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nashon XXX TLD Officially Open

.porn?

nashon Linux is now hosted on GitHub

You should have watched the LCA talk where Tridge explained his reverse engineering.

He telneted the bk server and typed 'help'. It gave him a list of commands, and what they did.

LWN article on it: http://lwn.net/Articles/132938/

nashon Why Van Halen had brown M&Ms contractually removed

Sure, but this isn't a story from these days. It's from a decade ago.

nashon Poll: What do you use to track your bugs?

SD (Simple Defects) is more choice when I can. Distributed and works pretty well, and not too complex.

nashon Ask HN: Are there any resources for learning html+css that are actually good?

The only issue with w3schools is it is basic. Otherwise it covers a lot of material fairly well. At least it's not wrong, like many other resources.

nashon Wherein reporters don't find duplicate bugs

I'm betting the testing procedure is even more amusing.

nashon Ask HN: Would you work at a startup that requires you to use Linux?

For the past 10 I've _only_ used linux as my desktop. I was using it pretty frequently before then too.

So my answer would be: If your potential employee refuses to work on Linux, or Windows, or OSX or NeXT or whatever... you probably don't want them.

nashon HDCP master key allegedly posted

I believe the update of keys relies on the secrecy of the master key, which is never released in a device.

Hence the master key pretty much kills it all.

nashon Commodore 64 is back

The modern versions: vim + gcc + curses.

nashon Commodore 64 is back

The Register covered it a) better and b) earlier.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/commodore_name_bounc...

And it has the story of crazy commodore name lottery. Older stories linked in article.

nashon Unsuck It - translate business jargon

Yeah: Business jargon. Whenever a PHB tells you they are a rock star or a wizard you know they _may_ know how to use a mouse.

nashon Unsuck It - translate business jargon

http://unsuck-it.com/as-soon-as-possible-asap/ Strange; Whenever someone tells me they need something ASAP, I generally consider it to mean "they don't know when they need it, so it's not important".

nashon ASK HN: I'm very tired.... how do I sell my company?

Why do you want to sell it is one of the first questions a buyer should ask, or at least find out an answer for.

After all there are lots of reasons to get out: - Patent lawsuit incoming - google/apple just entered the market - Future law change

'My heart's not in it' is a reason to think it is safe to buy.

Of course due diligence for the above is also needed.

nashon Ask HN: What streetsmarts have you learnt?

The flip side is also important:

Pay your debts, people remember when you don't.

nashon China drops Dropbox

Depends on why it was blocked.

Generally speaking if it's because of a local competitor (eg youku or renren (vs youtube or facebook)) I would not hold my breath.

nashon Why Tony Stark is better than you

Superman designed his own suit, and except for the underwear placement, and the cape (darrrling), it's...

Actually come to think of it, you were right in the first place.

nashon That Lost 4G Phone

It may be slow, but the process for comics and articles are quite different. Comics go through multiple layers of distribution (possibly translation, colouring, lettering and the like through multiple hands) before they are published, in many different newspapers simulatenosly.

The process for getting comics published is focused on groups of comics as well, so rather then send one Dilbert comic a day, the distributor will take at least a weeks worth of strips, possibly a month's worth at once, and that bundle will be sent out.

Editiorial cartoons are much faster (next day) but they tend to be done for a single publication, or at least a small family of publications.

(edit: Add colouring, lettering)

nashon Ask HN: What's the best way to get started with Vi(m)

Not sure what features komodo has for completion, but between the built in omni-completion in vim 7, it's pretty powerful which will complete on symbols in all loaded files and in things like header files. That's activated by Control-X Control-O. Control-P or Control-N in insert mode.

There are various plugins available to make it smarter for C++ and other languages (so it only searches in appropriate namespaces and the like).

nashon The Next Mainstream Programming Language: a game developer's perspective

I thought everyone liked Haskell...

I had assumed the problem was being able to use it when we liked.

nashon Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia

They are succeeding. They have no meaningful content on any topic at all.

nashon Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia

The more I look at cpedia, the more I'm convinced it's just a Markov bot.

nashon Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia

Try the countries full name.

For instance there is some garbage about China under: http://cpedia.com/search?q=Peoples%20Republic%20of%20China

Of course it seems to be something about contract law for China... but that's another matter.

Actually try "of china": It's got some relevance, so does "peoples republic".

nashon Cuil responds to critisism of Cpedia

Maybe there is something to this...

If I was trying to get funding for cpedia, I'd want to know which VCs get drunk easily...

nashon Cuil relaunches as 'cpedia.' The results are not pretty.

I'll be using it as an example if I need to explain "surreal" to someone...

nashon Cuil relaunches as 'cpedia.' The results are not pretty.

http://cpedia.com/search?q=april+fools+joke

Not really.

nashon Unix recovery legend

Sod any 'non-empty line'

  /usr/bin/grep '^' > output

Or even better, grep can be an editor with line filtering - if you make an mistake, have it throw away the line:

  /usr/bin/grep -v '%' > output

(Any line with a %, throw away, keep the rest - good for multi-line files)

nashon How to convince any C developer to dump gcc and use clang

If you are using :make, and _don't_ jump out of the file (split the window if you need to jump out), line deletions and additions down the window are automatically accounted for.

As for turning it on or off, I've never had too, unless it's part of cindent.

nashon How to convince any C developer to dump gcc and use clang

I think you need to upgrade you editor. For instance both vim & emacs are smart enough to adjust for inserts and removals.

nashon -2000 Lines Of Code

Not when you are using sloccount to measure the 'value' of the software.

nashon -2000 Lines Of Code

You know you are doing it write when you do that.

For added value combine with sloccount when removing code (I removed $200k value from our software, fixed 8 bugs, and removed that stupid limitation about green text today)...