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Re:TypeScript 5.0 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @09:37PM (#35191695)
You can use typescript as jsdoc annotations
Re:Ask HN: Learn C in 2023? on Friday December 23, 2022 @10:46AM (#34107030)
yes
Re:What can mRNA treat next? on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:39PM (#27020790)
> Derrick Rossi doesn’t quite see it this way, but he kind of saved the world. > > In 2008, he began researching messenger RNA (mRNA), building on the long-ignored work of Hungarian researcher Katalin Karikó

What?! Katalin Karikó is an SVP at BioNTech, the lab that created Pfizer's vaccine.

Re:How much your computer can do in a second on Sunday March 26, 2017 @12:25PM (#13961526)
This reminds me to this email from LuaJIT's list:

Computers are fast, or, a moment of appreciation for LuaJIT https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/snabb-devel/otVxZOj9dL...

As an Indie Shuffle user, I feel happy for you!
Re:Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift? on Sunday August 07, 2016 @10:09PM (#12245046)
This has been my most recommended book lately.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best formal language? on Saturday March 26, 2016 @11:35AM (#11366006)
Most formal languages are created with an specific purpose, so there isn't simply a "best" one. You normally use tons of them in academia, and many times simultaneously.

If you give more information about what you are looking for, we may be able to help you.

If you just want to learn something interesting though, I'd say typed lambda calculus is a great option.

Re:Finding ROI in Higher Education on Monday December 22, 2014 @11:27AM (#8783678)
Also, I'd like to see statistics about how much of Flatiron-like schools and traditional schools graduates manage to get above-avarage salaries in their field. Comparing with other fields makes little sense.
Re:Brainfuck beware: JavaScript is after you (2012) on Monday June 02, 2014 @01:52AM (#7832092)
The performance seriously decreases. I haven't measure how much, but I guess it'd only work for very very small scripts.
Re:Brainfuck beware: JavaScript is after you (2012) on Monday June 02, 2014 @01:49AM (#7832083)
The author here: as mentioned in the article, it started as part of a security research, but once started I couldn't help myself from pushing it further and see how far I could get. So I guess it's curiosity and a fun mental exercise, and maybe probing yourself that you can do something that you thought was impossible.
Re:Show HN: Sublimall, SublimeText synchronized on Friday February 14, 2014 @09:21PM (#7242362)
Yep, that why I was asking. Also telling the users that if they loose their encryption passphrase they loose their data would be cool.
Re:Show HN: Sublimall, SublimeText synchronized on Friday February 14, 2014 @09:16PM (#7242347)
This is great! As far as I can tell by reading the source code, it encrypts everything locally before uploading it, and the server does not have the encryption key. Is this right OP? If it is, I think you should make more emphasis about it in the project's home.
That's not exactly true, but there is no public research that shows the contrary. I worked on a research project at INRIA earlier this year that focuses on that topic: http://stopfingerprinting.inria.fr/

AFAIK the project it's still active, but no definitive conclusion has been obtained.

Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to get a tech job without a degree? on Monday December 16, 2013 @10:43AM (#6915381)
Another great thing about studying is that you get to know a lot of clever people interested in the same areas of technologies that you are. And also, depends on your personality and the school maybe, a lot of possible business contacts.
Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to get a tech job without a degree? on Monday December 16, 2013 @10:40AM (#6915352)
I've been working as a web developer since I was 17. It wasn't hard for me, but I had an incredible good luck by then, getting my first freelance clients out of nowhere.

I'm about to get a master in computer sciences, and I really think it is worth the time (no money in my case, I'm from Argentina). It teaches you the foundations of CS and that normally improves your way to think about technological problems and problem solving. Also, it generally qualifies you for different kind of jobs.

Re:Linux ate my RAM on Monday November 11, 2013 @08:35AM (#6711473)
just one?
Re:Confessions of a Drone Warrior on Saturday October 26, 2013 @12:24PM (#6617935)
Missiles? What if in that 1-second latency a car full of innocent people appear and they get killed?
Re:Confessions of a Drone Warrior on Saturday October 26, 2013 @12:18PM (#6617904)
Which is the latency of Nevada-Afghanistan? I'd always thought that this drones were operated from a relative short distance.
Re:Two New Books About Jorge Luis Borges on Sunday August 25, 2013 @08:28PM (#6274418)
I'm from Argentina, and I have heard that many many times, but I've never read one of his book.
To be honest, as soon as I read the title I thought "but if you force yourself to deliver something new every day you want have enough time to actually learn new stuff in between", and you proved me wrong. Congratulations!
Re:Anonymous Browser Fingerprinting in Practice on Monday July 15, 2013 @10:37AM (#6045787)
Did you even read the article? They link that in the first sentence.

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