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by zoul 15y ago
I feel like I live in a different universe. Can please someone explain to me what rational thinking might be behind such offers?
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by zoul 15y ago
Agreed. Going on a hallucinogenic trip is a life-changing experience that does not favour rigid structures in your mind nor the society. It's an experience so far out of the common framework of language and rational thinking that it's hard
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by zoul 15y ago
I might have read your question wrong, but the whole point of this thread is that passwords stored by hashing with a general purpose hashing algorithm can be easily brute-forced nowadays. Salting just turns your password into a different st
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by zoul 15y ago
Living sustainably simply means to live in a way that does not compromise the future generation’s chance to live.
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by zoul 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
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by zoul 15y ago
Tautologies are also very cheap these days :) It wasn’t meant to be an attack, I’m mostly wondering about the motivations. It takes a huge amount of work to make such a game, even if everything goes perfectly well. I know there are intere
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by zoul 15y ago
I'm not really comfortable about the fact that dozens of adult people have spent several years of their work and milions of dollars so that other people can run in virtual environment and throw shit around.
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by zoul 15y ago
No activation/licensing bullshit, feels at home on my Mac, does not try to take over the machine.
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by zoul 15y ago
“Music features are available only in the U.S.” Sigh.
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by zoul 15y ago
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/27/lodsys-also-targeting-an...
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by zoul 15y ago
They are being assholes, which is fine as far as the law goes, but still it's a legit reason for being mad at them.
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by zoul 15y ago
You might be interested in the type system of Perl 6: subset Filename of Str where { $_ ~~ :f }; Here you define the Filename type as a string that represents an existing path. This particular example is a horrendous hack of course
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by zoul 15y ago
The older I am the more I come to the conclusion that best programmers aren't those who can bang out complex code, but those who can find a reasonably simple way to implement even complex concepts. This does not work all the time, but mostl
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by zoul 15y ago
There’s a very nice book about the Poincaré conjecture, going from the roots of geometry in Euclid’s Elements to Perelman’s proof: http://books.google.com/books?id=kM8fAQAAIAAJ At least for me it hit the sweet spot between a rigorous ma
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by zoul 16y ago
> Antimatter is just matter moving backwards in time That could finally put an end to the chicken-egg problem. There was an anti-matter chicken in the first egg and it had moved back in time to lay its own egg after it hatched!
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by zoul 16y ago
The post is down, so I can’t comment on that, but getting rid of singletons was the single most effective thing I did to improve my software design. I also summed up my objections to the singleton pattern in a blog post: http://zmotula.tum
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by zoul 16y ago
What would you rather write iOS/Mac applications in if not Objective-C?
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by zoul 16y ago
Thank you, that’s helpful. The algorithm is a bit above my head to rewrite in Objective-C on Sunday, but from my superficial understanding of it the Objective-C version wouldn’t be really ugly. Yes, it would be wordier and clumsier, but tol
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by zoul 16y ago
As for the header/implementation split, I might have been brainwashed by the language, but I like it :) I take it as a nice division between the public interface and private implementation. And now that we have purely synthesized properties
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by zoul 16y ago
I fail to see how manual (or, in this context, explicit ) memory management could “cloud things”. (It seems to me simply like many programmers can’t be bothered to invest the afternoon it takes to learn Cocoa memory management.) Also, coul
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by zoul 16y ago
I find it surprising that there are so many people bashing Objective-C here in the comments. I have been programming in Objective-C for living since the iPhone SDK came public and I came to love both the language and the libraries. I think
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by zoul 16y ago
Without the score being displayed I simply can't go through the hundreds of comments that get displayed on HN every day. It would be perfect if I could, but I don't have the time and wonder who has. Yes, displaying the votes supports groupt
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by zoul 16y ago
Same situation here. I’d love to push our company to Git+GitHub and the new issue tracker is another small advantage in comparison to our current setup, but it’s a no-go until we can attach screenshots and logs to the issues. Let’s hope tha
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by zoul 16y ago
I'd certainly be more happy to see investors pouring $40M into some local African project than into Color. (Though it won't happen, as they offer $20—50K.)
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by zoul 16y ago
“Universal property of music” is something quite a different from “universal property of musical scales”, at least for me. Music is something very abstract and scales are just a tool that helps dealing with it in practice. As Gustav Mahler
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by zoul 16y ago
I think that losing unsaved work is a bigger and more common problem than those downsides you mention. Locking and reverting is not something mandatory, users can simply ignore those features until they need them. On the whole I see automat
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by zoul 16y ago
http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/ “Say good-bye to manual saving. Auto Save in Mac OS X Lion automatically saves your work — while you work — so you don’t have to. Lion saves changes in the working document instead of creating additional
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by zoul 16y ago
According to the recent xkcd radiation graph there should be no radiation coming from the phone whatsoever, unless you are using a banana phone. What gives?
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by zoul 16y ago
It's a pity that git doesn't also accept unique prefixes for each command like Subversion does. Is that by design?
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Drive 5000 km Across Australia on Wind Power(wind-explorer.com)
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