olantonan

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by olantonan 10y ago
Awesome story
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by olantonan 10y ago
None of the posts in that archive are troll posts. Another false claim from Hintjens.
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by olantonan 10y ago
> decades of careful documented research and reproducible results, is magical thinking and not science is... hallucinatory. Right, the same careful research that helps me characterize personality disorders in my day job. You really shoul
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by olantonan 10y ago
Quitting Twitter. Not quitting Twitter. Dying. Not dying. Sustrik is God. Sustrik is Satan. What's up with this guy. </nasty-joke-from-big-hintjens-fan>
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by olantonan 10y ago
> The main point I think is, that GET Requests are logged in log-files which are usually accessible by more people that the main database. This is an outright assumption, and it's a bad one. This is a non-issue, because they do NOT
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by olantonan 10y ago
Now it's to late to fix.
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by olantonan 10y ago
So the idea is to always send the interpreter, along with the data? They should always travel together? Interesting. But, practically, the interpreter would need to be written in such a way that it works on all target systems. The world isn
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by olantonan 10y ago
I'm not into quackery.
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by olantonan 10y ago
About categorical change, I agree... seems like everybody is just busy optimizing stuff invented in the 70s.
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by olantonan 10y ago
It did not work
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by olantonan 10y ago
Do you have an opinion on text based vs visual programming languages? I think the latter is good for learning, but feel impractical in my day-to-day job. Is there a sweet spot?
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by olantonan 10y ago
No language today is able to improve itself like Smalltalk was able to. That's pretty sad, wouldn't you say?
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by olantonan 10y ago
Yes
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by olantonan 10y ago
Does it suck getting old for you? Do you have stamina to make new stuff? I'm old, very hard to stay on top of all the changes.
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by olantonan 10y ago
No
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by olantonan 10y ago
Thanks for the input
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by olantonan 10y ago
"who could possibly fake these?" Copying from other sources. I'm not saying it's fake, just curious about verification as someone claimed so. For instance, your "vouch", are you an official HN account. How can
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by olantonan 10y ago
Thanks, I'll do that. Looks legit to me, but got curious about the verification process.
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by olantonan 10y ago
Reddit commenter implying this AMA is fake. How are HN accounts verified? How do we know this is a real AMA? Just curious.
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by olantonan 10y ago
There's still no good languages for young kids in my opinion. Should we get LOGO back, including a turtle robot?
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by olantonan 10y ago
I'm no doubt your biggest fan. What do you think of the Simula inventors work?
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by olantonan 10y ago
Most people die a sad death. Pieter Hintjens dies committing. I will follow suit and keep a git client close to my death bed when it's my time.
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by olantonan 10y ago
Thank you!
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by olantonan 10y ago
Pieter, I am so sorry to hear about this. Not sure if you need it, but I (and maybe others) would like to offer some money to help your family. It's not unheard of for people at your age to have debt, etc. Anyway to set this up? I cann