star-techate

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by star-techate 8y ago
key words: 1. child porn 2. steganography if I were the dev I'd add a 'list all' just to avoid anyone thinking the above were a good plan.
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by star-techate 8y ago
Fossil's also very easy to put online, needing at a minimum a two-line bash file to function as a CGI script. Maybe more relevant to private data, the builtin wiki makes a good personal knowledge database. The next version of fossil wi
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by star-techate 8y ago
Civilization collapses entirely oh wow, power is very fluid. it's easy to break into power anywhere now. You don't have these awful elites preventing you from doing whatever you want to do.
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by star-techate 8y ago
Gauche Scheme ... even Chicken Scheme could be used for a lot of sysadmin tasks
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by star-techate 8y ago
Nobody really is, or they'd be worrying about the evidence for talking snakes. This is some kind of "the grass is greener on the other side" stuff. Local myths are absurd, but foreign myths are evidence.
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by star-techate 8y ago
No, but it'd be easy. You need 1. a request to return org-mode data (or for requests to contain it in a mechanically distinguishable manner, an option if your normal output is org-mode plus some JavaScript that renders the page from
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by star-techate 8y ago
> 3. Not speaking Swahili. If your boss is from Swaziland, then you need to know everything there is about Tanzania or Kenya. Ha ha, pretty good. They snuck a serious-sounding joke item into an otherwise good list. > 14. Writing an op
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by star-techate 8y ago
Yeah, there's no amount of bigoted "Haskell uber alles" posturing that can replace a simple, supported argument. None of the reading you think you've done, and I haven't, has succeeded in distinguishing your output
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by star-techate 8y ago
1. avoid metrics. Ask during the interview how they gauge your work performance, how people get bonuses, etc. As a rule you'd much rather be judged by a person, your direct manager, than by an Excel sheet. Yes, hostile managers can be
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by star-techate 8y ago
^ everybody remember this line for when it's given in response to an angry Congressman. I imagine another line will be "it's marginally better than statistical human shooting, according to three studies!" And then in t
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by star-techate 8y ago
> I don’t want you to have to sign up to Wordpress just to leave comments and communicate with me. Then don't restrict your comments like that. WordPress pages don't gather 8000+ spam links because it's only capable of acc
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by star-techate 8y ago
> Let's say a technology could be developed that allowed your government (wherever you are) to kill any person with almost zero cost and no chance of detection. oh yeah, I remember that Hitman mission. "Would it be morally just
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by star-techate 8y ago
It's really not, as people by themselves don't pose much of a military threat. What you really want to do is break all the stuff that lets those people actually threaten you. Granted, much of that stuff is arranged in the form o
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by star-techate 8y ago
What specifically do you find appealing about this site?
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by star-techate 8y ago
I wouldn't care much for the git features, but this is probably a bit faster than https://github.com/ofavre/vimcat
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by star-techate 8y ago
> I'll just bet that you haven't read anything, because you disagree with people I think are, like, super-duper smart :) Maybe if I read enough Foucault, or drink enough bleach, we'll be able to continue this conversation
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by star-techate 8y ago
You can learn things in one language that you might as easily learn in another. The argument here is that you wouldn't learn these things from Elm.
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by star-techate 8y ago
> pure immutable languages need laziness https://mercurylang.org/ If you put the most valuable thing in the universe inside a box that can't be opened or permeated by any force in the universe--then that thing is no
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by star-techate 8y ago
Laziness is a superficially useful anti-feature. I'd suggest waiting with OCaml until dependently-typed languages become more practical.
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by star-techate 8y ago
The actual reason is probably "when people use primes, they post code that gets syntax-highlighted by tools that don't know about primes, and this results in Elm code looking broken and stupid."
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by star-techate 8y ago
Evan probably talks about you in the first minute of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlzRt-FYto
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by star-techate 8y ago
That has its downsides, but if the people maintaining the language are too lacking in strong opinions about the language, you'll have other kinds of problems: bad features get into the language and now everyone must be prepared to deal
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by star-techate 8y ago
"Extremely quickly" -- if you can always take all sides of every branch in control flow. And you'll find only the same errors -- if you restrict the types you define to those supported by the dynamic language. If you don&#x27
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by star-techate 8y ago
Simple file I/O is such a great task to blog about as there's a long evolution of 'discovery' permitted: 1. oh wow, syscalls are really slow. We need to get as much done as we can with as few of these as possible 2. that
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by star-techate 8y ago
1. I'll copy&paste this to test it! 2. uh ok I'll paste it into an editor and remove the added indentation and then copy&paste that to test it 3. ... ok. I'll look at the code and reformat every single line and copy&a
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by star-techate 8y ago
Certainly, it'll be a lot easier if you pick your redis-user in advance and look what its actual requirements are, so that you can focus on a solid implementation of those features.
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by star-techate 8y ago
It's an in-memory key-value store. Its primary function is to let transient processes not have to hit the disk to update state. Go ahead and write one this weekend, in that shiny new language that you're interested in, and then fi
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by star-techate 8y ago
Aye, sounds like it's a good time to develop another memcached replacement. Tip: if your memcached replacement doesn't trivially allow the rooting of its server, and if you don't also defiantly leave the exploit in while expl
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by star-techate 8y ago
Well the thing is, matz did it a decade ago when he carefully copied all these features that Perl came up with or itself carefully copied from awk and sed.
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by star-techate 8y ago
That's the author's oneliner. I don't know what that code is for either, which is part of I rewrote it in the second set of examples. It's normal for a oneliner to be somewhat inscrutable though, since they're often

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