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Founder of https://codemix.com/ - authoritative product context which makes sure coding agents build the right thing and humans stay in control.

Email: charles@codemix.com

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phpnode··on Dolphins' elaborate octopus-hunting strategy
delicacy - a delicatessen is somewhere you'd buy delicacies
phpnode··on Samsung's Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written
EFL is open source software, BSD licenced. The original author of the comment is not a customer. It's some uninformed person trashing the good work someone has made available to them for free. This attitude makes me want to stop writing open source, it's disgusting to see.
phpnode··on Samsung's Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written
The responses in that thread give me a headache, has the daily wtf forum always been such a wasteland? One of the replies is "someone posted your software to the daily wtf so there MUST be a problem with your software, you should just accept it and here's how you should respond". Maddening
phpnode··on Mega Man for TempleOS
Your comments have all the empathy of someone who has zero understanding of schizophrenia.
phpnode··on Mega Man for TempleOS
A sufferer of schizophrenia is not guilty of the way their condition manifests. They are the victim of an illness.
phpnode··on 2038: Only 21 years away
BSDs typically have all their userspace tools in the same tree as the kernel, it's easier for them to make these breaking changes than it is for linux where the kernel live in one place and the rest of the code is scattered far and wide
phpnode··on House OKs Bill Allowing 'Mentally Incapacitated' Veterans to Buy Guns
What a ridiculous comment, a gun's only purpose is to kill, and yes, incapacitated people should not be driving if they present a danger to other road users.
phpnode··on Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
* if it receives at least 4 upvotes before falling off the "new" page.
phpnode··on CIA malware and hacking tools
I didn't flag it, but I'd imagine a lot of people don't trust the source (any more).

Edit: Why the downvotes? I didn't indicate my position, I pointed out that some people don't trust WikiLeaks any more, which is obvious - go and look at the responses they get on twitter.

phpnode··on JavaScript in Parallel: Web Workers and SharedArrayBuffer
Anything that does significant work that would otherwise result in an unresponsive UI. For example code on the following page is compiled as you type, without a webworker this would give a very horrible user experience because compilation can take a long time for very large input - https://codemix.github.io/flow-runtime/#/try
phpnode··on SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attacks
"fuck you money" is something different - it's the amount of wealth you need (varying per individual) where you can comfortably say "fuck you" to a particular job or opportunity or proposal someone makes to you if you don't want to do it. I believe the term you're looking for is something like "chump change"
phpnode··on Twitter discloses national security letters
Pardon?
phpnode··on Twitter discloses national security letters
That is how twitter works - it doesn't show every tweet from everyone you follow in your timeline, it shows a subset based on what it considers most relevant.
phpnode··on BuckleScript: write JavaScript faster, safer and smaller
It is much more like JavaScript than ocaml and so you get a familiar language but one which benefits from all the cool things that ocaml can do.
phpnode··on BuckleScript: write JavaScript faster, safer and smaller
Yes exactly, although you can avoid the middle step and go straight from reason to js because of the way bucklescript plugs into the ocaml compiler
phpnode··on BuckleScript: write JavaScript faster, safer and smaller
Reason is a js like syntax for ocaml, semantically they're identical. Similar to coffeescript and JavaScript, except ocaml has really good support for this kind of stuff
phpnode··on BuckleScript: write JavaScript faster, safer and smaller
The flow parser is already available in js, it doesn't seem impossible to bring the rest of it to the browser but I'm not aware of anyone working on it
phpnode··on BuckleScript: write JavaScript faster, safer and smaller
Reason is a language, bucklescript is an alternative backend for ocaml which generates JavaScript. You write reason, you don't write bucklescript
phpnode··on Moving beyond localStorage
This is a chat application, the primary transport is WebSockets, not HTTP.
phpnode··on Moving beyond localStorage
They don't want to send down the entire message history every time you switch to a particular conversation window, they want to be able to store as much of that locally as is possible/sensible so that the user doesn't have to wait for a network round trip and it still mostly works offline. They would like to store these messages in IndexedDB but they would like to encrypt them first.
phpnode··on Ask HN: Why is the community so negative towards blockchain technology?
Why is that particular use case solved better with blockchain than e.g. incrementing a counter in an actual database?
phpnode··on Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless
> At most, the dream of ad-funded websites might be dead. (I wish!)

What you are wishing for is a world in which access to things like Google Search which we take utterly for granted now are forced to become paid services. What are the implications of that, particularly for the world's poorest?

phpnode··on Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver
Using 8.8.8.8 gives google even more insight into your internet habits, even if you're using e.g. firefox on a webpage that includes no google assets at all (no web fonts, no google analytics etc), google will still know you've been there. Whether that matters to you or not depends on you.
phpnode··on Why Are Medical Ultrasound Systems So Inexpensive?
Why is it ok to scald patients in third world countries? What if the quirks lead to misdiagnosis etc? If there was a way to produce this technology safely and cheaply people would be doing so
phpnode··on Skip Lists Done Right
Some memory allocators use them for tracking free blocks because insertions/removals are cheap and they're good at best-fit style searches.
phpnode··on I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
This DPR is not the original DPR and as far as anyone knows never invoked hitmen, but he didn't last long.
phpnode··on I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
Presumably yes, and the datapoints being visualised would have presumably been transactions. The admin in question would have been Blake Benthall, not Ross Ulbricht who'd already been caught by then.
phpnode··on I thought I was designing for SpaceX, it may have been for the Silk Road
He's talking about the Silk Road marketplace - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)
phpnode··on Gogland – Capable and Ergonomic Go IDE
I'm from the UK and have never heard this word, and I can't think of any similar words with racist connotations.

It's also a very anglo-centric viewpoint, why shouldn't the inhabitants of Gogland[0] have some software named after their homeland?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogland

phpnode··on Godbolt: Enter C, get Assembly
> Because they've written more applications in assembler than anyone else in the history of computing.

Absolute unbridled nonsense.

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