ShinyCyril

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by ShinyCyril 10y ago
It worries me how it's suddenly become acceptable to have 1MB+ pages (6.2MB in this case).
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by ShinyCyril 10y ago
YNAB still updates their 'classic' desktop version, which also has a nice mobile app to accompany it.
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by ShinyCyril 10y ago
For me it was when I started buying hardware stuff second-hand. It made me realise that very few people actually need as much processing power as they say they do. I used to subscribe to PC-building communities where people would drop a cou
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by ShinyCyril 10y ago
I can't comment for the ThinkPad 13, but I've been really disappointed with the quality of Lenovo's recent ThinkPad offerings. I used to have a 1st Gen X1 Carbon Touch and I swapped it for a MacBook Air after a year. Terrible
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by ShinyCyril 10y ago
I'm also using the Python-based Pelican for my personal blog [1]. I was originally using a homebrew solution, but decided to switch over to something a little better-tested. The Fabric deployment options [2] are really great. Of course
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by ShinyCyril 10y ago
Will do - thank you.
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by ShinyCyril 10y ago
That's good to know. My email is in my profile - feel free to shoot me a message :)
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by ShinyCyril 10y ago
Oops, don't know how I missed the part about graduates. Thank you!
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by ShinyCyril 10y ago
Do you know if Argon Design hires graduates? I would love to break into the HFT / FPGA design space, however it seems like the barrier to entry is rather high.
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by ShinyCyril 10y ago
> Anyone want schematics and parts lists for anything they make? There's an email address you can send a message to that will respond with them. All plain-text, no validation. Could you expand on this?
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by ShinyCyril 10y ago
This one certainly lives up to its name: https://github.com/leachim6/hello-world/blob/master/v/verbos...
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by ShinyCyril 10y ago
I've added you to the Hacker News for ... list I've been curating: https://github.com/mikeanthonywild/hacker-news-for-x .
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by ShinyCyril 10y ago
My background is in EE, so forgive me if this is a stupid question. Are there any cryptographic hash functions which support a closeness metric? Having written that out, it seems that such a thing would be contradictory, as to be able to co
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
I haven't checked out the high-level synthesis part, but I've been using Vivado for a project recently and it's absolutely horrible. To name some of the issues I've had; - Memory leaks (grows from about 1GB to 11GB and s
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
You make a good point. I hadn't heard about Foursquare in a very long time, so I had no idea that they were trying to do something similar to monetise it. Like I said though, it costs us practically nothing to run and it's been a
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
The app requires each person of the group to have the app. Like messaging apps, no-one will use it unless all of their friends use it too. We're currently implementing a 'hot-seat' feature to mitigate this and make it even ea
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
Thanks for your feedback. Both myself and my girlfriend, and my business partner and his girlfriend use the app regularly. Occasionally we use it with family too. We launched a beta recently and got some users, but didn't get much enga
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
Currently it costs us practically nothing to run, so we're just focused on getting users. Monetisation will come primarily from providing analytics to restaurants. Because of the way the app works, we can go to a restaurant and give th
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Ask HN: How should we go about marketing our app?
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
This one takes the cake for me: https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712760257542549505 . I wonder how long it will be before Microsoft has to intervene.
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
That's perfectly fine for those of us who use such addons, but does nothing to help the average non-technical user from being tracked.
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
Many German websites have had this for years. I seem to remember hearing that it was mandated by law that social buttons had to be deactivated by default to protect privacy, but I'm not sure whether that was actually the case. Here is
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
These slides mention the possibility of using PCIe or QPI to attach to the CPU: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~calcm/carl/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=c... .
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
There's been a huge shitstorm on Reddit about Windows 7 / 8 forcing an automatic upgrade to Windows 10 [1] [2] [3] [4], with many accounts of people going away to do something and coming back to find their PCs had updated to Windo
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
Just a shout-out about the Icestorm project which provides a complete open-source toolchain for Lattice's iCE40 FPGAs. It's mostly the work of one guy (Clifford Wolf): http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/ . It&#x2
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
This looks nice – I've been using [Isso]( https://posativ.org/isso/ ) for the past year or so.
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
For those interested, I started compiling a list of HN-style news aggregators: https://github.com/mikeanthonywild/hacker-news-for-x . I really love this sort of format for niche communities, but many of them lack suffic
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
Hmm didn't have much luck with: https://mikeanthonywild.com/stopping-blocking-threads-in-pyt... { "1":"betterthreads provides an enhanced replacement for the an enhanced replacement for th
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
OSDev does indeed have some great resources, but sadly most of the info is targeting x86. Of course the general principles of interrupts, framebuffer memory etc. can be applied to other platforms provided you have an understanding of the pl
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by ShinyCyril 11y ago
It really is fascinating how up to a certain point, it was possible to understand the workings of 90% of the early 8-bit computers. Sadly with the vast improvements in speed and efficient comes a cavernous increase in complexity. While the

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