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by jvns 9y ago
I think managing calendar fragmentation is important! Added a "calendar management" section to the post to address this :) here are the strategies I use to keep my calendar under control: - try to cluster meetings together (have a
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by jvns 9y ago
I think on about 30% of my blog posts that end up on the hacker news front page: * someone refers to me as "he" * someone else corrects them to "she" * an extended argument ensues about whether "he" is a gender
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by jvns 9y ago
> In regular companies, you usually have direct manager, human resources, office manager, cleaning personnel, legal department, IT support, etc... It's interesting to me that you didn't have those! Is that because you were work
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by jvns 9y ago
I don't know about assemblers exactly, but you might be interested in https://wkz.github.io/ply/ , it's a smaller language inspired by dtrace. A nice thing about using C is that you can #include C header files
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by jvns 9y ago
My understanding of this isn't as good as it could be (I haven't read the spec for the eBPF instruction set in https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/filter.t... yet). But my understand
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by jvns 9y ago
Might not just be the browser cache -- I use Cloudflare on my blog and have a script that uses the Cloudflare API to clear the CDN cache when I update the site, but the Cloudflare API doesn't appear to work 100% reliably and I'm n
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by jvns 9y ago
if you have ideas about what Rust should focus on in 2018, consider writing a blog post about your ideas! they have an open call for posts right now. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/01/03/new-years-rust-a-call
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by jvns 9y ago
Thanks for the link to `call_function_by_hand`, that's super helpful! In retrospect, I could have found this file by grepping for 'When the function is done executing, GDB will silently stop' (the very useful "grep for U
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by jvns 9y ago
We don't run sidecar containers in cron jobs yet. That said, here's a workaround (from that issue): https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/25908#issuec...
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by jvns 9y ago
Hi! Post author here! I agree that it's really important to be careful of "shiny new tool" syndrome -- one of my primary goals in writing this post was to show that operating Kubernetes in production is complicated and to enc
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by jvns 9y ago
Why do you have to fork to get a memory profile? I don't know anything about memory profiling yet (I collected a bunch of links in https://gist.github.com/jvns/b81eb039f6373bc577d7dbdd978581b... but haven't r
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by jvns 9y ago
I'm working on surveying existing Ruby & Python profiling tools so that I understand what's been tried already. If anyone has tools/techniques I've missed, I'd love additions to this list: https://gis
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by jvns 9y ago
Dan Luu has a list of programming blogs you might like: https://danluu.com/programming-blogs/ . The rest of his blog is good too! a few of my favorite blogs: - http://blog.acolyer.org for fantastic daily sum
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by jvns 9y ago
fixed! I thought it was really cool that the DORSAL lab ( http://www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/en ) is doing such interesting and practical linux research -- I often think of academics as living 'up in the clouds', but it s
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by jvns 9y ago
should be fixed now (delightfully, I needed to get some new TLS certs for my site to fix this issue, and that took literally like 30 seconds to do thanks to the magic of Let's Encrypt)
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by jvns 9y ago
> you can simulate an 8-qubit chip faster and with more fidelity than you can with 8 homegrown qubits. That is really useful to know! At what point does that stop being true? like, if I had 100 qubits could I still simulate them faster
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by jvns 9y ago
> We’ve gone from single-qubit devices to fully-functional 8-qubit systems that are now in the final stages of validation. How hard of a problem can you solve with 8 qubits? For example, if you're implementing shor's algorithm
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by jvns 10y ago
We automatically generated all the results in this quiz from the programs on the site. None of the loops were optimized out, we ran basically a binary search to figure out the maximum number of iterations you could run in a second. Results
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Shellcheck: a shell script linter(shellcheck.net)
2 points by jvns 10y ago|0 comments
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by jvns 10y ago
I have been following up "awesome" posts with less-awesome posts for a few years now. It sometimes feels weird, but my experience is that sometimes off-the-cuff short posts are surprisingly popular, and that even when a blog post
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So you want to be a wizard(jvns.ca)
2 points by jvns 10y ago|0 comments
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by jvns 10y ago
I wrote a blog post about the process here: http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/08/29/how-i-made-a-zine/ I write them all on a 10 inch Samsung tablet (with an "S pen") in an app called Squid. Writing
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by jvns 10y ago
This zine also has a print version that you can print and fold and staple. The print version is linked here: http://jvns.ca/zines/#networking-ack . I wrote this in large part because I love being able to print out zines
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Instrumentation: The First Four Things You Measure(honeycomb.io)
4 points by jvns 10y ago|0 comments
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by jvns 10y ago
this talk "Consensus Systems for the Skeptical Architect" by Camille Fournier is also really interesting! http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/61483409
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by jvns 10y ago
I wrote a blog post yesterday about switching to Hugo from Jekyll: http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/10/09/switching-to-hugo/ I mostly did it because it's faster and sometimes I like to waste time micro
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How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps(medium.com)
3 points by jvns 10y ago|0 comments
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A swiss army knife of debugging tools(jvns.ca)
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by jvns 10y ago
for the algebra classes: there are complete course notes for all of them at http://www.math.mcgill.ca/goren/courses.html . I took 3 algebra classes from him and it was great. very roughly: 1. groups & rings, 2. line
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by jvns 10y ago
How I got a CS degree without learning what a system call is: http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/09/12/how-i-got-a-cs-degree-without...

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