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drake01on Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?

Yes, irssi is still my favorite. Channels I like hanging out on #django, ##linux. Keeping an eye on ii. This: https://tools.suckless.org/ii/

drake01on Going Solo, Successfully

I totally agree with Kevin where he says:

""" I started out charging a monthly rate that was close to my full time salary / 12. This is not a good idea because you have overhead that your employer is no longer covering - health care probably the biggest one, you don't have paid vacations, there may be unpaid downtime between contracts and also companies might not pay you. """

When I started working remote 5 years back, I was just out of college and didn't care about those things...

drake01on Show HN: Grayscale the Web – A Chrome extension to help avoid mindless browsing

This made my day! Thanks Dev Astora for working on it :)

drake01on Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?

* Live as if you were to die tomorrow. * Learn as if you were to live forever.

-- quote by someone famous (some say its Gandhi, but am not sure)

--- Lather, rinse, repeat.

drake01on Ask HN: How to stop feeling depressed about whether you will be successful?

Please visit a psychiatrist; Let them decide if you need SSRIs.

drake01on Vint Cerf sees his invention reflected on Black Mirror

Vague article, clickbait: Vint Cerf, Black Mirror. The article is vague. Avoid if you can.

drake01on The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday

Found this on twitter:

If @Github would have built the Hawaii text alert service: https://twitter.com/mattiasgeniar/status/952929404925202432

drake01on DuckDuckGo XSS vulnerability

https://twitter.com/hexdefined/status/940183455509262336

drake01on The Lost Art of C Structure Packing

I've found file: unaligned-memory-access.txt useful. Ref:- Linux Kernel Source: UNALIGNED MEMORY ACCESSES Link: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

drake01on Emojipedia.org

can't believe it made it to hn front page. HackerNews works in mysterious ways.

drake01on NASA finds lunar spacecraft that vanished 8 years ago

From the cnn article: "Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft is small -- about half the size of a smart car -- making its detection even more noteworthy."

Thank you NASA!

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We can live without both of these. If one must choose, SCTP is better than DCCP in all practical situations, that I can think of. Ref: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datagram_Congestion_Control_Pr... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pr...

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SCTP > DCCP

drake01on A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour

or may be this: window.setInterval(function(){ [].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('a'), function (el){el.click();});},500)

drake01on Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app

mini-me! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-Me ?

drake01on Ask HN: Vim starup time for opening 1000 lines code file

I know, 3 seconds is really bad. that happens because of python-mode plugin that I use.

https://github.com/klen/python-mode

It takes 1300 ms (of those 2800 ms)

I am still trying to trim it down or maybe soon will abandon it.

drake01on Guess my word

Its mentioned already on Leaderboard: Select to reveal answer word:

3rd visible line on links: http://simbase.org/gmw/guess.cgi?by=joon&result=leaderboard http://simbase.org/simbase/leagues/simbasev3/gmw/guess.cgi?b...

drake01on HackerSurfing: Free Housing and Food for Engineers Visiting SF

Wow.

drake01on Elite Hacker Barnaby Jack 'overdosed on drugs'

RIP Jack! Anyways, I Posted the news some 20 hours ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7007589 Hacker News works in mysterious ways. Or is it 'right place, right time' bull$h!t !

drake01on My Story, so far

hi, my email address can be found in my profile.