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721.
by yarrel 11y ago
I strongly suspect we can quantify this with information theory. Genetic engineering and rapid selective breeding leading to monocultures reduces the genetic entropy that provides resilience or something.
722.
by yarrel 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference
723.
by yarrel 11y ago
No, just DDOSed - http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/ddos-attacks-that-cr...
724.
by yarrel 11y ago
I'm reminded of rms's anecdote about secretarial staff learning to write Emacs macros at MIT because they didn't realise it was programming. This suggests that current, important and well-meaning attempts to get non-programme
725.
by yarrel 11y ago
I'm unfamiliar with Swift but Objective-C is an excellent language. I much prefer it to C++. Cocoa won't be made Free, no, but perhaps Swift could be used with GnuStep's implementation of the libraries. It's better to no
726.
by yarrel 11y ago
"What’s at stake, of course, is very much a question of authority." Which explains the moral panic that accompanies any mention of the Digital Humanities in certain quarters.
727.
by yarrel 11y ago
"Mozilla's recent integration with Pocket, a proprietary third-party service, is a mistake." This seems perfectly clear. The obvious improvement is to remove it. What is wrong with Mozilla at the moment?
728.
by yarrel 11y ago
I trust the FSF twenty years from now more than I trust someone today who doesn't use "or later version".
729.
by yarrel 11y ago
If you already know vi then keeping them as you move over to Emacs makes sense. Otherwise I'd recommend not doing this, as vi keybindings are an airbrake for productivity.
730.
by yarrel 11y ago
Yes, always manage objects explicitly. If we can't use scope locks, we should use open()/close() -style semantics.
731.
by yarrel 11y ago
The Rust hype machine has kicked into high gear. D suddenly seems under-promoted.
732.
by yarrel 11y ago
Philosophy is essentially a fandom. If they're geeks they'll love the details and drama. Philosophy does develop the mind but not in an interesting or useful way even from a philosophical point of view . Beyond Wittgenstein'
733.
by yarrel 11y ago
It's proprietary. Next.
734.
by yarrel 11y ago
Yes. They chose a known quantity over an unknown one. I'd be disappointed though.
735.
by yarrel 11y ago
Windows was founded on nutzo drivers. That's why they're specifying the environment so carefully.
736.
by yarrel 11y ago
Where did he copy and misunderstand this from?
737.
by yarrel 11y ago
The one that leads to fewer serious complications and death. Which is vaccination, by a margin so close to 100% that presenting it as the greater harm and refusing it on that basis is completely untenable.
738.
by yarrel 11y ago
Firefox is now a malware installer? Awesome!
739.
by yarrel 11y ago
You should be ashamed of doing the work of adding EME to Firefox. Please don't add it to other platforms. Remove it from Windows. If the work will be long and hard there are better uses of your time than working to ensure that "st
740.
by yarrel 11y ago
PPAs are an antipattern. One of Debian's (many) advantages vs. Ubuntu is that there isn't an ecosystem of poorly maintained but easily found packages around the core. Lending Debian's reputation to such an ecosystem will not
741.
by yarrel 11y ago
I like JavaScript but that did make me laugh.
742.
by yarrel 11y ago
They haven't made money "out of nothing", the money is paying for development. They've had running code since before the Ether sale. That code has been used in projects like Counterparty and Eris. It's already of va
743.
by yarrel 11y ago
A big thank you to the Microsoft social media team currently targeting HN for this and your other fine submissions.
744.
by yarrel 11y ago
MIT's neutrality really comes through as a badge of shame there.
745.
by yarrel 11y ago
Yes. Social media adoption is (high school) generational. The more successful the current round of social media is, the less the next round of high school students will want to be any where near its inhabitants.
746.
by yarrel 11y ago
It may not target them but the funny thing about this kind of law is - hang on, you're discussing government policy on a critical site? That's a watch-listin'!
747.
by yarrel 11y ago
It was ready before that.
748.
by yarrel 11y ago
I'm more surprised that they can use functional programming creatively at all, particularly in realtime. Although to be fair I have the same reaction to Processing.
749.
by yarrel 11y ago
I just downloaded the whitepaper without registering. Maybe they stopped requiring it? Discouraging people from following security best practice would be counter-productive.
750.
by yarrel 11y ago
Some of the most creative people I know swear by functional programming, even for livecoding. I just can't see it, but this is more evidence for why I'm the one in the wrong.

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