big_spammer

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by big_spammer 9y ago
The flipped iceberg is beautiful to see. The Antarctic iceberg crack that developed a fork isn't. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39779761
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by big_spammer 9y ago
> I don't see how you avoid some company reading your email and still have automatically indexed, infinitely scalable email in-boxes. It's possible to with encrypted search.
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by big_spammer 9y ago
> most programming languages don't even give you a good way to express the invariants you are trying to maintain (except good ol' Ada). What does Ada do that helps with this in ways C and other languages don't?
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by big_spammer 9y ago
I couldn't find in the source code where types are inferred.
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by big_spammer 9y ago
This is an interesting approach https://www.rosieleizrowice.com/blog/5minutejournal
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by big_spammer 9y ago
Overstock accepted Bitcoin since 2014 https://www.overstock.com/bitcoin and now trades its own stock on it https://www.wired.com/2016/12/overstock-com-issues-stock-via...
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by big_spammer 9y ago
How is this different than CryptDB? https://css.csail.mit.edu/cryptdb/
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A better compressed bitset(roaringbitmap.org)
2 points by big_spammer 9y ago|0 comments
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by big_spammer 9y ago
Identical code folding is slick. It's the opposite of using macros, and is harder to fold code than to generate it.
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People with creative personalities really do see the world differently(theconversation.com)
4 points by big_spammer 9y ago|0 comments
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by big_spammer 9y ago
This made me find and read "Growing a language" https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf "In a race, a small language with warts will beat a well designed language because u
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by big_spammer 9y ago
What's with the branch instructions "Branch with Link" and "Branch with Exchange"? What do they do? I haven't seen anything like this before. I see some explanation in https://azeria-labs.com/ar
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by big_spammer 9y ago
> Culture creation/management is taught in business school Creation/management and being taught aren't exactly the same. I think you mean "there are ways to manage well".
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by big_spammer 9y ago
True. It's probably a sign of good writing if you can elicit such a response. "The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.&
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by big_spammer 9y ago
"Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace" is better than "The Elements of Style". https://www.amazon.com/Style-Lessons-Clarity-Grace-12th/dp/0...
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by big_spammer 9y ago
Please don't generalize without evidence to back it up. The first version of the Linux kernel wasn't written by a team, for example, and writing an OS is clearly impressive. Linux didn't ship, get customers, and make money.
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by big_spammer 9y ago
Why is it "clearly virtual reality related"?
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by big_spammer 9y ago
Maybe because Peach became Japan's first airline to accept Bitcoin. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-22/peach-bec...
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by big_spammer 9y ago
I dropped all except Amazon, because books are cheaper there. The cockroach is Amazon. Google was surprisingly easy to drop. I use DuckDuckGo and quit GMail. Microsoft I dropped more than a decade ago. I never used Facebook. I half-dropped
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by big_spammer 9y ago
Hi, I would like you to buy my first product for something like $1.99. Where can I send you a link in private?
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by big_spammer 9y ago
If you want to keep a list like this online I wrote a web app that keeps lists.
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by big_spammer 9y ago
I threw together something small that works for me if anyone wants to try it.
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by big_spammer 9y ago
Link to try it out http://www.taggernews.com/
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by big_spammer 9y ago
On living in the REPL full time and having a better environment, is there something you wish Smalltalk could do to become a better environment that it doesn't? What would feel better?
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by big_spammer 9y ago
> Smalltalk doesn’t need macros because it has classes instead. I'm not sure this is true. Surely any programming language that lacks macros would be more powerful with them.
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by big_spammer 9y ago
There are alternatives that make static analysis look like the suboptimal approach. https://pointersgonewild.com/2015/09/24/basic-block-versioni...
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by big_spammer 9y ago
This extreme case of sending the modified application back is the perfect countermove!
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by big_spammer 9y ago
I wrote software for this that helps me. The main reason is that I felt I wasn't learning anymore after leaving grad school. This helped me keep learning. If anyone wants to try it leave me your contact info.
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by big_spammer 9y ago
The relevant quote from this article is: "we're so used to dignifying controllers that we forget to dignify surrenderers."
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Ask HN: What do you wish someone made so you could buy it?
3 points by big_spammer 9y ago|4 comments

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