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andyzweb··on How does the Internet work?
BGP is so broken. So many unfiltered prefixes
andyzweb··on Why Is Nobody Talking About The Social Implications Of Google Glass?
"if you don't have anything to hide, you have nothing to fear"
andyzweb··on As 3D Printing Becomes More Accessible, Copyright Questions Arise
"You can't stop the signal"
andyzweb··on Hacker News Meetup - Boston - Tonight - Feb 6th, 2013 - 6:00
any tips on finding parking? I might decide to come up from Providence.
andyzweb··on Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early
trading fast isn't the problem. it's quotes being made with no intent to ever execute them. like someone at an auction making a bid and then saying "just kidding"
andyzweb··on Why secretary is still the top job for women
nursing in a hospital is quite dangerous
andyzweb··on Who Does Skype Let Spy?
"You can't stop the signal" -- Mr. Universe
andyzweb··on The Current State of Accessibility
I once spent a year limiting my use of sight on and off by using a blindfold. One of the things I quickly discovered is how useless many of the built in accessibility tools were. Using a web-browser was impossible, as was the window manager in general.

Over the course of the year I built tools that made accomplishing tasks when blindfolded possible or easier. Using the command line and Unix friendly programs (programs that work with text streams) worked best. Emacs already had some accessibility projects out there and extending them was easy enough. With a set of rules and inbetween scripts I was able to get the text to speech to speak "C" and added audio cues to aid navigation. A similar set of scripts and rules in addition to audio cues made debugging with GDB possible.

After my experiment was done I went back to using my normal setup full time but I learned quite a bit.

andyzweb··on Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods
there are only 2 problems in computer science.

0. naming things

1. cache invalidation

2. off-by-one errors

andyzweb··on The FBI Needs Hackers, Not Backdoors
"Never trust a traitor, not even one you create" -- Baron Von Harkonnen
andyzweb··on Did porn warp me forever?
I found this article easy to fap to
andyzweb··on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C
tool support is pretty much non-existent. expect it to have the same amount of tooling and support as pthreads.
andyzweb··on Android SDK is now proprietary
Section 2 of the GPLv3

>This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program.

it also protects your freedom to modify and run modified versions of the software

andyzweb··on IRC is dead, long live IRC
>twitter is better than finger

sure if you enjoy proprietary walled gardens with uptime issues

andyzweb··on Programming is Terrible
IANA and the 13 root servers are the central authority of DNS
andyzweb··on Ask HN: What monitors are great for coding?
I switched from a Mac display to a monitor from Eizo. My eyes have been thankful ever since.
andyzweb··on Bootstrap 3.0 Upcoming changes
many enterprise users and stability hawks use firefox LTS
andyzweb··on Using web fonts in email
html email should be banned
andyzweb··on Want to learn to code? Don't copy and paste, type out other people's code
it's odd but in my experience I have found it to be the opposite. Perhaps because I've grown up with keyboards I find typing something out to be quite stimulating. When writing things down I find there is a huge disconnect between the funny scribbilous motions of my wrist and the meaning of the words they produce. Although perhaps that's a left-handed thing.
andyzweb··on Ask HN: How do you manage your one-man project?
For my one person projects I use fossil for bug-tracking and wiki.

http://www.fossil-scm.org/

andyzweb··on How a load-balancing bug led to worldwide Chrome crashes
I have safebrowsing and auto update disabled since FF3.6
andyzweb··on Vice leaves metadata in photo of John McAfee, pinpoints him to Guatemala
metadata can easily be faked
andyzweb··on Why did Git become so popular?
I like you
andyzweb··on Amazon Announces new Data Warehousing Product
Question: would you trust all your medical data/history and shopping data/history tied up in their cloud?
andyzweb··on Microsoft begs Web devs not to make WebKit the new IE6
because khtml is shit
andyzweb··on VLC Core is LGPL
I have to ask. Do you frequent /g/?
andyzweb··on Salesforce will hire 40-50 Postgres people
ORDBMS
andyzweb··on Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago
postgres does horrible with multicore unless you have many concurrent pooled connections. fork-and-forget
andyzweb··on Be nice to programmers
>that feel when you go from red to green.

that is such a good feel

andyzweb··on The Code Side Of Color
With openGL, DirectX, and other real-time rendering I believe sRGB or linear gamma are preferred because there are library and possibly hardware primitives that can be taken advantage of. Outside of that I feel we should be notating color in terms of the L* a* b* colors
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