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Is anyone aware of any line-breaking algorithm which penalises for rivers or typesetting algorithm which adjusts spacing to compensate for it. I'm interested that rivers are such a…

dumb question: "more ht2000 lines of code" - is that a typo of "more than...", is "ht2000" something I don't know and can't google, or are are these hacks in some way related to an…

ghost what?

yes, that's exactly what stepstep said

The description notes the replacement of many uses of "tasks" with native OS threads. Tasks may map to threads or may be managed as green threads. Threads unlike tasks must be deta…

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarg awesome!

even if software is formally verified, and even assuming the specification is both totally accurate and complete, there is plenty of room for issues at software deployment in a mul…

This appears not to actually solve the hard problems of cryptography. It simply generates a random key, them XORs your message with it. The key and the message are independently ju…

Readers may be interested to cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corecursion

A nice demonstration of lambda calculus using Church Encoding in Ruby, without saying that that's what he's doing. I guess at the end of the video, he will probably reveal what the…

Voted down? It's just a quick, weak joke, I don't see the harm.

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I heartily recommend this short accessible article to anyone interested in loeb: https://github.com/quchen/articles/blob/master/loeb-moeb.md

I usually skip the start-up advice posts on HN but this was worth reading for the first point along "focus on the problem not the solution". Good advice for hackers as well as entr…

Put enough ground coffee into a cup that a spoon shushed into it goes "thunk" like a spade into sand and stands up. Pour over hot water to just cover, stir until saturated, fill cu…

Ew, now you can have an awkward weak implementation of some FP ideas in Go too. Yeah, I'm a bitch.

Am I shallow that it made me feel good getting all the answers right even though I knew most of the people who tried it would?

I just read the first one 8718462, and I actually think it might be worse than the "photographs on a white background" patent linked to in article.

"positioned in a longitudinal axis intersecting" = "pointing at" obfuscation is the name of the game You wouldn't get away with horrendous babble like this in essay in any subject …

Surely the key point is that most of us read indentation first, it doesn't matter whether you are witting C with semicolons and curlies or ruby with no semicolons and "end"s or lis…

Why so many articles about how you don't need the cool hip new technology to be successful? Surely this is a news site populated by people who like playing with cool new technology…

except me of course cos I don't write bugs

...but that's great. Wow, this is a wonderful thing. I would go as far as to say it is the tool every developer wanted and most thought was impossible (the low overhead part at lea…

I think the m.prop getter/setter creation is a good compromise between the "magical" creation of properties employed by Vue and Ractive and the cumbersome use of SomeFramework.set(…

I like the small, unmagical, well-defined API. That strength is also a weakness though. Particularly because for coffeescript (or my favourite, the related LiveScript) it doesn't r…