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by paulsmith 7y ago
Would love to hear more about this - have you written on your experiences?
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by paulsmith 8y ago
Not tools per se, but check out the Bitwise education project, where Per Vognsen is coding an entire hardware and software stack from scratch, live on stream. https://github.com/pervognsen/bitwise
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Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 or newer(pauladamsmith.com)
163 points by paulsmith 8y ago|48 comments
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by paulsmith 10y ago
Who says CPython is not well-optimized? CPython is 25 years old -- people have been making it faster for a long time. Python 3.6, the latest release, has many performance improvements, cf. http://www.infoworld.com/article&#x
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by paulsmith 10y ago
> Go ecosystem is a complete mess. And yet, people manage to get work done in it.
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by paulsmith 10y ago
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Simple max clients implementation for a Go net/http handler(pauladamsmith.com)
2 points by paulsmith 10y ago|0 comments
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by paulsmith 11y ago
I'm not familiar with those statements, can you provide an example?
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by paulsmith 11y ago
There is an alternate stylesheet that uses more semantic class names and allows for replacing text, so literal state names and abbreviations can be used in the markup. http://propublica.github.io/stateface/reference&#x2
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by paulsmith 11y ago
How hard would it be to port this to x86_64? Offhand I'm guessing the alignment, register names (eXX -> rXX), changing any relative offset from 4 to 8, and syscall convention. Any other hidden landmines?
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by paulsmith 11y ago
At the risk of being self-promotional, there's another part of the rebel alliance of which USDS and 18F are the main players, and that is better technology contractors. ("Better" meaning, engineering practices and outcomes th
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by paulsmith 11y ago
Not only is it simple and does the do-the-one-thing-well thing well, which is true, it's also _correct_. It's hard to overstate how valuable runit is in production because of that. It does the right thing with regard to clearing t
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by paulsmith 11y ago
My anecdotal experience is that it's about ~1 sec. for a "cold" request, and on the order of 10s of ms for repeated requests thereafter.
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by paulsmith 11y ago
You need to innovate more, eh? Three words: Soylent Shamrock Shakes.
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by paulsmith 12y ago
> the technology and expertise exist to handle this harrowing future. It will require major changes in policy and infrastructure that could take decades to identify and act upon. Today, not tomorrow, is the time to begin. Someone should,
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How to get started with the LLVM C API(pauladamsmith.com)
4 points by paulsmith 12y ago|0 comments
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by paulsmith 12y ago
Trying to link the kernel with the GNU ld script on page 12 of the PDF, I get this error: ld:link.ld:5: syntax error Not familiar with GNU ld script syntax, anyone know how to fix this?
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by paulsmith 12y ago
tablestruct is a simple code generator that produces mappers for Go structs, so that they can be persisted to a database and retrieved from same. It eschews reflection and prioritizes simplicity of implementation and compile-time type safet
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Show HN: Tablestruct – Lightweight ORM alternative for Go(github.com)
5 points by paulsmith 12y ago|1 comments
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by paulsmith 12y ago
Not sure how fair a comparison it is but FWIW I built it and ran it (./cjpeg) over a few photos and got ~18% savings in file size vs. imagemagick convert at quality=50%
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by paulsmith 12y ago
Site looks hosed, is there a summary of what was announced, specifically?
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JuliaCon, first-ever conference for the Julia language(juliacon.org)
48 points by paulsmith 12y ago|4 comments
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by paulsmith 12y ago
Ironically, the "Active Record" concept originated in statically-typed languages -- look at the Java example code in the PEAA book, which looks much like the Go example code here.
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PHK: OpenSSL must die, for it will never get any better.(queue.acm.org)
72 points by paulsmith 13y ago|10 comments
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by paulsmith 13y ago
Is there a decent “Crypto Not For Dummies But For Reasonably Competent Programmers Who Have Thus Far Taken It For Granted But Want To Get Up To Speed Fairly Quickly On Concepts And Implementation” text?
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by paulsmith 13y ago
That's Naomi Klein.
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Announcing gogeos: a spatial data library for Go(paulsmith.github.io)
3 points by paulsmith 13y ago|0 comments
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by paulsmith 13y ago
How do you install multiple versions of Go on a single machine?
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by paulsmith 13y ago
https://github.com/tumblr/gocircuit
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by paulsmith 14y ago
A simple `tar -xvf` can replace the separate `gunzip` and `tar` processes.

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