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hornd

137 karma · joined October 10, 2011

Software Engineer, SF bay area native.
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hornd··on The Lack of Open Tooling for FPGAs
Hmm? FPGAs, in most cases, consume significantly less power than GPUs, unless GPU technology has caught up in the past year or so.
hornd··on Reno Wants to Be Silicon Valley's Back Office
Reno is an awesome town. Most of the people I've talked to who have been to Reno have only ever seen the "trashy" casinos and run-down areas along S Virginia St., but if you dig deeper you'll find there's much more depth. They have an up and coming art scene, some great restaurants and bars, and perhaps most importantly a population of passionate and extremely friendly people who absolutely love their town and want it to succeed. Go Reno!
hornd··on NextDoor raises $110M at a $1.1B valuation
Hm, also in Alameda, but my neighborhood seems to be mostly ads. Seems to be really hit or miss.
hornd··on What is Tcl?
As does Alteras. It's almost the defacto scripting language supported by HW vendors. It can be a fun change of pace, too.
hornd··on Show HN: A minimal C runtime for Linux i386 and x86_64 in 87 SLOC of C
It's pretty awesome regardless, nice job.
hornd··on Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (2001)
Why would calling them anything different have any effect on learning other concepts?
hornd··on The Scientific 7-Minute Workout
This is a good start! When you say olympic press, you are referring to the clean and press, right? I'd try to fit bench press in there and maybe some hyperextensions in also.

I think there is one key that needs to be stressed to people starting to work out: anything* is better than nothing. You may not see great gains by doing only 5x5 dumbbell curls every day, but you will start to generally feel better.

* With good form. Bad form will do more harm than good (I know from experience, having pulled a back muscle trying to speed through a warm-up set of squats). Having someone to give you form advice is another important aspect.

hornd··on Ghent University Vocabulary Test
Pretty impressive! Native speaker: 69%.

Leaned on the side of `no`: 0 non word yesses at least.

hornd··on Sonic.Net Offering 1 Gbps, Unlimited Phone for $40 in California
Yea, it's really tough -- I currently have Sonic in Alameda and do not want to switch back to Comcast, but at the 4/1 speeds I'm currently getting it makes it hard to work from home.
hornd··on Blue Eyes Logic Puzzle
I think the foreigners statement is ambiguous enough to render the proof in argument 2 incorrect. "... another blue-eyed person", to me, implies a singular person in the tribe has blue eyes. All of tribespeople will see multiple tribespeople with blue eyes, and therefore assume the foreigners statement was wrong, rendering no effect.
hornd··on Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet
Could you explain it better for the uneducated like me?
hornd··on Study: Reddit used by 6% of adult Internet users
What you said is sadly true for many subreddits. I can offer up /r/askhistorians as a counter-example though: a very well moderated subreddit with excellent historical discussions.
hornd··on Security incident update
Perhaps they simply enjoy using ColdFusion. It gets a lot of hate, but some of the features that ship with CF (templating, extremely easy db access, PDF generation) made/make CF a rather powerful and fun language. If only Adobe had chosen to release it for free...

You're right about it being an odd choice for a Linux company, though.

hornd··on Postmates Has Raised $5 Million to Expand Into Seattle And Beyond
I think it would be nice if TC disclosed Arrington's involvement with SoftTech VC, which has invested in Postmates.
hornd··on C11, yo
There are very few C compilers that implement the whole of C99.
hornd··on Intel 'preparing' to put an end to user-replaceable CPUs
It will, however, make hardware debugging harder. Being able to swap the CPU into another motherboard comes in handy.
hornd··on How I automated the boring parts of life
Just an FYI: websense seems to be blocking your domain, classified as adult-and-pornography.
hornd··on Hackasaurus
Like it. Not sure it could replace Firebug, etc for me though. It would be nice to be able to use the up/down arrows to navigate the page while the goggles are active.
hornd··on Stopping Malware Distribution at the Source
I'd love to know how often false positives occur when blacklisting sites, and how website owners can go about appealing.
hornd··on Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg
Ha, I spent a bit trying the same method, and it didn't work for me either. Didn't have the insight to move them though.
hornd··on Show HN: Advanced analytics for fantasy baseball players
Excellent. Again, this is really great!
hornd··on Show HN: Advanced analytics for fantasy baseball players
This is fantastic, thank you. Any chance of adding predictions based on past performance, etc?
hornd··on Apply with me to YC in the next 3 days and change the world
Although I'm only slightly interested (don't really have too good of a work ethic :)), I think this is a really interesting space that has plenty of room for innovation. Hope you kill it!
hornd··on LSD helps to treat alcoholism
What were the/were there any psychedelic effects of the dosage you took? Did you find you could still "function" in day to day life (work, school, etc)?
hornd··on Torvalds: More bitwise tricks
And

#define ONEBYTES 0x0101010101010101ul

hornd··on C Programming Puzzlers
It was not only possible to initialize arrays like that in C89, that method is often referred to as "C89-style".

Also, let's not forget what the C standard says about integer sizes, which is that

A) It is guaranteed that sizeof char == 1

B) It is guaranteed that the following holds true: sizeof char <= sizeof short <= sizeof int <= sizeof long

So it's always completely unrealistic to assume anything about the size of these types on any system, except for the guarantee in (A)

hornd··on Free Range VHDL : Introduction to VHDL (pdf)
Right. I don't actually write any Verilog, but I often have to read and port it over to C. It's much easier to read, follow, and comprehend than VHDL.
hornd··on Women to Facebook: Stop banning our breast-feeding pics
Right, it not being unethical is my opinion; I didn't mean to present it as an objective statement. I'm certainly open to listening to opinions that this is ethically "wrong", but as of now I don't believe it is.
hornd··on Women to Facebook: Stop banning our breast-feeding pics
Totally agree with everything you said here. I think it's important for people to realize that facebook is completely within their rights to take down any pictures they want. There are no civil rights violations occuring when facebook chooses to take down your pictures. Personally, I don't think they should be taking down breast-feeding pictures; however, there is nothing illegal or unethical about them doing so.
hornd··on Bit Twiddling Hacks
These are pretty neat. I use a few of them relatively often at work, but if I ever saw

c = ((((c - 0x3f800000) >> r) + 0x3f800000) >> 23) - 127;

in production code I would be sad.

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