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by splicer 14y ago
> Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen? This happens to me all the time on my MacBook Air. The problem is that Mac OS X wakes up at the previous backlight level, which is often way
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by splicer 14y ago
I still have over a dozen Radio-Electronics and Popular Electronics issues from the 80s and 90s that show how to make all kinds of neat high voltage toys :)
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by splicer 14y ago
The purpose of using a hash is just to avoid running out of disk space. With enough disk space, you don't even need to hash/delete files.
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by splicer 14y ago
Here's another approach: Let the compressed file contain a hash (say, SHA1) of the original file. The decompression program then generates random files of the chosen size. If a generated file's hash doesn't match the desired hash, delete it
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by splicer 14y ago
Just post the original data file on the web, then have your "decompression" program download the file. The "compressed" file could simply contain a URL.
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by splicer 14y ago
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4933656
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by splicer 14y ago
I wonder if adding motion blur in post production would help.
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by splicer 14y ago
"People in eastern Congo are massacred to facilitate smart phone upgrades of ever diminishing marginal utility." It's not just smart phones; it's anything that uses tantalum capacitors. If, as an engineer, you can avoid using tantalum capac
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by splicer 14y ago
Also, if your version of tail doesn't support the -r option, you can reverse the order of the lines using the tac command.
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by splicer 14y ago
It helped land me a firmware development position at what was then a fortune 500 company.
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by splicer 14y ago
Thank you for all the wonderful music. My all time favourite Ravi Shankar recording is "Raga Bhupal Todi - Tala Ardha Jaital" off of Ravi Shankar In San Francisco: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TEPBFQ/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk...
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by splicer 14y ago
When I discovered a vulnerability in Mac OS X that would allow a unprivileged user to keylog every user on the system (CVE-2007-0724), I let Apple know, then kept quiet until they fixed the issue. It took them 11 and a half months to fix. T
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by splicer 14y ago
I wish there was another movie like Hackers. Accurate depictions are boring.
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by splicer 14y ago
I used roughly the same philosophy recently at work in dealing with a library that could block for intolerable periods of time (sometimes indefinitely). Basically, I used a pthread_mutex_trylock and a pthread_cond_signal to pass data to a w
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by splicer 14y ago
Look out Greenland!
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by splicer 14y ago
The Wolfram Predictive Interface™ sounds a lot like Clippy.
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by splicer 14y ago
Because my boss, my boss' boss, and his boss' boss are all micro managers. I've sacrificed too much just to walk away now. Once my code ships though, I'll likely set sail as well.
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by splicer 14y ago
I enjoy working 80 hours weeks once in while, when I get stoked on creating something new. What I can't stand is daily 10:30am daily scrums when I've been up until 4am coding. If you want to kill-off your employees' passion, I recommend agi
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by splicer 14y ago
Yes. I'm a programmer who happens to be an engineer.
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by splicer 14y ago
If there's a bug, and you have to wade through 10K+ lines of utter shit to fix it, WITHOUT causing a regression, you're screwed. The "black box" mentality works fine for prototyping, but once you've got a working prototype, you should throw
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by splicer 14y ago
One thing I don't like about it is that you often can't keep splitting chunks down to the line level. I usually end up having to type 'e' to edit the patch manually.
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by splicer 14y ago
My GF just found out a few hours ago that she was the victim of a similar scheme. Someone used her Amazon account (which has her credit card info) to donate to a Kickstarter account. Unfortunately, she has no way of finding out which Kick
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by splicer 14y ago
I think the reason Apple reversed the default trackpad two finger scroll direction is because they plan on releasing Macs with touchscreens in the near future.
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by splicer 14y ago
Most CEOs are also career criminals :p
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by splicer 14y ago
I disagree.
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by splicer 14y ago
Yes.
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by splicer 14y ago
> Linux comes to mind Linux is written in C, not C++.
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by splicer 14y ago
So long as I'm not forced to switch from C to C++ at work, I'm fine with C++ getting popular.
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by splicer 14y ago
My feelings exactly! I now do virtually all my development in Linux (or ssh'ed into a Linux box from my MacBook Air). I hate what OS X has become. The only thing I now find superior about OS X to Linux is that it runs Logic Pro 9 (which I c
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by splicer 14y ago
I'm going to go drink another glass of water...

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