portmanteaufu

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   by portmanteaufu 16y ago

   I'm glad that systems languages are getting a little more love these days. However, I'm a little saddened to see that no one seems to want to write a language that can also be used at the write-a-kernel level. Both Rust and GoLang have expr
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   by portmanteaufu 16y ago

   True! ...but if they could tell me that they had already tried X, Y and Z classes of rot cypher, then I'd at least know I wasn't going down a path that's already been examined.
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   by portmanteaufu 16y ago

   I know that it isn't practical for the FBI to publicize the approaches that they've attempted in deciphering this, but I'm very discouraged by the prospect of spending time on what might be simply redoing a small corner of a failed effort b
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   by portmanteaufu 16y ago

   Thanks for the tip, I hadn't realized there was a reverse engineering Reddit.
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   by portmanteaufu 16y ago

   I've followed Slashdot for years -- to me, it's a source of article links, whereas HN provides both links and valuable commentary. I suppose the real question is: "Is there a site with a community of comparable quality to HN that is less st
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   Is there an HN for the non-entrepreneurial?

   8 points by portmanteaufu 16y ago|9 comments
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   by portmanteaufu 16y ago

   "HTTP is an abstraction of Berkeley Sockets." Wait, what? HTTP is a protocol that can run on Berkeley sockets, certainly.
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   by portmanteaufu 16y ago

   I don't hear many people gripe about these issues, but I have two complaints: 1.) There is no way to mute / lower the volume from the login screen. This means that if I'm in a setting where I don't want to make noise (e.g. in a library, in
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   by portmanteaufu 16y ago

   I frequently have the single-pixel resize handle problem. What's even more frustrating is that there seem to be at least two pixels that cause the cursor to change, so more often than not my first click doesn't actually start the resize.
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    by portmanteaufu 16y ago

    You might also consider trying out Arch Linux. (www.archlinux.org) I moved to Arch after a few years with Ubuntu and I love it. It's a little higher-level than Gentoo in that you don't have to make your own file system or compile your own k
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    by portmanteaufu 16y ago

    I answered Python->C->Javascript, but I'll pretend I was invited anyway. :) Python because I enjoy it the most -- if I had to be stuck with a single language, Python would be it. Even if it doesn't run the fastest, its library set a