jff

97 ms·

961.
by jff 14y ago
At least in my area, people start out programming on a Mac, get tired of the endless workarounds they need to do the most basic Unix development, then just set up a Linux VM. Then, when it's time for a new laptop, they just buy a Thinkpad.
962.
by jff 14y ago
I use Facebook, somehow I managed to get a federal job, even after multiple background checks of varying thoroughness. The big thing a lot of these checks look for is how susceptible you might be to outside pressure. Who cares if you got dr
963.
by jff 14y ago
> My own experiences with Facebook have been pretty disappointing. I ended up reconnecting with old friends I'd lost touch with over the years, only to find out that with the exception of exactly one of them, they all had political, rel
964.
by jff 14y ago
The word is "drivel".
965.
by jff 14y ago
I'm just sick of my OS trying to be smarter than me. It's usually not, it should just back off.
966.
by jff 14y ago
Ubuntu is, for me, Debian plus an unending parade of annoyances slapped on top. Mistyped a command? Let's wait 5 seconds for the prompt to come back because Ubuntu is going to search the repositories for packages that may match "friefox". W
967.
by jff 14y ago
That repo is extremely out of date. The lsub.org guys ( http://lsub.org/ls/nix.html ) decided they'd prefer to roll their own "code review" system, and the nix-os repo was essentially abandoned. Apparently they've recently decided to stop u
968.
by jff 14y ago
Don't announce your project until you at least have something going. The empty repo at https://github.com/kerlnel/kerlnel ? That should at least have enough code in it to boot something , even if it's just a "hello world!" that doesn't h
969.
by jff 14y ago
Why? Zen doesn't have anything to do with that symbol, IIRC.
970.
by jff 14y ago
I just wanted to point out that (hopefully) these Twitter guys were posting because they truly disliked the project, rather than out of misogyny as the GP speculates. It bothers me too when people here and elsewhere assume every single nega
971.
by jff 14y ago
Submitting pull requests is for code you actually consider worthwhile/useful. These guys didn't seem to think it even has a reason to exist, so why would they try to improve it? It'd be like saying, "Well, if you don't like my toothbrush fo
972.
by jff 14y ago
The majority of HN readers seem to have assumed that the author is male. I assumed the same thing for most of it, before getting suspicious at the non-joking use of "sobbing". I wouldn't be surprised if these Twitter posters made the same a
973.
by jff 14y ago
The 5-day drive across the country is beautiful, but it's still a 5-day drive :)
974.
by jff 14y ago
I'm pretty sure he's talking about Aaron helping with the RSS spec.
975.
by jff 14y ago
That's why you should learn nethack with hjkl, so you'll know about yubn ( http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Yuhjklbn )
976.
by jff 14y ago
We're not worthy! We're not worthy!
977.
by jff 14y ago
It's a clone of the ever-so-intuitive Mac OS interface. That's why it took me a while to figure out how to scroll, too, and why it looks kinda bad.
978.
by jff 14y ago
"Works for me. Ticket closed."
979.
by jff 14y ago
But if you get a prestigious mathematician, such as Gowers, to back your new journal, you may get some traction.
980.
by jff 14y ago
You can try breadboarding if you have a simple through-hole circuit. If things are SMD-only, you'll have more trouble.
981.
by jff 14y ago
I forgot about that part, I was thinking back to my experiences at a hardware startup. The battery circuitry was only a small portion of the board, but it was the most complicated electrically.
982.
by jff 14y ago
There may be an old TV in the garage which can take input from the on-board composite video output. Otherwise, it'll be $10 at Goodwill.
983.
by jff 14y ago
The hardest part is probably going to be power. A lot of the rest is just wiring up a bunch of components, which is complicated but not electronics-heavy. Datasheets are your friend. My first suggestion is to get a microcontroller like a PI
984.
by jff 14y ago
You're right on the rarely using them part, I don't think I used a single one. Thanks for the clarification!
985.
by jff 14y ago
Most adults are, by law, part of the unorganized (inactive) militia.
986.
by jff 14y ago
You probably won't be doing pointer arithmetic in C#. It's been about 5 years since I wrote any C#, but I don't remember any... mostly I remember it as a Java clone, which would preclude pointer arithmetic.
987.
by jff 14y ago
http://www.ce.rit.edu/research/projects/2009_fall/Wearable_C...
988.
by jff 14y ago
The input consists of voice commands and a trackpad on the side of the frame. It's not like you can't turn off the screen.
989.
by jff 14y ago
I don't think the camera will be always-on, just always-available. Continually recording from a camera is sure to be very draining on the battery.
990.
by jff 14y ago
An assault weapon is a legal term concocted by lawmakers who wanted to ban scary-looking guns. An assault rifle is a rifle designed to shoot lower-power, lower-caliber ammunition for use in assaults, as compared to the fewer, larger shots

More ›