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by mrmekon 13y ago
If I hadn't seen DJB's name on this, I would have read the abstract and thought "bullshit!" Now I just assume it's the most brilliant protocol ever written, and the source code is completely illegible :D
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by mrmekon 14y ago
It's completely reasonable to just e-mail him directly. Generally you would explain in the first few sentences what your connection is and how you found his e-mail address. I've done similar with good results. People are usually a lot mor
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by mrmekon 14y ago
If Motorola and Cisco and other big tech firms have no trouble producing ASICs, why would the NSA? You don't need to fab them yourself, you just need designers and a fab partner.
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by mrmekon 14y ago
GCC explains here: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cppinternals/Token-Spacing.htm... I can't find anything in the C spec that says this is strictly required, but that doesn't mean it's not in there.
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by mrmekon 14y ago
This is a frequently repeated oversimplification. (L)GPL is not incompatible with iOS, it is incompatible with the Apple App Store. It is fully, 100% GPL-compliant to release a (L)GPL'd iOS application linked to a (L)GPL'd library, as sour
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by mrmekon 14y ago
Howdy, I'm OP! Neat to see an old blog post on HN. 1) GPL/LGPL are not incompatible with iOS, they are incompatible with the App Store. I don't care about that. I was writing a GPL'd app, and I would be pleased with a GPL'd library. iOS
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by mrmekon 14y ago
We are completely surrounded by embedded devices, and their numbers are growing exponentially. Everything has a computer in it. You might be shocked to know the power that's in some of these devices... your cable box might be a quad-core
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by mrmekon 14y ago
As far as I can tell, it's a vague concept, and two "authors" who haven't authored anything asking people to help without really explaining any of the goals? Help with what, exactly? I fully support making more languages embeddable, but th
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by mrmekon 14y ago
I am a awful interviewee. Absolutely awful. I routinely bomb the simplest interview quizzes. Usually the early "weed-out" ones like FizzBuzz. I do fine on the much more advanced questions. I think part of what makes them more difficult f
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by mrmekon 15y ago
It seems to be more of an Internet Culture thing than a Software Developer thing. There's a huge industry of C/C++/Ada/Assembly/.NET/JVM programmers out there, behind the scenes. Many of them are working for big companies, and big ol' c
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Show HN: Tempest arcade game in ClojureScript(developer.mozilla.org)
1 points by mrmekon 15y ago|0 comments
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by mrmekon 15y ago
Short of an international software developer cold-call survey, all "language popularity" estimates are going to be weighted towards some specific community. TIOBE seems weighted towards blog/article writers, using GitHub et al. would be wei
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by mrmekon 15y ago
This dilemma isn't limited to iOS, or mobile apps. It's all user-facing software . Everything that ships to users these days -- traditional desktop software, web apps, even static blogs -- is much larger than it needs to be to achieve it
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by mrmekon 15y ago
My parents have been traveling to Costa Rica for their dental work for years (from the US). My dad usually stays with a local family through a language-exchange program, stays for two weeks, and takes Spanish classes at their local univers
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by mrmekon 15y ago
Seems like we all agree that USAA is awesome. In regards to him having trouble scanning checks with Chase: that sounds like a problem with Chase's implementation, not the technology as a whole. I have been using USAA's online service as my
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by mrmekon 15y ago
I agree with his suggestion that most code manipulating byte order is incorrect or unneeded. Within your application's logic, everything should already be uniform. I agree slightly less with "computer's byte order doesn't matter", differen
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by mrmekon 15y ago
It seems like none of the projects have much finding. Crowd-funding sites like this are likely one of those domains, like auction sites, where only the biggest few sites can really succeed. They don't work well without a huge base of fun
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by mrmekon 15y ago
Clone of the Tempest arcade game in HTML5/ClojureScript: https://github.com/mrmekon/tempest-cljs/
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by mrmekon 15y ago
Competition in this market would be great for motorcyclists. GoreTex is the trick that makes replacing a car possible -- riding in the rain is no problem as long as you have waterproof gear. But a full, water-tight GoreTex riding suit is
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by mrmekon 15y ago
Got ~8fps increase on the Tempest game I've been working on. It went from playable in Chrome, to very playable in Chrome, and still unplayable in every other browser :( https://github.com/mrmekon/tempest-cljs/
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by mrmekon 15y ago
That's a ridiculous question, and it implies serious problems with your company's procedures. I do a lot of "R&D" type projects that have no deadlines. But for the projects that have hard deadlines, my company has only ever missed one
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by mrmekon 15y ago
I work for a B2B software consulting company, here's a tip: For one-off projects, you want an hourly rate with a not-to-exceed. Always. Neither side gets a good deal with fixed-price contracts, no matter how nice they sound when you're thi
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by mrmekon 15y ago
My coworker from Chattanooga assures me that nobody would want to live in those neighborhoods, and that he is sending the list to friends and family to laugh about.
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Wardrobe Rights Management(mrmekon.tumblr.com)
1 points by mrmekon 15y ago|0 comments
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by mrmekon 15y ago
Not that I'm a designer or know what I'm talking about, but a few years ago I switched from doing all of my graphics work in The Gimp to all scalable vector graphics in Inkscape, and couldn't be happier. It's a different method altogether,
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by mrmekon 15y ago
I've worked for the same small cluster of entrepreneurs, who are all very close personal friends, for my entire career. If you cold called people I'm professionally related to, and not on my list of references, then changes are very good
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by mrmekon 15y ago
I'm an embedded consultant at a small firm of young guys. We use subversion, git and mercurial internally. We have project management tools, bug tracking and issue management, scheduling and time tracking and version control. We use VMwa
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by mrmekon 15y ago
I tried to sign up for the $150 TouchPad developer deal a few days before they stopped accepting submissions, but they never even responded.
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by mrmekon 15y ago
I would never give one online service write permissions to all of my other online services. I would consider using something like this if it were entirely self-hosted, and open-source. I already avoid single-sign-on; I would also avoid sin
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by mrmekon 15y ago
With smaller lists, the results in my test change: >>> t1 = timeit.Timer('copy.copy(orig)','import copy;import random;orig = [random.randint(0,255) for r in xrange(10)];') >>> t2 = timeit.Timer('orig[:]','impor

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