l0stman

6 ms·

1.
by l0stman 13y ago
Well, the wayback machine is your friend. http://web.archive.org/web/20111001124736/http://log.nadim.c...
2.
Henry Ford, Innovation, and That "Faster Horse" Quote(blogs.hbr.org)
2 points by l0stman 14y ago|0 comments
3.
by l0stman 14y ago
I was just wondering if you've planned on open-sourcing the code since the very beginning or if the idea came much later. Anyway congrats on launching.
4.
by l0stman 14y ago
Well, played. For a couple of seconds I was wondering why I had this impression of deja vu then I found this ( http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4692794 ). I burst out laughing.
5.
Engineering a List Merge Sort(pvk.ca)
1 points by l0stman 14y ago|0 comments
6.
How to build a portrait with dice(elusivesnark.com)
111 points by l0stman 15y ago|14 comments
7.
OpenBSD 5.0 Released(openbsd.org)
143 points by l0stman 15y ago|49 comments
8.
How to trick C/C++ compilers into generating terrible code?(futurechips.org)
61 points by l0stman 15y ago|18 comments
9.
What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?(informationweek.com)
12 points by l0stman 15y ago|8 comments
10.
Old programming habits die hard(rdist.root.org)
3 points by l0stman 15y ago|0 comments
11.
Pragmatic Parsing in Common Lisp(home.pipeline.com)
1 points by l0stman 15y ago|0 comments
12.
How to fix a compiler bug in SBCL(random-state.net)
4 points by l0stman 15y ago|0 comments
13.
FreeBSD on EC2 FAQ(daemonology.net)
49 points by l0stman 16y ago|13 comments
14.
by l0stman 16y ago
I had to look up what the `:' operator does and it adds an element to the beginning of the list. So the last line should be split (left, right) x = if x<p then (x:left, right), else (left, x:right)
15.
by l0stman 16y ago
qsort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a] qsort [] = [] qsort (p:xs) = qsort lesser ++ [p] ++ qsort greater where lesser = filter (< p) xs greater = filter (>= p) xs I know no
16.
by l0stman 16y ago
Just finished ``On Lisp''. This is an advanced Lisp book and shouldn't be your first one. It assumes some familiarity with the language so you're better of reading ``Practical Common Lisp'' first if you're diving into Lisp for the first ti
17.
by l0stman 16y ago
Just add the following lines in your .bashrc: export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=yes export GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=yes
18.
by l0stman 16y ago
Note also that there's a more feature complete version that accomplishes the same tasks in the contrib directory of git ( http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=contrib/comple... ). It's implemented in bash but I use it with almost n
19.
A Web-Server in Forth(jwdt.com)
4 points by l0stman 16y ago|0 comments
20.
Poetic Machine Translation(googleresearch.blogspot.com)
3 points by l0stman 16y ago|1 comments
21.
Small and useful assembly programs(df.lth.se)
22 points by l0stman 16y ago|2 comments
22.
Planning is overrated. The best performers seesaw between ideas and actions.(tompeters.com)
58 points by l0stman 16y ago|34 comments
23.
Writing concurrent programs in Common Lisp(marijn.haverbeke.nl)
2 points by l0stman 16y ago|0 comments
24.
NoSQL Storage Systems Never Violate ACID. Never? Well, Hardly Ever(danweinreb.org)
3 points by l0stman 16y ago|3 comments
25.
Ken Thompson: Regular Expression Search Algorithm [pdf](citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
2 points by l0stman 16y ago|1 comments
26.
by l0stman 16y ago
Actually I posted this article yesterday http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624402 but I went unnoticed. The author was working on search feature for his Hex editor and tried to outperform GNU grep by using Boyer-Moore. After multiple
27.
The Treacherous Optimization(ridiculousfish.com)
16 points by l0stman 16y ago|0 comments
28.
Angels asking for control(startuplawyer.com)
2 points by l0stman 16y ago|1 comments
29.
Barrier: Multithreading bugs are very delicate(ridiculousfish.com)
58 points by l0stman 16y ago|16 comments
30.
by l0stman 16y ago
Thanks for sharing this, it was extremely brave of you to do so. Speaking of one's failures in public requires a high degree of courage. Besides, from reading your other posts on HN, I thought you were what I would generally consider a suc

More ›