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by yid 15y ago
Sigh. Sometimes posts like these make me want to go back to academia (it's not perfect, but they generally believe in this little thing called rigor). From TFA: I tested nginx as a proxy, serving static files, and serving nginx-generated r
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by yid 15y ago
You're asking people not to have a knee-jerk reaction to offensive language, but you're having a knee-jerk reaction to people being offended. Some people might choke on their morning coffee when reviewing a pull request for "pantyshot", but
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by yid 15y ago
Perhaps it's a difference of experience, but I really haven't met a professional programmer who doesn't understand regexes but still insists on using them for non-trivial tasks. Thus my usage of "disingenuous", because I have trouble believ
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by yid 15y ago
The two might go hand in hand...
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by yid 15y ago
My bad about Green Day -- it was the Offspring I was thinking about (can't blame me, they're almost interchangeable as bands). On the other hand, rockers with PhDs: Dexter Holland from Offspring (molecular biology, but dropped out with a ma
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by yid 15y ago
...because the wild women of grunge can't possibly have brains too? Disingenuous, my friend. There are famous rockers with PhDs (the guy from green day comes to mind).
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by yid 15y ago
A correctly written regex is not a bad programming practice. The insinuation that most programmers can't write or debug a regex correctly is disingeneous.
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by yid 15y ago
Interesting thoughts, and I agree with most of them. Perhaps you could think of my two number scale as a first approximation...? :)
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by yid 15y ago
Jokes aside, I like to fit people into two numbers between 0 and 1, non-inclusive. The first, number A represents your gender identification, with 0 being ideally female and 1 ideally male (remember the scale is non inclusive of the bounds)
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by yid 15y ago
Hi Brandon, I appreciate the quick response. I would, at the very least, work with a copywriter rather than formulating your own copy (there are plenty that will work for free, to build their portfolio). In the meantime, I look forward to t
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by yid 15y ago
Is it just me, or do the Thiel Fellow projects seem to suffer from hubris? I understand that the founders are young and a little naive, but instead of lofty claims like: "No longer will we navigate endlessly in search of reliable content"
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by yid 15y ago
Also known as fiduciary duty.
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by yid 15y ago
Touche...
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by yid 15y ago
Well, that significantly dampens my excitement...
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by yid 15y ago
Then the Linux kernel is totally unoriginal.
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by yid 15y ago
There are millions of prescription drug abusers living in upper middle class suburbs; are they overwhelmingly guilty of prostitution and supporting a crime infrastructure too?
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by yid 15y ago
Unlikely is an understatement -- the probability of an infinite sequence of PRNG outputs that prevents any sort algorithm from terminating is negligible.
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by yid 15y ago
While I agree in principle, there are many cases where you don't care about the statistical quality of a random shuffle, where brevity has its benefit.
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by yid 15y ago
Wow, I'm seriously overjoyed to discover the "yield" operator, which I did not know existed (it barely shows up anywhere!). No more hackishly using window.setTimeout() to yield in JS pseudo-thread simulations!
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by yid 15y ago
While the news feed is certainly not trivial, I think you have a point in that it wasn't news feed's technical prowess that made it a game changing feature for facebook. In fact, there was a pretty vocal displeasure among its user base ab
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by yid 15y ago
Probably Tom Wu's JSBN implementation...
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by yid 15y ago
Not sure what you mean, SJCL doesn't have an RSA implementation.
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by yid 15y ago
I'm not saying it's "bad" to rip off, just that it's not newsworthy.
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by yid 15y ago
Back in my day, copying a competitor's feature was denounced as ripping off. Just because it's institutionalized as a "hack" is no reason for assigning it much more importance.
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by yid 15y ago
What caused you to think HN was "land of the free"? That's not implied anywhere.
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by yid 15y ago
I suppose we're both going on anecdotal evidence, and the actual usage of social networks is probably diverse enough to accommodate both our views.
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by yid 15y ago
I disagree. Social networking, unlike skype or email, requires low cognitive load--you come to hang out on your own terms. While group video chat is a convenient feature when you need it, it's not going to fundamentally change the game.
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by yid 15y ago
I'm sorry, that's still as vapid as saying "you don't like Google search? Well, build your own search engine..."
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by yid 15y ago
This is a great idea, and I agree NaCl is the most exciting thing I've seen in a while. However, the modern JS engines already have JIT compilers for JS. As these improve more, JS effectively becomes your "bytecode". That's also an entirely
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by yid 15y ago
What a vapid comment. GP is perfectly within his rights to gripe about people performing a stressful job admirably while receiving less money than they deserve. Saying "start your own airline" hardly advances the conversation. As a counterp

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