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benreic··on Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
I also got a C2 and briefly connected it via WiFi before I had the Apple TV. After hooking up the Apple TV I turned WiFi and thought I was all set, but it keeps turning WiFi on by itself and checking for updates which is really annoying. Might do a factory reset to clear out the WiFi password.
benreic··on Why Timber Towers Are on the Rise in France
We just moved into our new office space in what is supposedly the largest timber office building in the US [0]. In the interior, nearly all the wood is exposed and it looks really cool.

The outside of the building is sheathed in some sort of metal, I presume to protect the wood, but they even did a good job of making the metal look cool too.

[0]: http://www.t3northloop.com/

benreic··on Six years of Go
I guess I was hoping for a composer-like versioning system, but I suppose that's not a given?
benreic··on Six years of Go
I'm surprised to not see any mention in the comments about the biggest change coming in 1.6: the package vendoring mechanism. This has been a big missing piece for awhile and I'm glad they're addressing it in an official way.

I was super excited for the cross compilation abilities on Go 1.5 and now I have something else to be super excited for in Go 1.6, can't wait!

benreic··on Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go
Good to know. How many iterations did you use to generate the images on github?
benreic··on Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go
I was surprised at how little code it takes to generate the gopher, using your library, that's cool.

I started generating the gopher locally abd let it go through one iteration, taking 4:34, until I realized it takes 1000 iterations to fully render :) I killed it.

benreic··on CoreCLR is now open source
Quick link to what I think is the most interesting class in the CLR:

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/src/mscorlib/s...

benreic··on Luna – Hack your sleep
We have a queen mattress with a pillowtop - so its taller than a standard queen. Would this work with the queen size Luna product?

It likely wouldn't reach the bottom of the mattress, but it seems like that shouldn't be a big deal.