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eukaryotia··on PGP: There’s Life in the Old Dog Yet
>You need a comprehensive fundations to base on these experiments on.

The problem is that people build this huge, powerful libraries, but nobody seems to write the "limiting" libraries that take a subset of the powerful base library and create an easy to use experience from the user.

I suppose this largely stems from "implicit knowledge": People who can write cryptography apps likely know enough crypto that they can't themselves identify usability problems.

eukaryotia··on EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying
The freedom will trickle down.
eukaryotia··on [dead]
This reminds me -- spoiler alert -- of the wormhole in Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns.
eukaryotia··on Introducing SIMD.js
It's rapidly moving into hardware development as well, eg:

https://tessel.io/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gfw/espruino-javascript...

http://nodebots.io/

This is what programming is now.

eukaryotia··on Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
The complexity/frequency ratio (As in, complexity of the bot over frequency of spam) seems a little low to spend time writing something like this. A manual solution would probably be better.
eukaryotia··on Lisp macros for C
Looking at the lexer[0], it probably works on D and maybe C++.

[0] https://github.com/eudoxia0/cmacro/blob/master/grammar/lexin...

eukaryotia··on Ask HN:When will html 5 become the standard for mobile apps?
Why should it? I think we'll just stick with native applications for most serious things. The web as a platform-independent abstraction layer is not that great an idea.