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dennyabraham

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Software fella in Chicago

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dennyabraham··on Scalable, Lie-Detecting Timeserving with Roughtime
What would the magnitude of effort to actually replace ntp with another solution be? Even in low-level programming, I mostly take for granted that it occurs, but it's regular enough that there's an ntpd on any machine I connect to.
dennyabraham··on GDNative – A scripting language module for Godot
They're both hard to build, but require different skillsets. Moreover, game engines are often customized in unhygienic ways by folks early in their career. Maybe it's better these inexperienced folks run into the problems with their own unmaintainable code firsthand before they take on world-critical problems.
dennyabraham··on GDNative – A scripting language module for Godot
This seems like a great opportunity to try out Rust with these new bindings!
dennyabraham··on Deis to Join Microsoft
It's reported elsewhere[1] Deis is being acquired from EngineYard.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/10/microsoft-acquires-contain...

dennyabraham··on Ask HN: The most cyberpunk city in the world?
Cyberpunk connotes overcrowded cities where human life is commoditized and tech is widespread. Huge cities in Africa or India are much closer to unevenly distributed technological dystopias than the tech hubs other folks have suggested.
dennyabraham··on Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space
Is this a joke or is purely radiative cooling in space feasible for a datacenter?
dennyabraham··on A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016)
Later in the article when describing a practical protocol for a first-contact scenario, they explain this problem as discovering the 'modality' of communication.
dennyabraham··on Ellie – An Elm Live Editor
as a ruby dev that constantly dips into irb over syntax and semantic questions, a tool like this really helps me think at the same increment with elm!
dennyabraham··on Pugs are anatomical disasters. Vets must speak out–even if it’s bad for business
how about the term 'landrace'?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dog_landraces

dennyabraham··on Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter
There is, however, some value in letting engineers choose which tools and platforms they want to build upon as long as the consequences to the business and hiring are understood and agreed upon.
dennyabraham··on Images of New MacBook Pro with Magic Toolbar Leaked in MacOS Sierra 10.12.1
Is it coincidental that the leaked image is of a user buying bluetooth headphones?
dennyabraham··on Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
It could enhance and supersede Salesforce's already existing Chatter product (an internal social newsfeed).
dennyabraham··on The Despair of Poor White Americans
Are you suggesting a root cause for why they haven't en masse made the migration? Without that, I can't see how this amounts to more than a moral argument.
dennyabraham··on What happens when private equity buys your competitor?
i had a very similar experience so i set up a git bridge for my part of engineering to use. it was not well-received by management, but it might be still running
dennyabraham··on DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine
I wonder how well these decision systems stack against random suggestions? I notice it feels like I fixate on the few people or subjects that are regularly presented to me to the exclusion of everyone else.
dennyabraham··on Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago Desperate for Software Engineers, Says Job Search Firm
comparable quality of life at 110 in chicago is ~180 in sv and probably much higher elsewhere. also, traffic in a place like chicago is an experience very few people in tech ever deal with, given the mass transport.
dennyabraham··on Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago Desperate for Software Engineers, Says Job Search Firm
we represent chicago fairly well in the whoishiring threads. plenty of places have what you're hoping for!
dennyabraham··on Why do Chinese websites look so busy?
the vast difference between the chinese system of writing and alphabets i'm used to brings to mind a question: is there a notion of linear ordering of chinese characters? are all chinese characters enumerated (to the layperson, i understand that they'd have to be numbered to be encoded)?
dennyabraham··on Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences in 2016?
I try to find people whose talks I enjoyed in the past and check their speaking schedule on lanyrd. I then cross reference that with cities I'd like to visit, topics that will get me passionate, and other good quality speakers. I find since I've been doing this, my joy vs exhaustion ratio of conferencegoing has risen dramaticaly
dennyabraham··on Postgres features and tips
Navicat Essentials for Postgres on OSX costs $40 and is a robust if somewhat stripped down alternative.
dennyabraham··on Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC
The microphone permission is one of the most pernicious. What might not be immediately clear to people is that a number of ambient sounds and almost all ambient music emit steganographic location data. Furthermore, additional metadata is encoded in other data that your phone's sensor package can read if it turns out to be on.
dennyabraham··on Ask HN: Technical interviews went amazing but HR is not answering my emails now?
A lot of the trouble in interview processes is communication or an overflow of work that causes seemingly "closed" interviews to fall off people's priority lists.

For you, specifically, I'd recommend preferring the future regret of having contacted the head of hr later than is advisable than the regret of never knowing. After all, the worst thing that could happen is they say no, whereas all slightly less bad consequences are pretty rad.

dennyabraham··on Jackfruit could save millions from starvation
It's supposed to resemble pulled pork before it's ripened. I've never seen it personally, however, since I've only been able to find fresh jackfruit in the midwest in the last few years.
dennyabraham··on Is Homo naledi just a primitive version of Homo erectus?
One of the most significant parts of this rebuttal is this team's commitment to open scientific data. They've made 3d shape files available on http://morphosource.org/ and encourage critics and reviewers to print out the bones and compare them.

Imagine the kind of access this gives laypeople! Everyone from poor institutions in developing nations to high schools in farm towns can now duplicate these bones for research or to simply inspire wonder about human history because of new technology and one team's belief in free information.

dennyabraham··on Why is light so fast?
You are correct, the distinction here is between unitless constants and constants expressible only in terms of arbitrary units.

ex: The fine structure constant 7.29735257×10^−3 is independent of any measurement system and takes the same value when computed in any of them. The speed of light, however, cannot be expressed without prior definition of units of time and distance. 299792458 m/s is equivalent to 1.8026175×10^12 furlongs per fortnight.

dennyabraham··on Building a hut with a tiled roof, underfloor heating and mud and stone walls
It sounds like a fun project. How did it hold up against rain?
dennyabraham··on New York judge grants writ of habeus corpus to two chimpanzees
Were we to accord the rights of freedom and choice to animals, those that would rather stay with their human families would not be barred from doing so. In truth, if the relationship between a pet and its owner isn't symbiotic and mutually desired, it may be worth breaking.
dennyabraham··on Athame – Full vim for bash and readline
Honestly that's the most exciting part of neovim, but with the current milestone (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/milestones/libnvim), libnvim might be a few seasons away
dennyabraham··on Blue Moon: The “Craft” Beer Made by Coors
PBR and its siblings (Olympia, Old Style, Hamm's) succeed because they're cheap and low gravity enough to be sessionable while plausibly being the beer of our grandparents but not our parents. As other brewers learn to hit that sweet spot, I imagine you'll see folks switching.
dennyabraham··on Ask HN: I got let go this morning. What should I do next?
To add to this, figure out insurance and freelance taxes. Those two nearly came back to bite me when I first went independent.
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