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by elderK 1y ago
I agree with your posts. I've been battling RSI and stuff for the past two years and am starting to make progress although it's required me to get both of my wrists fixed and potentially both of my elbows in the future. It's
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by elderK 5y ago
Thanks for answering, ggm. I agree with you completely and have passed your advice on to my friend. My view is that if it's something he's genuinely interested in, he should go for it.
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Ask HN: Too Late to Get into Cybersecurity?
1 points by elderK 5y ago|3 comments
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by elderK 7y ago
You beat me to it! I'd recommend checking out Chicken Scheme. Not only is it a kick-butt implementation but its community, #chicken on Freenode, is truly fantastic. Give it a whirl :)
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by elderK 7y ago
Man, does this bring back memories :)
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by elderK 7y ago
Me too!
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by elderK 7y ago
How about this? It's even freely available nowadays: https://www.amazon.com/Common-LISP-Introduction-Computation-...
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by elderK 7y ago
I've read many of the comments. Lots of talk about removing the parenthesis, using things like Tree-Notation and such. Really, all I can say is that you can pry the parens from my cold, dead, cantankerous hands. :P Maybe it's beca
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by elderK 7y ago
As someone who has a pretty serious visual impairment, I find the attitude of so many of these comments really... disappointing. You wouldn't believe how much effort people with poor vision have to go to, to consume the modern web. You
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by elderK 7y ago
Thanks for posting this. I've been wondering about how assemblers handle this for a very long time :)
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by elderK 7y ago
Drive-by poster here but I was wondering if you had spent any time looking into what IO scheduler you're using on Linux? Some time ago I encountered issues similar to what you mention in your posts. I solved it selecting the "Dead
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by elderK 8y ago
You're assuming everyone is able to read text at the same font size as you. The font size will likely be increased during a code review, too, depending on how the code is presented to your team.
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by elderK 8y ago
Man, I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for these visualizations. Extremely useful learning aids :) I remember back in the day when they were Java applets :)
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by elderK 8y ago
A metric @!#$ton? :D
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by elderK 8y ago
:) Care to elaborate? I mean, as far as I see it, the directory is still a file, of a specific format. How is that any different than an image file, say, of a particular format? You still need specialized programs in order to manipulate the
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by elderK 8y ago
I don't see how providing specialized open/read/close calls for directories breaks the file abstraction. Imagine byte-level access to a directory. You'd have to have some library in userspace that would correctly be able
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by elderK 8y ago
That's not to say it's implemented as efficiently as it could be. See here: https://linux.die.net/man/7/aio AFAIK, system-specific APIs such as epoll or kqueue are the way to go if you're serious ab
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by elderK 8y ago
Hey Munificient, I just wanted to say that I'm a major fan of your book. I find your writing extremely clear :)
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by elderK 8y ago
I'm working on a bunch of lexer and parser related tools for personal use. The reason they're cool is that it automates a lot of the tedious, error-prone stuff that I've been doing by hand as I experiment with grammars and th
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by elderK 9y ago
This, exactly. :)
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by elderK 9y ago
Wouldn't sbrk kind of get in the way of ASLR?
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by elderK 9y ago
Raize FTW :)
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by elderK 9y ago
Thanks for the response. To clarify "module boundaries", I mean "separate shared objects." As for Linux, I'm not too concerned with creating a single binary that works for all distributions. I'm more concerned
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by elderK 9y ago
Hey there Aidenn0, I'm no expert on C++ and I've been considering using it for several projects. An important thing for my needs is being able to define classes in one shared object and create new subtypes of those classes in anot
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by elderK 9y ago
I can only speak for myself here but I feel that belonging too strongly in either camp is a bad thing. Ideally, you'd want to understand both worlds. As such, I feel that the projects I work on in my own time and the crazy things I do
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by elderK 9y ago
I use Crux. It's a source-based distribution similar to Gentoo but far, far simpler. And that's why I use it: It's simple. It also has a great community. :)
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by elderK 9y ago
Hey there Bjoern, Would it be sufficient to have solved many different types of problems encountered while working on side projects?
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by elderK 9y ago
Thank you! I'll try and keep the faith :)
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by elderK 9y ago
That's good to know. I have an active BitBucket. It doesn't contain everything I've ever done but it has the most recent stuff I've been working on. Would it be worthwhile having a link to the BitBucket present on my CV?
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Ask HN: How do I secure my future?
28 points by elderK 9y ago|19 comments

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