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   by yan 16y ago

   I try to work in non-interrupted blocks (ideally; don't always succeed) and check Google Reader twice a day and go through everything, marking things unread that I'd like to read later and catch up on that Sunday evenings. I check twitter e
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   The End of In-Flight Wi-Fi?(schneier.com)

   33 points by yan 16y ago|23 comments
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   by yan 16y ago

   Hm, that neighborhood is a few minutes from me. Some of the schools in that area are just foul.
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   NYTimes design director Khoi Vinh's new book on web design: Ordering Disorder(subtraction.com)

   4 points by yan 16y ago|0 comments
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   Let's Do Lunch(paulgraham.com)

   156 points by yan 16y ago|43 comments
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   by yan 16y ago

   I use it for: - creating quick and dirty proxies (nc > fifo > nc). (edit: you can also bridge udp->tcp this way, which makes proxying UDP through an ssh tunnel possible) - making simple GET requests (printf "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHo
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   by yan 16y ago

   If you love nc, also check out socat ( http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ )
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   by yan 16y ago

   Been wrapping my head around CLOS recently and has been really making me realize how OO can be done.
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   A Social Network Approach to Understanding an Insurgency(netscience.usma.edu)

   1 points by yan 16y ago|0 comments
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    by yan 16y ago

    I love the fact that the blog post is titled "Олдскульный Фотошоп", which transliterates to English as "Old-school Photoshop"
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    by yan 16y ago

    I only read about 20% of it before life got in the way, but man, what an awesome biography. I think I'll return to it soon.
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    by yan 16y ago

    You think incorrectly and having that assumption, you're exposing yourself to more risk. To assume Linux USB drivers, file systems and file managers don't contain vulnerabilities is to assume wrong.
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    by yan 16y ago

    Yup. When I saw it, my first thought: "Better project name: Digital Glory Hole"
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    "Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space(datenform.de)

    155 points by yan 16y ago|52 comments
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    by yan 16y ago

    That's really comparing apples to oranges. LLVM can compile to intermediate code in order to make code optimizing passes more generic and better-defined, to cleaner separate compiler components and phases, to better abstract multiple arch
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    Apple removes mention of white iPhone altogether(store.apple.com)

    2 points by yan 16y ago|0 comments
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    by yan 16y ago

    This looks great and releasing the source is certainly very generous of you. Definitely inspiring. edit: I'm totally cloning this repo in case you change your mind :P
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    Clang builds a working Linux Kernel(lists.cs.uiuc.edu)

    13 points by yan 16y ago|3 comments
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    Benoît Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry(economist.com)

    1 points by yan 16y ago|0 comments
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    Computer vision: Eye robot (Improving vision in robots)(economist.com)

    1 points by yan 16y ago|0 comments
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    National libraries start to preserve the web, but cannot save everything(economist.com)

    2 points by yan 16y ago|1 comments
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    64-bit types and arithmetic on 32-bit CPUs(eli.thegreenplace.net)

    1 points by yan 16y ago|0 comments
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    by yan 16y ago

    Clickable: Apple's Official Video Stream (Use Safari to view): http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1010qwoeiuryfg/event/i... Gizmodo Live Blog http://live.gizmodo.com/ Engadget Live Blog http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/20/live-from-a
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    by yan 16y ago

    Software engineering, just like other jobs and vocations, are just that to most people: jobs. You will always have some small minority of people that are going out of their way to attend user groups, seek out communities and contribute, but
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    Apple's Snow White Design Language(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by yan 16y ago|0 comments
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    by yan 16y ago

    clickable: http://www.hellobar.com
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    by yan 16y ago

    I think Ed wrote the first line of a function, not all of it. See the iterative solution in the posted article.
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    by yan 16y ago

    I don't think a function named 'power_of_2?' can be any less clear about what it does regardless of its implementation. There are ways we can keep the different forces happily balanced (intellectual gratification, clarity, well-placed verbo
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    by yan 16y ago

    For those interested in these types of problems and solutions, check out "Hacker's delight", it's a pretty amazing read: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201914654/
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    by yan 16y ago

    I can also offer "C++ in 21 days" which is a decent book, barring it's awful title.