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by i336_ 11y ago
Estimated ETA: 3-5 years Let's see how my guess works out! :P
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by i336_ 11y ago
>>Eurocom says the machine has a battery, which is a bit of a disappointment because it had previously labelled the portable power source an “uninterruptible power supply”. > The difference being? Once I'd taken in the specs I
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by i336_ 11y ago
Remember those silly cheap <$5 picture frames you find in $2 shops, or as a free bonus online sometimes? You probably have one lying around. If it uses an AX206 chipset, you can flash whatever code you like onto them with an SDCC-based
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by i336_ 11y ago
> I would like to be ready to offer interesting solutions or services in niches where most people don't think of working. This is a really good point; I was actually coming from the perspective of knowing where to look to find a[n
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by i336_ 11y ago
It seems to me that the technology industry is increasingly focused solely on rapidly moving targets that constantly change specification at dizzying (even infuriating) rates, and my perspective as a hobbyist outsider is that developers are
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Ask HN: What (obscure?) areas of tech are engaging, sane, and incredibly stable?
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by i336_ 11y ago
Seconding this; I have no motivation to feed the box my email address because I have absolutely no idea what I'll get back.
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by i336_ 11y ago
Ooh, new languages are always interesting to know about. Do you have any sharable things about the design or implementation? :D
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by i336_ 11y ago
> I once solved a thorny problem in some rather complex XSLT by adapting a technique that's quite normal in Forth, but would be considered downright weird in many other languages. I'd be very curious to know what technique you
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by i336_ 11y ago
1Gbps for the crawler totally explains it: I can see that doing 600 URL/sec. xD I didn't think of CloudFlare being able to see the traffic... and wow, I never even processed that aspect of their service. But of course... How good
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by i336_ 11y ago
Thanks for the insight. I have a bit of a side project to find out what forgotten bits of computer history "got it right," if you will, for various contextually-defined definitions of "right," so I'll either be seei
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by i336_ 11y ago
Ah. 2001 was... the era of HTML4, more or less, so it's still seeing the majority of page content, but... no Unicode. I see. I figured old data was uninteresting, but TIL that crawling data yourself is not impossible. I mean you have t
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by i336_ 11y ago
Obfuscated oneliners are where it gets really, really fun though. I love making these, because they can be edited and iterated directly from the terminal prompt, and you can just paste them from the clipboard to see if you like them and
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by i336_ 11y ago
This is pretty awesome, and the speed is great. I really like obscure search engines, because their (comparatively :P) tiny indexes mean they'll return significantly different data to what say Google or Bing would return. If there&#x27
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by i336_ 11y ago
My example is not explicitly software-related, but it's very very close. https://www.reddit.com/user/36055512/submitted Start oldest first, bottom of the list, and go upwards for chronological order (identi
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by i336_ 11y ago
What exactly about Bolo made it a good [network] game, in your experience/opinion?
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by i336_ 11y ago
I can't even figure out what language it's in, and GitHub can't either, but it's definitely nothing I've seen before. I think that answers your question. The code would necessarily be a full rewrite. All this would
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by i336_ 11y ago
Glider 4: "R 89.0%, OpenEdge ABL 11.0%" Panarena 2: "R 78.4%, C 21.0%, C++ 0.6%" Glypha III: "R 92.1%, C 7.9%" Glider Pro: "R 92.6%, C 7.3%, Objective-C 0.1%" GitHub, these are called legacy Mac OS c
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by i336_ 11y ago
Related question: What about VMware/VirtualBox vs qemu-kvm? Obviously its UI etc is much more raw - I'm curious how it compares performancewise.
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by i336_ 11y ago
Ah, glad I didn't presume it was a valid message! I've heard people joke about this kind of thing exactly this way in the past. But now my "technical breakdown info" box has no tidbits in it. :P I'm glad you're
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by i336_ 11y ago
So... you were doing a production redeploy, and it crashed? The URL "git://github.com/components/ember.git" [1] suggests this is an internal GitHub Bower build log, but your post history doesn't mention an
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by i336_ 11y ago
From the perspective of someone with the opposite problem to burnout - having been stuck on where to get started for literally months - this is a really inspirational anecdote. I definitely want to hear more about how the marriage situation
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by i336_ 11y ago
Came here to say the first line; +1
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by i336_ 11y ago
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by i336_ 11y ago
IMO, this is less interesting than the tiny little homemade screencast app powering the part at the top of the page. Its FPS is so fast I knew there was some magic going on behind the scenes, so I poked it. Turns out there are a bunch of JS
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by i336_ 11y ago
Idea from someone just starting to learn about databases (very green :P): - People request access and get an API key associated with a given load threshold, or don't use an API key and default to some low threshold - Anything that SQL
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by i336_ 11y ago
Opened the comments with the same sentiment, +1 Using an ordinary mouse with X11's standard acceleration settings I don't have enough precision and keep hitting the walls - it's so bad I can't get past the first 3 or 4 s
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by i336_ 11y ago
> While the job security was nice, I considered it a personal failure as I had made a choice that resulted in less flexibility for personnel allocation for my organization. Good way to put it, and point conceded (and filed away for futur
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by i336_ 11y ago
It would be interesting to throw this URL as far up the internal chain as possible... and see what happens. :P I'm curious myself, and there are a lot of other people who wouldn't mind knowing too. Fast AND trustworthy turnkey sil
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by i336_ 11y ago
Depending on whether the flights were stressful or a nice step away from home turf, that might be considered a feature, not a bug. It was a nice bit of job security, in any case. I also hesitate to say that the site in question deserved to

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