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mwyvern

18 karma · joined May 29, 2012

My interests are programming, cryptography, math, science, robots, text editors, the universe, gaming, teleportation, music, the future, books, sci-fi and zombies. Technical co-founder of talkerpoint.com.
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mwyvern··on Google Chrome now works on iOS
I am disappointed that extensions are not supported.
mwyvern··on MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
Thank you!
mwyvern··on MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge
It always shocks me tha Finder doesn't have cmd-X cut... cutting is by far the most frequent operation I do in other non-dual-pane file managers. But what do you like better about windows explorer? Finder's "view as columns" makes it feel a little bit more powerful to me.
mwyvern··on GNU Emacs 24.1 released
Homebrew includes that patch, and the recipe has been updated for emacs 24.

  brew update  
  # Lion only (or if you don't have xcode?)  
  brew tap homebrew/dupes  
  brew install apple-gcc42  
  # put these in your .bashrc  
  export HOMEBREW_USE_GCC=1  
  export HOMEBREW_VERBOSE=1  
  # /Lion only  
  brew install emacs --cocoa  
  brew linkapps
mwyvern··on Doom 3 Source code review
Thanks for the link. It's a shame that functionality isn't built into VS (especially when it costs half as much as VS pro).
mwyvern··on Doom 3 Source code review
I did know what you meant by noscript, just using the plugin as an example of non-javascript users :-). No cookies? You are a masochist. Another reason I like ghostery -- it blocks the cookies that I don't like.
mwyvern··on Doom 3 Source code review
That's true. It seems like javascript disabling is just not on the minds of web developers. You have to be a special kind of masochist to use noscript these days... I used it for years, but ghostery covers most of what I liked about it.
mwyvern··on League of Legends database compromised, passwords hashed without salt
H(Salt . H(Password)) is a lot like an hmac (minus the secret part and the padding). I'm not sure about the pre-image vulnerability mentioned on wikipedia's md5 page, but as for collision vulnerabilities, according to wikipedia's hmac page, "HMACs are substantially less affected by collisions than their underlying hashing algorithms alone. Therefore, HMAC-MD5 does not suffer from the same weaknesses that have been found in MD5."
mwyvern··on Doom 3 Source code review
Can you refactor c++ code in visual studio?
mwyvern··on Doom 3 Source code review
The images are not loaded until you scroll them into view, so bandwidth is saved if you don't read the whole article.
mwyvern··on Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
I've been saying that wrong in my head for a long time now. Thank you :-).
mwyvern··on Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
I've always wondered -- is it suckless as in suck less than something else, or as in without suck?
mwyvern··on Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad
Comment to the author: use cmd-` while you are command tabbing if you go too far! Similarly useful, hold cmd-tab and it will stop at the end. Also, cmd-esc if you decide not to switch.

I used a 15" MBP for a long time without missing a tiling window manager that much... but the problem was exaggerated when I started using a 27" imac. So I looked around and started using spectacle. Great utility. I use Quicksilver's "open application" custom triggers to get the app switching behavior, so I finally have a use for F15-F19 (on the very left side of my keyboard)! It has made a big difference for me.

One problem I would like to solve is switching between multiple emacsen. I have an 8:00-5:00 job and work on my own stuff after that, and I like to keep my buffer lists separate (so I can't just use multiple frames). Therefore, I open emacs again from the terminal and I wish I could switch between them with quicksilver's shortcut. Alas, quicksilver always brings up the first one. Has anyone dealt with this?