davidbalbert

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by davidbalbert 18d ago
https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i... > No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 > I have a few qualms w
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by davidbalbert 1y ago
We do our dev on Linux desktops using VS Code ssh remotes from our Macs. Is this possible with Conductor?
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by davidbalbert 2y ago
I sometimes wonder if we’re just very advanced stochastic parrots. Repeatedly, we’ve thought that humans and animals were different in kind, only to find that we’re actually just different in degree: elephants mourn their dead, dolphins hav
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by davidbalbert 4y ago
You're right. Just compiled the following program with clang from Xcode 14 (Apple clang version 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.102)) without issue. #include <stdio.h> struct foo { uintptr_t p __attribute__((xnu_usage_semanti
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by davidbalbert 4y ago
The article references a few compiler extensions: __builtin_xnu_type_signature, __builtin_xnu_type_summary, and the xnu_usage_semantics attribute. I can see references to these builtins in the latest xnu source[1], but not in upstream llvm[
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by davidbalbert 6y ago
In response to: > Fun aside: I’ve always assumed this is why Core Foundation exists—to provide a common interface between Carbon and Cocoa. I don’t actually have a citation for this, though. This (very enjoyable) blog post from 2006 conf
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by davidbalbert 9y ago
I believe it will eventually live at https://github.com/google/xi-win , though I think the focus is on getting the Mac version working first.
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Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video](recurse.com)
750 points by davidbalbert 9y ago|295 comments
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by davidbalbert 9y ago
I don't take a ton of photos, so I don't know the answer to your question. Sorry :(
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by davidbalbert 9y ago
I had similar problems on my iPhone 7 when I upgraded to iOS 11. This included apps totally freezing, sometimes for what felt like a minute, with very laggy input, as well as other issues, like not displaying the playing podcast controls fo
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by davidbalbert 10y ago
Beranek and BBN both make an appearance in Mitch Waldrop's excellent book "The Dream Machine," which is in theory a biography of J.C.R. Licklider (who was mentioned in the obit), but in practice a history of computing from th
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by davidbalbert 11y ago
That scene you just described happened many times over the course of the past few months :)
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Four failure modes of Hacker Schoolers(hackerschool.com)
26 points by davidbalbert 12y ago|1 comments
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by davidbalbert 12y ago
Thanks for the considered response. I do think we could have done a better job editing Code Words. We'll try to do better next issue.
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by davidbalbert 12y ago
Turns out I'm too tired to do this tonight. I will try to do this over the weekend or on Monday. I'll try to ping each of you when there is an RSS feed. In the mean time, we'll tweet about every issue on https://tw
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by davidbalbert 12y ago
Fixed. Thanks!
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by davidbalbert 12y ago
One thing I think we could have done better with Code Words is added short bios. Bios add context, which is lacking here. Here's R0ml's bio from 2006[^1]: r0ml is an software architect and systems designer with over thirty years
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by davidbalbert 12y ago
Not right now :(. I will add one later this evening.
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by davidbalbert 12y ago
Thanks! I'm actually planning on writing more about what we've learned from anonymizing our applications and from our application process in general in the next few days. I think some of the things we've learned could probabl
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by davidbalbert 12y ago
I'm one of the founders of Hacker School. We care tremendously about treating people like adults[1]. If you think the social rules don't treat people like adults, you're fundamentally misunderstanding them. The purpose of the
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by davidbalbert 12y ago
I'm curious about what you find scary. Scary for someone considering applying for the job or scary because it says something about us? We put it in the job description because we think it's true[^1], but the last thing we want to
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Summer and fall 2014 applications are open(hackerschool.com)
8 points by davidbalbert 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
I do know Jake! "Fellows" and "fellowship" are really good choices for Insight, though, to be honest, I hadn't spent any time considering the choice until you brought it up. I almost certainly should have. I think y
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
OP here. After reading through the reactions to this post, I think the biggest thing I missed is explaining why we need a word at all. The primary reason to have a word is that we can have something to refer to ourselves (where "we&quo
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
OP here. Both of these words do a good job of describing what someone does at Hacker School. I think the reason we've shied away from them is because they can sometimes come off as a bit pretentious. Given how young we are as an organi
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
I do not disagree with you, though I think focusing on whether these things are qualities or skills misses the broader point that I was trying to make (that this list is a tool that helps me be introspective about the progress I'm maki
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
Author here. I might be misunderstanding what you mean, but if you're saying that these qualities are not innate, I definitely agree with you. If you want to become a better programmer, I think these are all things that you can get be
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
I'd love to see a postmortem blog post after the next class from both students and maintainers and what did and didn't work with the virtual program. I'd very much like to do this.
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by davidbalbert 13y ago
I probably could have elaborated a bit on this point in the blog post, but I wanted to keep it short. It's a good question though, and it's worth answering. One of the surprising things we've learned while running Hacker Scho
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Announcing the Hacker School Maintainers Program(hackerschool.com)
65 points by davidbalbert 13y ago|6 comments

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