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anoxic

28 karma · joined June 30, 2014

Hi! I'm Brian and my website is http://zick.io
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anoxic··on ‘Abusing’ the C switch statement – beauty is in the eye of the beholder
I think the idea is that when the interface changes, even if someone else comes in and makes some naive updates later, it should still continue running.
anoxic··on Principles of Content Addressing (2014)
I like the idea of being able to address content based on it's actual content. Perhaps I don't have a very good imagination, but if all you have is a hash of the content, how to you know where to find it?

From within a single app it's easy, but what about in other apps or other machines. Would there be a (possibly distributed/voluntary) lookup service? Could comments or lookup "hints" be added to the spec?

anoxic··on A Thought for Technical Interviews
I completely agree. I interviewed with a company, and did some whiteboard coding. Most of it was simple, but whenever I would stop for a moment to think about what I was doing, they would prompt me to find out "what are you thinking"?

Even when I'm working very closely with colleagues, we often spend long moments of silence thinking and working through issues. It's a part of the process.

anoxic··on The First Website Ever Made
The URL for this would much better be http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html - as this site is CERN's, not W3's
anoxic··on Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X
Use this every day. Works great.
anoxic··on Ask HN: How you get familiar with a codebase fast?
"Rapid learning" and troubleshooting methods. The process for both of these is nearly identical, although some details differ. There are several books by Steve Litt that go over these and I found helped me troubleshoot problems faster than most of my co-workers, but the same principles helped me to understand a new code base much faster.

Available books by Steve Litt: http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/index.htm

A nice book package, I recommend these to every developer I meet: http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/recession_package_a...

His website isn't pretty, but the content is golden.

anoxic··on Sublime Text 3 Updated
I've been using ST3 for some time off and on, and never had any issue. I just download it from http://www.sublimetext.com/3
anoxic··on Floppy Bird: A Flappy Bird clone in 16-bit x86 assembly
I think it really means floppy bird IS an OS, albeit one that can get nothing done but a flopping bird
anoxic··on How a password changed my life
Cheerful and unexpected from a password article :-)
anoxic··on The New Haskell Homepage
Just a nitpick: Why don't you stay consistent and use Open Sans for all the main text and the logotype at the top. Having "Haskell" in Ubuntu when the rest of the site is not stylized like that looks a little silly.
anoxic··on Inspecting Yosemite's Icons
I didn't like the new iOS7 icons and I categorically dismissed the Yosemite icons as well. In light of this article, I realize, these icons /make sense/. More than that, it forced me to actually look closely at them. And I also realized that I don't like the icons in Mavericks either, I was just used to it already.

The consistency and pattern behind the new icons is well thought out, and the use of subtle lighting effects (the blue and orange undertones) is great art direction and seems to pull things together in a great way.

What I don't like is the bright colors and the undertone of a "default" feeling -- like how many of the icons feel like generic dingbats. But this also seems consistent with Apple's use of Helvetica, which gives me the same feeling. Which is somewhere between totally not noticing it's there, and feeling like it's an evil faceless government/corporation.

Made me think.

anoxic··on Doitlive – live shell presentations
My mistake... I didn't look close enough at this.
anoxic··on Doitlive – live shell presentations
I think I will have to make a hacker film just for this....
anoxic··on Building Bigger Roads Makes Traffic Worse
This actually makes sense in an unintuitive way.
anoxic··on Doitlive – live shell presentations
This has been possible for a while with Shellcast: http://tty.tv/