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by jviotti 4y ago
One of mine: sometimes (50% of the times?) turning on my MacBook Pro for the first time leads to the Dock using very high CPU and making switching between desktops abnormally slow. The fix is to force-kill the Dock app, and make it restart
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by jviotti 4y ago
It is not defeat and you did not fail. Running a business is incredibly hard, and I think the entire HN audience would applaud you for even trying and give you our support.
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by jviotti 4y ago
True. The author might enjoy studying something like OpenBSD ( https://github.com/openbsd/src )
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by jviotti 4y ago
The language is only part of it. In my opinion, you would learn even more about C by consuming well-known libraries written in C and trying to do something useful with it and complementing that with some books, etc rather than just learning
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by jviotti 4y ago
Vim, and it probably saved me way more than 100 hours. I use for coding (C++/JavaScript), for writing academic publications (dissertation/papers) and for writing e-mail (through mutt). I've used it so much that it is second n
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Writing Objective-C iOS apps without Storyboards(jviotti.com)
2 points by jviotti 4y ago|0 comments
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by jviotti 4y ago
I'm a very terminal heavy Engineering Manager and Technical Lead at a ~600 employees tech startup. Slack is a tricky one and there are no decent terminal clients available, but I do a LOT of e-mail on mutt as my main client and could n
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by jviotti 4y ago
Congrats Alistair and Scott! This is an amazing story that made me remember my high-school days. As the authors, I was into programming from an early age, and high school definitely took the second place :) My grades ended up REALLY sufferi
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Performance testing through proportional traces(jviotti.com)
1 points by jviotti 4y ago|0 comments
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by jviotti 4y ago
While not strictly code comments, we heavily encourage very thoughtful commit messages. We manage a complex large project, and being able to read back and really understand the motivations behind subtle changes through commit messages has s
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Show HN: A tool to upgrade JSON Schema definitions across spec versions(alterschema.sourcemeta.com)
3 points by jviotti 4y ago|0 comments
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by jviotti 4y ago
I recently published a tool to automatically upgrade JSON Schema definitions across versions of the specification: https://alterschema.sourcemeta.com . It is a nice little utility that didn't take much effort to build yet se
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by jviotti 4y ago
Let me know once this is ready, so we can give it a shot inside Postman :)
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by jviotti 4y ago
The full example is sadly closed-source for now. That said, we are closely collaborating with the maintainer of PKG as part as the Node.js SEA initiative, and we hope to be kickstarting an experiment on refactoring PKG to use Postject prett
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by jviotti 4y ago
My team is working on this problem in the context of creating Node.js single-executable applications. While the naive approach of just appending data at the end of the binary works, it is not friendly with code-signature in macOS and Window
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by jviotti 4y ago
For some of the topics I really cared about, I wrote notes on my website. See the "Notes" section at the front page of https://www.jviotti.com . For example, here are some notes on Automata Theory: https://ww
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Ask HN: Which protocols and data formats are used for space communication?
16 points by jviotti 4y ago|7 comments
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by jviotti 4y ago
Hi Dimitry, nice to see you around here! :) This is really cool. How about a CircleCI orb too? Postman has plenty of micro-services with OpenAPI definitions that could really use this. My bet is that a lot of mature companies doing spec-fir
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by jviotti 4y ago
I'm building https://www.jsonbinpack.org , a novel schema-driven and schema-less binary serialization format with a strong focus on space-efficiency. JSON BinPack comes from my research at University of Oxford trying to solv
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Emitting Signposts to Instruments on macOS using C++(jviotti.com)
1 points by jviotti 5y ago|0 comments
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by jviotti 5y ago
You don't need to trust them. I use "pass" ( https://www.passwordstore.org ), a simple CLI password manager that operates using a GPG key you control (which I have on a Yubikey). Then, you can upload the GPG-encrypt
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by jviotti 5y ago
Exactly. The key is being a great engineer, and there are great engineers everywhere. I guess my point is that at least anecdotally, average engineers in Latin America are notably beyond average engineers in Europe and North America.
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by jviotti 5y ago
I think this article underestimates the difficulty of finding great talent in Latin America as a remote company. Everybody in Latin America wants to work remotely at foreign companies, yet few actually do in practice. I was born and raised
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Show HN: Paper discussing JSON-compatible binary serialization formats(arxiv.org)
4 points by jviotti 5y ago|1 comments
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by jviotti 5y ago
> “If this works, there will be an endless supply of these organs for patients who are suffering,” said Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, scientific director of the Maryland university’s animal-to-human transplant program. Which means we now think
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by jviotti 5y ago
I'd argue its more unprofessional to lend your Senior-level software experience and expertise to a dysfunctional org that does not want to make an attempt to hear you out and improve things than to leave after 6 months.
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Show HN: A curated list of JSON Schema resources(github.com)
1 points by jviotti 5y ago|0 comments
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by jviotti 5y ago
I'm curious of what was the original reasoning behind banning virtual hugs in the first place. It sounds too specific to have been done arbitrarily. I wonder if a specific incident somewhat related to hugs happened on an old thread tha
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by jviotti 5y ago
This looks interesting and as a non-native English speaker, I'd be open to pay for it if it fulfills it promises. However, the fact that it is a mobile app only is quite annoying. Why can't I just use this on my laptop? Some of us
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by jviotti 5y ago
While this is indeed a terrible thing, I fail to see a strong correlation to the fact that the attacker entered the building due to the keys being at the counter. That is a possible reason along a million more, such as the fact that the att

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