cookrn

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   GSL – a Universal Code Generator(github.com)

   102 points by cookrn 10y ago|28 comments
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   by cookrn 10y ago

   Hashicorp has created HCL https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl
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   by cookrn 10y ago

   I think this may have been due to the railroad land grants originally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboarding_(land)
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   by cookrn 10y ago

   I wonder if it was an issue with their Maglevs[0]? [0] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub44824.html
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   by cookrn 11y ago

   What if such a system was implemented using IPFS[0] (or similar) for storage? [0] https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
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   by cookrn 11y ago

   Note, this was published in 2007.
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   by cookrn 11y ago

   Feel free to contact me if you're interested in selling it :D (details are in profile)
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   by cookrn 11y ago

   Zaurus [1] handhelds of the SL-C3(0|1|2)00 models occasionally come up on eBay and support OpenBSD [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus [2] http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html
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   by cookrn 11y ago

   Here are more details on the Jefferson reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Liberty
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    by cookrn 11y ago

    I believe the link you pointed to is for work specific to JRuby, while the OP is specific to MRI.
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    by cookrn 11y ago

    Loveland is the successor to http://whydontweownthis.com which was one of the original interactive maps of urban blight by parcel in Detroit. It seems that they offer similar information and mapping nationwide now.
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    by cookrn 11y ago

    Yep! NZ is also visible in http://www.dominik-schwarz.net/potpourri/worldmap/images/DSC...
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    by cookrn 11y ago

    Totally true -- I reread the comment just now and it definitely feels OT in retrospect. The moral of the story? I like my Thinkpad :D
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    by cookrn 11y ago

    Really great to read through this. I'm a first-time Thinkpad owner and purchased an X230T [0]. I immediately installed Ubuntu 14.10 and moved all development into virtual machines and things have been fairly smooth. Owning a less svelt
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    by cookrn 11y ago

    Based on what I've read, it seems like Chris should transfer the repository back to Gorhill and make a new fork with his desired changes. On a side note, if Gorhill wanted to transfer the repository to an empowered* group of contributo
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    by cookrn 12y ago

    Using Lambda has been a really fun experience. The abstraction takes a lot of cognitive load off the developer, which I found valuable. The biggest challenge I had was around logging. The CloudWatch web interface for Lambda events was defin
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    by cookrn 12y ago

    I wonder if it would be possible to configure this gem with "environments" in the same way that Rails applications have environments. Then, in development/test/CI-like environments, very strict checking could be applied
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    by cookrn 12y ago

    This was posted yesterday as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9332097
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    by cookrn 12y ago

    I thought this project was interesting because it was created as a follow-up to 0MQ with the changes long discussed on the author's blog. * http://250bpm.com/blog:4 (Why I should have written 0MQ in C instead of C++ Pa
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    Nanomsg – Building Blocks for Distributed Messaging(nanomsg.org)

    6 points by cookrn 12y ago|1 comments
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    by cookrn 12y ago

    See: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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    by cookrn 12y ago

    JXcore, for those who are unaware (like I was), is a multithreaded fork of Node.js. http://jxcore.com/home/
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    by cookrn 12y ago

    You can compare imagery from many of the various providers for any location in the world using https://imagehunter.apollomapping.com/ (Disclosure: I'm a contractor for Apollo Mapping, but not incentivized to help them
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    by cookrn 12y ago

    I think one of Om's earliest blogs (may have even been an acquisition) was about being a digital nomad. I was just getting in to tech/startup news at the time and for whatever reason, that one stuck out to me. (Can anyone find a l
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    Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (2009)(aaronsw.com)

    271 points by cookrn 12y ago|137 comments
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    by cookrn 12y ago

    Aaron Swartz thought we should read djb's code: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/djb I haven't gotten to it yet, but hope to!
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    by cookrn 12y ago

    Here is more information on the concurrency-related features of SQLite to complement teraflop's sibling comment: http://sqlite.org/threadsafe.html
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    by cookrn 12y ago

    Thinking out "loud": 1) How does transparent server-side rendering of Ember change the role of what was the server-side app before? Are you now managing a separate server environment for your Node Ember application? 2) Does this a
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    by cookrn 12y ago

    A Ruby implementation called Vines [0] [1] might be interesting to try out. [0] http://www.getvines.org/ [1] https://github.com/negativecode/vines
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    by cookrn 12y ago

    One of the "world's oldest continuously ongoing independent company" [0] also hails from Japan, although it became a subsidiary of another company awhile back [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D_