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th0br0··on Gene Wolfe, 'magnificent' giant of science fiction, dies aged 87
> it would be better for a male fan of the book to just hold his tongue and not try to deny that female reader’s experience

This argument is at odds with the core idea of feminism of equality between genders. You are insinuating that a female reader would not be equipped to judge herself the "male fan's" comment.

th0br0··on I Built a Lisp Compiler
> Writing C code and trying to keep it indented was a bit of a pain and I wish I would have done something else. I believe some compilers write ugly code and then “pretty it up” with a library before writing it out. This is something to explore!

There's a tool for this nowadays: `clang-format`.

th0br0··on HN-like math research discussion for Ph.D.s
Huh, TIL - thanks.
th0br0··on HN-like math research discussion for Ph.D.s
What does sth like this need 'leaders' (i.e. rankings) for? Isn't it exactly the lack of such rankings that makes HN so nice?
th0br0··on New Pricing for G Suite Basic and Business Editions
The odd thing is that you can freely share family subscriptions bought on a single GMail account with members of a GSuite org.
th0br0··on Rust 2019: Tame Complexity through Community Involvement Tools
You do get all that today already. The various Cortex'es are supported rather well + gdb in combination with a JLink gives you the debugging interfaces you need.
th0br0··on Salk scientists find genetic signatures of biological aging
For those geowalled: https://outline.com/dp7dyU

This is the actual study: https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13...

th0br0··on The day I found Saowen.com had stolen my content
Blurring out the ticket id isn't that useful when the TXT record still exists...
th0br0··on SpaceX recovery attempt not successful: water landing instead of land
ElonMusk just posted a video of the actual landing - including the fall.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1070399755526656000

th0br0··on A perfect storm that brought down LinkedIn.com
I wonder what this third-party framework is/was...
th0br0··on Still in love with Rust
A `const fn` RFC is accepted and somwhat available when using nightly compilers, also see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/24111
th0br0··on Trip report: Fall ISO C++ standards meeting
> This week’s meeting was extraordinary. The pre-meeting mailing had 274 papers, about twice as many as any previous meeting, and we had 180 people attending, making this the largest C++ committee meeting ever.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/9vwvbz/2018_san_diego_...

th0br0··on Why we’re changing Flickr free accounts
SmugMug allows a custom domain. I'd argue that it's more private / less community oriented than SmugMug. Depends on what you want I guess; I've read about many people using 500px to upload some of their best shots as a portfolio & using smugmug for the rest.
th0br0··on Why we’re changing Flickr free accounts
This looks interesting. Does it support import from the SmugMug API or from other sources?
th0br0··on A16z data: how much startup executives make
Pro tip: start hitting ESC once the page has loaded fully. The paywall is client-side JS...
th0br0··on Pixelblaze V2 – An advanced LED pattern development engine and controller
There's the ElectroDragon ESP LED Board, which does pretty much all of what the Pixelblaze does (sans FW) for much less - although the footprint is larger...

https://www.electrodragon.com/product/esp-led-strip-board/

th0br0··on Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?
How about https://kolabnow.com/ ? You can also self-host Kolab.
th0br0··on The Galaxy S10+ Will Be the Biggest Android Phone Ever (Report)
Interestingly enough; my S8 here (G930F on Android 8) only has the April patches. Got to love staged rollouts...
th0br0··on Show HN: Revert back to good old GitHub Homepage
... so it's going to look like GitLab? /s
th0br0··on Modern C++ Features – std::optional
GCC moved it to <optional> with the release of GCC7. Note that we're now at GCC8, clang 4 added it - I believe we're now at clang 6.

Therefore, it's by far no longer something that's experimental IMHO. (standardised in C++17 after all)

th0br0··on Modern C++ Features – std::optional
The worst part about this is that Apple has decided to once again violate the standard. They purposefully eliminated the `value()` accessor due to ABI issues as far as I understand from the stack overflow comments: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44217316/how-do-i-use-st...

My recommendation would be to just use https://github.com/martinmoene/optional-lite for cross-platform stuff.

th0br0··on Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”
Not seeing the updated 2TB->$9.99 plan yet in Europe :/ Wonder whether this is just for the US?
th0br0··on Facebook lost a million users in the US and Canada last quarter
I don't think we know whether this million were genuine users or fake accounts?

Original post: https://www.recode.net/2018/1/31/16957122/facebook-daily-act...

th0br0··on Three months of content moderation for Facebook in Berlin
Note that Facebook has outsourced the moderation to an external company (Arvato Bertelsmann) and isn't employing these people themselves.
th0br0··on Ubuntu anouncement on Spectre/Meltdown
Given that the CRD/NDA came from Intel and that spectreattack.com is hosted by the University of Graz, I'd assume that that was a one-sided CRD.
th0br0··on Safe Pointers in SPARK 2014
Because of licensing?
th0br0··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
The website is indeed a slow-moving behemoth. We're in the process of revamping it but focused our efforts elsewhere over the past couple months.
th0br0··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
IOTA Stiftung | Remote, Berlin, Tel Aviv | Full Time | https://blog.iota.org and https://iota.org

The IOTA Foundation is a registered non-profit organisation based out of Berlin, Germany with the goal of promoting Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) research and development - the current focus being the IOTA token and ecosystem.

We are currently looking for:

  Ecosystem Software Engineer (f/m)
You'll be involved in the development of PoCs with various industry partners. Most of our PoCs are currently done using React including the occasional server side component and you'll be able to make a serious impact on enabling widespread adoption of IOTA. Embedded experience is a plus.

  Systems Engineer (f/m)
You'll be involved in the development of our current node software and further iterations on top of that. For a rough outline of these see [1]. The current node implementation is written in Java, but we're writing the next iteration in C11/C++14. Embedded experience is a plus.

Email: contact@iota.org

[1] https://blog.iota.org/iota-development-roadmap-74741f37ed01

th0br0··on Beorg – an Emacs org-mode companion for iOS
Last time I'd looked, I was unable to find such an app. This is what I've been looking for! Thanks!
th0br0··on Ethereum Now Handles More Transactions Than All Digital Currencies Combined
Lots to do and hard to find talented hands to work on things. But great overall - both on seeing adoption in real world use cases and development side.

As for the other question: once the network is more - next year?

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