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archycockroachon Ask HN: How do you organize your personal code library?

My method is DIY and dirty: Git project folders generally sorted by language, in Dropbox for availability across computers. It's not perfect when I have projects that span more than one language, so I'm open to new ideas! Do symbolic links work in Dropbox? Backups live across a couple different pieces of external media for resilience.

archycockroachon Show HN: Art as a Service: F(x) → [Object Art]

I've been mulling on this for a day now. I have some concerns. I am not trying to be rude by asking this, but I think it bears consideration: Do you think that exposing an API to your practice is the means by which "technical people" can access art? Do you think it is the only means?

You make some claims about the "divide" between art and engineering. By inserting yourself as a mediator between these two fields, do you think you are reconciling these worlds? Because to me it seems like you are capitalizing on this difference instead of actually attempting to stitch the rift together. By manipulating liminal markets, you are closely mimicking the behavior of tech startups. Is this in the interest of your art, or just your practice?

archycockroachon OpenPGP best practices

Parcimonie's SSL cert is 760+ days expired... Do we trust it either?

archycockroachon Self-driving cars can be disabled with a laser pointer and a Raspberry Pi

"Ultimately, this latest car hacking is yet another signal that industries usually disassociated from data security now need to start taking it seriously."

Garbage.

archycockroachon Google’s look, evolved

I'd say it falls into "geometric sans-serif" because of its adherence to primitive shapes and near-lack of adornment.

archycockroachon Meme generation

  #!/bin/bash
  #
  # 'High Performance' Server Statistics for Ubuntu

  LINEONE=$(landscape-sysinfo | grep Memory | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "    " } ; { print $1 }' | tr ' ' '-')
  LINETWO=$(landscape-sysinfo | grep System | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "    " } ; { print $1 }' | tr ' ' '-')
  URL=http://memegen.link/10guy/$LINEONE/$LINETWO.jpg
  wget $URL --quiet --output-file /var/www/stonedserverstats.jpg

Demo: http://memegen.link/10guy/--memory-usage:-45%25/--system-loa...

archycockroachon In about 2 hours it’s 1400000000 unix time

  while true; do echo "I'll have a life in $(expr 1400000000 - $(date +"%s")) seconds" && sleep 1; done