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by mierle 3y ago
I work on Pigweed, a suite of embedded C++ tools and libraries. A major focus for us is size optimization, and we've written up some of our learnings: https://pigweed.dev/docs/size_optimizations.html
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by mierle 4y ago
Wow, it's cool to see astrometry.net get put to use! I worked on astrometry.net back in undergrad and grad school. If you have questions about how it works, I can answer them. How does it work? astrometry.net uses 4-star combinations t
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by mierle 4y ago
Take a look at Veritasium's perspective on this issue [1]. Veritasium reflects on clickbait thumbnails from the content producer perspective, and balances that against the motivation behind YouTube's algorithms. His final conclusi
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by mierle 5y ago
The key to understanding ELF is that it serves three purposes: (1) Execution - A container describing how an OS can load and execute a binary (2) Linking - A container with relocatable machine code; for the linker to assemble (3) Metadata f
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by mierle 6y ago
Valora made it easy for me to donate to a typhoon relief effort - https://doni.app/c/36/ . The onboarding flow is well thought through. Valora is the first app that for me, feels like a crypto currency system that&
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by mierle 6y ago
If you're interested in self hosting and willing to put in a bit of work to collect data from your online presence for archival, take a look at Perkeep (previously known as Calimstore) [1]. [1] https://perkeep.org/
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by mierle 6y ago
Have you seen Saga [0]? They're an app for making private podcasts with people in your life but, it's free - they help you choose questions and then everyone can hear each other's answers. There is an app [1] for the tech sav
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by mierle 6y ago
It sure does [1]! [1] https://gn.googlesource.com/gn/+/8ce4e49a990c0579ca214ab7967...
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by mierle 6y ago
My team works on Pigweed [1], which offers a more terminal based approach to embedded development. Instead of working with Make, we use GN [3] as our primary build system (though we also support CMake, and plan to support Bazel). The "
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by mierle 6y ago
For those who are interested in the accounting side, I highly recommend Financial Shenanigans by Howard Schilit [1]. If you don't have an accounting background, all you need to get value out of this book is a basic understanding of the
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by mierle 7y ago
First, assume a spherical car...
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Facebook's Libra gets new open-source competition; founding team from MIT(github.com)
31 points by mierle 7y ago|2 comments
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by mierle 9y ago
I'm one of the founders of Ceres Solver; let me know if you need any help.
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by mierle 10y ago
I previously used KeePassX, which was great due to the multiplatform support. However the project seemed stalled, and I've since switched to the excellent KeeWeb; it's Electron based and is in general more modern. https:/&#x
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by mierle 12y ago
If you're using C++, consider looking at the Ceres Solver tutorial [1] http://ceres-solver.org/tutorial.html
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by mierle 12y ago
GoDaddy's Get Found does this; http://getfound.com . Disclaimer: I work at GoDaddy on Get Found.
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by mierle 12y ago
San Francisco, CA and Cambridge, MA - Locu is hiring Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers and Visual Designers for Full-time Locu helps local businesses Get Found. With a patent-pending technology platform that digitizes and structures rea
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by mierle 13y ago
No Ceres?
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by mierle 13y ago
Was there anything in particular that made you migrate away from GoDaddy?
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by mierle 13y ago
I recently went through an acquisition where we transitioned from Google Apps to the Microsoft suite. I do not share your love of Microsoft's suite. Among the many problems I have with the Microsoft suite, Outlook is at the top of my l
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by mierle 13y ago
San Francisco, CA and Cambridge, MA - Locu is hiring Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers and Visual Designers for Full-time; H-1B is OK Locu helps local businesses be found. With a patent-pending technology platform that digitizes and str
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by mierle 13y ago
San Francisco, CA and Cambridge, MA - Locu is hiring Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers and Visual Designers - Full-time; H-1B OK Locu helps local businesses be found. With a patent-pending technology platform that digitizes and structur
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by mierle 13y ago
Sorry, I messed up the link and can't change it.
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GoDaddy Acquires Merchant “Finder” Startup Locu for $70 Million
8 points by mierle 13y ago|2 comments
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by mierle 13y ago
Unfortunately most Google software is practically inseparable from Google's infrastructure. Open sourcing stuff is hard, mostly thankless work.
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by mierle 13y ago
Strangely, I can't reproduce the effect with a divide by 16. With GCC 4.5.2 -O2, I see a "shrl $4, %eax" for unsigned, and "sarl $4, %eax" for signed. However, if I divide by 2, the results are different; the function: int div_by_2(int
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by mierle 13y ago
Be careful: "x / 16" won't get converted to "x >> 4" by the compiler if x is a signed int. I lost an argument about this in a code review once. Look at the disassembly for the case that x is and is not signed if you don't believe me
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by mierle 13y ago
This card was my idea back when I worked on Google Now. I'm still proud of it.
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by mierle 14y ago
San Francisco, CA and Cambridge, MA - Locu is hiring Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers and Visual Designers - Full-time; H-1B OK Locu is developing technologies to change local search ($35bn advertising market by 2014) thr
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by mierle 14y ago
San Francisco, CA and Cambridge, MA - Locu is hiring Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers and Visual Designers - Full-time; H-1B OK Locu is developing technologies to change local search ($35bn advertising market by 2014) thr

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