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by nickburlett 6y ago
I have my Ergodox EZ configured so that each layer has a different backlight color, helping me notice if I've inadvertently switched layers. I agree on the pinky column not being staggered enough.
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by nickburlett 6y ago
DEC WARS is full of great computer jokes. It's a 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr: https://www.bsd.org/decwars.html > It is a period of system war. User programs, striking from a hidden directory,
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School or Prison(schoolprison.com)
708 points by nickburlett 6y ago|475 comments
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by nickburlett 6y ago
Reminds me of CS 314, the musical http://captainchang.com/cs314-musical.html > Think in hex, think in hex > Look around you, who needs dec? > You can do anything in base sixteen or I'll go to my rest!
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by nickburlett 7y ago
I particularly enjoyed _Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity_ by David Foster Wallace. It gave me a new appreciation of not only the last two centuries of math, but also the english language and the abuse of sentence structure
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by nickburlett 7y ago
Green Hills Software | Santa Barbara, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | Functional Safety Software Engineer | https://www.ghs.com/jobs_usa.html#safety We seek an experienced software engineer to conduct safety analyses, develop fu
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by nickburlett 7y ago
NPR's "The Indicator" podcast has had a couple of good (and short) episodes about inverted yield curves. I think this is the first of them: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/01/12&#x2
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by nickburlett 8y ago
I should have mentioned that I run lamson in maildir mode rather than listen on port 25. I have postfix configured to dump incoming email into a maildir, and my lamson process watches that directory. So I guess the reason I don't use p
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by nickburlett 8y ago
The primary uses for procmail tend to be running a fixed set of rules to save mail to various directories or route it as input to scripts. My use case needs to save it to a database and make various decisions depending on the sate of the da
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by nickburlett 8y ago
I use salmon's predecessor (lamson) to process emails for an email-driven helpdesk system. Emails come in through lamson, are processed based on headers, and either attached to the support ticket they belong to or are routed to an admi
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WideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games(prilik.com)
249 points by nickburlett 8y ago|32 comments
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by nickburlett 9y ago
Green Hills Software | Santa Barbara, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | Embedded Software Consultant | https://www.ghs.com/jobs.html Do you thrive on troubleshooting software problems and designing creative solutions, enjoy learnin
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by nickburlett 9y ago
Green Hills Software | Santa Barbara, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | Embedded Software Consultant | https://www.ghs.com/jobs.html We're hiring for multiple teams, both in Santa Barbara and worldwide: http://www.g
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by nickburlett 9y ago
It's a different kind of minimalism, but I've found Philip Glass' Akhnaten ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAiv-LU82t4 ) and Piano Etudes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pe7Lelts8g&list
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by nickburlett 9y ago
We do sponsor visas, and I believe our European offices are also looking for engineers. Please email jobs@ghs.com for any US inquiries, or jobseurope@ghs.com for European inquiries. There's some additional information on our website:
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by nickburlett 9y ago
Green Hills Software | Software Development Engineer | Santa Barbara, CA | FULL TIME ONSITE If you want to have complete engineering responsibility for one or more major components of the Green Hills product line, this is the position for
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by nickburlett 10y ago
Green Hills Software | Product Engineer | Santa Barbara, CA | full-time If you like figuring out what makes a product good or bad by actually using it, technically discussing new product ideas, demonstrating what makes a feature or product
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by nickburlett 11y ago
Green Hills Software http://www.ghs.com/ @ Santa Barbara, CA # Embedded Software Consultant [ONSITE, VISA] We're hiring for multiple teams, both in Santa Barbara and worldwide: http://www.ghs.com/jobs.h
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by nickburlett 11y ago
> May I ask you - did you hired anyone from these HN threads? How many people applied? I don't think I can provide public information on the number of applicants or new hires. > I'm still considering to apply but haven'
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by nickburlett 11y ago
Green Hills Software http://www.ghs.com/ @ Santa Barbara, CA # Embedded Software Consultant [ONSITE, VISA] We're hiring for multiple teams, both in Santa Barbara and worldwide: http://www.ghs.com/jobs.h
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by nickburlett 11y ago
Green Hills Software http://www.ghs.com/ @ Santa Barbara, CA # Embedded Software Consultant [ONSITE, VISA] We're hiring for multiple teams, both in Santa Barbara and worldwide: http://www.ghs.com/jobs.h
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by nickburlett 11y ago
> Do you sponsor new H1B's and do not require US citizenship (for US based roles)? We sponsor new H1Bs and have no citizenship requirements for US roles. > Also, any prospective C++ positions in Europe (or home-based)? I'm n
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by nickburlett 11y ago
Green Hills Software [ http://www.ghs.com/ ] | Santa Barbara, CA We're hiring for multiple teams, both in Santa Barbara and worldwide: [ http://www.ghs.com/jobs.html ] I'll put in a plug for my own te
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by nickburlett 13y ago
It gets worse: if you scroll up and down through the page several times, there are so many history items that Chrome has forgotten all about HN and I can't get back there via the back button no matter how many times I press it.
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by nickburlett 13y ago
Sometimes unbalanced scales (#4 on this article's list) are appropriate. If you have a five-option list where 95% of your users are answering 4 or 5, then it's time to unbalance the scale so that you can get better information. However, you
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by nickburlett 14y ago
Two suggestions: 1) use geo location services to automatically pick which location to show (thus eliminating a click in the beginning) 2) put a big "call a cab" button up. You suggest people "swig responsibly"... help them do so!
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by nickburlett 14y ago
Maybe call it "best discount" ?
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by nickburlett 14y ago
An old trick for convincing (some) shells that your script is an sh-compatibile shell is to use a colon on the first line. Support for this trick was added to fish back in 2007: https://gitorious.org/~ridiculousfish/fish-shell/fishfish/bl.
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by nickburlett 14y ago
Fish does brace expansion, even for empty braces. In order to actually pass braces to xargs, do: find . | xargs -I \{\} grep pat \{\}
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by nickburlett 15y ago
Filters are quite a lot of fun, but they can't turn a crappy photo into a masterpiece. At best, they turn a bad photo into a mediocre on, or a decent photo into a good one. You can alter the mood, but in the end the subject matter needs to

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