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clishem··on How a lazy bitch like me learned to be productive
Reminds me of this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
clishem··on Re2c: A free and open-source lexer generator for C and C++
Alternative: https://github.com/fbb-git/flexcpp

(nice with https://github.com/fbb-git/bisoncpp as parser generator)

Very well written with good documentation.

clishem··on Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson
Please find something you love doing and learn more about that instead of picking up random things.
clishem··on Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
It's up again
clishem··on A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners
Strength is actually very important if you read Taoist sexual kung fu practices, they even had exercises for tongue strength specifically.
clishem··on A comparative study: tongue muscle performance in weightlifters and runners
Actually, the weightlifters were better in some regards.
clishem··on Show HN: Oat++ – Zero-dependency C++ framework for high-performance web services
You are expected to deliver tests to Techempower yourself. Optimizing for those tests is part of the game. ;)

net/http is known for being quite slow

clishem··on Ultimate Writer: An Open Digital Typewriter
Or you can just pick up a second hand AlphaSmart Neo like I did. Weeks of battery life as well.
clishem··on Show HN: Oat++ – Zero-dependency C++ framework for high-performance web services
I wonder how this stacks against Cutelyst in terms of performance.
clishem··on IA Writer 5.0
Overpriced hipsterware from a marketing company.
clishem··on EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
If you don't abide by the law, you may get sued. If you do abide by the law, you may still get sued. There's no reasoning in there, it's a simple fact.

'My startup may get sued' is not a good argument against a law.

clishem··on EU censorship machines and link tax laws are nearing the finish line
This is blatant fear mongering. Furthermore, calling these directives 'link tax laws' is simply a cheap frame. You can link to articles freely. Including a snippet that has 'no independent economic significance' is allowed. Agreed, that is not very precise. But is that really such a big deal?

Sure, you might get sued. That's life. You have to trust the reasonableness of the courts. And don't worry, they won't go after you. The publishers will go after some big fish such as Telegram (which blatantly copies entire articles and strips it of everything but the article). Case law / Jurisprudence / Jurisprudentie / Fallrecht will develop around this issue and everyone will be happy.

And for some, just including a minimal snippet may not be an option. They'll have to pay. That's also life. Journalists and publishers need to eat too. Their work is too important to be allowed to wither.

clishem··on Only 31% of California voters want to keep paying for bullet train
I flagged this article is geoblocked in Europe.
clishem··on Enter the Matrix – A technical overview and guide to all things Matrix
> guide to all things Matrix

> A device is bound to an access token and E2E encryption keys (which I’m not covering in this post).

This is far from 'all things Matrix' then.

clishem··on Math problems that challenge the world
That's not even a problem of mathematics.
clishem··on The Fall of Eclipse (2016)
Or people caring about software freedom. To this day you have to agree to a Privacy Policy to be able to use Intellij which is why I personally stick with Eclipse.
clishem··on Ask HN: Is Meteor.js dead?
Blaze still works! http://blazejs.org/guide/introduction.html
clishem··on How to set up an iPad for web development
> Setting up an iPad for coding is my greatest feat as a computer user

What's a computer?

clishem··on Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
Sounds like the script of a Black Mirror episode to me.
clishem··on Tech Giants Set to Face 3% Tax on Revenue Under New EU Plan
> The commission’s planned revenue tax, which is expected to be proposed on March 21, would only represent a targeted, short-term solution.

It seems to be targeted at big tech giants specifically. Good luck splitting Alphabet, Facebook and Apple.

> the impossibility of taxation under global free trade

They wish.

clishem··on EU wants to require platforms to filter uploaded content, including code
I wonder if they read the article. It most certainly won't apply to GitHub, and it only mentions content filtering as an example. Until proven otherwise this is simply FUD spreading. Dissapointing.
clishem··on Show HN: Chomper – An Internet Blocker for Linux
> entirely impossible

You severely underestimate us procrastinators. We'd sooner wipe our disk than work. ;-)

clishem··on C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013)
Sure, it's a large and complex language that takes time to master. But I'm interested to hear examples of what you call 'profusion of edge cases'.

> The ratio between what a C++ compiler will accept and what it will produce sane code for is huge.

As is the case for any programming language.

> C++, on the other hand, seems to have been designed by compiler writers for their own enjoyment and/or job security.

C++ is designed by its standards committee... If you know anything about the struggles compiler writers have had with implementing the standard, you'd know the standards committee definitely does not consist of compiler writers! It's really cheap to summarize their efforts as motivated by advancing their own job security if you ask me... I can recommend you to attend a meeting or to read some proceedings to convince yourself otherwise.

clishem··on Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash
You shouldn't call your book 'learn X the hard way' if it isn't (also) freely available online if you ask me.
clishem··on If your iPhone is slow, try replacing the battery
My grandmothers iPad 3 has become completely unusable because of throtteling, whether is is plugged in or not.
clishem··on If your iPhone is slow, try replacing the battery
I have an even simpler solution: don't buy any Apple products anymore.
clishem··on Bookbinding: A Tutorial (1995)
It needs a max-width somewhere. This website was not designed for 25' screens.
clishem··on Bookbinding: A Tutorial (1995)
There you go: https://uazu.net/notes/binding.html
clishem··on Substituting JavaScript with HTML
Interesting that the images on that website don't load without Javascript. If only there was a way to show images with HTML instead of Javascript.
clishem··on Meteor allow/deny vulnerability disclosure
Using allow/deny has been an anti-pattern for a while now (using methods is preferred). My projects are not affected, but it is nice to see this so quickly.
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