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Re:Id Tech: Carmack’s Keynote In Full on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @11:14AM (#2864306)
One part that piqued my interest was Carmack's interest in using functional languages. Of course he goes on to say that it would be hard with people making the switch and all that after.

“It's not because people are no good. The very best programmers always make mistakes. This is something that I've really internalized; that, no matter how good you think you are, you are making mistakes all the time, and you have to have structures around you to try and help you limit the damage that your mistakes will cause, find them as early as possible, so that you can correct them, and the earliest possible time is at compile time. So I'm all about trying to be much more restrictive on what we can do, here. And on the one hand, I would entertain programming in—I'm very tempted to want to move to—a functional programming language; start programming in Haskell or OCaml or something, but that's not a credible thing to do in the game industry.”

Re:Cartoonist Targeted With Criminal Probe For Mocking Police on Saturday August 06, 2011 @12:50AM (#2853053)
Ah, my bad. Checked for submissions for only a few hours back; must have missed this one on my RSS.
Re:Team Fortress 2 now free forever on Friday June 24, 2011 @02:19AM (#2691234)
Cheating through item drop mining with multiple accounts can't be done without paying for some in-game store item that makes the account a premium one, since free accounts can only be on the recieving end of a trade and have item restrictions (eg no hats).

If you mean the much more serious VAC-evasion by creating new accounts, they mentioned they would be cracking down on those, but no so sure about the specifics.

Re:Most Australians will have their web access censored as of next month on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @09:45AM (#2683047)
http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/

Although the blog is focused on election analysis, which you may not want.

Re:Facebook XSS Exploit [CODE][GIST] on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @01:01AM (#2677505)
I get this error message when I try to post it as a status:

Message Failed This message contains blocked content that has previously been flagged as abusive or spammy. Let us know if you think this is an error.

Re:Ask HN: What personal projects/goals are people working on for this... on Saturday May 21, 2011 @03:12PM (#2571475)
My winter break is only about a month before I begin another semester of uni. I will try to do as much of the following as possible: - start going through SICP - learn python+django - read up on some of next semester's courses
Re:Top Domains by Number of HN Submissions on Sunday April 17, 2011 @09:56PM (#2457656)
Both TC and HN are interested in tech startups so I wouldn't be surprised if there were just people who submit on sight as they pop up on their rss feeds because of the karma on offer.
Re:Run any Linux application natively on Windows (Vista and 7) without... on Sunday January 09, 2011 @03:26AM (#2085153)
From what I read, you can get Debian and Gentoo system running with this.

http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Gentoo_on_WINDOWS

http://www.debian-interix.net/

Would love to try get Gentoo but MSDNAA offers Professional rather than Ultimate.

Re:Ask HN: Can you mimic this scroll behaviour for browser/OS? on Saturday December 11, 2010 @05:24AM (#1994597)
Maybe I'm understanding it wrong, but can't you just middle click and move your mouse higher/lower than the marker makes it move constantly in that direction?
Re:How to Make Mac OS X Get Weird on Sunday December 05, 2010 @03:31AM (#1971240)
So basically this is Apple Store fun. Try: Open terminal, open screen, sleep 3000; while true; say "hilarious thing you want the Mac to say"; done Close terminal.
Re:Ask HN: I versus We on Monday November 22, 2010 @09:34AM (#1929872)
I was told this, but only in the context of an essay.
Re:Some fun mathematical puzzles on Saturday November 20, 2010 @06:16AM (#1924325)
Anyone know how to do "Catching a spy"? Attempting it with someone I regard as a very good thinker; he is pretty adamant that it doesn't give enough information.
Re:Stop procrastinating: Introducing the noprocrast gem on Thursday November 11, 2010 @07:25AM (#1893636)
It should remove the noprocrast off feature. Make it easy to turn it on, but annoying to turn it off.
Re:If on Monday November 08, 2010 @10:10AM (#1882650)
Someone describe it for those that arrived after the 6 upvotes.
Re:Pong written in both flash and HTML5. Left side is flash, right sid... on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @08:03PM (#1862972)
1005PE here (ie. also an Aton netbook). Flash side stutters for me, while HTML5 is smooth.
Re:Please review my distro (if you are a musician) on Sunday October 31, 2010 @11:10PM (#1855208)
The GNU is usually pronounced "gah-new" rather than "new".

http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt "But, when it's the name of our system, the correct pronunciation is "guh-NEW" -- pronounce the hard "G". If you talk about the "new" operating system, you'll get people very confused, because we've been working on it for 17 years now, so it is not new any more. [Laughter] But it still is, and always will be, GNU -- no matter how many people call it Linux by mistake. [Laughter]"

Re:"I wrote this film, and I am doing everything I can to prevent its ... on Thursday October 21, 2010 @09:33AM (#1815277)
Ha, you got to that pseudonym before I could.

It could well possibly would have years ago but that name is now no longer a secret known pretty much only in the industry, so slapping it on the credits gives the impression that the movie is not worth watching.

http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jan/15/entertainment/ca-542...

Re:Cx: A bash function for comfortable extraction of *.tar/*.tar.gz/*.... on Saturday October 16, 2010 @06:05AM (#1797692)
That looks really nice. I have something in my .$SHELLrc file that does something similar:

the extract_archive() in http://github.com/Rydgel/archlinux/blob/master/.zshrc

but yours looks like it takes care of other things like archives within archives.

Re:CAPTCHArt on Thursday October 14, 2010 @12:03AM (#1789778)
I've seen pretty much all of them; a lot of them are quite mediocre. This is one of the few good ones in my opinion:

http://cooxncookies.tumblr.com/post/945061795/dingo-at-sea-c...

Re:MIT Video lectures - Introduction to Algorithms on Saturday October 02, 2010 @09:28PM (#1751837)
You can get a lot of CS lecture series on Academic Earth including MIT's Intro to Algorithms:

http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/computer-science

There are other disciplines there too:

http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/

Re:Essential Applications for Phd students on Friday October 01, 2010 @12:08PM (#1747463)
It doesn't mention Mendeley Desktop, which gets huge raves from a PhD student I know.
Re:How do you deal with people who ask you to fix their computer? on Monday September 20, 2010 @09:47AM (#1708758)
I don't get asked that a lot, so unlike quite a lot or replies I read, I actually try to fix it most of the time!

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