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by yzzxy 12y ago
Guess you have to disable topcolor for that?
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by yzzxy 12y ago
This just in: life imitates art.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
This seems as good a place as any to point this out: take a look at the numbers on the frontpage.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
In Emacs, M-x doctor will pull up some later incarnation of this program.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I actually meant to mention this in my original post but forgot: the first comment I saw when I opened this last night was your recipe. I thought that was a good indicator of where the discussion was going before the title change altered th
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I think the title change was in poor taste here. Most people don't really care about this issue for a browser in of itself, but the mailing list dialogue made the link interesting.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Common consensus today appears to paint Kissinger as the driving force and genius behind the Nixon administration's foreign policy success. I think Thompson expresses this quite well: > Kissinger is a slippery little devil, a world-
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by yzzxy 12y ago
No need to be eloquent! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding-Dong!_The_Witch_Is_Dead#De...
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Hmm. So maybe, within the bowels of listservs and whitepaper archives, we hide a secret repository of slick, sexy marketing pdfs that engineers can print, cover in a shiny plastic folder, and strategically deploy as a measure of last resort
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by yzzxy 12y ago
The problem with this strategy is it runs the risk of reassigning resources from the most dangerous vulnerabilities (which infosec-trained sysadmins and developers know how to judge) to those with the best marketers and designers behind the
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by yzzxy 12y ago
While I largely agree with you in the context of this article, I don't really like a similar trend to this sentiment I've been seeing in HN comments recently. There seems to be a devoted core of people who hate long-form journal
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Not in Japan.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Looks like a lot of the same ideas behind the Internet Archive, but focused on asset creation rather then preservation. I also like to see more people moving into the Patreon-style market - Patreon has probably figured out a lot of the pain
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Interesting... It seems to me that FP is having quite a renaissance recently, which could limit the relevance of that paper's contentions today. I'm also seeing quite a backlash against OOP and especially OOP as the One True Parad
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by yzzxy 12y ago
At first glance this book appears in many ways to be a spiritual successor to SICP... does this hold up for anyone who has read it more throughly?
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Probably don't publish your old git repo. If you have multiple branches, add them to a new repo manually. You never know what could be in your old code.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I think most people don't enter the games industry because they see it as a subset of programming. They learned to program or create art to make games, not vice versa. Many programmers began coding because they wanted to make games, in
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by yzzxy 12y ago
It's a little different, but still a good starting point. It contains some strong arguments both for and against affirmative action, and is significant beyond simple legal status. I cited that case not because I believe SCOTUS is corre
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by yzzxy 12y ago
In my opinion, that debate isn't really worth having in this context - see the HN rules on reopening flamewars[0]. Suffice to say that affirmative action has already been discussed inside and out in almost every single context. The US
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Just wondering, do you see this more outside of the Bay/Valley or in other countries?
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Striving for 50% creates high demand in the labor market for female CS workers, which incentivizes colleges to strive for the same 50/50 ratio (many now do, see CMU) to fill all-important hiring and starting salary metrics. It also enc
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by yzzxy 12y ago
A massively emasculated version of Roko's Basilisk.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
This company seems extremely scummy. You may remember them from the "let's ship women from NY to California to date tech dudes" crowdfunding campaign. http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/05/shipped-to-
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by yzzxy 12y ago
C and Go are similar in design goals, but extremely different otherwise. As others have mentioned, Go has things like a GC that make development significantly simpler for apps that follow standard web patterns.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
There's no incentive to host a legal torrent on The Pirate Bay, except to "shield" illegitimate activity or for some kind of marketing stunt. With a legitimate torrent, here is no possibility of a legitimate takedown request,
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I like http://www.syedrezaali.com/output/ Nice showcase for his work, which is excellent as well. http://acko.net/ Make sure to open some articles, especially the one on the website header (that's
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by yzzxy 12y ago
It's good he wasn't tacky enough to make a Steve Jobs allegory... but then Forbes did it for him anyway. Interesting read, I've used Crowdflower in the past and have had a much better experience than when I tried to use MTurk
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Or use github pages on your own URL? Github is one of the few sites I would be willing to trust with a large part of my life's work, because it's so easy for me to mirror.
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Pure functions can very much be algorithms. Functional programming is just that and can include algorithms. Monads are not intrinsically related in any way to impurity, they are an instrument of control/data flow. They can be used to a
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I have yet to see any new points in the disussion of free content since reading Chris Anderson's book FREE back in 2009. The one possible exception would be the advent of Patreon and to a lesser extent Kickstarter, but these are basi

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