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by spyrosg 6y ago
Russians who hacked Eglin Air Force Base have indeed invaded Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1dz470/most_red...
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by spyrosg 8y ago
The UK doesn't have much to export in terms of natural resources (excepting Ireland), or hard-to-move industry. That leaves services, which can go away easily. So the situation was already bad in terms of overt influence, compared to,
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by spyrosg 8y ago
Indeed. Or more people than you realise implicitly support the idea of censure with only vague restraint, and are just nerding out on the details. In the end it will likely not matter how expertly the eurocrats contain the symptoms of deepe
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by spyrosg 8y ago
I'll keep amalgamating viewpoints and ideas, as I don't see the usefulness of the distinction so far. As you say, for the renaissance, the change in viewpoints were caused by the conditions of the time. The power of social change
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by spyrosg 8y ago
People who like thinking seem to overestimate the power of ideas in shaping the world. My interpretation is that it's probably the typical arrogance of the intellectual letting itself through. For example, there are arguments that the
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by spyrosg 9y ago
You may simply not be a good dev. What then? I live in a market where finding a job quickly makes it another shitty job, and only after amply signaling your submissiveness (ah, Europe). You get no unemployment money, because it's you w
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by spyrosg 9y ago
And yet, the programmer may have a responsibility to bring a salary back to his family. People will call him a criminal for obeying his boss, but they usually will not come and help him if he does the right thing and takes flak for it.
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by spyrosg 9y ago
What about Ahrefs? Also, some people must be using Ocaml's cousin F#, or Jon Harrop would not have a job. Edit: oh, finance . Right.
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by spyrosg 9y ago
I do not see Python as the natural choice for a first language. I've even had adult colleagues squint when I tried to explain decorators, or objects and all the self/static/class/method binding nonsense. OOP in Python is
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by spyrosg 9y ago
I would very much like to know that too. I think Alan Kay said something about the middle management at Xerox being excellent people, too, so I would be tempted to think this is the one important factor to get the kind of tech oasis that we
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by spyrosg 9y ago
Your view would be fair if it was openly stated to the smart kids in their young age. Knowing that they're on their own, whatever they end up doing would be an informed choice and their responsibility entirely. This isn't what hap
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by spyrosg 9y ago
Given the low cost of long-term storage, if you have any auditing requirement, it's worth it to store lots of logs.
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by spyrosg 10y ago
It sounded fine the first time I heard it, but I don't buy the "it wasn't free and Linux was available" argument any more. If more Linux users had read the papers like you, and done so early enough, they might have had a
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by spyrosg 10y ago
Your stated reasons aren't valid. I think they ported Mozilla until 2002 (Russ Cox, maybe?). There was also a compat layer: APE. As a counter to your argument: a system that has little capability compared to the well-established altern
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by spyrosg 10y ago
Didn't Plan 9 eventually get some mechanisms to facilitate interactions between such local-only networks around the world? 9grid and such. In any case, Plan 9 is still ahead on quite a few fronts, with federated authentication that is
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by spyrosg 10y ago
For a one-man project, sure. Otherwise, the grand-parent is right. To achieve anything hard you'll need a team of engineers. That single good manager is going to be the one that attracts and retains those good engineers. You need few g
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by spyrosg 10y ago
No a fan of Microsoft systems, but they have GS-API/Kerberos and AD FS 3. Unix users will want SSH key management, but apart from that, Microsoft made efforts to help people spread single sign-on to much of their infrastructure. If you
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by spyrosg 10y ago
Better than that, you can "mutate" if you're not invalidating information about the variable. Oz (not incidentally, developed by Prolog people) lets you add constraints to a variable as long as they don't contradict the
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by spyrosg 10y ago
For what it's worth, you story seems to be the common one for gifted kids. Maybe with less setting things on fire usually. Although resenting your intelligence seems to be doing the exact opposite of you were told to do. The rational t
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by spyrosg 10y ago
Each level in the game gave you clear directions, an entertaining backstory, and taught you the concepts necessary to think about the problem. All three things turn what would be a boring, real-world project into a game, where only the plea
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by spyrosg 10y ago
You don't need to train them (us), we will seek it naturally. Happiness depends on it, and most people want to be happy.
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by spyrosg 10y ago
Interesting! Are there any source listings anywhere? Do they have particular programming tools or methods that help them deal with the complexity? If it's all assembly, I'm surprised this is only happening now.
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by spyrosg 10y ago
I'm one of the lucky people who have to wait. The airport personnel tells us it's the system that prints out weather information that's out. Not sure why one would want to attack that.
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by spyrosg 10y ago
When it comes to programs, and unless you're doing research, you should fear what you don't understand. If I have to maintain a program you put into production without understanding it, I will be more than happy to share the fea
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by spyrosg 10y ago
I don't know. I really like the moments where Alan Kay appears out of nowhere, tells where your idea squanders the potential of computers, points to 60's-80's prior art that did it better anyway, and disappears in a puff of s
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by spyrosg 10y ago
Wasn't that precisely supposed to be the operating system's job? One, virtualising (Processes in Unix are little virtual machines), and two, hardware resources management (file systems, time sharing, ...). Distributed operating sy
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by spyrosg 10y ago
Is just sitting there doing nothing enough, or do you need some technique? Do five minutes have any effect?
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by spyrosg 10y ago
Careful, enough why()'s and you invariably get nil. This is a pointer your employer probably doesn't want you to follow.
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by spyrosg 10y ago
He does, but I don't think name calling will change his mind. Besides, let's be honest, his ideas are already there in most people's minds. To the grandparent: Luxembourg's dirty secret is corruption. France has high une
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by spyrosg 10y ago
Of course they're a 'corp', and of course they're looking after their own interests over yours. Looking after your interests is your own job, no one else's. The employer-employee relationship is partly a fight. The

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