nerraga

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by nerraga 8y ago
Can you elaborate you that last statement? Are Rails developers less terrible than the C/C#/C++ people with whom you’ve worked? If so, what are your thoughts on why that may be?
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by nerraga 8y ago
Is TLPI available for free now? It's a great book and I hope that people will continue to support both NoStarch and the author.
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by nerraga 8y ago
The second edition introduces high-level assembly (HLA) though. I never found HLA to be that appealing. I'd be curious to know if anyone who has read the book found it to be useful in learning assembly. I used "Assembly Language f
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by nerraga 9y ago
I installed OpenBSD on my apu and picked up a Ubiquiti AP AC Pro for wifi. I also picked up a couple wifi nics that I'd intended to use with hostapd as you suggested. However, I had some spare amazon pts to throw at the Ubitquiti hardw
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by nerraga 9y ago
I picked up a couple of these and I have to say I'm pretty impressed. They're pretty inexpensive little machines and they ship quick from pcengines. I have openbsd on one and ubuntu on the other. I'm using the openbsd one for
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by nerraga 10y ago
I do agree that you can pick up a good linux laptop that will run circles around today's MBP (system76 fully spec'd lemur or gazelle) but, imo the overall industrial design leaves a bit to be desired. I have a Dell XPS Developer e
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by nerraga 10y ago
Interesting project but it looks to me like it's solving an entirely different problem. "usbkill is a simple program with one goal: quickly shutdown the computer when a USB is inserted or removed." The article is referring t
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by nerraga 11y ago
Your Apple engineers smuggling code example seems a little out of left field. I haven't been following this super closely but as the recall the FBI is essentially asking Apple to provided them with a backdoored OS that lets them get ar
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by nerraga 11y ago
I'd really appreciate an invite if you still have any. It's wild to see just how in demand these are right now.
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by nerraga 11y ago
Source? I always took XHTML to be an effort to make html into a stricter more parse-friendly format. Xhtml lets you use an xml parser to pull apart a page rather than having to deal with some kind of markup tag soup (which also makes it a g
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by nerraga 11y ago
That only addresses the language component though, right? You'd still be stuck with HTML and CSS. I'm okay with javascript although I'd love to see another language supported in a similar first class fashion. It's HTML a
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by nerraga 11y ago
I think it's coming. There was a HN post about MS working on bringing Obj-C to MS without any kind of emulation layer simply by leveraging llvm and the existing MS C++ compiler. It's called Project Islandwood ( https://d
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by nerraga 11y ago
I think the debugging experience is the same as just about any other platform that I've worked on. It's not significantly better or worse (I work mostly in C++/VS/Win have recently started work on a mobile project that r
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by nerraga 11y ago
The fact that the article is mentioning MemGC as a defense against use-after-free attacks (something I don't believe managed languages need be concerned) and the way Control-Flow-Guard is described leads me to think it's primarily
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by nerraga 11y ago
At approx. 26min he mentions four processors that their code generator has to target: ARM32, x86, x64, and a new one coming out in the fall. What would that be? ARM64? *edit - never mind. Last five seconds they hint at it as arm64. MS is d
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by nerraga 11y ago
I agree that the government can do a lot worse and that governments certain have in the past. That said, the more comfortable the relationship between government and a corporation the more likely one is to benefit from the resources and p
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by nerraga 13y ago
The iPad air is less than 10" diagonal (9.7?) which seems like a bit of a difference from 13". I've got a late 2010 MBP 13" and it's pretty large compared to the iPad. I'd love to see a 12" MBP with or wit
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by nerraga 13y ago
It's interesting that you'd say this as I've found myself doing the same thing for very much the same reasons. I'm actually a little hesitant to use Chrome at all except in those cases where I need flash (I don't te
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by nerraga 13y ago
I think you'd be hard pressed to run Win8 on a 32Gb drive with 4Gb Ram (although, admittedly, my Surface Pro runs Win8 adequately on 4Gb so it's the tiny drive that will get you). If you compare the base 1299(wifi) Pixel to a 12