james_madison

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   by james_madison 13y ago

   > With Crystal, at least when it matures a bit more, this hypothesis could be tested. You could test that now with http://rubyluwak.com/ RubyLuwak is statically typed with local type inference.
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   by james_madison 13y ago

   There are many loopholes in the law. For example, the law permits the GCSB to retain any communication that is "incidentally obtained", and to pass that communication to the police, all without a warrant.
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   by james_madison 13y ago

   where they burn macbooks, they will ultimately burn people also
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   by james_madison 13y ago

   > Neither copyright nor patent can give ownership rights in a color. A color can be a trademark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_trademark
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   by james_madison 13y ago

   people write annotations already anyway, in the comments or documentation: see the method signatures at http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Object.html
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   by james_madison 13y ago

   Ruby without dynamism runs a bit faster: http://rubyluwak.com/pages/benchmarks
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   by james_madison 13y ago

   how about Ruby with less magic? http://rubyluwak.com/
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   RubyLuwak is a compiler and runtime for Ruby on the Java Virtual Machine.(rubyluwak.com)

   2 points by james_madison 13y ago|0 comments
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   by james_madison 13y ago

   > The only way forward for solving this problem is for the People to collectively say, with full knowledge of the potential consequences, that they are absolutely not willing to compromise, and want their government to trade security for