useranme | 8 years ago | on: Inside the Revolution at Etsy
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useranme | 8 years ago | on: Introducing ProtonMail Contacts
I'd like to know more about how it works.
"The private key is generated on the client side". Does this mean it gets generated with Javascript sent from the server? What if the server gets hacked?
useranme | 8 years ago | on: Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?
I'm curious, what makes the ML families different than Algol?
useranme | 8 years ago | on: Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel [pdf]
From the paper:
"the one and only system that almost all members of the Institute for Computer Systems (including the secretary!) used on a daily basis for all their computing tasks"
Even the fonts were designed in-house.
useranme | 8 years ago | on: Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel [pdf]
I'm going through the paper on "slim binaries". They compress the abstract syntax tree at a semantic level and are smaller than compressed source code.
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/cis700/public_html/papers/Franz97.pdf
useranme | 8 years ago | on: Google forked Swift
I don't know much about Swift. Has anyone written in it something they can demo? Can it write gui and web apps? What's the biggest problem it solves and how do you like the language?
useranme | 8 years ago | on: Programming and Painting
Does anyone know what the broken link in the essay used to link to?
page 2
I'd be curious to learn Fred Wilson's explanation why going public was the best thing that ever happened to Etsy.