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danh1979on Goodbye from Salon

This is exactly how my wife and I met! Same sentiment. We still read The Onion, at least

danh1979on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

The Conflict and Environment Observatory published an article outlining actual and potential environmental consequences of this war: https://ceobs.org/the-emerging-environmental-consequences-of...

danh1979on Apple exited the home Wi-Fi market at the wrong time

Still running a 2009 AirPort Extreme at our house. I haven't yet brought myself to replace it, even though I'd probably see a significant benefit from 802.11ac support and better ipv6 support

It has been reliable for nearly a decade with barely a few thoughts. Much more than I can say about any previous router I had.

I can't decide whether to go as open-as-possible-but-more-expensive, or with something like Ubiquity, or what.

danh1979on Show HN: Audioshop – Audio image editing

Has any album art been done with this?

danh1979on White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA

Everyone knows about weather and climate, but NOAA also does a lot of ocean exploration:

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/explorations.html

danh1979on Specifying JSON

I use a lot of JSON and YAML via libvariant [0], a set of C++ libraries. e.g. the core class Variant is a JSON-ish object implementation; there are pluggable Serializers & Deserializers, etc.

Libvariant includes a command line tool, varsh ("Variant shell"), that can schema-validate JSON and YAML documents.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/gallen/libvariant

danh1979on Show HN: Lightweight C++ editor that understands your code

I was also really excited to try this, but I mostly sit in front of Mac OS X, a Linux, or a BSD, in that order. Bookmarked!

danh1979on Quest to Track Every Shot in the NBA Changed Basketball

A curious non-sequitor:

"The data wasn't exactly private, but neither was it public—Goldsberry scraped it from the web."

If Goldsberry scraped the data from the web, wasn't the data inherently public?

danh1979on TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone

I've been using the TextMate 2 alphas for several years as my daily driver text editor (mainly for: C/C++, python, shell scripts, CMake, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and occasional advanced editing for email and other documents).

I occasionally use vi(m) in a terminal for quick tasks, but I find TextMate to be a very comfortable environment for a combination Mac user/command line jockey.

danh1979on Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor

The equivalent Xeons to these i7s, the E5-16xx v3 models, should be out very soon[1][2]. v3 means Haswell. If you need ECC, wait a month or two.

[1] http://www.chiploco.com/intel-haswell-ep-e5-1600-v3-35072/ [2] http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2014/2014080502_Xeon_E5-2600_v...

danh1979on Can code that is valid in both C and C++ produce different behavior?

The compiler for the TI C55x family [1] of fixed-point DSPs is implemented that way: sizeof(char) == 1 and sizeof(int) == 1, both 16-bit fields. A practical consequence is that you can't easily use the same struct header files, for example, on a more conventional platform. Another is that ASCII strings use twice the space.

[1] http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Category:C5000