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901.
by akavel 11y ago
> "I see women writing about these meta-topics of "being a female programmer" far, far more often than any actual technical aspect" I disagree. That is, I kinda agree and I totally disagree. I mean... argh, this is
902.
by akavel 11y ago
Personally, I interpreted the question as a shorthand for: "Aren't you afraid LeRoux could see that as doxxing, and of potential dangerous consequences to yourself?"
903.
Why Package Signing Is Not the Holy Grail (2013)(caremad.io)
1 points by akavel 11y ago|0 comments
904.
by akavel 11y ago
It is actually suggested in the article: "Earlier this week Mercedes rival BMW said it was considering launching its own ride hailing service in what would amount to a rival business to Uber."
905.
by akavel 11y ago
Do you write this based on the article (where?), or on information from some different sources (private?)? I couldn't find such information in the article, while it mentions that e.g. "In August 2013, Mercedes-Benz [...] drove [1
906.
by akavel 11y ago
I've stumbled into an interesting related comment on twitter, didn't know: "#Erlang based language ecosystem is more diverse than many know: #efene #reia #lfe #luaerl #erlog #elixir #mercury" https://twitter
907.
by akavel 11y ago
You write "Do it on your application servers back end" , but then the parent comment actually argues specifically for "self-hosted Piwik and other such internal analytics tools" . So, I'm now confused: do you ac
908.
by akavel 11y ago
It's sweet and cute and I really loved the story, but I must admit I'm not really sure how this qualifies as hacker news?
909.
by akavel 11y ago
A well-tested, easily extensible & customizable, offset-capturing, robustly-specified Markdown parser in Go: https://github.com/akavel/vfmd with a (long-term) plan of writing a WYSIWYG desktop Markdown editor aroun
910.
by akavel 11y ago
by "there" do you mean the MS Word team? or something else?
911.
Genode 16.02 supports the RISC-V CPU architecture(osnews.com)
4 points by akavel 11y ago|0 comments
912.
by akavel 11y ago
The piece chain approach does indeed have some cons too, not only advantages. E.g. retrieving a byte at a specific absolute offset requires iterating sequentially over all preceding "pieces" of the chain in the basic variant of
913.
by akavel 11y ago
The article is missing one of the important but commonly overlooked structures: a "piece chain" [1] (aka "piece table"). Not easy to find editors using it, especially among the popular ones, but: - from what I've re
914.
by akavel 11y ago
Quoting a fragment from the final section: "[...] any prefix (e.g. partial download) of a compressed file can be used as a reasonable lossy encoding of the entire image." though they also have it listed explicitly in the TODO se
915.
by akavel 11y ago
Still, what with responsible disclosure etc.?
916.
by akavel 11y ago
O_o Ouch... indeed...
917.
Hacking industrial vehicles from the internet(jcarlosnorte.com)
152 points by akavel 11y ago|46 comments
918.
by akavel 11y ago
Did the author of the article submit his findings to the Tor Project?
919.
by akavel 11y ago
I also had trouble understanding that from their description, but then at some point I think I got it. Is I understand, it's like if you used Lua (actually, a Lua-like language dubbed "Terra") in places where you'd nor
920.
by akavel 11y ago
There's an "official answer" in the FAQ [1] ( "We considered using LLVM for gc but we felt it was too large and slow to meet our performance goals." Note: lowercase gc refers to Go compiler, whereas uppercase GC
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The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 [pdf](vpri.org)
18 points by akavel 11y ago|2 comments
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by akavel 11y ago
Does anybody know of any decent layman-oriented summary of the successful measurements performed by Philae & Rosetta? And any interesting and/or surprising findings and conclusions? After quick googling I've found this: h
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by akavel 11y ago
Not really regarding what , but on the how front, I remember that one guy invented what he called "hive plots", and he seems to be claiming they're some kind of a panaceum to so called "hairball" plots: http:&#x
924.
by akavel 11y ago
What's interesting here, is that they seem to have actually started with Lua, but then switched to a custom language at some point. I'm not quite sure what were the exact reasons, as googling leads to a github wiki which since &qu
925.
by akavel 11y ago
One question about a thing I'm not really sure about w.r.t. Lamdu, from quickly skimming the page and the thread: is it possible to draft something syntactically and semantically incorrect first, and only start making it correct late
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by akavel 11y ago
Based on http://www.outerra.com/jobs.html and http://titanim.net/www/ : "[Outerra is hiring] to work on several game and simulation projects for large defense contractors in partnership with TitanI
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by akavel 11y ago
Could you elaborate on how's that prevented? I'm quite curious. [Or did someone already explain in some other post somewhere in this thread?] edit: self-answer: the following post seems to have an answer: https://news
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by akavel 11y ago
Migrated to github: https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa (SF.net lists 2011 as SVN trunk date, github lists "13 days ago") In related work, see also my Go port at: https://github.com/akavel
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by akavel 11y ago
Based on the rest of the original paragraph, I understand he refers to the fact that you have to choose either one when desigining a library, and then you're stuck with it (and its various consequences) in your API for better or wors
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Implementation of the real-time painted world demo(ndotl.wordpress.com)
2 points by akavel 11y ago|0 comments

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