob 10y ago
That's not quite fair. Sure, it'd be cool to bring back þ, ð, æ & ȝ, and maybe even to have Anglo-Saxon as a kind of priestly or formal tongue. But that's not needful. One can choose to use 'hearty' instead &
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by wtbob 10y ago
On a related note, URIs shouldn't end in extensions (use content negotiation!), content should be readable without executing code (no JavaScript necessary), content should be available in multiple languages (use content negotiation!),
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by wtbob 10y ago
I think it's obvious: human beings are omnivores, and an all-plant diet involves a constant struggle against our physical desires. I don't actually think that's necessarily a bad thing if conducted for the correct reasons, b
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Writing programs with NCURSES(invisible-island.net)
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The Common Lisp Ultraspec(phoe.tymoon.eu)
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by wtbob 10y ago
Well, I don't know about the API, but that's certainly the worst blog software ever made, requiring me to enable JavaScript and execute code in order to read some simple HTML and CSS. Why‽
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by wtbob 10y ago
Posting because I think it's a nice example of how clean s-expression-based syntax can be: (find-cmd '(prune (name ".svn" ".git" ".CVS")) '(and (or (name "*.pl" &quo
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Find-cmd.el: an elegant way to build up complex find(1) expressions(emacswiki.org)
9 points by wtbob 10y ago|2 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
'Censorship' is the wrong word: Docker isn't censoring information, but rather refusing to do business with Syria, Cuba, North Korea & Iran. I expected this article to be about Docker censoring items it serves.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The lack of IPOs is unnatural in that sense, as late stage investors always seemed to cash out then. Late-stage speculators, surely? After all, an investor would be invested in the companies success, and would have bought it in orde
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by wtbob 10y ago
> My Nokia N900 had [an FM transmitter] and I've missed it ever since - it could even display text via RDS! You know, that's an amazingly depressing thought: how many other dead-simple technologies have we been prevented from u
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by wtbob 10y ago
Common Lisp not a Lisp derivative: it is Lisp. Someday, of course, there may be a successor language, but Clojure is not. Clojure is a Lisp-like language with — I'm told — many good and/or interesting idea. I don't know i
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by wtbob 10y ago
> There's one thing severely lacking in lisp: compile time type checking! Lisp does have compile-time type checking; see my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11699581
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by wtbob 10y ago
Lisp is both dynamically and statically typed: (defun foo (x y) (declare (type (integer 1 12) x) (type character y)) (make-string x :initial-element y)) And the compiler will provide a compile-time error
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by wtbob 10y ago
And it all falls apart if one is using a text editor which highlights trailing whitespace (like emacs). The point of steganography is to hide that there is even a message; this fails at that.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> We needed javascript to make it pretty You can make a page pretty just with CSS; and even if you add behaviour via JavaScript, you can still degrade gracefully. I see nothing but a blank page in both lynx and eww.

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