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by zorked 11y ago
I would recommend something that seems weird but isn't: start with Joy of Clojure just to get a sample of what the language really is about, and if you like what you see go back to one of the introductory books and learn it.
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by zorked 11y ago
The rule against self-incrimination is a very important part of Roman law - the government can't force you to do anything that would lead to your conviction. That's why the Brazilian police has a hard drive that is known to have t
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by zorked 11y ago
It's a song, and probably the tool and aphyr's blog posts will have more staying power than the song and the singer they are named after.
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by zorked 11y ago
Why aren't they just publishing the source?
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by zorked 11y ago
Is this going to be widely used? No. It's early technology. Will a successor of this idea change things? Yes.
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by zorked 11y ago
Why would Panama or Egypt want to block China?
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by zorked 11y ago
I thought for a long time that Mario was some sort of Alex Kidd rip-off.
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by zorked 11y ago
At a company where I worked previously one team only noticed one of their systems hadn't been correctly patched against Heartbleed because there was an exploit available that they could use to test. Who knows what would have happened d
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by zorked 11y ago
While the whole situation is bad, you are being hit by a case of bad customer support, not necessarily a company that does not care about security. They didn't understand your message. It's bad. But it's still reasonable to n
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by zorked 11y ago
Isn't the Chrome sandbox a better assurance than Chrome-under-Docker? Except for the obscurity angle of course (nobody writes exploits against Chrome-under-Docker). To be fair, VMs are also mostly about the obscurity angle too, and if
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by zorked 11y ago
We should be glad. Eventual consistency is hard to reason about, particularly when its tradeoffs have to do with other people's systems...
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by zorked 11y ago
What made IE6 IE6 wasn't the technical choices it made, but the fact that whatever were its views, those were forced on the world by its market dominance. The browser that is closer to that position now is Chrome, not Safari. The sad f
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by zorked 11y ago
How does it work, really? Do you provide a plausible-looking virtualized fake enterprise network that will look like a real thing to outsiders? Or do you put honeypot servers alongside other production servers, running whatever applications
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by zorked 11y ago
It's not, and I think it's older than Node.js.
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by zorked 11y ago
Considering there are people who have heart attacks based on whether a file ends with a newline or not, commit message formatting is a hugely important topic.
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by zorked 11y ago
1) Ignore people's opinions 2) Parenting is not a competition against other parents 3) Literally tens of billions of people on this planet have had children. It can't be that hard. And it's not 4) Spend as much time as you ca
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by zorked 11y ago
I am no historian, but back in the 90s Perl was filling the niche of "the duct tape of the Internet" and systems administration language. I used it. I think three things contributed to its downfall: 1) Perl 6 2) the huge inflow of
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by zorked 11y ago
Language popularity generally follows adoption of some key library or framework from that language. Python is probably an exception there because it got popular despite the lack of a clear reason (I would argue it was there to fill the vacu
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by zorked 11y ago
Java, or, how "software engineering" can kill a decent enough language with incredible complexity.
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by zorked 11y ago
They are not providing the security they promise.
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by zorked 11y ago
VPN are a scam business run by offshore companies in budget datacenters with the cheapest possible employees. It probably doesn't matter because 99.999% only want to access Netflix in another country. Out of the remaining 0.001%, most
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by zorked 11y ago
On average worse than Google but not without its pleasures. Much worse on "long tail" searches and non-English terms. I went back to Google. To be fair what really made me move away was that their page load times were much slower.
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by zorked 11y ago
1) why would companies care about tracking people who don't even have clean water and food? (You are just confused about what the third world even is) 2) "Americans resist privacy invasions" What.
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by zorked 11y ago
No the best UI. Not Unix. Not a major mobile platform. Dominates a huge but dying market. Why would you do that?
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by zorked 11y ago
This is so right. It's not that the rich countries can't do anything to help, but that they are so often clueless in their approach. Internet.org is one such example even if you assume it's well-meaning. This reminds me of al
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by zorked 11y ago
Everybody is taking these questions too seriously. These are not interview questions, and these are quite fun actually - I know the answer to a few of them (not because I know RFCs by heart but because I had to deal with them in the past),
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by zorked 12y ago
I believe these days WoW merges underpopulated zones so those ~20 players per zone are across a bunch of servers while ~50 players in a zone may be all in one server.
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by zorked 12y ago
Agreed, learning Emacs while learning Clojure is just a bad idea. It's a huge distraction and it ties the success of learning Clojure into the success of learning Emacs (which will never be everyone's thing) and reduces your speed
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by zorked 12y ago
The SEC can get involved. The question is whether they should. See, people who write "bad" algorithms already get punished by the market and lose money. They already have an interest in improving. What would a regulation against &
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by zorked 12y ago
Building new backbones is completely different from forking the Internet.

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