angusgr

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by angusgr 16y ago
It's ironic that I immediately tried to contextualise your opinion by finding out who you were, but your HN account is new and your pseudonym is anonymous. Although, if your opinion is correct, it doesn't mean anything that I can't look you
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by angusgr 16y ago
Of course not. I put it in air quotes because I couldn't think of a better word for "using google repeatedly to find out everything you can about someone" (referring to the process that I described, ie more involved than simply googling me.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Also worth noting that this process of "Google stalking" me only works because I have a relatively unique name. Doing it by email address might work, although most people make an effort to keep their email addresses away from automated harv
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by angusgr 16y ago
It would still seem to me like it would be context sensitive, in the sense that you want different information to hire different types of professionals and also that people put different aspects of their life online. To follow on from your
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by angusgr 16y ago
I'd say that this is still meaningless without context. Who is your boss? Who are you? Who are the potential hires for? Where did the names come from in the first place? If I'm reading your reply correctly, you're actually looking to write
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by angusgr 16y ago
I think because that's where the bulk of the community is for "greybeard unix open source" technology. The generalised answer, I would think, is "be visible or at least present in the online community that exists around your chosen technolo
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by angusgr 16y ago
Thank you for posting these. I just started a small project with Django this weekend, and this neatly answers a few of my niggling questions (like "how should I actually migrate data if syncdb doesn't modify tables?" and "how do I manage vi
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by angusgr 16y ago
I think that the answer to the first part of your question ("public face") depends on a lot on the choice offered in the second part "employ/contract/partner/supplier". Also, to a lesser extent, on the kind of work you're talking about (sta
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by angusgr 16y ago
That's not quite what you wrote in the original post, you were trying to suggest that you had no legitimate option and piracy was "the only way to access information". Whereas the truth is simply that the legitimate options took more effor
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by angusgr 16y ago
This is an interesting take on applying your own personal ethics to a situation which is still technically illegal. download a copy safe in the knowledge that you have actually paid for it, with the karmic bonus of having donated it to a l
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by angusgr 16y ago
Is it OK to "steal" stuff that is very hard to obtain in legal ways? With all due respect, I'd suggest you're just being lazy and looking to justify something that you seem to know is ethically dubious. Book Depository has the book for $1
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by angusgr 16y ago
In case people don't actually realise how historically significant these computers were, Xerox PARC invented most of the common UI abstractions that we take for granted today: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/software/alto/index.html (
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by angusgr 16y ago
Wall-clock hours penalize an article even if no one is reading (overnight, for example) I'd be interested to know what the hourly fluctuation for HN is actually like, on account of having readers all over the world. I'm in Australia, so y
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by angusgr 16y ago
I'm guessing from a quick Google that EPF is Malaysia's compulsory retirement savings program?
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by angusgr 16y ago
If you're writing in C then 8kb is really quite a lot for many applications. The ATMEGA168P in the last-generation Arduino Duemilanove only had 1kb of RAM, and the ATMEGA328 in the current generation has 2kb. The attiny2313 only has 128 -by
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by angusgr 16y ago
I actually suggested something similar on the mailing list[1] (static analysis & removal, similar to -ffunction-sections & -gc-sections in gcc.) That's when Dean pointed out his plans to not have the code objects resident in RAM, wh
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by angusgr 16y ago
Used book dealers are a strange lot. I never heard or saw of scanners, but when I worked at one we'd certainly look online for any book that we thought might be valuable. I think, especially at that time (2001-2004), the internet was infla
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by angusgr 16y ago
This is an admirable idea, but I can't help but think of the number of CDs I've bought at used record stores with "Not For Resale" stickers still affixed. Label review samples that had gone into the second hand channel just fine. Also I kno
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by angusgr 16y ago
It would make for some interesting modules in the mostly barren lib folder Yes, I think that's where p14p will suddenly become very useful (like the Arduino) - big libraries of (native code) hardware support easily strung together with de
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by angusgr 16y ago
How quickly do you think 32kb of RAM would get eaten up by PyMite? I think 32kb is the p14p recommended amount, and you could do quite a bit with that (although I've only ever used p14p on 8kb avrs, actually!) IIRC, at the moment >4kb
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by angusgr 16y ago
I have a vaguely similar story. A few years ago my parents found a box of Apple II books from when I was a kid. I saved a few favourites (my extremely-worn AppleSoft Basic reference manual, and a great circuit-level description of the entir
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by angusgr 16y ago
I'd really like to see the Netduino[1] supported. ARM7 power, more RAM, Arduino compatible pinout, reasonable price. It's on my list of "projects to try", somewhere... :) [1] http://netduino.com/
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by angusgr 16y ago
It also supports the Teensy++. (disclaimer: I did the Teensy++ support.) However, in both cases 8kb of RAM is not really ideal. You can do a few simple things in Python, but you run out of RAM -very- quickly. I had some discussions with Dea
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by angusgr 16y ago
I don't see why Google needs to reproduce manufacturers' meaningless marketing tripe on the summary page, rather than actually providing some summary-level information about each phone. You want a perfect 10, with brains that go to 11. T
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by angusgr 16y ago
Some of the simpler list comprehensions (like the student one two parents up) are fairly "symbol soup" free, though - and a very clean way of expressing what you want. OTOH, I can see how they could still be a hard concept for a beginner wh
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by angusgr 16y ago
Looking forward to seeing more details on this... I'm guessing an ARM build of Chromium OS' userspace components[1], ported to run on iOS' Darwin kernel? If that's the case, I'm guessing there could be a Chromium OS "App" for "normal" jail
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by angusgr 16y ago
FWIW, Debian is probably even easier than Android (less specific hardware requirements.) However, AFAIK noone has developed a Linux kernel to run on Apple's A4 SoC, in either the iPad or AppleTV. They would be a nifty cheap choice for a Myt
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by angusgr 16y ago
What lexing and parsing are, just a vague overview is fine. Better yet, passing familiarity with at least one parser generator framework. Most of the most horrid WTFs I've seen is people's custom parsing routines. Horrible to initially code
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by angusgr 16y ago
Some comments on this from two weeks back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1644192
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by angusgr 16y ago
I agree with your overall point, but I think your memory might be tricking you a bit. Mostly because the improvements have been gradual, and you've come to assume them. Your subjective impression of speed probably hasn't changed, but I bet

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