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Re:We need more keywords on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:27PM (#18871025)

  the lexer can always tell with fixed lookahead whether `a-b` is three tokens or one
How does that work? It doesn't seem obvious to me?

I also wonder what approaches other languages have taken since I haven't seen dashed keywords in any of the other big languages.

Re:Blocking via an Unsolvable CAPTCHA on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @12:26AM (#16165692)
Lol why should it be illegal? It's your service, you can block however you want
Re:Blocking via an Unsolvable CAPTCHA on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @12:24AM (#16165686)
I attended a talk by Coinbase. They get A LOT of fraudulent activity (both high end and amateur). They have like 7-8 employees who handle all the manual aspects of user verification. So they have to rely heavily on automated solutions. I have never used them so I don't know how often they flag false positives but based on that talk I would at least qualify the statement with "it's a hard problem!"
Re:RemoteStorage.js 1.0.0 released on Friday November 10, 2017 @09:51AM (#15670186)
No this is not websql. This allows remote hosting so data across multiple devices can be in sync
Lol SQL is making a comeback? It never left.
Re:Android Is a Dead End on Sunday July 16, 2017 @09:07PM (#14785002)
Except that the only evidence provided is Fuschia which is open source
Re:Ask HN: What is your password management solution? on Saturday July 15, 2017 @01:19PM (#14777739)
This is a long blog post that talks about some drawbacks of this approach: https://tonyarcieri.com/4-fatal-flaws-in-deterministic-passw...

Before reading this I was convinced that stateless deterministic approaches like these was the ideal. But some arguments in that post changed my mind.