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by oskarth 11y ago
A few months ago I went through xv6 on my own as an experiment in getting better at systems programming. I wrote a bunch of posts about it, in case people are interested: Grokking xv6: http://experiments.oskarth.com/unix00&#
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Saudi Arabia's Curriculum of Intolerance(freedomhouse.org)
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by oskarth 11y ago
Presumably you do it for Queen and country.
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I apparently got 50% better at my job last month(benkuhn.net)
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by oskarth 11y ago
I think this is the first post that's a DH5 on pg's How to disagree scale ( http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html ). Not only that, the OP is charitable enough to explicit state why it's not a DH6: Paul Graham
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Why am I saying this?(recurse.com)
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by oskarth 11y ago
Ledger deals with multiple currencies quite well in my experience, especially using a custom prices.db file. What is the problem you are having?
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How to import in Clojure(how-to-require-in-clojure.com)
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Popcorn Time Chaos Leads to Shutdown(torrentfreak.com)
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Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (2006)(googleresearch.blogspot.com)
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Adventures in Twitter Censorship [pdf](members.efn.org)
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Is Web Crypto Really Doomed? I Bet $100(sakurity.com)
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by oskarth 11y ago
If you want to get to the truth of something, you might want to entertain alternative viewpoints. Just because you are emotional about it doesn't make you right. Now you can choose to ignore what's happened in the last few decades
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by oskarth 11y ago
The downvotes are because it comes across as a shallow, middlebrow dismissal. An interesting and useful criticism would first engage with the strongest arguments of Rich Hickey (creator of Transit and edn). If you find something in his Lan
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by oskarth 11y ago
Your comment would be more honest if it started with "Things you can't do with GPL".
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by oskarth 11y ago
> Regarding Richard Glossip. I don't know him or his case. Please read the rest of the post before commenting. It's possible to believe all of these things at once: (i) An eye for an eye is useful and works. (ii) Glossip shou
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by oskarth 11y ago
Just to clarify, core.typed is just a library.
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by oskarth 11y ago
This was a much better article. I submitted it to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10226317 Perhaps the mods could merge/replace this (pretty bad) Wired article?
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by oskarth 11y ago
There's an article at the front page about WhatsApp and how they manage to do a lot with a little. Unfortunately, it doesn't go into much technical detail. I figured this article is more appropriate for the HN audience. This is al
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The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought for $19B (2014)(highscalability.com)
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by oskarth 11y ago
I'm sure you could do it in an afternoon, right? Just like anyone on HN can make a "basic CRUD app" like Facebook in a weekend. I really dislike the arrogant attitude behind these types of comments. Have you worked at WhatsAp
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Educational Mithridatism(zedshaw.com)
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by oskarth 11y ago
The satellite portion of the code has been open sourced: https://github.com/oskarth/netpowder Most of the complexity is on the backend with generation of jails etc. The repo has some instructions and rationale for thos
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Netpowder, a mini-server in the browser(experiments.oskarth.com)
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Open Source (Almost) Everything (2011)(tom.preston-werner.com)
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by oskarth 11y ago
In the paper Reconsidering Physical Key Secrecy: Teleduplication via Optical Decoding ( http://vision.ucsd.edu/~blaxton/pagePapers/laxton_wang_savag... ) they manage to decode a key from 200 feet away. Pretty cool
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by oskarth 11y ago
How much did you bet at what odds did Trump won't become president? Surely it's a wise investment strategy, given how certain you seem to think the future is. Odds are something like 15:1, so if you think it's 150:1 - or more
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by oskarth 11y ago
Trump is certainly not trolling. Don't underestimate the probability that he will win.
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by oskarth 11y ago
Great point. A good example of theory vs practice. I still think Xanadu et al are interesting, but it's instructive to try to understand what the real trade-offs are, the most obvious one being one of shipping speed.
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by oskarth 11y ago
> Quality plays a small role at best. This is simply not true in the long-term. Good technologies survive because they are useful. Of course quality is not enough to ensure success, but it sure as hell matters for long-term survival. H

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