yarrel

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   by yarrel 8y ago

   Anyone treating a blockchain as a database is already off to a bad start. It's at best a prunable transaction log. Sure, you can use a blockchain to construct a database, but even the Nakamoto whitepaper talks about discarding old tran
2. 212.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   It breaks freedom 0.
3. 213.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   Hahahahahahaha. No.
4. 214.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   That web page hijacking the scrollbar is clever but frustrating.
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   by yarrel 8y ago

   It's weird how many people only want to talk about the environment when it's Bitcoin. Anyway - https://medium.com/coinshares/beware-of-lazy-research-c828c9...
6. 216.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   It's ActiveX for the desktop.
7. 217.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   The trust Nakamoto refers to is explicitly and obviously the trust demanded by "trusted third parties" that intrude into transactions. Removing this intrusion allows increased trust between members of society.
8. 218.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   These are problems rather than mysteries in comparison to the intrusion of "trusted third parties" as intermediaries in transactions. Which is to say they are nice problems to be able to have.
9. 219.▲
   by yarrel 8y ago

   > So, the sad conclusion is: all problems must be resolved individually depending on a specific usage context. ...and that's a good thing. Recognising that specific usage contexts require specific recovery strategies is a key part o
10. 220.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    There's no moral panic about project managers though. Their decisions do not affect the excesses of software development in any way, only those of software developers do. ;-)
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    by yarrel 8y ago

    A web page. A word processor or a web publishing framework are more complex and less tractable than HTML and CSS written in a text editor. Even if you manage to export something it will be mangled and you haven't learnt the tools or pr
12. 222.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    Mobile is driven by consumer sales, not OEM or corporate.
13. 223.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    First as tragedy...
14. 224.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    This is a "now you have two problems" solution.
15. 225.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    Then you cannot argue that something is not for the greater good. There are historical arguments for and against particular unions for particular people, and there are studies of the impact of union activity. "That's subjective&
16. 226.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    Breaker is long-form clickbait. It's an interesting format and I'm curious how they pay for it.
17. 227.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    They do now.
18. 228.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    That's not a free software license though.
19. 229.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    No part of this title is correct. Except possibly the "at home" part.
20. 230.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    K&R is a remarkably good and concise introduction to C. I think that C is actually good, and that C++ is a Scooby-Doo sandwich of fail. But this is an opinion concerning a particular domain (low-level programming) that doesn't carr
21. 231.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    For C: Pointers, stacks (one in ever 23.7 bugs is a stack smashing bug), bit bashing and endianness, types and coercion at the byte level (see also: pointers, bit bashing), C strings, the stupid rules about when a variable's value is a
22. 232.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    There's always http://blog.funcall.org/lisp/2015/10/30/zx-spectrum-lisp/
23. 233.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    It's funny that two entirely unrelated pieces of software written by separate projects have such similar names. One of them should really change to avoid this unfortunate confusion.
24. 234.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    It provides inferior code and interfaces that are used instead of them. So you're correct, in a way.
25. 235.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    SystemD doesn't have broad support among end users. It has weary resignation and a few people who don't know how grep works.
26. 236.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    Along with a deal to embed a proprietary eye-tracking service that will then be bought out by Mozilla once they realize that they've done it again.
27. 237.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    GitHub is now the Azure front-end with more mindshare. So I'd imagine it will be the one that survives, at a brand level at least.
28. 238.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    GitHub is creepy. Centralizing a decentralized software system then censoring projects isn't all rainbows and unicorns.
29. 239.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    GitHub is just a (blood-)funnel for Azure now.
30. 240.▲
    by yarrel 8y ago

    I can imagine this being released is a way of covering up the spyware in those blobs. (Note to the insufficiently paranoid: "I can imagine" does the work you need it to.)