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wonsleron Ninja – A small build system with a focus on speed

I've used ninja and gyp for building Android apps. It is 1 to 2 orders of magnitude faster than Gradle.

wonsleron Ninja – A small build system with a focus on speed

A Ninja file is probably no easier to write than a Makefile. But Ninja is a lot faster than make, which is the reason for using it. To see this, configure Chromium to build with Xcode, make, and ninja, and compare the build times.

wonsleron Who Spewed That Abuse? Anonymous Yik Yak App Isn’t Telling

I was going to gloat about how I don't use something like yik yak, but then I realized I'm anonymous here, and that HN employs heavy handed moderation to deal with near anonymous chat.

wonsleron Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video]

He is very specifically releasing quickly. I didn't see anywhere an attempt to hold a bow in position for a long time to aim --- just like throwing a ball, you don't have to hold it cocked when you are an expert.

How are these trick shots, and not refined? Those sound like belittling statements. He has done good research and discovery of how ancient warriors fought. It is fair to call them different techniques, but not refined vs unrefined. It would take some serious practice to duplicate the masters in either style.

wonsleron Why Ferrari engineers don't like turbos

This is an article for people that like to drive, and he is correct: you want a linear response in turns. He is not dictating requirements for the general public --- he is describing reality.

wonsleron [dead]

Couldn't they adjust their zoning and planning to allow more housing supply, to avoid rising home prices? The Bay Area has that option too, but steadfastly rejects it almost everywhere. It seems like everyone wants to blame incoming tech workers, when the reality is more complicated.

wonsleron Inside the Collapse of the New Republic

His job was to go about it the right way. It doesn't help anyone to write buggy code.

wonsleron Sometimes, it’s just time to go home

Work smart, not hard. Cash is a metric of how valuable something is to the purchaser, and not how hard it is for the master to perform, but for the purchaser to perform from scratch. Working hard, without balance, is an obsessive-compulsive behavior, so that you needn't define yourself and figure out how to live your life. The parent of your comment is spot on.

wonsleron This POODLE bites: exploiting the SSL 3.0 fallback

See https://github.com/yahoo/cnet for a client that uses BoringSSL