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by zeveb 8y ago
> I personally think that WebAssembly is the future so the web will finally just be another compilation target and I can't wait for it to be wide spread. I really hope not. I don't believe we've seen the last of exploits
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by zeveb 8y ago
> It does make development easier, and at some point it just doesn't make sense to support any longer. It depends on what you're doing. If you're building an app (something which would make more sense as a native program
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The illusion of control in web design(alistapart.com)
41 points by zeveb 8y ago|13 comments
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by zeveb 9y ago
Were it not for another tech news site, I'd have no idea that it had happened. Seems a bit crazy to try to disappear news about this sort of thing to me.
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Lisp, Jazz, Aikido – ten years later(didierverna.net)
3 points by zeveb 9y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 9y ago
Eh, the original iMac was truly a work of art. The shape and the colour were innovative & exciting, a vision of computers as objects of joy. The half-basketball iMac looks like something an engineer designed (and I'm an engineer!)
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by zeveb 9y ago
> Javascript is just a basically-ordinary scripting language, and isn’t inordinately terrible (or even Perl-levels of terrible). It’s not great, but it’s OK, and that’s good enough for lots of people. I'll take issue with that. Jav
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by zeveb 9y ago
I don't — I use a laptop from Zareason. It runs Debian, and I'm happy with it.
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by zeveb 9y ago
> So what can't you "tinker" with that you would like on OS X - The kernel (yes, there's Darwin — I don't believe it's possible to replace a working macOS kernel with my own build) - The window manager - The
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by zeveb 9y ago
Is there a way to review the different paths and come up with answers for all of them? E.g., if on a platform with a hardware RNG then it should never be necessary to block: just read 128 bits out of the hardware RNG & generate a stream
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by zeveb 9y ago
I'm very fond of Apple's business stance; my concern is not with it, but with their technological stance. Apple products are built on lock-in; they are proprietary and closed, not open. Frankly, at this point they're not
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A brief introduction to literate analytics with org-babel(ul.io)
1 points by zeveb 9y ago|0 comments
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TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming(tic.computer)
360 points by zeveb 9y ago|72 comments
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by zeveb 9y ago
You're not wrong, but neither is rms. The little boy pointing out that the emperor's new clothes are non-existent is no less right for breaking social mores, but is rather less likely to actually be paid attention to.
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by zeveb 9y ago
Fortunately, if you want that sort of thing in Lisp there's always the iterate library: https://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/ It looks pretty good to me, and I hear good things about it, although frankly I
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by zeveb 9y ago
YES WE SHOULD DEFINITELY STRIVE TO REACH OUT TO THOSE WHO HAVE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION STYLES THAN WE DO. > To the extent that marginalized groups have a different style of communication than what is expected at SO, they will be treated
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by zeveb 9y ago
> I only started playing with Go a few months ago and remember how amateurish the website and the mascot made it look. If good, clean text which displays in any browser is amateurish … then I prefer amateurism to professionalism. I real
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Design patterns failed. Why? Should we care? (2017)(deconstructconf.com)
3 points by zeveb 9y ago|0 comments
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The illusion of control in web design(alistapart.com)
1 points by zeveb 9y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 9y ago
> I think the biggest problem with it, even with industrial stuff, is that it's ignoring transaction costs of moving buildings? Then maybe the rule is that you will be forced to sell to anyone who pays you N × the value you self-ass
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by zeveb 9y ago
> Let's be honest, from the viewpoint of an Atlantic editor, hiring a guy who thinks it's a funny joke to make would have been as bad as hiring a guy who actually believes it. The Atlantic hired Ta-Nehisi Coates , who is far m
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by zeveb 9y ago
This, right here, is why the GDPR's 'right to be forgotten' is so pernicious. Were Mrs. Reid an EU person, the Internet Archive could be forced to disappear her previous posts. Or given that she's also a public figur
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ZSH, tmux, Emacs and SSH: A copy-paste story(blog.d46.us)
3 points by zeveb 9y ago|0 comments
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The trouble with OneNote and Evernote(irreal.org)
2 points by zeveb 9y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 9y ago
> citation needed! Here are three: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
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by zeveb 9y ago
I'm not certain what he expects: lifetime risk-free employment? Yeah, there's stress involved with risk. But the risk one has as an upper-middle-class American is tech is nothing compared to the risks that others alive today f
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by zeveb 9y ago
> The problem is that formats like JSON are designed to be human readable and writable. Length prefixing is a non starter here. Canonical S-expression are both human-readable & length-prefixed. They do this by have an advanced repre
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by zeveb 9y ago
> Yeah, probably less reliable than the speed queen. Sadly, according to an article HN sadly killed[0], the Speed Queen is no longer particularly good: https://thewirecutter.com/blog/speed-queen-washer/ [0]: h
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by zeveb 9y ago
The problem is that any realistic application imposes more semantics than just the JSON semantics on its data. A particular string isn't just as a string: it's really an address, or a name, or whatever; a particular number isn&
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by zeveb 9y ago
> when serializing, all signed integers need to be sign-extended to 64 bits, to support interop between different integer types FWIW, I think it'd be awesome if the only wire integer format were a bignum, in order to support full in

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