unknownian

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by unknownian 2mo ago
Lmao what a ridiculous response. Yes, some mathematicians and artists are in it to feel smart. But the vast majority also just enjoy the process. Having a computer do all the work for you and just typing prompts in ruins that completely. As
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by unknownian 2mo ago
You shouldn't be getting downvoted for something that a majority of pure math and art enthusiasts believe to be true. The truth is many of these entrepreneurs and VCs are obsessed with AI not for money or human progress, but because it
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by unknownian 3mo ago
I’m vehemently anti-genAI in creative fields but even I think this metric is stupid and unfair to younger generations and generations to come, even if genAI writing gets better. If you can’t trust a contemporary writer to not use genAI, the
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by unknownian 3y ago
>like the AGPL? As I explained in an earlier thread, MongoDB tried using AGPL. AGPL is not a barrier for Amazon, they still will resell your product without contributing. MongoDB ended up using a variant of AGPL that is even stricter (re
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by unknownian 3y ago
Are you disagreeing with me or just giving more detail? Because I think that's what I was saying. My opinion is that this is not fair to a company like MongoDB.
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by unknownian 3y ago
Then why did Mongo relicense? I assumed that AGPL was not enough to maintain their business which is why they are now using a more extreme form of AGPL that is no longer considered Free.
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by unknownian 3y ago
I enjoyed the post and this is off-topic but when I was younger I was very pro-GPL and I still like copyleft, but to me the logic behind it makes less and less sense as time goes on. RMS compares software to a physical book you can modify,
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by unknownian 11y ago
I saw Tom be the awards emcee at Yale's hackathon and I don't really get why he acts the way he does. It's some persona that makes people hate startup founders even more than they already do. Add the Yale tag to that and boom
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by unknownian 12y ago
>MRI executes Ruby via an interpreted stack-machine bytecode language known as YARV On Wikipedia: >Since YARV has become the official Ruby interpreter for Ruby 1.9, it is also named KRI (Koichi's Ruby Interpreter), in the same ve
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Iranians, history, and Nowruz(volb.me)
3 points by unknownian 12y ago|0 comments
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by unknownian 12y ago
>I don't think there's an app for Syncthing https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.sy... Yeah, I knew about the middle device thing, but it seemed like a hassle when the Android app
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by unknownian 12y ago
A problem is that if you want to sync regular text files to apps on your phone we have formed somewhat of a Dropbox monoculture where DB is generally the main or sometimes the only syncing option available in mobile apps. We should really s
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by unknownian 12y ago
Syncthing is great, but the devs say they can't develop a mechanism for sync between operating systems on the same computer, which is something I really need.
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by unknownian 12y ago
Is there a word to describe the structure of the notation of mathematics versus programming syntax versus the English language?
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by unknownian 12y ago
Oh, I guess I read too quickly. Comments on those sites really are terrible.
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by unknownian 12y ago
The comments on that site are sickening. Yes, I do not agree with Eich's views. Mozilla owned up to it. Someone should tell them to disable JS everywhere because of Eich. Plus, Firefox is a community project with more momentum than alm
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by unknownian 12y ago
Is Rubinius X still a thing?
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by unknownian 12y ago
I've never lived in SF but this is a reason why people sometimes mention how they prefer to live elsewhere. I've lived in Los Angeles and New York and I feel a nice sense of diversity in interests and backgrounds [of all forms] an
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by unknownian 12y ago
Unbelievable that the author claims that Gruber is wrong about accessibility without offering any evidence.
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by unknownian 12y ago
That's not just what it says. If it just said that, that would be fine. It says making "any claim" against a Facebook patent will terminate your right to use the software. Facebook gets to protect its own software patents: &q
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by unknownian 12y ago
Your innovation into this (the cross domain feature) sounds interesting, but Omegle has the basic design already down with popularity.
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by unknownian 12y ago
While as an Ivy League student I relish in the potential that Stanford could be left out of this, heheh, these things are pretty inherently elitist and omegle has a similar function. Still, I signed up because I like meeting other Ivy stude
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by unknownian 12y ago
I used to be someone who defended comments in general. I think they are only good for a certain subset of usecases, such as college campus blogs, where different voices can and should be heard. But other sites often do comments rather poorl
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by unknownian 12y ago
I get that they have a lot of JS devs and there's a big community but if they went with Ruby I would have been so much more inclined to stick with it. Performance-wise perhaps it would not have been better. Emacs it is for me.
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by unknownian 12y ago
Because they run the same package manager and roughly do the same thing for the same purpose? It's not a JRuby vs Rubinius debate, imo; it's more like YARV vs MRI, you just don't need both. If they were more different I'
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by unknownian 12y ago
Thanks! I've done this, but my latest post is a rant and I wonder if that comes off as abrasive. I don't want the idea that a potential employer might turn me away for strong opinions to influence me. What do you think?
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Ask HN: Focus of a resume? (Writing vs. code, etc)
4 points by unknownian 12y ago|3 comments
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by unknownian 12y ago
People have been working on stuff like that. I dunno if they are super baked yet but https://github.com/ircanywhere/ircanywhere
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by unknownian 12y ago
So pretty much almost every well-designed language that I like or was curious about is losing popularity in favor of Java and JS. Sigh. I remember when Ruby was #2 on GitHub. Those were the days.
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by unknownian 12y ago
Gawker Media turning wikipedia entries into articles. Well I do it sometimes as well.

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