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_lce0on A PHP Compiler, a.k.a. the FFI Rabbit Hole

Not sure how long .. but the chain can be quite long!!

    $x = 'y';
    $y = 'x';
    echo $$$$$$$$$$$$$y;

I've tested with 1500 `$` and it still works :)

_lce0on Social networks are no longer social

> I can’t see people wanting to manage their own homepage. But then again, I remember we all did in high school for MySpace... maybe we will again.

The keyboard was what allowed such interaction.. How are nowadays' teens to manage such designs if their main device is a touchscreen?

_lce0on Domain Registrar Can Be Held Liable for Pirate Site, German Court Rules

> The case in question was filed by Universal Music over Robin Thicke's album Blurred Lines.

Incredible. The same guys that were found guilty of copying that song ..

> Robin Thicke has lost the "Blurred Lines" lawsuit he has been engaged in with the Marvin Gaye estate. Robin Thicke, Pharrell to Pay $7.2 Million in 'Blurred Lines'

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robin-thicke-p...

_lce0on Show HN: Hacker News Classics

ahh was about to publish something in BC just to see what happens ;)

_lce0on 5 months of /r/place at my elementary school (One pixel per student per day)

It is really interesting how the following order seems to naturally follow itself:

1. disorder and chaos

2. patterns and backgrounds start to appear

3. the battle for the main background, spreading

4. totally background pattern, the war is over

5. group art creations start to appear

_lce0on Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF

Also volume control on mobile is completely broken.

You cannot easily control the volume until the video starts playing; not even when the video is still loading.

https://xkcd.com/1884/

_lce0on Cortana is really bad

oh my, I'm not alone! ;)

Anybody knows how to get that "calc" thing working as expected?

_lce0on Firefox 57.0 Released

The TagGroups is so part of my daily basis that I went back to the v56.0

I cannot stress enough how it helps me to switch between contexts. It's one of those things that you just did not know that you needed so much.

What options do we have?

_lce0on Slack is offline

Why CPU goes like crazy every time slack loses connectivity?

You can easily test this by disconnecting from wifi. As soon as you're offline the fan starts spinning until you get your connection back.

_lce0on Firefox Multi-Account Containers

CTRL+clicking the "+" sign will open a new tab on the same container!!

It's a bit awkward although it works, until they get the CTRL+T solved.

_lce0on Sublime Text 3.0

> [...] that you probably utilize for thousands of hours over a given year

Assuming 4hs net per day, 20 days/month, 12 months .. thats 960 hours/year

And that's assuming that you spent all those 4 hours _entirely_ on your text editor; no cli, no browser, no nothing.. only text editor.

I'd say that on avg we should be doing ~200 hours per year.. Are there any study about this?

_lce0on Alexa and Cortana now work together

Alexa, please ask Cortana to ask Alexa this exact same question.

_lce0on URL obfuscation (2002)

I used to use http://127.1 for laziness until I've found that I was able to use http://0 which is even lazier :)

_lce0on Show HN: RESTful Doom – HTTP+JSON API inside Doom

Most certainly your machine will suddenly reboot to a newly installed arch ;)

_lce0on Show HN: Unix-like personal webpage

So are you saying that bash is not actually executed but the characters are being printed on the screen and they looks as if the animation were still playing?

What I cannot understand from that explanation is how the animation time works. It should display the animation in chunks, with really fast frames, followed by pauses while it waits for data to be received.

_lce0on Show HN: Unix-like personal webpage

wat it just started to run.

I thought it was supposed to be piped for bash to be executed.

Are all `curl` just exposed to bash injections?

_lce0on Unix Time 1500M – Friday July 14 02:40UTC

> Friday May 15 2015 02:09:25 GMT

That was 0x55555555 or b01010101010101010101010101010101

_lce0on Commander Keen Level Maps

aand we broke it.

Web archive to the rescue: https://web.archive.org/web/20170628072214/www.commander-kee...

_lce0on Functional programming in JavaScript is an antipattern

I really agree with you. Think that there's a tension between how a computer works and how a functions operate on data.

Immutability and Referential Transparency help reduce that friction, but in the end we still have not found a real solution. That's why languages like Haskell require a bunch of gymnastics just to allow IO to be seen as pure functions.

_lce0on Functional programming in JavaScript is an antipattern

Mathematically a Function is a Relation that has two special properties: uniqueness and existence.

(these properties names can be wrong as I've not study calculus in English)

So on the machine, Immutability plays an important role on the first piece, uniqueness, so it tries to guarantee that results are not just "equal objects, but different instances", which breaks the function definition.

Of course that functions that return a new object for the same arguments, even if it's immutable, are not true math functions.

_lce0on Ask HN: How can I get better at bash?

http://www.shellcheck.net/

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SublimeLinter-shellcheck

_lce0on Mars, Moon on Google Maps

To make this work on Firefox mobile, first activate desktop mode, and then click on any link.

Can't really understand why a perfectly capable device is access denied without such trick, it clearly works.

_lce0on Base65536 encoding

It's funny how this is really close to when celebrities tweet about how good a brand is.

_lce0on Improving advertising on the web

> Due to these poor ad experiences, the usage of extensions that block ads across the web continues to rise, up about 30% from just last year. This reduces the ability for publishers to continue creating free content and threatens the sustainability of the web ecosystem.

Is this the first step to remove ad blockers from Chrome? I guess that 30% also affects Google.

_lce0on Google Earth Redesigned

I know I know stupidity beats malice .. but when I first saw that same message I thought: nice marketing stunt, well played Google

_lce0on Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released

you can still download the old one, just replace the version on the build url ;)

_lce0on Ask HN: Where are you located?

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

_lce0on [dead]

I guess they dont know about the `Location` header?

    ↪ curl --verbose http://thefailingnytimes.com/
    *   Trying 54.231.83.9...
    * Connected to thefailingnytimes.com (54.231.83.9) port 80 (#0)
    > GET / HTTP/1.1
    > Host: thefailingnytimes.com
    > User-Agent: curl/7.50.1
    > Accept: */*
    > 
    < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    < x-amz-id-2: 3/A2c4uv6C9ElXBmvw5hzPDNSG0fYwiDfyeHxobE8eqiwy7p+lFdQwFGx92B7Yg+EJtfOr+c1yI=
    < x-amz-request-id: B58F8E66505B6259
    < Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 06:03:57 GMT
    < Last-Modified: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 05:39:59 GMT
    < ETag: "58ca9e6b05c3b8f082825624638ecc61"
    < Content-Type: text/html
    < Content-Length: 111
    < Server: AmazonS3
    < 

    <script>
    document.location.href='https://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp8HYKU.html';
    </script>

    * Connection #0 to host thefailingnytimes.com left intact

_lce0on The lost art of 3D rendering without shaders

Thanks for bringing back my own memories!!

I had forget about this but at my first year and while the algebra professor was drawing 3D vectors to explain the lecture, I was thinking "that is a 2D surface, so there should be a linear transformation between the two worlds".

Later at home, I've found such space transformation and built a small 3D world that you can walk, using only vectors and plain triangles :)