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jronkone | 12 years ago | on: The Best Part of Grand Theft Auto V is the Stock-Trading Platform

Please don't compare insurance companies to casinos. In casinos the odds are completely computable and known beforehand to everyone. Not so with insurance which deals with real life.

jronkone | 12 years ago | on: Gödel Without (Too Many) Tears

Does taking input from the outside (e.g. internet) change this?

jronkone | 12 years ago | on: Taking PHP Seriously [pdf]

AFAICT, "good engineers are productive in X" doesn't imply that they wouldn't be yet more productive in Y.

jronkone | 12 years ago | on: Why Your Startup Can’t Find Developers

This should become a law, like Brook's, Sturgeon's or Greenspun's.

jronkone | 12 years ago | on: The Pernicious Myth that You Don't Need College to Be an Entrepreneur

30 credits doesn't equal 30 hours as far as I know. But still, I think GP should just suck it up and finish his degree, he has only a very limited amount of time to lose by doing so, and possibly much to gain from having a degree. In other words, he has limited downside and almost unlimited upside.

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write

What makes you think that proprietary software doesn't have good commit messages?

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: Tell HN: Frustrated and feeling pretty useless at this point.

I hope you learnt something about using magic numbers.

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: ISO C is increasingly moronic

> Plugins for printf()/scanf()?? Not even remotely the kind of thing that needs to be in the core language libraries.

Where then? As far as I can tell, there's no sensible way to extend the functionality of printf()/scanf(), and compilers special-case their format-strings.

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: How big are PHP arrays (and values) really?

I don't see how unions could save space, care to explain?

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default

All I can see is confusion about what is deemed "non-intrusive" and by whom.

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: How would you change your favorite programming language to make it better?

For the sake of argument (let ((my-favorite-programming-language (find-language "common-lisp")))):

I would like to see Lisp and *nix have babies. Take the best ideas of both and make something greater than their sum.

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.

And here I almost thought I was going crazy...

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: C++ Versus Objective-C

This must be the 9001st time I read a post by a C++ programmer that doesn't understand that the problem isn't that other languages don't have RAII. The problem is that C++ doesn't have finally/unwind-protect and thus requires RAII to approximate it.

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: Building The Linux Kernel In 60 Seconds

> Bellard did this in 15 seconds, in 2004 with a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4

But isn't Linux kernel a lot bigger nowadays?

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: The end of social

In other words, automated "now playing" scripts are as annoying and useless on social media as they were on irc and and instant messengers.

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: Louis CK self-produces, self-publishes content on his webpage

The idea seems good, but I think many people would prefer a demo (or more explanation) about how it actually works, preferably without the user needing to supply his/her email.

On the technical side, the scrolling text seems to overlap to the next line on some zoom-settings (I'm using Firefox 8 if it matters).

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: Louis CK self-produces, self-publishes content on his webpage

I think there's a huge pent-up demand for software that makes it easy for artists to publish their own content on their own websites easily and also makes making and collecting payments as easy as downloading torrents.

Probably something like that already exists, but the fact is that most of the content seems to be aggregated in different kinds of services that the artists don't really control themselves.

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: At the End of a Procrastinated Day

> I've still no clue why humans procastrinate.

I've still no clue why people consider doing stuff so important.

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: Five-minute Multimethods in Python

Consing for control-flow is not normal, but on Python it is. Python - not even once.

jronkone | 14 years ago | on: Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

Epileptic here, not allowed either.