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cossovich

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About cossovich

Peter Cossey is a programmer, multimedia designer, and teacher who has worked between the education and technology sectors for the past 15 years and has held teaching positions for web and digital media courses at UNSW, COFA and UTS.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/petercossey; my proof: https://keybase.io/petercossey/sigs/UrT78cRD4cjW_DasII3CJnKozWbAjAWTy6LzTHxZk0U ]

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    It's not that they "made" their language have no side-effects, it's more that they made a choice to use a lisp/functional design for the language which gives the advantages of that…

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    My main job is web development and I'm not using Linux on the Desktop for any political/ideological reasons, I'm using it because it gives me the best experience. Desktop Linux for…

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    I've been using Ubuntu LTS versions since 12.04 on Thinkpad T and X series laptops and I'm a very happy camper - out of the box Ubuntu doesn't suck for me, it "just works". I moved…

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    Points to a senior speech-writer. Someone who has written speeches for both Pence and POTUS - but probably more speeches for Pence... might be an op-ed directed by Mattis but my mo…

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    Comment #13850056

    How is the article satirical? I didn't get that at all.

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    Comment #13362548

    I moved from OS X to Ubuntu running on Thinkpads as my main work machine around the Ubuntu 12.04 era... haven't looked back. I have an 11" Macbook Air as a backup/home machine and …

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    Comment #13135058

    Yep, now with Linux support. There's a wiki page[1] that has details on building for different distros. Works a treat on my Ubuntu 16.04 desktop. [1] https://github.com/mfikes/plan…

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    Comment #11671576

    Eeek, please tell me you've anonymised the key details... HN isn't really a great place for discussing sensitive/confidential information.

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    Comment #8455157

    Chrome (and Opera) optimised for asm.js a little while ago[1]. I would expect equivalent performance. 1. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/11/26/chrome-an...