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by yan 17y ago
If you're just interested in finding a hobby (and not 100% set on photography), check out this post I submitted a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=862139 .
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by yan 17y ago
A line my 63 year old dad recently told me: "People spend first half of their lives spending health to earn money, and the second half of their lives spending money to recover their health"
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by yan 17y ago
Since we're chiming in on possible solutions, why not do the most general thing first? Check memory usage of the system and process right before segfault, check environment variables that govern malloc behavior (i.e. MALLOC_OPTIONS, OS X-sp
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by yan 17y ago
The way I thought about it, concurrent access to objects allocated via alloca() would probably not be explicitly protected by a lock. Threads can also be killed and spawned while other threads are accessing its stack contents. Anyway, I can
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by yan 17y ago
The more I stare at that question, the more I can't figure out if you mean the obvious or the subtle pitfalls of alloca(). Off the top of my head, some of the potential "evils" I can come up with is: automatic deallocation after the functio
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by yan 17y ago
This helps people in your vicinity have a unique data point when using geolocation technologies that are powered by SSIDs of wifi networks. Seriously though, I doubt it adds much, even in obscurity.
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by yan 17y ago
This is a bad interview question for another reason -- I don't consider myself to be a good C++ developer and I answered it correctly. This is only because I reversed enough C++ code to understand how memory allocation, vtables and compilat
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by yan 17y ago
If the URL is identical to one that has already been submitted, your submission will count as an up-vote to the original post.
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by yan 17y ago
I think the TextMate theme that's popular in webcasts is Vibrant Ink: http://alternateidea.com/blog/articles/2006/01/03/textmate-v... I use a clone of it for vim called Vivid Chalk: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1891
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by yan 17y ago
The news of open sourcing of the platform and etherpad has seriously made my day.
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by yan 17y ago
Wow seeing "Beej's" made me feel nostalgic.
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by yan 17y ago
Looks awesome. Seems to be sourced from Last.fm. Also, don't miss: map of movies: http://www2.research.att.com/~yifanhu/MovieMap/index.html map of tv: http://www2.research.att.com/~yifanhu/TVMap/index.html and map of books: http://www2
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by yan 17y ago
Just curious, how old are you?
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by yan 17y ago
Anyone know if more information will be released on the algorithms they use(d)?
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by yan 17y ago
This isn't just any brain, it's HM's brain[1], who possibly contributed more to neuroscience than any other single patient. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_(patient)
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by yan 17y ago
> Academia penalizes ideas that cannot be easily evaluated in a scientific way. Isn't that the point?
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by yan 17y ago
> Shoppers have dealt with counting out money for millenia. People have also worked 16 hour days to feed their families for millenia; no one's going to do that now. The amount of effort something takes almost always decreases. > The
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by yan 17y ago
Entering an amount per transaction might be burdensome to the average consumer, which has a great time with just swiping cards and having all their transactions insured by the credit card company. Having a bulky keypad and a higher barrier
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by yan 17y ago
The comment is added information; nothing more, nothing less.
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by yan 17y ago
They also have a github repo up: http://github.com/square
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Eko: A Traffic Light Augmented by Progress Bars(infosthetics.com)
5 points by yan 17y ago|2 comments
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The Psychology of Being Scammed(schneier.com)
1 points by yan 17y ago|0 comments
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by yan 17y ago
I will be glad to help, but I'm not sure if my area of expertise is interesting or useful to you.
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by yan 17y ago
This reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend of mine. I was ranting to him how I didn't feel good enough in any single pursuit and was upset at having so many hobbies and side-interests diluting my ability to be much better at any
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by yan 17y ago
I guess I'll know what site I'll be refreshing at 10:58am EST.. I bought ~$200 worth of stuff from Sparkfun earlier this year and they were a pleasure to deal with. Great company!
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by yan 17y ago
Ah I miss Ze's "the show." A lot of great videos from a man who never seems to run out of great ideas and topics. I'd highly recommend hitting on "popular shows" and going down the list. He thinks a lot about creativity and creating commu
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by yan 17y ago
"Understanding the Linux Kernel" from o'reilly goes into a surprising amount of detail not only from the OS's point of view, but also the architecture it's running on and the memory management unit. It's approachable and is not light on det
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by yan 17y ago
Reminds me of a rant from a friend of mine who used to work in a recording studio. "You should see the 20 meters of grimy, oxidized and plain cable under the raised floor tiles that the signal travels from a musicians guitar or mic to the r
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by yan 17y ago
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by yan 17y ago
vimeo is also nice.

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