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Ask HN: Is there a podcast on the history of Unix?
12 points by adtac 9y ago|5 comments
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by adtac 9y ago
Journals wouldn't accept generated PDFs? This genuinely shocking to me. Is this prelevant in all fields?
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by adtac 9y ago
This is completely non-malicious: why are you writing papers in Word instead of more advanced typesetting tools like LaTeX?
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by adtac 9y ago
The recent jump is because they released a good earnings report. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/26/intc-intel-stock-jumps-to-hi...
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by adtac 9y ago
Hello! I'm the author of Commento [1], one of the recipients of this award. Feel free to ask me any questions (I can answer) about the MOSS programme, about Commento, or anything else you're curious about. [1] https://g
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Mozilla invests $1.65M supporting open source projects(blog.mozilla.org)
6 points by adtac 9y ago|1 comments
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by adtac 9y ago
Something to consider: you only hear from those startups that move to Go. You don't see startups making blog posts talking about how they're staying with Java or C# or C++ or Python (you sometimes do, but posts like that are prett
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by adtac 9y ago
Indeed, every compiler is a transpiler: it transpiles into asm. But not every transpiler is a compiler in the truest sense of the term. IMO only transpiling to machine language qualifies as compiling. But we're just arguing about seman
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by adtac 9y ago
*interpreter/transpiler, not a compiler
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by adtac 9y ago
A t-shirt for a university course feels surreal to me. It looks cool though :D
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Don't ask to ask(sol.gfxile.net)
2 points by adtac 9y ago|0 comments
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by adtac 9y ago
It has to be dynamically generated because I don't control the content. Also, having the markdown makes it easier to edit and update. Maybe I should look into serving both the markdown AND the HTML.
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by adtac 9y ago
This is really useful, thanks! Is there a subset of markdown (preferably with an implementation in Javascript to render it as HTML) that's limited to just the basic stuff like bold, underline, italics, links, quotes, and code elements?
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by adtac 9y ago
If I had a penny for every notetaking app, I'd invest that money in another notetaking app. Jokes aside, this looks nice! Especially good to see that native C++ development (even if it's in Qt) isn't dead.
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by adtac 9y ago
Even at 1x, the bug is present. Even still, 10x should give me $21.00, right?
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by adtac 9y ago
The Leverage dropdown? I'm not sure what that is, but I've tried all four values (1, 2, 5, 10) and they all produce the same bug for me.
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by adtac 9y ago
There's a bug: when I "invested" $1k and sold it at a +0.21% profit, I made $210 instead of $2.10 (basically, they forgot to divide 0.21% by 100 to get a multiplier; if only real-life was this easy haha) :D
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by adtac 9y ago
You could place a market order: buy at the lowest sell price in the order book. It's usually very close to the last trade price, making it a pretty decent approximation.
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by adtac 9y ago
I can talk about my experience writing such a tool during my internship at a bank that rhymes with Oldman Bachs. Bear in mind, this wasn't my original project; since I had finished my first project, I was allowed to work on something e
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by adtac 9y ago
That's to prevent your average Joe from swiping your password.
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by adtac 9y ago
The number zero rule in security is that if a malicious adversary has physical access to your device, all bets are off.
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by adtac 9y ago
Not every day; at the time of publishing, and maybe few days later. (This could be improved even further: you don't need to access every article. If you could identify a page that's representative of a real article, that could suf
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by adtac 9y ago
This is probably the easiest problem to solve. Hosting a GoogleSpeedTestBot in every city with the sole purpose of speed testing a page would have laughably negligible impact on Google's resources.
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by adtac 9y ago
This is meaningless if the author doesn't show us their vimrc. (Neo)vim cold starts in 60 milliseconds for me (granted, I have an SSD). In any case, 4 seconds is super abnormal and it sounds like they have loaded their vimrc with every
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by adtac 9y ago
Jan 2016, according to https://danluu.com/ and ctrl+f
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by adtac 9y ago
Because you still probably want accented characters and other unicode elements, I think.
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by adtac 9y ago
Convert to image and run it through an OCR? Needlessly complicated, but it could possibly mimic the retyping part.
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by adtac 9y ago
Yep, I am aware. In fact there's a bunch of other offerings as well (someone else with a similar product once posted a summary comment; can't find it right now). I just quickly registered and it appears the moderation/dashboa
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by adtac 9y ago
Thank you! :) This was only possible because of all the contributors [1]: some of the design paradigms were entirely their ideas, so credits to them as well. [1] https://github.com/adtac/commento/graphs/contri
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by adtac 9y ago
Built Commento, a privacy-focused alternative to Disqus: https://github.com/adtac/commento Right now, it exists as a Github project that you can self-host, but I'll soon offer it as a paid service if you don'

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