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dboshardyon The hidden base that could have ended the world

It's highly unlikely anyone but a major superpower recovered the missiles from more than 3 miles deep off the US coast.

Considering the US tried with Project Azorian and almost succeeded to salvage an entire submarine from depth, it's unlikely that some warlord had the capability to salvage anything from depth off the US coast without the US knowing about it.

dboshardyon Table-oriented programming (2002)

It's not quite table-based, but APL [0] uses multidimensional arrays as it's main datatype.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)

dboshardyon Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round

That math holds if they are planning to only spend money on hiring those people for 1 year only.

More realistically, the money is probably for tech overhead. Server space, software licensing, money for keeping all their servers working for a while (support, replacement servers/drives) etc.

dboshardyon WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge

That's assuming there are fair elections in Brazil.

dboshardyon F-35 radar system has bug that requires hard reboot in flight

Looks like they need to add a "Turn Radar Off and On Again" to their FENCE IN.

dboshardyon It Is Done

I completely agree. Perhaps it's my "more data is good data" approach, but the more we save of our history (no matter how seemingly inconsequential), the better.

dboshardyon Material Design Lite

What are you seeing?

dboshardyon Knwl.js – A JavaScript NLP

knwl.english.adverbs = [ 'red', 'blue', 'green', 'orange', 'black', 'white', 'yellow', 'purple', 'really', 'sweet', 'sour', 'bitter', 'evil', ];

NLP. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

dboshardyon Ask HN: How do you use Reddit daily?

I actually spend more time on reddit than on HN. HN is great as a tech news source and the comments are usually top notch and offer even greater insight than the original article posted.

That said, reddit, once you ignore all the immense levels of hatred, bigotry, and memes, has quite a few great groups of people. I've had an account on reddit for going on 5 or 6 years now, and I've filtered my feed down to the very specific subreddits that fit my needs. I've met a great community of other players of some rather low population games, which has led to countless weekends of fun.

Getting to your question, as a developer, the only thing relevant for me is /r/ProgrammerHumor. Reddit really is (for me, at least) only a source of entertainment, not education or serious discussion.