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oconnor0··on The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
But why? It seems just as foolish to assume we need to die off to save others as it does arrogant to assume we can pollute and kill without consequences.
oconnor0··on Crystal Language
Phones are getting more and more cores. It won't be long before languages for mobile need to solve the same issues - parallelism and concurrency.
oconnor0··on A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art
Yes, the same thing is present in Android games. It's "pixel art", but the "pixels" aren't all the same size - like some parts the art is clearly 4x compared to some other bits - and then it's intermixed with high-res effects (lighting, gradients, flares, etc.)
oconnor0··on Four MLs (and a Python)
It seems that many original compilers are written in OCaml.
oconnor0··on Forgotten Corners of World of Warcraft

  Tyria is not as robust as Azeroth.
What does that mean?
oconnor0··on The Expression Problem and Tables
Adding new animals or actions requires access to and recompiling this code. The expression problem attempts to find a way around that.
oconnor0··on [dead]
> famous NSA smiley face

What's that?

oconnor0··on Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC
That can be resolved with a different GC.
oconnor0··on The Black Magic of Java Method Dispatch
What do you mean?
oconnor0··on New Jurassic World Trailer Hides Improved CGI in Plain Sight
Probably. Just like there are movies where their funniest line is only in the trailer.
oconnor0··on Capsela, the game that changed my life
I knew that name sounded familiar.
oconnor0··on Interview with Laura Poitras
"That’s the stuff that drives me crazy—this response of more violence and more war to make us all safer actually creates more violence." - I hope that one day we realize this is true.
oconnor0··on Hidden text inside every compiled Rust program
Why is the runtime being removed? And is there discussion on that somewhere?
oconnor0··on That WoW server blade
4 blades to run an entire realm? That's more impressive than I thought.
oconnor0··on Mutable Algorithms in Immutable Languages, Part 3
I thought they got rid of the linear typing.
oconnor0··on Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down
Does Google provide a status page for their services?
oconnor0··on Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear
Einstein's theories about the universe are more correct than Newton's. Neither are "correct".
oconnor0··on Governments admit to faking terrorism: a list
People may have ethical conflicts but not voice or do much with them because they feel the security their job provides is superior to leaving & having to find something new.
oconnor0··on CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007)
Seems like after an asteroid hitting the earth, "server fault tolerance" is the least of our worries.
oconnor0··on Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion
Is the site down for anyone else?
oconnor0··on Cosmic Sans Neue Mono: Programming Font
Or of the colors?
oconnor0··on The Internet is freest in US hands
While I may agree with you sentiment, would you expound on it?
oconnor0··on Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone
quarnster, would you explain the what the backend/frontend split is for?
oconnor0··on Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL
What does being a "hardcore RTS" mean?
oconnor0··on Diablo 3 to permanently remove its auction houses in March 2014
Affixes?
oconnor0··on Ask HN: Most difficult programming language?
Brainfuck is fairly simple & regular. Malbolge is not; that would make it far more difficult.
oconnor0··on N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
Fortunately using encryption now means you have something to hide & thus are gives the government reason to spy.
oconnor0··on New Rust runtime turned on. What next?
I believe Clean also uses linear types.
oconnor0··on New Rust runtime turned on. What next?
And then drivers would be required for each OS creating an additional porting burden.
oconnor0··on LLVM Tutorial
The URL for the llvm-general bindings is http://hackage.haskell.org/package/llvm-general
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