0x20cowboy

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   by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

   > The vast majority of people who work in the tech industry are perpetually 5 years out of university. > So the vast majority of the time we get the same tools, the same frameworks, and the same ideas poorly reimplemented over and ove
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   by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

   Please correct me if I just haven’t found the right place, but when I’ve tried to read academic papers in the past I found I’d have to pay upwards of $50.00 to read anything more than just the abstract. Is there a site that gives free acces
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   by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

   I haven’t seen this version mentioned in the thread - if you don’t need a lot of precision, here is a simple 4 line version[1] and here’s how it works[2]. Not sure who initially came up with it. [1] https://github.com/robroh
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   by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

   I don't live in the states any more, but thank you for the suggestion! Also I am not on the pity pot, my life is awesome compared to where I came from. I'd like others not to have to go though it, but such is life. Although, I am
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   by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

   Absolutely not! Sorry if you thought I was angry. I sometimes have a funny way of expressing myself, but there is no anger here at all. Just acceptance of the way the world works - kind of my point actually :)
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   by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

   Don't want to go too much into this, but thanks for the thoughtful response. > A couple leetcode questions is hardly a difficult task I don't have a problem with data structures and the like. I've been building software fo
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   by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

   Absolutely not! Good on ya! I'd rather everyone got a fair go, but mate, I am very happy for you. Keep on keeping on.
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   by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

   I grew up poor, and from my anecdotal experience people do better on the SAT if they "are rich". You can also pay people to take the test for you. Maybe it's because they don't have to spend their days worry about gettin
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   by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

   A better question might be, what do you want that Google doesn’t already give you? Personally I wouldn’t mind a search engine that was focused only on code results. Not only results that that showed code, but code focused results - tutorial
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    by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

    This looks cool for x86. Somewhat along these lines, is there a piece of software that lets you emulate chips, connections and custom built systems? I’ve been trying to play with building an OS for riscv (and / or maybe pic32) using qe
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    by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

    Jonathan blow had a great take on this that really spoke to me. I can’t do it justice, but paraphrasing as best I can: Get the simple to understand, basic thing working and push the harder refactor / abstraction until later. Leave the
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    by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

    I love this idea. Is this going for an ebay / Craig list kind of vibe, or are you going to add some kind of code quality / not stolen validation? Are you going to handle the money transfer or is this more of a “make the introducti
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    by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

    Of course, you can do whatever you like, but so far everyone who has thrown up such protest over this has done so by literally writing out definitions to show how hard it would be :-/
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    by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

    I’ve been on the internet for quite a long time, but I’ve never heard of it before. So maybe it’s basic knowledge for a given discipline, but maybe not for others? It’s also, I assume by the authors, submitted to hackernews which is a prett
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    by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

    I may have missed it, but I read the read me, looked at the main site, looked at the beginning of getting started… nowhere says what BGP stands for / is. I get it’s written in go, but I have no idea what BGP is. Big green pages, binary
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    by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

    This is very cool. I love this kind of stuff. I built a web player to view 360 streaming videos using VR: https://meshvue.com/ , but it hasn't caught on. If you think it might help, I'd be keen to chat. (It works b
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    by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

    Just store an offset amount from the start point, create a tangent line against the curve of time, and then as the limit approaches zero… :)
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    by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

    It would be cool if Hackernews did some kind of debate / in-depth discussion / podcast / video cast thing where some of these topics could be discussed. I would love to hear a nuanced, technical / economic discussion abo
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    by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

    If I never have to interview again, it’ll be too soon. Hats off to you for trying to fix a broken system.
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    by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

    Maybe use Gopher? Lynx supports it and there are a few other newish clients out there.
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    by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

    I really miss the platinum UI. I’ve seen a few attempts at themes that kind of look like it for gtk, but they bit rot way too fast. Ah nostalgia.
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    by 0x20cowboy 5y ago

    I’ve been playing with UTF8 in c99 and the examples here have helped me understand how it works a bit better.