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knotty66on Atom text editor 1.4 released

I like it, but there was that joke doing the rounds that Atom was an acronym for 'A Terabyte Of Memory'.

knotty66on A fast Lisp interpreter in Dart

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

100 language cyclic quine relay.

knotty66on Ask HN: What are your favourite tools to work with?

i3 Window Manager. I wish Apple would design a WM inspired by i3 but with the amount of polish they usually apply.

knotty66on Ask HN: Programmers Above 50, Is It Possible to Have a Career Past Your 50s?

Why do you mention your age in your job application?

knotty66on React and Angular Meeting

I thought XAML was really simple to learn.

knotty66on Clinton ran own computer system for her official emails

Did you read about parallel construction?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...

knotty66on Slack Acquires Screenhero (YC W13)

Hipchat has had integration for everything we have ever needed. Slack is far prettier and more polished though. And lately Hipchat has been unreliable, so we are thinking of moving on that basis.

knotty66on Intel Compute Stick

Worth mentioning NUCs don't come with memory or storage.

knotty66on EIZO Announces Monitor with 1920x1920 Resolution

Economies of scale.

knotty66on SmartDataCenter and Manta are now open source

This is unbelievably neat. So much good news coming out of Joyent recently.

LX branded zones revived, funding to make SmartOS Docker compatible and now SDC and Manta are open sourced. I love SmartOS.

It feels so elegant and well designed.

knotty66on Immigration Crackdown on Digital Nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand

I personally wouldn't work from Punspace or anywhere similar in Thailand until the laws are clarified. It's too risky. Even when not under military rule, the Thai state, police and immigration change laws - or their interpretation of them - on a whim.

One day the laws will change without notice or they'll come looking for tea-money and all the rich farang workers (on tourist visas) herded together in somewhere like Punspace will be like shooting fish in a barrel for them. It won't matter that the work is being done for foreign companies. The digital-nomad type aren't the priority of Thailands tourist board. They typically spend very little compared to the rich Chinese and Japanese tourist they try to attract.

I'd rather do any work from my hotel room or condo or from somewhere like wawee coffee where you would have plausible deniability than a designated 'co-workers space' - where the only reason you would be there is to work.

knotty66on LIVE NOW: Glenn Greenwald, Assange, and Kim Dot Com in NZ

That non-stop banging and drilling under the embassy during the Julian Assange talk is pretty annoying.

knotty66on UK emergency phone and internet data storage law to be brought in

Don't the security services have this data already? Through Tempora/XKeyscore etc. So national security should already be covered.

knotty66on Gmail API

We currently use Gmail IMAP with IDLE to support this use case. It works great, so I hope they don't drop IMAP without a suitable replacement like webhooks.

knotty66on The Making of Elite

David Braben got an MBE yesterday in the Queens birthday honours list.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27836293

Elite: Dangerous is looking incredible too, it could be the first killer app for the Oculus Rift.

knotty66on Running OS X Mavericks under QEMU with KVM

If you want a really nice hackintosh laptop with good build quality and great performance for the money you can't go wrong with this:

A second hand i5 HP ProBook with 4GB RAM. £126. Add to this a 120GB Samsung EVO SSD for £55 from Amazon, and a £6 wifi card from eBay. Less than £200 all in.

Everything works out of the box on this laptop except the wifi, which you have to replace (or use a USB adapter).

I configured one last week. Mavericks runs perfectly. Quartz Express, Sleep/Wake, all works.

http://www.scctrade.co.uk/prod/hp-probook-6360b-core-i5-23gh...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DELL-DW1520-CN-0KVCX1-LAPTOP-WIREL...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-120GB-Basic-Solid-State/dp/B...

knotty66on UK government's password checker sends plaintext password in the URL over HTTP

Even over HTTPS it wouldn't be secure. The password is in the URL so would be stored in the users browser history, and possibly also web-server logs and sent as referrer headers with assets on the secured page.

knotty66on Show HN: I've been making one HTML5 game per week. Here's my 10th game

The first jump was flat out impossible for me on Chrome Version 31.0.1650.26 beta, even in incognito mode. Tried in Firefox and made it easily ...

knotty66on Go by Example

Nice and clean. I like it. Maybe it would be nice to have comments with up/down votability ala Stackoverflow.

knotty66on Jubilee, a new Rack server for JRuby based on the high-performance Vert.x

Cool, that's pretty impressive.

knotty66on Jubilee, a new Rack server for JRuby based on the high-performance Vert.x

For your golang test did you have GOMAXPROCS set to the number of CPU cores in your system?

knotty66on Google launches Portable Native Client

I did not realise this. That is awesome.

knotty66on Shopify accepts Bitcoin

Every story I Hear from Shopify seems good. Thanks Tobias and the rest of you guys. And thanks for open sourcing so much. Especially Liquid templates and Batman.js.

knotty66on Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5

Nice. Looking forward to seeing how this and all the other Docker based PAAS ecosystems like Flynn, Deis, Tsuru, Shipbuilder, CoreOS etc pan out.

knotty66on Be first to get a Nexus 5

Or echo -e "\aNexus 5 is launched" perhaps.

knotty66on CoreOS: Boot on Bare Metal with PXE

SmartOS is often booted from a USB flash drive too.

knotty66on NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show

Their auditing sounds weak. They seemed to have no idea what documents Snowden had taken.

knotty66on Computer can read letters directly from the brain

Tin foil hat time has long gone.

knotty66on Automatically Encrypting all Incoming Email

Maybe Fully Homomorphic Encryption will help here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

Not sure how practical this is at the moment, or will be in the future. Hopefully an expert can weigh in ?

knotty66on UK Authorities Destroy Guardian's Hard Drives

All the other UK papers (and the BBC) have barely even REPORTED on any of these issues, exclusives or not.

To look at those papers you wouldn't suspect something of this magnitude is even going on.