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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 #9445442
2012?
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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