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by juanuys 10y ago
Yes! I want this! The problem is that distributed systems can't agree on what the time is. Remember how Google tried to fix this with atomic clocks and GPS? [1] My hunch is that soon timing devices on distributed systems will reach ins
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by juanuys 11y ago
My favourite resource for these types of exploits used to be phiral.com (see Wayback Machine circa March 2007 [1], since it doesn't exist anymore), belonging to author Jon Erickson who wrote "Hacking: the Art of Exploitation"
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by juanuys 11y ago
Or Code 'em up a la Shoot 'em up?
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by juanuys 11y ago
Spacamacs is definitely the sweet spot.
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by juanuys 11y ago
Ironically, it isn't helped by the modals popping up asking me to subscribe.
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by juanuys 11y ago
This sounds great. Do you have any more information on the mechanical turtle? (consumer kit, or a side-project by an industrious teacher?)
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by juanuys 11y ago
Same here: https://twitter.com/opyate/status/428255757365018624
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by juanuys 11y ago
Podcasts (tech ones omitted): * Tim Ferriss Show * Seth Godin's Startup School (limited series) * TED Radio Hour * BBC World Service - Elements (in fact, there are a bunch of stuff by BBC and NPR you can't go wrong with)
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by juanuys 11y ago
Or, if you already have a personal website, why not just use something like FOAF [1] via RDFa [2]? (granted, jCard is ugly) [1] http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD
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by juanuys 11y ago
A related post on the front page right now: "Neural network chip built using memristors (arstechnica.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501119
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by juanuys 11y ago
+1 for the Bieber reference, and chapeau for the "this only scratches the surface" when it's actually quite fleshed out.
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by juanuys 12y ago
Heh, I use https://www.hnwatcher.com/
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by juanuys 12y ago
> The manual is also very good The acknowledgements section made my morning, thanks.
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by juanuys 12y ago
I'll be looking at pricing too soon for my business, which has to do with processing PDFs. I'm thinking N cents per PDF, or N dollars per month unlimited. I've set an HNWatcher [1] for anything pricing related (which is how I
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by juanuys 12y ago
For me, hackathons served these purposes: * learning how to get an app (MVP, if you will) up quickly * challenging myself to implement an app in a language/framework I've never used before * wider exposure to incubators The end re
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by juanuys 12y ago
My 2 cents, and somewhat related: everyone should read Josh Waitzkin's The Art Of Learning [1]. [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Art-Learning-Journey-Performance...
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by juanuys 12y ago
- long-term goals and milestones are Post-Its on my wall - short-term tasks go into something like https://kanbanflow.com - documents go into Google Drive (I pay £3.30/m, so get 100GB last time I checked) - I have a Synolog
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by juanuys 12y ago
EC2 cluster + Tutum.
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by juanuys 12y ago
Yep, they have a free option which I've used before.
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by juanuys 12y ago
I'm a bit of a pixel bender, so chucking a Johnny Cash up there knowing others will skew it :-)
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by juanuys 12y ago
Beware of cheap imitations: almost no vitamin A.
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by juanuys 12y ago
404 on http://cryptopals.com/sets/1/challenges/1/python
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by juanuys 12y ago
I think their Hugel Kultur [1] link was posted here on HN before. Great stuff! [1] http://www.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/
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by juanuys 12y ago
Make your lawn earth-worm friendly, by not putting chemicals in the soil (I think the article alludes to this).
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by juanuys 12y ago
Broken? "curl -i http://xeoncross.github.io/jr/" Content-Type: text/html.
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by juanuys 13y ago
Perhaps they can use their freed-up resources to nudge Google along with the Drive client for Linux: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive/?hl=en "Running Linux? Stay tuned - Drive for Linux isn't ready
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by juanuys 13y ago
On page 20, didn't he/she mean "print(count, name)" in the BAD example? On page 18, the Java comment: it depends. E.g. see [1] [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/299068/how-slow-are-java-...
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by juanuys 13y ago
The file name -- [B@58aa11eb.pdf -- seems like it was created by something written in Java: instead of printing the real file name, they printed the signature of the Byte array holding the file name data. See here [1] for a better-than-Orac
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by juanuys 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - remote - GMT (London) I've just completed a credit monitoring job for a client in California. Tech used: Scala + Play!, AngularJS, Amazon SQS, ElasticSearch, MongoDB. Other than that, I have 10-ish years Java and other s
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by juanuys 13y ago
My 1Password replacement using the shell: https://github.com/opyate/1Bashword Suggestions very welcome!

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