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by apankrat 7y ago
Lovely. Do you have any details?
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by apankrat 7y ago
The whole thing is in C++, but more in C-with-classes style. Very little of meta programming outside of STL, flat class hierarchy, etc. In terms of dependencies - just the Windows API and a bit of Native API, if available. No WMI, very litt
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by apankrat 7y ago
This is a long-running project that started as the proverbial need to scratch my own itch and then somehow evolved into a full-time job of the past 6 years. I thought I'd do a Show HN for two reasons. 1. I obviously want to show my bab
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by apankrat 7y ago
Bvckup 2 operates at the file system level. It has no API-level integration with cloud storage providers. It can be used to backup onto any virtual drives emulated by the cloud client software, which is, obviously, not the same thing, but a
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by apankrat 7y ago
Cheers, thanks!
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Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Fast File Replicator for Windows(bvckup2.com)
154 points by apankrat 7y ago|93 comments
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by apankrat 7y ago
I am a life-long Firefox user, been using it for at least 10 years. So not a trend, more of an outlier.
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by apankrat 7y ago
It's a lot of work and I personally don't needed, so chances are next to zero.
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by apankrat 7y ago
OK. It won't be compilable, because of dependencies on the UI framework and utility libraries, which I can't yet release, but it still should be very much readable and easy enough to hack into a usable state.
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by apankrat 7y ago
One man's "helpful additional features" are another man's feature bloat. Specialization vs. Universality and all that. I find that for a quick capture/re-capture grabs, with no editing, STF adds too many extraneous
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by apankrat 7y ago
Yes, among other things. This is 100% desktop-oriented app.
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by apankrat 7y ago
I am at a high-dpi screen myself, but I'll have a look at switching to rem.
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by apankrat 7y ago
I'd normally agree, but here the overall look and feel is meant to be that of a read-only list. Note-level menus aren't something that gets used to often, at least in my case, and having them visible at all times just makes the wh
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by apankrat 7y ago
Aye, thanks. The hamburger issue is on the todo list. Re: keyboard navigation - yep, I think it'd be a good thing to have. How do you see it work though? Right now, once a note is being edited, you can go up and down the list with Shif
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by apankrat 7y ago
PS. Since we are showing things... I also ended up writing a screen-to-gif recorder to make the gifs for the Nullboard's readme. I always assumed this was a rather involved matter, but it was a surprisingly simple thing to do. Just Get
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by apankrat 7y ago
Something I made to replace an ever-growing pile of scratch papers with ToDo lists for everything under the sun. It's a single html page, depends only on jQuery and a small webfont pack. It can be used completely offline, and it stores
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Show HN: Nullboard – Simple, light, locally-stored to-do lists(nullboard.io)
145 points by apankrat 7y ago|37 comments
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by apankrat 8y ago
Well, it's the return value in realloc(ptr, 0) case that is implementation-specific, but its behavior _is_ well-defined - it is expected to "deallocate the old object". My point was that in reality the behavior varies. "
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by apankrat 8y ago
Not sure why you are downvoted, but this is a toy allocator.
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by apankrat 8y ago
It's worth noting that realloc(ptr, 0) behavior is undefined. The vast majority of modern C libraries will implement it as return free(ptr), NULL; and it will be documented on man pages as such, but there are syste
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by apankrat 8y ago
Unrelated - are you accepting public pull requests for your AnitaFramework project on GH? From a quick glance there are some resource leaks and some such, should be easy to patch up.
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by apankrat 8y ago
For a hardware-free option let me plug my little weekend project called DNS Whisperer: https://github.com/apankrat/dnswhisperer It's been quietly spinning on our mail server for a couple of years and it works just
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by apankrat 8y ago
"Media wearout indicator" is a vendor-specific attribute. In fact, there are NO standard (or as the article coyly calls them "basic") SMART attributes at all. A lot of vendors stick certain attributes into same slots, gr
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by apankrat 8y ago
Pretty much all modern SSDs support an attribute called "Lifetime remaining", which is basically the same thing as the wearout indicator. It's attribute 231 for many vendors, 169 for several others, 202 for Crucials and Micro
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by apankrat 8y ago
There ya go :) https://swapped.cc/ From the time when I had too much free time.
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Show HN: Visualizing delta copying using a block change heatmap(bvckup2.com)
3 points by apankrat 8y ago|0 comments
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by apankrat 9y ago
Yep, Win32 API + GDI + UPX.
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by apankrat 9y ago
> Does that mean that your samples are a multiple of 1 MB? No my samples, but the buffer sizes in read/write requests are multiples of 1 MB. Consider when a disk driver would update its read/write counters - it happens when a
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by apankrat 9y ago
It started this way, actually. But in the day-to-day use it ends up being an embellishment, because there would typically be a string of read/writes that fall on the first pixel of every band so they'll highlight the boundaries, f
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by apankrat 9y ago
Because public build is not the same as the one we use internally.

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