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spliceron Float Exposed

Thanks for HexFiend man! I use several times a week.

spliceron Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4

They should have chosen April 1st so most people would think it was a joke.

spliceron Git undo: We can do better

Another: LaTeX

spliceron Scientists tracked down a mass killer of salmon

It's ironic that the toxicologist's name is McIntyre!

spliceron Canada’s Forgotten Rainforest

Same with Vancouver Island: https://goo.gl/maps/aXADesFXHUbyjPMw8

spliceron I turned my interview task for Google into a startup

Actually, I did one of these jumping from one megacorp to another. It took up my entire weekend, but I landed the interview. I then had to take 2 days off to fly out for the interview. Luckily, I got the job.

spliceron Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information

Move fast and break stuff, like a bull in a china shop.

spliceron 'Intelligent' crows to pick up litter at French theme park

I've seen seagulls break mollusks that way too.

spliceron Swift-Keylogger – Keylogger for MacOS written in Swift using HID

Thanks to a vulnerability I reported a decade ago: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0724

spliceron EFF: Stupid patents are dragging down AI and machine learning

which isn’t necessarily a bad thing for society as a whole: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible

spliceron Never Completed Game

Ugh, lame. Thanks though!

spliceron Never Completed Game

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I can see the pattern: count successive powers of 2, dropping the digit that would occurred. So the next part of the sequence is 123456789012345678901234567891... etc.

But I have no idea how much of the sequence they want me to type in. Very frustrating!

spliceron MacOS High Sierra

Not exactly from the past, but how do you feel about this scene from Minority Report? https://youtu.be/7bXJ_obaiYQ

spliceron What It Costs to Open a Restaurant in San Francisco

I wish I could cook at work!

spliceron Diving into the world of hash tables

Good question! Yes. Here’s an example: http://cyan4973.github.io/xxHash/

spliceron The slow death of the electric guitar

If you’re looking for an example of subtle and thoughtful electronic music, I recommend listening to recent works of Tipper.

spliceron The slow death of the electric guitar

Shpongle is from the 90’s (though mostly not techno). Granted, most of their hits came out in the 2000’s.

spliceron The slow death of the electric guitar

It's time another instrument got a chance at the spotlight. I'm going to call it: the next big thing is Tuba heroes!

spliceron Uber loses ground in US as rival Lyft accelerates

I do this, mainly because “I’ll get a Lyft” can confuse people.

spliceron Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

I think I might used this to practice touch typing. It looks addicting :)

I tried to bookmark it by hitting command-D (in Safari on a Mac), but since you capture all keystrokes, I couldn't bookmark it. Perhaps you'd see a bump in your numbers if you allowed command-D through?

spliceron Chinese scientists test quantum entanglement over unprecedented distance

Imagine being able to explore distant planets with robots and VR googles in real time!

spliceron Design principle: IKEA effect

and most Linux distros

spliceron How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon

I totally agree. I'm interviewing someone tomorrow morning, and I plan to give them a simple finite state machine problem in C. Full open book (i.e. access to the web), and they're free to compile and run as many times as they want. You’d be surprised how many candidates can't implement something as simple as fizzbuzz.

spliceron Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS grid

https://xkcd.com/163/

spliceron The science of Westworld

My answers to those example bAbI questions don't match to "correct" answers. I guess I'm not human...

spliceron People’s freedom jeopardised by new software adopted by California’s courts

While I certainly agree that all government software should be open source, it sounds like a big part of the problem here was a failure in gathering accurate requirements (which is a very expensive endeavor).

spliceron “If you get a C or lower, I’ll buy you a present”

Getting into programming helped me isolate my perfectionist tendencies. As long as I have something I can obsessively polish, I can relax in other areas of my life.

spliceron Feds Walk into a Building and Demand Everyone's Fingerprints to Open Phones

Or just force a shutdown by holding the power button. A passcode is needed on boot.