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tmcb··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012)
I am interested in this position; I am not from US, though. Anyway, I just sent my resume to the proper email. Thanks!
tmcb··on Why should piracy be encouraged, a third world perspective
It seems he was talking in a per-month basis, even for the use of the word 'salary'. But I may be wrong.
tmcb··on Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader
As it is advertised, the subscription info is stored locally. How can it be deleted? I tried to delete the cookies, but it didn't work. Please, don't tell me you are using those naughty evercookies.
tmcb··on HN reader
It should be kind of fun selecting this very link there.
tmcb··on iframe causes a BSoD on win 7 x64 via Safari
It's an exploitable vulnerability. I'd recommend not try that on a production system.

http://secunia.com/advisories/47237/

tmcb··on Licensing to decide the result of gcc vs llvm?
This section is a little bit misleading.

"One advantage (from Nvidia’s point of view) not mentioned is that llvm is licensed under a BSD style agreement. This means Nvidia don’t have to release the source code of any modifications or additions they make (they said these will be kept closed source); gcc is licensed under the GNU general public license which requires source to be released. Arch rivals AMD (well, the ATI bit of AMD that does graphics hardware) also promote llvm and I’m sure Nvidia does not want to help them in any way."

The GPL does not require the modifications to the source code to be released. It just states that if the modified software is distributed, it must comply with the well-known GPL requirements.

tmcb··on Flash is fine. Dont be a Fundamentalist.
For those unaware of what motivated that: http://occupyflash.org
tmcb··on printf("goodbye, Dennis");
You're not the only one.
tmcb··on The MIT Hacker Ethic
"Wow. in 1984 Levy distilled down those principles from the hacker ethic, and it clearly obvious to any of us in the industry that the ideas have spread."

It is obviously an advance if they're at least being discussed, but there's a long road until these ideals come true. And as the author said, we're beginning to inherit the responsibility.

tmcb··on Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On
I found the article to be quite informative and, why not, just. Readers that are not acquainted with hacker culture will be able to know who Dennis Ritchie was and comprehend his importance after reading it.

Moreover, it is not one piece of the 'sad elitism' that took place after the news about dmr arrived. I saw some dozens of comments splattered over different places following the line 'you must definitely know who he was,' accompanied by some generic complaint about unfair coverage by news media over Mr. Jobs passing. Though I agree with some of these views, I don't think it makes the fair eulogy Dennis Ritchie deserves.

Dennis' importance will never be measured by any kind of comparison or relativization; it is hugely obvious, it persisted and is going to persist by many decades. We here know it. Those who don't, though, have the right to understand what he made possible. I think the article succeeds on this purpose.

tmcb··on The Brainfu*k Turing Machine (Javascript)
And I thought Brainfuck was unintelligible before playing with that...
tmcb··on Protect IP threatens the future of DNS security
And, yet bizarre, some people will see that as a necessary evil.
tmcb··on Pentium-III autopsy
The good thing since then is that industry started focusing on power consuption. Maybe the "mobile revolution" wouldn't take place if they kept running for clock improvements at each and every project.
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