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johntyreeon System76 Virgo Aims to Be the Quietest yet Most Performant Linux Laptop

I am right now using a Lenovo X1 that has that problem. Previous gen also had that problem. And the one before that. Waking up from sleep is apparently difficult.

johntyreeon GDP is the wrong tool for measuring what matters (2020)

Yes? It would be a stupid way to live, but financially, I think you'd be doing "really well," conditional on your income, up until you died.

johntyreeon I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore

I'm confused. What's your plan for fixing Gmail on a Saturday night? Hope one of the devs doesn't have a social life?

johntyreeon Using mechanical tools improves our language skills, study finds

Can you give an example?

johntyreeon Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google

You think Firefox having shitty video rendering performance is somehow because Google tweaked YouTube not to work? Are you kidding?

johntyreeon Serious Chrome zero-day

I don't know about the origin story, although frankly I hope it's true.

Personally, I think Go is terrible. However, I can't imagine Google is even remotely considering scrapping Go. It is massively popular. It is used all over the place both externally and internally. It's a huge branding asset, community outreach tool, recruiting tool and provides leverage in the form of first party libraries over the direction that software development as a whole is going.

johntyreeon Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today

Love, sweet love.

johntyreeon LLVM for Grad Students

> LLVM is nicely written: its architecture is way more modular than other compilers. Part of the reason for this niceness comes from its original implementor, who is one of us.

What on earth is that supposd to mean?

johntyreeon Swift 2.0: Understanding flatMap

And the functional programmers of the world collectively sigh...

johntyreeon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

What lack of confusion? Did you miss the first thread that some people posted in and which fizzled out?

johntyreeon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

Python Technical Trainer, Enthought, Austin, TX https://enthought.com/company/careers/

Enthought, a global leader in scientific and analytic software, training and consulting solutions utilizing the Python programming language, is seeking a talented Python instructor with a passion for learning and teaching and solid experience in using Python for scientific computing / data science applications. The position will be based out of our downtown Austin office and you will travel both domestically and internationally to teach Python to scientists, engineers, analysts, and data scientists across a range of industries. Please see https://enthought.com/company/careers/python-technical-train... for more information. To apply, please email your resume to jobs@enthought.com.

johntyreeon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

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Yes. Also note that if you've posted in a fake thread and you try to post in a real thread, the spam bot will remove you.

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Enthought - Python Technical Trainer, Austin, TX https://enthought.com/company/careers/

Enthought seeks a talented Python instructor with a passion for learning and teaching and solid experience in using Python for scientific computing / data science applications. You’ll be based out of our downtown Austin office and you’ll also travel to great cities to teach Python to scientists, engineers, analysts, and data scientists across a range of industries. Please see https://enthought.com/company/careers/python-technical-train... for more information. Email your resume to jobs@enthought.com to apply.

johntyreeon Why Does the US Patent Office Keep Approving Clearly Ridiculous Patents?

"Republished" ?

More like ripped off and smothered with ads. Techdirt is miserable.

johntyreeon Ask HN: What software development technologies do you love?

Vim

The Linux kernel perf and inotify

Tmux

IPython

Haskell

Netcat

The gnu tools

johntyreeon TLS/SSL implementation in Haskell

>Go doesn't really offer a whole lot in terms of security, except for better managed memory.

What makes it better? Haskell's GC is very advanced.

johntyreeon Vigilantes Have Renamed "The new iPad"

Is it me, or are the stories making it to the top of this list getting worse and worse? "Some people have invented an informal name for Apple's latest toy." Great. Which part of this "hacker news" ?

johntyreeon Hipstergrammers

It can't be this bad. Is it this bad?

johntyreeon GoDaddy general counsel blogs about SOPA

The best part about this is the refreshing level of discourse in the comments. Can you even imagine what the world would be like if political discussion sounded like THAT instead of what you get when you Google 'SOPA'. It brings a tear to my eye.

Also, respect for frankydp and the appropriate title of this link. No spin at all. This is how I imagine the internet when I'm dreaming.

johntyreeon Time to end the war on drugs

This is literally copy-paste from Time magazine 2009.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.ht...

Excellent work, Dick.

johntyreeon Vim: revisited

And what country is your keyboard from?

Unless you mean you specifically use search for every motion...?

johntyreeon Are You Using iTerm2?

I don't get it. OSX users didn't have screen? Or the ability to full screen a window?

johntyreeon Are You Using iTerm2?

Out of curiosity, why do you need a terminal that spans two monitors?