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sadgiton IPv6: It's time to get on board

I'm not sure why it would be that different.

sadgiton An Exceptional Change in PHP 7.0

Both the LogicException and the RuntimeException branches seem kind of pointless... They all describe exceptions that happen with values at runtime and I expect I'd have trouble picking one in a given circumstance. Mostly I see it leading to a lot of inconsistent uses in practice. At least 4 of them would be legitimate choices for a string thats too short, for example.

Ah, PHP.

sadgiton Python 3.5.0

> has the ability to statically check the type system

I was under the impression that type checking was not one of the goals of PEP 484 etc.

sadgiton Python 3.5.0

Care to share some highlights? Fifth to second sounds like a big difference!

sadgiton The list monad in Perl and Python

This topic is amusing - the question of why you would want to do this has never come up, it is truly just art and playfulness.

sadgiton Supercomputers: Obama orders world's fastest computer

Press: "What's it for?" Obama: "Uuuh... NASA."

sadgiton Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)

Good time to pimp my c implementation of Norvig's algorithm:

https://github.com/ssadler/ssadler-various/blob/master/sudok...

(This code is completely indulgent but very fast!)

sadgiton Is Git a Block Chain?

The correct answer

sadgiton Is Git a Block Chain?

No, its not. Its just a chain. There's no block. The block in a blockchain is everything to do with distributed / trustless conscensus.

sadgiton Secure Secure Shell

Thanks!

sadgiton Snapchat has raised $485M more from 23 investors

On what does a software company spend half a billion dollars?

sadgiton Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust

Is it not style.maxWidth in that context?

sadgiton Wave-particle duality is the uncertainty principle in disguise

I recently posted a writeup of an idea I had kicking around for a while, which also has some fun similarities re many worlds interpretation. Kind of makes one wish one was a quantum physicist :).

edit: http://pointfree.uk

sadgiton Wave-particle duality is the uncertainty principle in disguise

Totally with you. I'm currently fascinated by cryptography and the encoding of value. It seems to me that alot of what we do is in some way encoding value, from a less scarce form to a more scarce form, and the highest encoding of value is to be found in money. Bitcoin for example, is a conversion between alot of energy input and a little bit of information output, I wonder what different ways exist to reason about this exchange.

sadgiton Verne – An experiment in social computing

Nice. I found this paper on the topic by Ryan Fugger of Ripple: http://archive.ripple-project.org/decentralizedcurrency.pdf

sadgiton What is the next major shift in technology?

I posted this separately, but since I think it's relevant to the discussion I'll post it here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8757722