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by latitude 14y ago
Yep, Sunday had the highest number of pingbacks. It's actually reasonable. This is an opt-in mailing list and subscribers are generally interested in the project, so if they are hit with a relevant update on their free time, they will res
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No Emails on Saturdays(swapped.tumblr.com)
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by latitude 14y ago
Try and add support for detecting piped input on the server side: bcp < filename because this would allow for things like cat filename | gzip | bcp with the receiving end doing bcp | gunzip > filename Keep it as
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by latitude 14y ago
I wrote an extension that does just that - http://swapped.cc/iip HN thread from 6 months ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4373959 (edit) I should also add that I pitched the idea to pg about a year ago, never heard anything bac
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by latitude 14y ago
Does WebRTC have any sort of extension mechanism whereby I can drop in my own version of NAT traversal logic? Speaking from past experience, STUN and ICE are OK, but they got the whole process fundamentally wrong. They let the clients drive
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by latitude 14y ago
I ran into this in the domain of networking. Trying to deduce one-way path latency from the round-trip time ("ping") is impossible without further assumptions. You basically cannot understand if you are on a wire connection or if your uplin
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by latitude 14y ago
WOFF is a result of font foundries and online font services pressuring W3C to produce a browser-only font format. Something that cannot be save-as'd and dragged into the C:\Windows\Fonts. It is indeed somewhat optimized for the web use, but
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by latitude 14y ago
I just went through a process of @font-facing a website for one of my projects and I have several things to add: 1. Don't bother with direct font editing. Instead use a vector editor like Inkscape [1] to save your icons as SVG and then conv
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Got two domains expiring tomorrow - libzero.com, libzero.net - up for adoption
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by latitude 14y ago
No, that's not the same. Having a 5.x.x.x address assigned to your machine doesn't make all Internet traffic for that address go to your box. You either don't understand the concept of routing domains or you just feel like trashing Hamachi
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by latitude 14y ago
I'm not involved with Hamachi anymore, so I took what they told me privately about IPv6 at face value. I know the work on it started back in '09 and there were some v6-related bugfixes referenced in the release notes. WRT 100.64.x.x. - back
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by latitude 14y ago
The idea with protocol was always to keep the handshake/authentication part open, but don't commit to the details of the application client-server messaging. To that end the protocol spec for the original version was available from the mome
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by latitude 14y ago
It wasn't a "gaming thing". It was indeed widely used in gaming circles, but gamers weren't really the target market I designed it for. They just happened to come along in droves, because I added support for network broadcasts and that made
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by latitude 14y ago
They switch to IPv6 a while ago. That's one. Two - the idea to use 5.x/8 came through me and it dates back to a dot-bubble era managed VPN company I worked for, called eTunnels. These addresses are used for routing inside of virtual network
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by latitude 14y ago
It's really good. Though I wrote the damn thing, so I'm probably biased.
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by latitude 14y ago
This is a part of a custom malloc(). The test involves running p = malloc(); free(p); in a tight loop for 5 seconds, generating about 60,000,000 traversals of the code in question. The slower version yields a loop count of around 67,
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by latitude 14y ago
> ... also, have you considered pointer arithmetic? Good point. Tried it and makes no difference. Looking at the assembly, it appears that the difference in performance lies in the prolog code for the loop rather than in the loop itse
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by latitude 14y ago
No, no changes before or after or anywhere else. Just that one line. I have written my share of hand-optimized assembly, but this is just an optimizer peculiarity. I am not after trying to understand why it happened, and I was making a joke
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by latitude 14y ago
I guess everyone has ran into something like this at some point in time. Care to share? What's the most bizarre optimization quirks you've seen?
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Novel Optimization Technique(swapped.tumblr.com)
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by latitude 14y ago
w = vv = v2 and it's one symbol shorter. What's not to like?
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by latitude 14y ago
Journal is a good word. Though I noticed that it's less of "how did I do it" for me and more of "look how much has already been done, so just few more pushes..." kind of benefit.
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by latitude 14y ago
Yep, it's Dina. Also note the website it is hosted on - DonationCoder. Arguably, this is one of the nicest communities that revolves around software and development. I can't compliment it enough, got a ton of useful feedback there, always
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by latitude 14y ago
Yeah, it's mine. Take a look at my personal site if you liked this one (link's in the profile). The "how" is just few years of messing with the visual design as a hobby. The good old trial and error :)
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by latitude 14y ago
I wish I could claim it as my invention, but I saw it in a collection of loading indicators on zanstra.com. Unfortunately the site is now gone, so I don't even know guy's name. By the way, here it is in JS - http://codepen.io/anon/pen/pijd
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by latitude 14y ago
I have this smaller project that I am pouring some of my free time in, and I am trying different options for motivating myself to finish it. This is the latest take on it - try and post what I've done last in a form of a screenshot and a co
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Show HN: My Experimental "Dev Blog" For A Pet Project(bvckup2.com)
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(Wanted) Extended default arguments in C++(swapped.tumblr.com)
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by latitude 14y ago
I'd like to claim the invention of the use of V in the software domain. I have a pet project called Bvckup that dates back to 2009 and I am pretty sure I was the first one to mangle a software product name that way. Otherwise the medal go
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by latitude 14y ago
Writing a Brainfuck interpreter is a superb optimization exercise. Basic version is trivial to write, and in 2-3 iterations it's possible to get speed ups of 100x or more. If you haven't tried it, I would highly recommended it as a brain st

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