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c4n4rd··on Learn to use Awk with hundreds of examples
No need to spawn another process(uniq), you can use sort -u

;-)

c4n4rd··on Ask HN: Do you do any mentoring outside of work?
PM me and let me know how I can help. We can set up an initial set of emails.

1. What you currently do 2. What you would like to be doing/learning 3. Where you want to go From there, we can discuss how we can both work on your development.

c4n4rd··on Ask HN: Do you do any mentoring outside of work?
PM me and let me know how I can help. We can set up an initial set of emails.

1. What you currently do 2. What you would like to be doing/learning 3. Where you want to go From there, we can discuss how we can both work on your development. Thank you,

c4n4rd··on Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident
Tweeter and all others you mentioned are private corporations. Their goal is to turn profit to their shareholders - NOTHING MORE.

He who believes these companies exist as a way for the mass population to voice their opinion and as a way to exercise democracy should rethink what these companies are all about.

Note: I do not necessarily agree with that they do, just pointing out what they are all about.

c4n4rd··on Ask HN: Is there a main site for C programming language?
https://www.reddit.com/r/cprogramming/
c4n4rd··on Computer Science from the Bottom Up (2013)
Based on the comments I see here (about how they wished to learn CS, or CS vs EE), I wish this book had a different title with more of an indication that this is a operating systems book (though not 100%). Computer Science is more than what is presented here.

Big O Notation/Data Structures/Algorithms, ala Dr. Knuth

Proof and theorems

Computer architecture and design (NAND gates and the like)

Language design, interpretation, and implementation

...and much more.

Do not get me wrong, I believe this book is valuable (BIG 'THANK YOU' to Ian Wienand for it). I just wish the title could have been different.

c4n4rd··on Show HN: Skov – A visual programming environment
Just a quick note:

1-minute away to get your bot alive .. maybe should be "bot live"? not sure what you intention was here, but one would use "live" more likely in this context.

"Use it, is free" should be "Use it, it is free" or "User it. It's free". English always requires a pronoun before the verb (with exception)

c4n4rd··on I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas
The international keyboard mapping on Ubuntu makes ç come out as ć, so I gave up on trying that. :-)
c4n4rd··on I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas
I live in the US. Let me know if I can help you with anything.

Abracos.

c4n4rd··on Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested
Note: You can find some shows on youtube.

Cheers and abraços

c4n4rd··on Left-pad as a service
This is really exciting!!! I was a bit disappointed that the right-pad will be out only in 2017. I am looking forward to that release because there is a high demand for it now.

What kind of load balancing is being used on the back-end? I called leftpad(str, ch, len) with the length I needed and noticed that is not very scalable because it is blocking.

A better approach I would recommend to those using it is to call the API in a for loop. In my tests, it had performance very close to those I see in C or assembly.

I was a bit turned off that the free version can only handle strings up to 1024 in length. I know you need to make some money, but it is big turn off for a lot of my projects.

Edit: I finally signed up for it but still noticed that I am only allowed to use 1024. I called your customer support line and they said I was calling the API from multiple IP addresses and for that I need an enterprise license. Please help me with this issue, it is very crucial at this point as my project is in a complete stop because of this.

c4n4rd··on The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up
"Questions such as when modals are appropriate"

Can you point me to a document for this?

Thank you.

c4n4rd··on Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
If you work for a USA company, yes - it does.
c4n4rd··on Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
Please... don't exaggerate :-)
c4n4rd··on Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
Besides Prague being a beautiful place, what else made you decide to live there?

I am thinking about living in Europe too.. but it has been difficult to decide.

Thanks and cheers.

c4n4rd··on How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days
Same here. I have been trying the same project as you... and get stuck on the grammar, every.single.time.

Are you done with that part yet?

c4n4rd··on Rikers Drove My Innocent Patient to Plead Guilty
1. Someone died. Most DAs (district attorneys) sees this as a reason to charge people. They will charge even if it is not the case so that the shirt-storm that might come from the media does not fall into his hands - it is like district attorneys think: "It will not decide, let the jury decide and I have my hands clean: If the person was found guilty, it was the jury who did it. If not found guilty, it was also the jury - so do not blame me for the situation"

2. You really need to watch a documentary called "The Plea" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plea/) to get an insight on how FUCKED UP the "justice" in the USA is.

3. The media and politicians have much to blame here. If you are ever convicted of a crime (even like in the case of a plea bargain) you life is likely over because no one wants to take a chance by hiring a "convict" - Business do not want to take this kind of risk.

c4n4rd··on Detecting VPN (and its configuration) and proxy users on the server side
Very interesting analysis.

PS: Small correction on the article:

"To prove my theory 2 VPN services has been tested:" "To prove my theory 2 VPN services have been tested:"

c4n4rd··on How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain
Thanks for posting the pictures. Absolutely magnificent!
c4n4rd··on Céu: Structured Synchronous Reactive Programming
Ceu (Portuguese) means Sky in English.

I think it is a take on Lua (the scripting language) which means moon.

The pronunciation is like 'Seoul' (South Korean Capital), with the 'e' pronuonced slightly more open as in egg.

c4n4rd··on Ask HN: What database should I use, and how should I choose?
I would agree withdavismwfl "So I don't think in today's environment that you need to say one database is the end all".

If your data is relational, that is what relational DBs are for - if you hdata is text search, that is what elastic search tools are for.

The key is to identify how the data will be used.

Good luck on the project.

c4n4rd··on Philanthropy for Hackers
Caveat emptor: completely out of subject.

It seems that we want the new generation to think that a hackers is a young guy with a hood.

Can we just stop this misconception and show a picture of a "hack" as a "normal" person (i.e. any one working in a computer: young, old, woman, man, any race).

c4n4rd··on Tell HN: Things I Learned about Credit Bureaus This Week
I have no business dealing with "credit bureaus". I did not give them my information or consenting for them to store my information on their system.

So, I have been told constantly to "correct" my information with them - FUCK THEM! They bought/stole my personal information - I have no business with them.

Call me naive, but I wish more people would not give a damn about them either.

When I needed a loan to buy my house, I spoke directly to the loan officer face to face and told showed them all documents they needed and told them that if they need to consider my approval based on "Credit Score", I did not care.. I showed them the mistakes and mis-information they have in my credit report and -when he asked me to call them to fix it - I told him that I would not do that because I do not consent them holding my information. Two days later, the load officer called me to tell me my application was approved.

People need to do this more often.

c4n4rd··on Show HN: Review my startup – a blogging platform
Looks great - The ideas on the comments are are really good too.

Do you mind sharing what you used on the back end, and also on the front-end?

P.S. If you cannot share, it is completely fine too.

Thanks!

c4n4rd··on Java Mutation Testing
if you are the site owner, please correct:

Its fast, ...

with

It's fast,...

c4n4rd··on Show HN: Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?
Agreed on the parsing. It would be nice if there was a standard "form" to be posted. Something line.

Description: .... Company: keyworks: python, startup, collstuff Visas Sponsered: YES

c4n4rd··on FAA says monetized videos shot from drones are subject to commercial regulations
What would that entail to independent nature film makers or even companies like National Geographic?
c4n4rd··on Live Sails.js Course
Too bad it seems you can only join with Tweeter or FB account.
c4n4rd··on Android Studio 1.0
How do you delete a project?

Why do they make it SO HARD to even delete a project?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16710290/how-to-delete-a-...

c4n4rd··on Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not To Hire Apple Workers
> I have long told recruiters that I'd need something in the $250k

I wish more people were like you.

Disclaimer: I do the same.

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