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voxon I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck

I'm assuming you've been downvoted because slightly more than 50% of HNers think of this project as an artistic/fun project.

But the fact is, even a purely artistic/fun project will have some creativity or originality in it. I would consider a toy language or Brainf__k written for the first time as artistic.

But this project is just a JIT for Brainf__k, there's no creativity in it, and all it did was give the author some experience writing JITs. In that sense this is an exercise project, and IMO exercise projects do not belong to HN.

voxon Ask HN: How can you be rational and still believe in free will?

There is scientific evidence: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Free_will_the...

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Everyone is unique, everyone is one in a million.

voxon Posterous is being DDoS'd

Why DDOS posterous? What's there to gain from it?

This isn't like the ones who DDOS'ed MS out of their hatred for it or the ones who blackmailed & DDOS'ed a gambling website when they refused to pay up.

voxon If You’re So Damn Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?

Because money isn't my primary aim in life.

voxon New York governor approves short-term apartment rental ban in NYC

I think this law cuts into our freedom as house/apartment owners. I don't think the government should have the right to dictate our lives at such a low-level.