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by yan 11y ago
Speaking of, after getting the third edition, I have the second version sitting unused. If anyone wants it for the cost of shipping, let me know.
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by yan 12y ago
More required reading on this topic: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.h...
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by yan 12y ago
If anyone is even marginally interested in GPU internals, you'd do yourself a favor by checking out John Owens' UC Davis class on the topic[1]. I once watched the first lecture just to fill an hour and ended up going through the e
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by yan 12y ago
eevblog is wonderful! During a recent side-track into electronics, I've been consuming all of Dave's (EEVblog) videos, all of Mike's (mikeselectricstuff) videos and all of Ben Krasnow's videos (Applied Science). EEVblog
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by yan 12y ago
A breakpoint instruction is usually a single byte in variable length instruction ISAs and the same width as any other instruction on fixed width ISAs, so inserting a breakpoint is just overwriting the first byte of an instruction and keepin
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by yan 12y ago
Zalewski was the reason I felt unaccomplished in 2005, when I read his "Silence on the wire" and noted he wasn't much older than I am. His separate guide on CNC is great[1]. He also has a great intro to electronics[2]. His fi
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by yan 12y ago
Some I listen to regularly: 99 percent invisible, planet money, radiolab, the occasional Nerdist podcast, this american life, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Dirtbag Diaries
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by yan 12y ago
We, as a society, put a value on MySpace profiles from 2006. Good riddance.
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by yan 12y ago
I can fully understand your sentiment, and to some degree emotionally connect with it, but rationally: my entire bookshelf of computer science and literary classics has gone untouched since my initial read through the vast majority of books
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by yan 12y ago
FYI: You can also cycle tabs with Command+Option+Left and Command+Option+Right and Command+[1, 2, 3, etc, with 9 always selecting the right-most tab] in the case of Chrome. With Safari, you can do Command+Shift+[ and ]
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by yan 12y ago
I don't really remember to be honest, I'm always on the prowl for new shortcuts (I rarely touch the mouse. Also, get Vimium for Chrome.) but it changed how I interact with OS X pretty significantly after I found it.
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by yan 12y ago
I live by keyboard shortcuts, and one that I use many times a day that I find lists of OS X shortcuts always miss is how to restore a window if it's minimized, or open a new empty document if no windows are active. Normally, when you c
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by yan 12y ago
I've been using and loving Splittr[1] frequently on iOS. [1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/splittr-cost-sharing-made/id...
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by yan 12y ago
There was also a great bit on last week's This American Life on anonymous gossiping on the Internet: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/522/t...
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by yan 12y ago
My WebKit hack from two years ago that splits the rendering area into N joined columns, such that you scroll content Up->Down->Left->Right. https://vimeo.com/59463521 The intuition was that screens are almost all w
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by yan 13y ago
It's probably not a fake or packed inside the chute, since he was under canopy for some time when this occurred. Low odds are not zero odds, but then again, it can be a clever April fools segment. Also, chutes are not packed with great
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by yan 13y ago
From what I understand, both dogs and cats have poor "static" vision but can spot minute changes very, very well. A squirrel has a very specific gait and movement style which they can spot very well. If your dog saw a photo of a s
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by yan 13y ago
I used to not really understand why GitHub being down sent people into a fervor, since you know, git is distributed and you can just work without it. But then just a few minutes ago, a 'brew update' failed because the recipes are
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by yan 13y ago
I'm curious, what languages do you consider impractical?
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by yan 13y ago
As others said, exit is where you jump from. Exits matter because not all are safe vertical drops, some are way more stylistic than others and in case of BASE wingsuiting, some lead to specific lines. A line is the flight path a wingsuit pi
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by yan 13y ago
What the article intended to say is calling free() on the same pointer twice is considered 'double free'. Also an issue with the c++ delete operator. Calling free() on NULL is a no-op.
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by yan 13y ago
Not the worst at all, but probably one I found most amusing. One of my jobs included some sys admin tasks (this wasn't the position, but we all did dev ops), among my other responsibilities. I spent half a day going through everything
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by yan 13y ago
I'm sorry, but I think the article's version is actually closer to the truth. Regarding stack arrays, while the compiler certainly knows how large an array is (of course it has to, you're using the length in the code it parse
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by yan 13y ago
Nitpick, OpenBSD came out of Theo's disagreements with the NetBSD team, not the other way around.
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by yan 13y ago
Whoa, this is huge.
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by yan 13y ago
I think this is why there's a distinction between "new" and "next-gen". ZFS still has a lot of features and concepts that make most "current generation" file systems feel like toys.
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by yan 13y ago
For those curious, this is inspired by vvvv[1]. [1] http://vvvv.org/
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by yan 13y ago
"Why don't they just make the airplane out of the same material that the black box is made from?"
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by yan 13y ago
For a similar, great markdown editor for OS X, check out: http://mouapp.com/
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by yan 13y ago
I also have a few offshoot tool prototypes and a current side project into code visualization that I'm building, also not ready for public viewing. Get in touch if you're interested.

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