ephemeralgomi

what differentiates a 'cyber database' from a 'database'

I love it. "If I stick to the story relentlessly it'll HAVE to work!!!"

There are too many names on that list - not to contact, but to trust. To everyone that you give secret advance notice, you're potentially handing a zero-day.

Jonathan Blow wrote an excellent article on the text-based entity file format he developed for The Witness, which was designed to be (more) mergeable:

http://the-witness.net/news/2011/12/engine-tech-concurrent-w...

Okay, so you've backed down from "You'd think she would have disclosed that" to "I would prefer she prefaced the article with that". I'm content.

> You would think someone commenting on such an important and controversial story in tech like this would fully disclose that she is in-fact friends with Emil and worked with him?

She did! You quoted it in your post!

> Most of the pro-vaccine organizations claim that the main/only reason people avoid vaccinations is because they (falsely) believe that vaccines are the cause of the autism epidemic

Neat, a recursive strawman. Is there a word for that?

Anyway, I don't know if you count the CDC as a 'pro-vaccine organization' but they are aware of and have responses to multiple misconceptions about vaccines.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/6mishome.htm

I thought it was a TempleOS post at first.

It's had w3 for quite a while. 'eww' is new.

> You don't agree?

No, I don't. You're searching for some total order ranking function where there isn't one. People love who they love and a lot of that is based on proximity and shared experience. I demonstrably care more about my dog than I do any random child in the third world, as demonstrated by the fact that I fed my dog this morning and I haven't donated to a feed-a-child-in-the-third-world charity today. By your logic, since humans rank higher than dogs, am I morally obligated to exhaust my financial resources helping needy humans before I can take care of my dog?

Ah, given that context, that makes more sense / comes off a little less nefarious. I think it was mostly the references to forgetting an anniversary, trying to repair the relationship with a heart-to-heart by candlelight, etc., that took it to a kind of weird place for me.

Thanks for the link and the context!

This was really funny up until the prolonged domestic violence joke at the end, which kinda threw me off. Product of its times, I guess.

I'm sure you know, but you can just clone from bitbucket, then push it to github. You keep all your history and everything. I can dig that there's friction, though.

What parts of the overall ecosystem do you consider a necessity for private repos?

Luckily you're a programmer, and can easily change a python script!

It's the exact opposite for me. Depends on the individual carrier, I guess.

In his defense, SBCL is really fast...

Note that the article is not about the streaming service.

Big O is an upper bound, little o is a lower bound. Big theta means both an upper and lower bound.

I sort of agree with you - "concern troll" applies more to OP than this post, upon reflection - but let me explain my reasoning.

Lots of people have explained elsewhere in the thread why this is a completely trivial issue. I don't think it's a reasonable position to hold that a kilobyte of static data in the runtime is an actual problem that needs solving - if it were, we would see pull requests like any other bug, not a pearl-clutching HN thread.

Concern trolls attempt to weaken or fragment a community by pointing out "problems" that aren't actually big enough to actually warrant attention or energy, then accusing the community of weakness/malfeasance/hypocrisy for failing to act. This primarily serves to divide idealists (who want to solve every problem, no matter how small) from pragmatists (who want the community to focus its energy on things that matter).

Amplifying a small matter like this into a "deadly" one and claiming that it "reeks of immaturity" is such grandiose posturing that I personally cannot imagine it's in earnest. It seems more likely to me to be someone heavily invested in another toolchain who wants Rust to not be taken seriously, wants contributors to Rust to fret over every commit, and wants people considering Rust to worry about the consequences should they adopt it. That's all I intended to convey.

If Rust is widely adopted, and this actually becomes a problem for anyone, someone will submit a pull request to remove it, it will be debated, and probably pass.

On the other hand, its presence in the current codebase will tend to attract playful tinkerers, which is arguably what it needs in its current stage of development.

Then make sure that's a stipulation in your RFP next time you're commissioning a compiler. One of the nice things about open source work is that we get to have a little fun with it.

Side note, I would expect someone named "rails user" to at least have a modicum of humor.

Shouldn't he do whatever he likes?

The downvotes are probably because you didn't explain why you think it's relevant, and therefore didn't actually contribute to the discussion.

brb, implementing TCP/IP tunneled over twitter

The article covers that. The original design was done by Atchisson, then sold to Baber, who improved on it.

I cannot recommend Machinarium enough. The same company also more recently made Botanicula, which I loved, but has a slightly more abstract narrative.

The company that $parent is the founder of. Which, if you google for, you discover that their page is titled "Blog Logo" and contains no content. Check back in a week or so, I guess.

If we're going to be reductionist, why skip over the obvious answer that these are all photoshops?