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thanks. now i have nightmares.

not only contributing! https://github.com/bob-beck/foundation-web/commit/a005fbc9e4...

what are you talking about? we all got rich from all that Klein Money in 2008. still reverberating in the economy as we collectively decided not to buy booze and steak and instead …

Robert Griesemer, from the Thompson/Pike/Griesemer triumvirate that created Go, did his PhD under Wirth.

the article mentions plan9 but says that it left a lot to be desired due to unstructured text input/output interface. i want to note that Inferno, the other OS that came from Bell-…

the locations are identical to the ones users submitted for ingress, the previous game niantic did. for that you didn't need much vetting and because the popularity was low nobody …

you never wrote a compiler, you piggy-backed on others'. stop shitting on go in every thread. rust is fine, stick with it.

"дядо мраз" in bulgaria. we also celebrated xmas with a quiet family vegetarian dinner, not having such a massive clampdown on religion, and "mraz" delivered presents on new year's…

another day, another person on the interwebs attacking what is clearly a suggestion (with a supporting narrative) thinking it's presented as gospel. the typesetting in the pdf is c…

One suggestion: go with the PDF and not the web page. Grab a comfy recliner and just tune out for a while. The difference between the layouts of the magazine article and the webpag…

oh, you mean since Roswell? ok.

Currently #1 in "Best Sellers in Computing Industry History" on amazon, which is somewhat of a weird category :)

the article mentions hexafluoride. but LANL did (and probably still does) hydrazine. source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2690378 (used to intern, and subsequently work ther…

There was this amazing article in 2010 about "chemical compounds i will not work with". Tetrafluorohydrazine was one of them: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02…

wouldn't that be fun?

you're going to love Peter Watts' "The Things": http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/ it's 1982's "the thing", from the perspective of the, well, thing :)

yes. fips compliance says "use what we tell you to use. want government contracts? be fips compliant." it's a source of a lot of online discussion as the compliant algorithms aren'…

anything that is FIPS compliant will use one of the mandated DRBGs, there are two others besides CTR_DRBG. BoringSSL implements CTR_DRBG with AES for example: https://boringssl.goo…

> What is up with all of these wikipedia entries making the front page of hacker news? Has it always been so and I’m mis remembering thinking this is something new? Hehe, there's a…

a bit less: $ cat > t.go package main func main() {} $ go build t.go $ ls -l t -rwxr-xr-x 1 f2f staff 1101432 24 Jul 23:19 t

I'm a fan of old UNIX papers, i remember his name associated with Multics mostly. "Introduction and overview of the Multics system", F. J. Corbató, Massachusetts Institute of Techn…

i concur with your assessment. i'm sure cloudflare will be cautious and not rush with deployment after the switch. lesson learned?

RE2 is bullet proof. It is the defacto re engine used by anyone looking to deploy regexes to the wild (used in the now defunct google code search, for example). It has a track reco…