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tomwilde

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    Comment #9837609

    Switzerland is biased because of the militan army approach. Every able-bodied Swiss male has an assault rifle at home, without any bullets, however.

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    Comment #9492525

    Very interested, subscribed for an invitation. Your pricing model seems unconventional: I'd not cap at $50, let bigger companies pay your salaries. Also maybe consider letting smal…

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    Comment #8862039

    Notice that the user agent string gets rewritten to something innocuous in HTTP headers but not JS. So sniff client-side through JS.

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    Comment #8850305

    > Local governments have no desire to spend resources negotiating SSL/TLS with every single smartphone in their area when things explode, rivers flood, or people are poisoned. That…

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    Comment #8850281

    Seriously though, 14 years in internet time is about 1400 years. Whatever was on that graph is probably not relevant today.

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    Comment #8829077

    My LL(k) recursive descent parser cannot handle left recursion without incurring in a O(n³) worst case time-complexity. OP please fix. I expect a solution until next week. Thank yo…

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    Comment #8691041

    If I wrote a natural number calculator in Agda; would all my numbers be represented as lists of successions from zero or can the compiler convert them to two's-complement integers …

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    Comment #8670940

    Thanks. I am referring to, for instance, the 'method notation' introduced in that article. I think I know what you mean by chunking. It is my understanding that it is a counter-pro…

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    Comment #8670700

    Why do Haskell programmers see it as a good thing to package their abstractions in syntactic sugar? Stop doing that. It makes it incredibly difficult to participate -- you basicall…

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    Comment #8667039

    That's the real problem; they don't know what to do about it, but they'll rather do anything instead of nothing. Either it's gonna be a lot of hot air or turn out for the worse. Wh…

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    Comment #8514758

    Any side chain must therefore be able to generate currency out of the blue and on-demand. This might be possible to do in other protocols but not bitcoin. So the symmetry is basica…

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    Comment #8497803

    looks Caucasian to me

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    Comment #8340256

    > Though [Hikaru Nakamura] is ranked seventh in the world, he seems to consider himself Magnus Carlsen’s chief rival, as evidenced by this November 2013 tweet in which he equates C…

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    Comment #8303170

    Someone calling themselves 'the chaos commander' who uses multi-regional active-active jargon is looking for chaos engineers. Nope.

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    Comment #8289826

    That a legitimate order exists and has been placed using satoshi's email address.

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    Comment #8287709

    A foreigner working in the USA doesn't get to vote for the laws they live under. That's what I'm trying to communicate.

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    Comment #8286708

    You don't get to vote.

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    Comment #8285929

    It seems like the author is a Briton. As a Swiss citizen I don't understand how anyone from a first-world country would like to move to the USA. It's a downgrade in every aspect. G…

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    Comment #8211969

    You are right yet Go is much closer to C than Erlang in syntax, type system and memory-representation. Go is so close to C in fact, that its compiler is a modified C compiler. Ther…

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    Comment #8211938

    Unless you're a mathematician or theoretical physicist the gross of your CPU time will be spent waiting for IO. Reading from disk, writing to the network, synchronizing, etc. They'…

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    Comment #8211807

    As I read it that's one AWS server of unknown size serving ~500rps of an application of unknown complexity. Tripled when using PyPy (whatever that is). Maybe a very small instance …

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    Comment #8211796

    Hail Wikipedia for it is the source of all truth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_programming_language