andrewf

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by andrewf 11y ago
The HPACK spec [1] remarks on this. Google carefully used DEFLATE in earlier SPDY versions [2] but HTTP/2 decided to be less clever. Interestingly, SLZ's page comments on lack of history as a way to avoid CRIME attacks, which is o
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by andrewf 11y ago
I'm prone to motion sickness on buses. Even for people who aren't, I can't imagine the joltiness of travelling in a geared vehicle that's not on tracks is more pleasant than a train.
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by andrewf 11y ago
Infill also mean's Perth's roads are far busier than before. My dad commuted from Bateman to Fremantle for 30 years; the same morning journey easily takes twice as long as it used to.
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by andrewf 12y ago
Maybe. There are lots of finicky details, like inconsistent bit ordering and arbitrary lookup tables. I think it's a long week of work at least, probably more. On the other hand, it is probably the simplest compression format in widesp
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by andrewf 12y ago
I've implemented gzip... I found that implementing the decompressor first (with a very verbose --debug flag) was critical to understanding the bitstream well enough to implement compression :)
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by andrewf 12y ago
argv[argc] is defined to be a null pointer.
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by andrewf 12y ago
I'll take either a mechanical or a chiclet (like the Apple ones) keyboard over squishy rubber domes. I personally think the chiclet boards have a lot in common with the mechanical ones - there's a very nonlinear resistance and it&
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by andrewf 12y ago
A Model M was my primary keyboard for years. Now, the ~65g activation force is a bit too heavy for my liking, and I'm using Cherry Brown/Blues.
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by andrewf 12y ago
This is apparently based on the Jaguar port that id Software did in-house. Interestingly, it seems to include a translation of Carmack's Jaguar rendering engine into C. The original was implemented in assembly for the Jaguar's pro
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by andrewf 12y ago
The percentages in that table (68.3% for directors and officers, and 22.0% / 5.6% / 4.9% / 13.6% for four significant investors) add up to 114.4%. I obviously don't understand what it actually represents :) Can somebody
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by andrewf 12y ago
Each company is different, I could be way off the mark, and 3 hours strikes me as a little short for the standard format. A common interview format will have you doing multiple, separate interviews, usually 60 minutes long, with different p
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by andrewf 12y ago
Fix the tax mess for employees who receive stock options. There's lots of room for people to be stuck paying tax on "income" that they're years from being able to turn into cash. If things turn south, they may end up hav
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by andrewf 13y ago
Have you tried medication? (Took me years to realize that feeling sick on an hours-long coach ride need not be inevitable)
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by andrewf 13y ago
It looks like a mobile app is part of your solution. How are drivers' phones going to access your servers? I'm really speculating here, but do they want to run the service in a private IP space (inaccessible from the Internet) and
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by andrewf 13y ago
Other commenters have mentioned you should figure out why they want to do this, which is important. There could be actual, real legal requirements. There could be internal policies which are, or aren't, flexible. It could just be an
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by andrewf 13y ago
It's a coinflip. Some users will route straight to Asia (because their ISPs are buying the right bandwidth) and be better off with Singapore. Some will route to Asia via the western US, and will be better served from California. It&#x2
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by andrewf 13y ago
Aren't these the guys that tried to sue Apple for a quick buck around the release of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger? Sorry TigerDirect, I swore off you then.
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by andrewf 13y ago
Qt is reasonably separated into modules; I've deployed stuff that only depends on QtNetwork, QtSql and QtCore and all the other stuff doesn't get linked in (it's not even in the #include search paths). (I haven't used Ch
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by andrewf 13y ago
I'm really curious about which new (Windows 8-only) APIs are potentially useful.
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by andrewf 13y ago
I have this (it's available in Kindle format from Amazon), it's fantastic.
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by andrewf 13y ago
IMO it doesn't make sense to read code like this without a copy of the H.264 spec in hand. And once you've got that spec, why paraphrase a fraction of it, poorly, in the source code? I do think that comments at the function level
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by andrewf 13y ago
UberX drivers seem increasingly inclined to expect me to pull out the maps app and navigate for them. It is annoying. Aren't you the one being paid to drive? I have not necessarily been to a particular destination before. Even if I hav
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by andrewf 13y ago
Could you point me at this extension? I was trying to get disassembly of asm.js compiled by IonMonkey a couple of months ago. I had to run SpiderMonkey under gdb and disassemble the JITted entry points. (Or maybe I didn't...)
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by andrewf 13y ago
I think it's fantastic that you've managed to turn a long, hard optimisation slog into a real product win. Add me to the list of Australians willing to buy you a beer - but not back home, I live in SF at the moment :) I'm cur
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by andrewf 14y ago
The Creator folks have had a version with clang replacing their own C++ code model for about 18 months ago. Apparently it's too slow for them to merge in. :/
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by andrewf 14y ago
Can you suggest something better on Mac OS X?
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by andrewf 14y ago
Depends how long ago "last time" was. I first used Qt Creator in ~2009, it's gotten a lot better over time.
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by andrewf 14y ago
If you're serious about moving it's not dishonest - people looking for candidates for a S.F. role want you to appear in their search results! Maybe mention your plans to move, and your willingness/ability to interview onsite or remotely via
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by andrewf 14y ago
My watch-make tool tries to do this "properly"; it uses GNU make's --print-data-base to figure out which files to watch for a change. You can run "watch-make test4" and it'll only run "make test4" when a file which is in the dependency cha
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by andrewf 14y ago
Micro instances have savage CPU throttling with a little bit of leeway. What this translates into is you'll compile something biggish (eg node.js), things will seem fine for a few minutes, then the machine appears to freeze. * If you want t

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