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by delan 10y ago
That’s neat! I made this tool for Unicode in general: https://www.azabani.com/labs/charming/
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by delan 10y ago
> corporate logos, octop^Hcat Only two logos appear in the entire pull request process, and those are the two small silhouettes that you see on every page. > CoC shoved in your face on every commit Codes of conduct? While they are bec
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by delan 10y ago
> free accident compensation New Zealand?
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by delan 10y ago
Full Speed has existed since USB 1.0 — it’s “full” relative to USB 1.0, where the only other option was Low Speed — but I agree that the name was a poor choice.
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by delan 10y ago
Why is it a matter of course?
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by delan 10y ago
Some of their other writing seems to be of a similarly low quality. Another of their pages [0] seems to mirror a post [1] that they had sent to comp.lang.lisp, where they describe their difficulty with finding out the identities behind some
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by delan 10y ago
“We absolutely, most certainly, should NOT ship libraries with operating systems.”
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Try telling me that the App Store has UI standards(kye.id.au)
1 points by delan 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Real mode demo inspired by CMatrix in 187 bytes(bitbucket.org)
10 points by delan 11y ago|4 comments
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by delan 11y ago
With progressive enhancement, Twitter could provide basic functionality with full page loads and the like, and use JavaScript to replace these with a better user experience.
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by delan 11y ago
That a person would continue to work for a given rate does not imply that they don’t mind working for that rate. There are many reasons why one might continue. They may not be trained in another occupation. They may not have the money to ch
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by delan 11y ago
If you only look within a given occupation, sure, the disparity isn’t as wide, but that fails to answer some important questions: why do the choices that women (or any given group) make result in them being paid less overall? Should they es
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by delan 11y ago
To avoid having to wait for some of the page’s resources to time out: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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Object-Oriented Programming is Bad(youtube.com)
15 points by delan 11y ago|5 comments
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by delan 11y ago
The effect of fragmentation on file systems on SSDs is minimal, and fragmentation is not related to TRIM. http://askubuntu.com/a/537211/1624
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by delan 11y ago
2016 is less than 48 hours away. Why is curl http:// | sh still a thing? Why is the Windows installer delivered without HTTPS, and does it really have no digital signature, or have I been MITM’d? I don’t know about you, but I wo
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by delan 11y ago
To see the page, you’ll need to disable HTTPS Everywhere for senate.gov, as the site’s broken over HTTPS.
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by delan 11y ago
That’s more true for Linux than other Unix-like systems. Solaris comes with Bourne, FreeBSD comes with that and csh defaulting to Bourne, OpenBSD comes with those and pdksh defaulting to pdksh, and so on.
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Why are we still putting up with scam ads and fake news stories?(medium.com)
9 points by delan 11y ago|5 comments
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by delan 11y ago
This article is based on Jakobsen’s master’s thesis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10713064
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by delan 11y ago
In my limited experience, rendering vector fonts is among the slowest parts of rendering text in a terminal. The difference between an xterm with a TrueType or OpenType font and an xterm with a PCF is noticeable.
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by delan 11y ago
It's only secure when used with TLS 1.1+ where it has an effective security of 112 bits. Otherwise it is susceptible to the BEAST attack, like any other CBC cipher suite, unless the client has been updated to mitigate the attack.
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by delan 11y ago
Probably fail spectacularly, as it seems to make modifications to the FAT32 data structures directly. A more generic fragmenter might interact with a file system via pathological file access patterns, but this doesn’t take that approach.
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by delan 11y ago
It can be difficult to let go of printf(3) debugging, but using a debugger instead can seriously improve your development workflow.
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by delan 11y ago
Just a hypothetical idea: what if the standard allowed a compiler to modify the format string during compilation, replacing e.g. %N with the appropriate conversion specification, subject to proving that a given format string is a plain old
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Show HN: Online IEEE 754 playground(azabani.com)
20 points by delan 11y ago|8 comments
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by delan 11y ago
Only a fool would take an outlet like Breitbart seriously.
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by delan 11y ago
“I find it offensive to suggest that people that I don’t identify with might just be having a harder time in my industry . [...] I don’t want to be inclusive and considerate of other people . But it looks like they [sic] only way to survi
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Demystifying Chris Roberts on Aircraft Hacking(medium.com)
1 points by delan 11y ago|0 comments
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by delan 12y ago
The loop first sets B, F, Z, D and i all to zero. Then it sets T to a new array containing one element, zero. The key here is that = is a right-associative expression operator which yields the right operand.

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