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JoshTheGeek··on “This change deletes the C implementations of the Go compiler and assembler”
Yep, with different numbers of comments.
JoshTheGeek··on Scroll Slow. Have Fun
Also on an older iPad
JoshTheGeek··on When printf debugging is a luxury (2010)
A game that is popular at my school has these modal ads with a close button that is smaller than you can accurately tap. Every third time it opens I end up in the App Store. It drives me nuts. A confirmation would be nice.
JoshTheGeek··on When printf debugging is a luxury (2010)
The greatest "feature" of Blogspot. It is the most obnoxious thing on mobile devices.
JoshTheGeek··on GitHub's “hub” tool rewritten in Golang
No, smaller, because you don't need the Go compiler to run it, just to build it. Therefore, you won't need the compiler at all, just the binary.
JoshTheGeek··on GitHub's “hub” tool rewritten in Golang
Somebody rewrote hub in Go a while ago and called it gh. The team behind hub only decided recently to merge in gh and make it the new, GitHub-approved version of hub.
JoshTheGeek··on The Horror of Cross-platform Audio Output
MathJax (http://www.mathjax.org/) will render LaTeX math in the browser. The result is quite pretty.
JoshTheGeek··on Firefox for iOS on GitHub
They have no other choice; Apple won't accept apps with custom web rendering engines.
JoshTheGeek··on Welcome, cryptanalyst
Two non-digits followed by three non-whitespace characters
JoshTheGeek··on Try Git
nano is less confusing than vim, though that is another bad habit to form. I used it for a very long time, but switching to vim has been amazing. I think that -m is probably best for teaching a beginner, though.
JoshTheGeek··on Try Git
I've wondered for a while how they deal with situations like that. For instance, when they implemented stars, there was likely a user named stars, but then they reserved /stars for their new feature, presumably removing that user. I just wonder if they emailed the user and said, Hi, we need your username for a new feature. Thanks, GitHub.
JoshTheGeek··on WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
Unrelated: Don't factory reset your router. The software to set it up requires you to downgrade to 10.7 or something. It'd be nice if linksys would update their software, or at least remove the version cap.
JoshTheGeek··on Chrome for Mac 64-bit Support
> Thanks for your patience, everyone.

5 years and 3 months after the issue was opened...

JoshTheGeek··on Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web
I wonder how many of the cheap web hosts will impelent this. I think the increased hosting cost on top of the certificate itself also discourages people from using TLS. Wishful thinking, perhaps...
JoshTheGeek··on The Middle School Plunge
Where I live, elementary starts at 8, middle starts at 9, and high school starts at the wonderful time of 7:30. The transition from middle school to high school was especially painful. I wish we used the times your district used; they make so much more sense than ours.
JoshTheGeek··on Unofficial Demake Port Of Super Smash Bros Arrives On TI-83/84 Calculators
I'm sure my math teacher would love me playing this in class. It's amazing what you can do with just a calculator.
JoshTheGeek··on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted
I don't understand how copyright would help in this case.
JoshTheGeek··on The Man Who Solved the Mysterious Cicada 3301 Puzzle
Fermat's last theorem has been proven; there is no solution, people. In this case, you can't verify this using "any old calculator," as most show only ten digits and these diverge at digit 12.
JoshTheGeek··on What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance?
Any podcast recommendations for the HN crowd? I personally listen to Hello Internet (CGP Grey and Brady Haran) and Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project (Adam Savage and friends).
JoshTheGeek··on How long do GUIDs really need to be?
Couldn't you generate a UUID and then check the database that it is unique before using it? You could then repeat until you got a unique identifier.
JoshTheGeek··on Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
The Florida standardized math tests and the SAT have fill-in math questions as well as multiple choice. Teachers themselves can choose whether the students must show their work for their tests. In my experience, most only check the answer, but some do check the work.
JoshTheGeek··on Show HN: Extensive logging facility for iOS apps: database, Telnet, HTTP server
This is not the first library I've seen like that. I'm curious, though. Do any apps actually use logging this extensively? The telnet certainly seems a bit over the top.
JoshTheGeek··on Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety
Agreed. Tampa, Orlando, and the other big cities are like any others. In the middle of the state or the Everglades, though, you can go miles without even a turnoff.
JoshTheGeek··on Show HN: Deploy your websites from Dropbox
How do you deal with naming conflicts?
JoshTheGeek··on Transmit for iOS
No
JoshTheGeek··on Bukkit no longer available for download. Hit with DMCA takedown.
Fun fact: Mojang bought Bukkit. (@jeb_ tweeted the other day. This notice states that bukkit uses Minecraft's code without permission, and it did at one point. Now, though, as Mojang owns both, I think it should be allowed. Oh, and a Mojang employee (Dinnerbone) has stated he will be updating it to support 1.8.
JoshTheGeek··on Apple two-step protection won’t protect your data
Nothing has changed, this is how Apple's 2FA still works. It's relevant because this is how the celebrity hacking happened this weekend: their passwords were brute forced, and they didn't need to break the 2FA as well because it is only needed to make purchases.
JoshTheGeek··on Mosh: A replacement for SSH
Kill the pane (prefix x) and then run `reset`, maybe?
JoshTheGeek··on Why Do We Say “Big Red Barn,” But “Red Big Barn” Sounds Wrong?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mTm1tJYr5_M
JoshTheGeek··on Show HN: A Chrome extension to get around the WSJ paywall
What is the workaround?
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