jdludlow

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by jdludlow 11y ago
The first time I read Anathem it was certainly slow to get through the first 200 pages, because I kept referencing the glossary to learn the vocabulary. The 2nd and 3rd times I read it the entire book flowed much more smoothly, and even the
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by jdludlow 12y ago
Can we please knock it off with the linkbait titles?
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by jdludlow 12y ago
I get a completely blank page when js is disabled.
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by jdludlow 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8046186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712425
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by jdludlow 12y ago
True. I was more referring to it being a confirmation that this is an email address that anyone cares about. If I wanted to be truly malicious I'd have my online checker return a "Nope, you're all good" and then add that
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by jdludlow 12y ago
I'm not sure how that would help. They would have to generate a matching hash on their end, giving them a lookup table to work backwards from hash to email address. Now if they wanted to supply a list of hashes to the public, then you
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by jdludlow 12y ago
Presumably 0, since there are already people who can legitimately claim multiple years of experience with Swift.
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NSA Searched Americans’ E-Mail, Phone Calls, Clapper Says(bloomberg.com)
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by jdludlow 13y ago
This linkbait style of headline writing really needs to die.
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by jdludlow 13y ago
Keywords humor This isn't news.
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by jdludlow 13y ago
> The OpenBSD project uses a lot of electricity for running the > development and build machines. A number of logistical reasons > prevents us from moving the machines to another location which might > offer space&#x
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by jdludlow 13y ago
The chart that is included is ridiculous. There's no label on the Y-axis at all, and zero indication of what it is we're supposed to take away from it. Professor Tufte is weeping somewhere.
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by jdludlow 13y ago
I can't speak to the Clojure introduction, because I was already semi-familiar with the language. However, I found your site via Google a few weeks ago when I was looking for an introduction to Emacs + Clojure. Having gone down this ro
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by jdludlow 13y ago
It looks like user Tobu already fixed it, but that is quite ridiculous.
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by jdludlow 13y ago
On multiple occasions I've searched for an answer, found it on S.O., thought "this seems vaguely familiar," and then realized that it was my own answer from a couple years prior. Saved me time the second time around I guess.
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by jdludlow 13y ago
Already covered on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6844702
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by jdludlow 13y ago
Yes. No one uses the word "egress" unless they're installing basement windows, and I would hope that when I crack the billion mark I don't need two assistants to towel me off when I'm done swimming.
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by jdludlow 13y ago
Oh. They're selling emoticons for $10M per month. Excuse me while my brain implodes. Thank you for clearing that up though. I had no idea that such things existed.
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by jdludlow 13y ago
how much money can be made selling stickers in messaging apps I'm not trying to be difficult; I really don't understand this statement. Are you talking about paper-and-adhesive stickers, like my kids use to plaster Strawberry Sh
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by jdludlow 13y ago
Get a job from the 37 Signals site building a competitor to the 37 Signals site. https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/8
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by jdludlow 13y ago
I'd settle for not having to click through three screens of "yes I'm sure" and opt-in doublespeak every time I want to "really, really, I promise you" use my credit card.
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by jdludlow 13y ago
There’s no reason to have beer. On tap. In your business. Reasons #1 through #999: I'd like to have a beer. Why do freedom of choice and personal responsibility never factor into these types of blog posts? This entire thing reads &
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by jdludlow 13y ago
I've been using 1Password for years, and until I saw the picture of everyone in their t-shirts, I had no idea that CMD-\ was the hotkey for the password menu. Still waiting for seamless Linux integration though. It's one of my kil
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by jdludlow 13y ago
Which part of a properly designed system involves storing lists of social security numbers in an Excel spreadsheet in the first place? Yes, the government employee screwed up by sending this file (in plain text no-less), but why does this f
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by jdludlow 13y ago
Hi OP. What programming concepts does this game cover that aren't already handled by the 1994 game RoboRally? Or is this "RoboRally for little kids"?
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by jdludlow 13y ago
That and don't give kids unmonitored access to the internet and text-capable cell phones. There's really no reason at all for them to have those things, aside from "everyone else does."
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by jdludlow 13y ago
I like where this could go, but basing it on calories isn't particularly useful. 300 calories of garbage (or corn syrup if you will) is still eating garbage.
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by jdludlow 13y ago
I still use a dumb phone. The front screen doesn't work, and I just added a piece of duct tape to keep the battery cover on. One of the biggest reasons that I haven't switched is that when I'm walking across campus at work 95
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by jdludlow 13y ago
The headline sounds like the guy was analyzing texts in general and came up with this match; a needle in the haystack thing. The story is less interesting. An anonymous Twitter tip said, "Hey I think that J.K. Rowling wrote The Cuckoo&
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by jdludlow 13y ago
"Test Code Before You Push" seems to be what they're trying to say.

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