gloob

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by gloob 12y ago
> So, please forgive us our gallows humor about this. Apologies for my pedantry, but dreaming about harming people is actually pretty much the opposite of gallows humour. A more appropriate phrase might be "power fantasy."
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by gloob 13y ago
It's okay for you to be wrong about something.
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by gloob 13y ago
It's unclear to me whether you want "to write a program" or to "get the maximum out of Haskell". Those are two very different goals.
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by gloob 13y ago
But first, how about we let capital usurp the political system for its own ends? That seems like a reasonable compromise to me.
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by gloob 13y ago
I, too, feel that perfectly uniform brace positioning is one of the critical technical challenges facing any new language today. There is no longer any excuse to get such an important and fundamental advance wrong.
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by gloob 14y ago
By that standard, geometric population growth is killing people.
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by gloob 14y ago
I agree with you entirely and unreservedly. The scare quotes in my comment were to poke fun at the idea that a person who holds a set of racist opinions is somehow not a racist. I do maintain that it is, in some sense, a "reasonable" positi
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by gloob 14y ago
To be fair, that's a reasonable position for a person who's "not really racist, but holds opinions that they concede certainly sound racist when said out loud".
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by gloob 14y ago
Or row.
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by gloob 14y ago
I feel like I'm missing something terribly obvious, but... How does "it is getting harder and slower to move large files over the net" lead to the conclusion "therefore we should store all our large files on the net and retrieve them whenev
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by gloob 14y ago
Should a Japanese octogenarian whose parents had the poor taste to spell their child's name with a character that would not make it into Unicode expect the same problem?
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by gloob 14y ago
I look forward to being convinced that housing and car manufacturing are more stable and resilient than services.
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by gloob 14y ago
Given that the entire website this article lives on is about roguelikes, and the author is also the developer of a roguelike (Unangband), I imagine he is likely aware of the history of randomly generated levels.
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by gloob 14y ago
Is it normal business practice to use ultimatums instead of negotiation?
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by gloob 14y ago
I agree that, when we are talking about high-level languages, I prefer ones that will transparently convert integers to bignum when required. I'm just replying to the contention that (paraphrased) "this is a bug in PHP's handling of floati
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by gloob 14y ago
This sort of thing is an intrinsic property of floating point math. It has limited precision. When the numbers get sufficiently large, that precision is insufficient to distinguish successive integers. That is to say, this is symptomatic of
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by gloob 15y ago
Is there a "canonical" justification for why the US legislative system allows non-germane additions to a bill? Or is ball-of-mud style legislation the norm due to tradition, rather than some philosophical ideal?
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by gloob 15y ago
You get downvoted a lot. shrugs
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by gloob 15y ago
The correct response to that saying is to point out that regular expressions are significantly simpler than general-purpose, Turing-complete programming languages.
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by gloob 15y ago
If you haven't seen Trusting Trust already, you should read it: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html . It's short and smart. The brief summary is, of course, you can almost never really know "logically what's happening", even in
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by gloob 15y ago
Like in BASIC and SQL.
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by gloob 15y ago
All noses are frozzle. Some wiggles are noses. Therefore, some wiggles are frozzle.
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by gloob 15y ago
Much the same thing that it says about English-speakers when they have to borrow the word "entrepreneur".
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by gloob 15y ago
I really don't think 'the public' has any more say in this than they did about how cookies work. They're as clueless about how politics and laws work as they are about technical matters. And web developers have every incentive to keep it
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by gloob 15y ago
To my understanding, it is generally accepted that the primary purpose of karma points on HN is to encourage good discussions. One of the most common reasons I've seen proposed by people who want to bring back visible scores for comments i
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by gloob 15y ago
You had to give money before you were able to receive money... Sorry, that seems like a classic pyramid scheme. I'm having a hard time thinking of a single B2B company that isn't a pyramid scheme, by that definition. Pretty much everyone
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by gloob 15y ago
Fair enough. Ignore my second question then. Can you point me to a credible argument for the idea that all innovation relies on privacy breaches, or that only companies who hold customer data are capable of innovation, or some other causa
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by gloob 15y ago
Perhaps you've just overstated your point, but could you provide any evidence supporting the statements that (1) stronger privacy laws would cause all innovation to stop, or (2) stronger privacy laws would cause us to revert to a 1200 AD le
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by gloob 15y ago
My first guess: because that's how every single person who gives a shit - ranging from pundits to corporations to fanboys of every conviction - has framed it ever since Android first came onto the scene.
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by gloob 15y ago
Given that assembly is simpler than C++ both syntactically and semantically, a reasonable argument could be made that it is a more elegant language.

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