sebcat

39 ms·

331.
by sebcat 12y ago
I think that's because 1) it was submitted by gwern and 2) it's weekend
332.
by sebcat 12y ago
It should be noted that the sender of this e-mail is Poul-Henning Kamp, known among other things for another e-mail from back in the day (relatively speaking): http://bikeshed.com/
333.
by sebcat 12y ago
Have you reported the problem? Found a way to replicate it consistently? I'm asking because a lot of people forget about the participation part of F/OSS. You don't have to be a killer dev to make a piece of software better. S
334.
by sebcat 13y ago
As a user of libcares (which is awesome for bulk DNS lookups btw) I'll add that I've only ever needed one ares_channel per process. Having one ares_channel for every CURL-handle seems a bit excessive. This is probably the main pro
335.
by sebcat 13y ago
As a user of HN, don't tell me or others what's appropriate, thanks.
336.
by sebcat 13y ago
What people write in the article's comment section is certainly an interesting read. Irrational at best.
337.
by sebcat 13y ago
Why would a plane ascend because of a struggle in the cockpit? You don't just climb 15000 ft at that altitude because someone fell over the controls. Someone had control at that point. Had there been a struggle, a descent would be the
338.
by sebcat 13y ago
I'm apparently not supposed to cry at funerals and I'm less of a man because of my nationality. The more you know...
339.
by sebcat 13y ago
I think it's less about the skill and more about the development process. When your manager comes to you and want feature upon feature added to an existing project that once was written without any basic requirements laid down, the cod
340.
by sebcat 13y ago
Asus Zenbook UX31A (i7, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD), FreeBSD 9.2, C/Python/Java, svn, vim/Eclipse (no plugins) I'm a dwm user. I usually have tmux with two sessions side-by-side in one dwm window and Eclipse in another dwm windo
341.
by sebcat 13y ago
Related work anecdote: I was working on IPv6 support for a C code base running on a Linux appliance. Time came for me to have a go at the traffic shaper application. Was given repository access. Had assumed the whole application was doing t
342.
by sebcat 13y ago
I parachute, so I can totally relate. This is a GoPro clip (of intentional poor quality) shot by me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIsIqouBwo0 I've found greater satisfaction in parachuting than anything else I'
343.
by sebcat 13y ago
I think that would depend on how cURL is built, and not curl itself. OpenSSL 0.9.8 versions (still widely deployed) did not support TLS 1.[12], I think that was added in 1.0.1c. You can check which version of OpenSSL curl is using by doing
344.
by sebcat 13y ago
I've seen entire codebases riddled with method names that could've been taken straight from the latest sales pitch made up by Marketing. I think it depends on what kinda company you are. The more "sales-driven" (for lack
345.
by sebcat 13y ago
Sweden sent five JAS39C Gripen to Libya as a part of Operation Unified Protector in 2011. I was told that they performed well in the surveilance role with their "spaningskapsel" (surveilance capsule?), providing intel to the coal
346.
by sebcat 13y ago
Cambodia, not Malaysia.
347.
by sebcat 13y ago
1) drone failure causing damage to people or property 2) limited operational capabilities in regards to weather conditions. As someone who has flown ram air canopies in urban environments, I can tell you that 10mph winds of a building creat
348.
by sebcat 13y ago
Stronger labour laws in many european countries would prevent most people from getting fired for having nude pictures of themselves published on the Internet as it wouldn't be seen as a valid cause for being fired. A few european count
349.
by sebcat 13y ago
Another one that's quite bone chilling is http://www.heavensgate.com/
350.
by sebcat 13y ago
It's all a matter of what you're trying to do. If you have a nice test framework with good coverage and automated build tests running stuff by valgrind, you mitigate the risk of having memory leaks. Is it worth all the extra effor
351.
Are Agile Methods and Reusable Components Incompatible?(idinews.com)
1 points by sebcat 13y ago|0 comments
352.
by sebcat 13y ago
This goes against everything I was ever taught and everything I believe in. Do what you love. People will take notice. Your skill will improve. Your goal is self-fulfillment, not becoming more attractive to an employer or marketing yourself
353.
by sebcat 13y ago
Yeah, or you could ride a bicycle to where you're going.
354.
by sebcat 13y ago
Ah, like the good old days. There was a metasearch engine that was fairly popular in pre-Google times. Can't remember the name of it though.
355.
by sebcat 13y ago
It was also about securing Narvik, a very important harbor at the time.
356.
by sebcat 13y ago
This is why it's a good idea to use getaddrinfo and getnameinfo for IP address validation and normalization. While we're at it, use sockaddr's to represent addresses. in6_addr doesn't hold the IPv6 address scope/zon
357.
by sebcat 13y ago
If you compile assert(foo(bar) == 0); with NDEBUG, foo will never even be called. I've seen some funky bugs from this in the past, like people calling malloc inside an assertion... Works great during dev, release build has NDEBUG defin
358.
by sebcat 13y ago
They will throw their sabots into the machine and cry 'liberté, egalité, fraternité!' I don't claim to have any answers, but looking at western history you start to see some similarities.
359.
by sebcat 13y ago
This cycle usually ends too early though, sometimes at the first iteration, and the code will be pushed to production. Usually the spec is lacking and the customer (internal or external) doesn't really know what he wants. After that, f
360.
by sebcat 13y ago
Also libssh2, which is really nice IMHO

More ›