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by yason 8y ago
There are algorithms and research of cryptographic cash that predate blockchains by decades.
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by yason 8y ago
Cryptocurrency mentioned. Blockchain mentioned. I really should've bought a card for this buzzword bingo. Is this just PR or are they genuinely so clueless? If the former I wonder if they missed the shift this year where cryptocoins st
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by yason 8y ago
The sheer length of timespans involved in copyright make it very detached from the actual reality a lot of people grew up with. A copyright of a few years would better reflect what has been going on in the daily life since 70's-80&#x27
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by yason 8y ago
You also plausibly can't trust the phone or any device that got unlocked and sent "into imaging".
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They can obviously be as suspicious as they like to but they can be like that anyway . If they choose to believe you have two Facebook accounts, one to show to authorities and the other to plan terrorist attacks with, then how can you prov
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by yason 8y ago
It's no wonder really. If you build a system that allows anonymity and untraceability you will end up hosting everything that can't normally happen without anonymity and untraceability. Hackers marvel at the idea of complete anony
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by yason 8y ago
It is much easier to accomplish things if that's your sole intent and purpose in life—at the expense of many otherwise valued traits of being a human.
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by yason 8y ago
The question is valid if you intend to stick with one paradigm and keep it pure. For any practical purposes, that's useless crap. Nothing wrong with writing the gist of your program written in functional way, keeping things immutable,
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by yason 8y ago
Unless you're using a pre-specified configuration file format (e.g. TOML), then parsing configuration files requires a general parsing library. If you have needs that require a general parsing library then why are you criticizing str
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by yason 8y ago
So, here's that implementation: static char *p; if (!s && !(s = p)) return NULL; s += strspn(s, sep); if (!*s) return p = 0; p = s + strcspn(s, sep); if (*p) *p++ = 0; else p = 0; return s;
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by yason 8y ago
That's what I meant: strtok() is well-defined in what it does . The man page is really short. I don't understand people who complain it doesn't do something it's not supposed to do. Yet it's very useful in what it
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by yason 8y ago
If you program in C please just write those four obvious lines yourself. Those are not necessarily obvious lines, there are several pitfalls to avoid, and for that reason strtok() is much longer than four lines. When it comes to the stand
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by yason 8y ago
The biggest company in world (MSFT) defines their entire office suite in XML. SOAP on the wire is the most efficient M2M protocol for conveying strongly typed message payloads. That does not point to a particular excellence of XML. XML wa
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by yason 8y ago
I've always known the parachute manufacturers mostly ride on fear, uncertainty and doubt on this. They ruthlessly cash in on people's lack of knowledge and fear of death, advertising parachutes as a safer option which people buy
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by yason 8y ago
I do wonder: - Why approaching something thought to be a fixed construction didn't trigger any alarms, mechanical or mental? It doesn't matter if the "tanker" was a stationary part of the harbour or a moving vessel becau
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by yason 8y ago
I still remember when Gnome 2 reached its peak with Ubuntu in the early 2000's. It was pretty much the complete, reliable, configurable, and robust desktop that Linux ever needed. Anything since that has been a downhill, with new featu
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by yason 8y ago
I think programming has more trade-offs to choose from, and thus more freedoms. You can make a program slow, fast, small, large, limited, comprehensive, quickly written for a specific case or carefully designed for the generic case, or anyt
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by yason 8y ago
Autoplay is the last straw, I'm at the verge of migrating to Firefox for my primary browser because it seems Chromium just can't keep those damn videos from playing and more often than not the videos seem to steal keyboard too. Wh
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by yason 8y ago
with a fine that removed that guilt Rather tha guilt I think the factor in play can be described as cheap overtime daycare. It's actually more valuable to pay $3 and get more flexibility in your day rather save $3 and be on time. Nee
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by yason 8y ago
Any discussion about the relative merits of task tracking software is moot because of fundamental discrepancies with regard to tracking tasks. Programmers don't need task tracking. They have an in-head priority queue of stuff that need
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by yason 8y ago
Typefaces are an incredibly labor-intensive product to produce. The exact same can be said about programming, often multiplied tenfold by the number of engineers. But the software industry has long understood the zero-cost of duplication,
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by yason 8y ago
I'm not saying you are defending VW but I don't think anything they did was remotely defensible. I don't think it could be considered defensible at any level, either. But I do maintain that the market really doesn't
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by yason 8y ago
The issue is a bit two-fold. Yes, they did shaft the regulators to get things green on paper but the owners of Volkswagen cars weren't exactly deprived of anything directly. Here in Europe there are people who have deliberately refused
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by yason 8y ago
The linked article https://medium.com/@hazelynut/why-i-have-a-problem-with-bras... was a very interesting breakdown of what all it takes and why basically all bras are often just bad approxximations.
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by yason 8y ago
I would tend to frown upon shrinking competition but in this case Edge wasn't really a player. The markets were already shared by the Chromium engine and Firefox. Chromium has the ancestry back to WebKit and KHTML so, to my knowledge,
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by yason 8y ago
That sounds like you could just paraphrase it as "Spotify for newspapers".
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Open source developers can’t ‘just’ choose what they work on, anyway. Oh yes they can. However, if the developers choose to chase popularity, then it's a different game and they must recognise that the stakes will be higher then. Y
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by yason 8y ago
Social pressure exists regardless of the source code distribution model and whether it's free or paid work. People can always succumb to social pressure. Open source developers do suffer from that too but taking up on social pressure i
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by yason 8y ago
I don't see the relevance. Open source developers need not be burning themselves out, they can just choose to work on what they want. If a big company uses an open source library there's no contractual agreement that the developer
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by yason 8y ago
I thought this was about algorithms and data structures which made me curious. But the article is about how intentionally or accidentally sloppy data analysis or processing should be regulated if it can have a large impact on people or lead

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