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Anyway, I thought this was a solved problem on both Windows and OSX since they both have conventions for self-contained applications, while linux does not. This is mistaken for Win…

I didn't see any assertion that the professors were incompetent or lairs. Just that the median teacher is bad. Which is true about anything.

One other software trick: Certain comments and certain accounts are marked unvouchable. You would never know this from the outside. https://imgur.com/5GMh3Nw (For example, this one…

So many assumptions are embedded in your comment. Firstly, it's not proven that piracy affects sales. Quite the opposite: it usually raises popularity for an item, because – if it'…

If I understand your position correctly, you feel that even if someone does not have $40 or would not have paid $40 for something that can be freely copied, it is both immoral and …

People put a lot of energy into programming languages, but they don't expect to get paid anything for it. Why is it different when it comes to publishing a book? That may sound lik…

I'd be happy to debate, if you're interested. But in the meantime it appears that the anger is misplaced; direct it at the fact that we have this wonderful tool that destroys class…

Technology destroyed the market, not users of it. I think you could've made the same sort of argument against movies or music before netflix and napster, but here we are, and the m…

Another way of phrasing that: The book costs as much as work that took dozens of people years to make. Also if you were to somehow poll everyone reading this and ask "Did you buy t…

Sad to say the book isn't on Library Genesis, so you'll have to drop $40 if you want the knowledge. http://libgen.io/search.php?req=little+typer Also Library Genesis is amazing: ht…

The correct response is to laugh at them and move on. And mock them on HN. It's worth being aggressively negative toward such companies, because negotiating to your market value is…

If it was, it was mostly accidental. The argument was derived from logic and reasoning, rather than e.g. family beliefs.

Another answer to the Fermi paradox is that a Kardashev Type 4 civilization is able to harness the power of an entire universe. We wouldn't be able to detect this by definition, si…

Happy to see Veritasium getting some attention on HN. You may have seen his previous video from 2014, Facebook Fraud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag One of my favorite…

From an ethics point of view, why is this illegal?

Say you manage to create something the world wants to use. We’re talking 100k+ users. If you don’t have funding, a team will get some and blow your bootstrapped app out of the wate…

Also https://github.com/tvcutsem/schemeken is quite interesting, as is https://github.com/supergillis/v8-ken

It’s not meaningless though. Every language and platform has a stdlib. It’s interesting what can be done with them.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc12/atc12-f...

I could, but not at 3 AM. :) I'll try to remember tomorrow.

Not quite true. You can serialize a closure. Emacs lisp does so in a pretty interesting way: a closure is just `(closure ((a . 1) (b . 2)) (lambda (x) (+ x a b)))`. The point is, i…

http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html is pretty informative. It was kind of eye opening to see just how many corner cases there are when dealing with continuations…