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by zellyn 9y ago
There's a perennial discussion of AGPLv3 here on hacker news. A surprising number of projects select it, then revert to something less toxic to corporations.
782.
by zellyn 9y ago
This is a fantastic refutation of the idea that text is best. You have to read the whole thing to figure out where to tap. Nicely done!
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by zellyn 9y ago
(a) talk with patio11 and tptacek and follow all their advice for tarsnap (b) work on this new idea while the picodollars flow in… :-p
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by zellyn 9y ago
:-( - Zellyn
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by zellyn 9y ago
Wait, so it's not my constant over-indulgence in free office snacks that did it?
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by zellyn 9y ago
In 10 years, the proverbial puck will have moved. Language ecosystems where the BDFL doesn't learn to delegate wither and die.
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by zellyn 9y ago
I want to like and use Elm. However, unless things have changed recently, it seems the author hasn't learned to delegate. They also like to really get things right, which takes forever. So it's really good at what it does, but for
788.
by zellyn 10y ago
I'm even older (41) and it has nothing to do with this discussion at all :-p For the record, the sooner everything is USB C the better. Someone can make data-blocking charge-only cables.
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by zellyn 10y ago
It's the noise drones make: they're incredibly loud.
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by zellyn 10y ago
I saw an article the other day that argued that because of skewness caused by a few companies having outsized gains, the value of picking stocks is typically negative. Sorry - can't find the article right now :-(
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by zellyn 10y ago
But then again, I may be a bit warped: a while back, while stuck in bed sick for a week, I implemented chacha20 in 6502 assembler, on an Apple II emulator, on my phone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by zellyn 10y ago
Yeah, I don't mind it at all, besided being very far over against the left margin. I think I would find it more jarring if the paragraphs were wider, and then it suddenly shrunk back down just for the code listings.
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by zellyn 10y ago
Yeah, looks like the submitter was not the author.
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by zellyn 10y ago
It appears to be a direct link to a README in a subversion repository. Are you arguing that all README files should be markdown or something? http://www.clifford.at/svninfo.html
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by zellyn 10y ago
I saw "Next" and figured it was a company or individual blogging about their next move. Which it was. Seems fine.
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by zellyn 10y ago
It's actually pretty nice. I was mostly just being silly. But I do think concision is underrated, and some "conversational" tutorials drag on… Mathematicians end up with terse notation on purpose.
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by zellyn 10y ago
"concise, conversational tone" I wonder which it is. :-p
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by zellyn 10y ago
It would be weird, and cool, if dimension n+1 _doesn't_ get less different as n increases.
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by zellyn 10y ago
https://google.com/search?q=high+dimensions+spiky gives some discussions.
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by zellyn 10y ago
In the penultimate paragraph, they say, "As a result, the authors were able to prove that when you begin by fixing the angle in advance, the maximum number of equiangular lines is 2d – 2 for one particular angle (approximately 70.7 deg
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by zellyn 10y ago
I'm not convinced either. It's not clear that the compiler should do that. You just allocated a new array, and (may have) made copies of the values in the original array. Reordering the new array will not reorder the original one.
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by zellyn 10y ago
Well, Java has generics, but you still can't do this same thing: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1115230/casting-object-ar... I agree that having generics in Go would be fantastic, and I'm excited at
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by zellyn 10y ago
That is a nice way of putting it.
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by zellyn 10y ago
Could you post an example of what you're talking about? Passing slices of interface values works just fine. https://play.golang.org/p/9CWzdnRb8U Is this what you mean? Trying to pass a []fooint as a []Fooer doesn&
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by zellyn 10y ago
Not really. Can you describe a situation where accidentally satisfying an unrelated interface would cause a problem? The worst I can think of are possible developer confusion, and maybe your autocomplete suggesting the wrong thing.
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by zellyn 10y ago
I think they mean accidentally satisfied interfaces.
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by zellyn 10y ago
Just so you Servo folks know, we appreciate the plan of shipping components incrementally in Firefox, and realize the necessity, and how big a project building a whole browser is… …and yet… …I think you know we're all waiting for Servo
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by zellyn 10y ago
Maybe it's just because I'm a programmer, but disallowing access to the internet seems cruel and unusual.
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by zellyn 10y ago
As I posted on twitter[1], Slack is linkable. Not public, but if you can chat you see them. Gitter: public AND linkable. Async is a good argument; linkability is not. Slack's UI is good. Not perfect, but it's quite usable compared
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by zellyn 10y ago
I am laughing so hard right now. Aphyr is the origin of "It’s San Francisco. Everyone’s into distributed systems and BDSM." https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/

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