samwilliams

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by samwilliams 13y ago
I have spent the last year developing an Operating System as my Bsc dissertation. In September I will begin a PhD, the focus of which firmly resides in OS design. I may be under qualified to say this, but I believe pretty strongly that the
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by samwilliams 13y ago
This is great! I have been using regexr for many years and I would highly recommend it to anyone starting out with regular expressions. I am surprised this has not picked up traction here... The redesign looks fantastic - good job!
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by samwilliams 13y ago
An excellent suggestion. I have had Zalman ZM-K500 mechanical keyboard since September and I can honestly say that I love it. It is also substantially less than $100 (£37) [0]. The quality is not quite as nice as some of the more expensive
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Linux 3.15 Should Suspend and Resume Much Faster(phoronix.com)
4 points by samwilliams 13y ago|0 comments
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GNU Gets In The Music Production Business(phoronix.com)
2 points by samwilliams 13y ago|0 comments
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by samwilliams 13y ago
Presumably OP just copied and pasted the title from the blog which actually has the title in caps (rather than using text-transform: capitalize). Nonetheless, this is hardly the HN way.
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by samwilliams 13y ago
Why on earth is this title in caps?
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by samwilliams 13y ago
Looks interesting! I assume it is US only for now though? It is probably worth making that clear on the sign up page :). Good luck!
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by samwilliams 13y ago
This is kind of the idea behind colored coins. http://coloredcoins.org/
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by samwilliams 13y ago
This made me laugh loudly out loud (LLOL?). Thank you for brightening my morning!
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by samwilliams 13y ago
Thank you very much! I did not realise that he had moved. Looks like it was maps and named funs - 2 pretty exciting features :)!
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by samwilliams 13y ago
Can you elaborate on what exactly that is, please? I don't see mention of any new syntax on the 'Armstrong on software' blog [0]. The highlights of R17 include maps and named funs, both of which add to the grammar of the lang
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by samwilliams 13y ago
Happy to help! I am certainly not a master of bash/awk/sed scripting but I do find the ability to express very complex file operations in minimal characters very rewarding :). You will probably have to alias the script[0], as cd&#
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by samwilliams 13y ago
I have a similar script[0] that I use quickly cd to projects that I work on frequently. I maintain a ~/.projects file which is a space seperated value file with pairs of name and location. Then I just use 'project worldpeacexyz&#x
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Erlang/OTP 17.0-rc2 has been released.(erlang.org)
63 points by samwilliams 13y ago|9 comments
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Poll: Do you download copyrighted media illegally?
7 points by samwilliams 13y ago|8 comments
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by samwilliams 13y ago
Yes
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by samwilliams 13y ago
No
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by samwilliams 13y ago
'I would prefer not to comment'
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by samwilliams 13y ago
Indeed! I suppose I posted this for two reasons; 1 - Hopefully some of our fellow HN'ers with relevant skills will volunteer some time and help out and 2 - These stats seem to confirm my own personal belief that the project might be mo
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Annual Gnome Bugzilla statistics for 2013(mail.gnome.org)
4 points by samwilliams 13y ago|4 comments
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FreeBSD 10.0-RC1 now available(lists.freebsd.org)
77 points by samwilliams 13y ago|40 comments
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by samwilliams 13y ago
It appears to have been deleted at 13:28. I was browsing Linus's repositories at the time and it disappeared mid-load.
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Litecoin nears $10 - up from $4 a day ago(ltc-charts.com)
27 points by samwilliams 13y ago|52 comments
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by samwilliams 13y ago
Quick note, the article is actually found in Nature Reviews, Neuroscience. I couldn't fit the full name and the authors' in the 80 character title limit. I hope somebody else finds this interesting!
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New victims of current drug laws (Nature; David Nutt, L A King and D E Nichols)(readcube.com)
1 points by samwilliams 13y ago|1 comments
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AMD Posts A Horde Of New 3D GPU Documentation(phoronix.com)
121 points by samwilliams 13y ago|36 comments
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by samwilliams 13y ago
...breaking the immersion that you have tried so very hard to produce once or twice a minute so you can pause and reposition yourself in the real world room. This seems like the biggest remaining problem for creating realistic VR games.
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by samwilliams 13y ago
Original discussion (as far as I can tell): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=693269
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by samwilliams 13y ago
Cameron said only yesterday that he 'would not stand by [and watch chemical weapons be used in Syria]' [0]. Now he will 'respect will of the house [and not perform the air strike]' [1]. While it is a slightly different s

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