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jackyb

57 karma · joined September 25, 2013

creative technologist. tinkers with hardware and software.
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jackyb··on FreeBSD 12.1
Thanks. I'm aware of that handbook but somehow I find web-based books lack the charm of a real book but eventually once I know my way around it, I'm sure I'll come to it.
jackyb··on FreeBSD 12.1
Thanks, I'll probably get it.
jackyb··on FreeBSD 12.1
Oh thank you very much!
jackyb··on FreeBSD 12.1
Is there a 300-page or less book that can teach practical usage of FreeBSD? Like the C book or the UNIX programming environment book. I have it installed on one of my laptops but never got around to use it.
jackyb··on Ask HN: Using gRPC+protobuf is painful. Any nice-to-use alternatives?
What about ROS? They have pubsub, services (like HTTP), actionlib (basically like a progress event) and message code generation. They also have entire suite for debugging and logging the communications (e.g. rostopic, rosservice, rosbag, etc..). They even have rosbridge_websocket if you need web apps to interact with native apps and servers. They are also building ROS 2 which might be even nicer.
jackyb··on Interview with Ken Thompson (2011)
That last answer reminds me of my researcher colleagues :D. Are most them like that?
jackyb··on Unreal Engine 4.17 Released
A lot of them are similar but then you have games like Fortnite which looks totally different.
jackyb··on Google is releasing 20M bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno
I always wondered, how do they count so many mosquitos? Is there a technique to determine that it's 20M?
jackyb··on Benchmark: Java, Python, PHP, C, JavaScript, Swift, Ruby, Perl, Go, Lua, Rust
I see, thanks!
jackyb··on Benchmark: Java, Python, PHP, C, JavaScript, Swift, Ruby, Perl, Go, Lua, Rust
Does anybody know why Go binary-trees is so much slower than Java's?
jackyb··on Python moved to GitHub
I just tried on my Gitlab 8.16 and it seems to be able to do that. If you go to the Code tab, it shows snippets of files that contain the search term.
jackyb··on Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack
Yeah, being unable to host Gitlab under 512MB is just too bloaty for me. I know Gogs doesn't have this issue for the same features I use. I still use Gitlab though because it's the mainstream.
jackyb··on Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?
D:

Sorry, one of the first links when I searched for Django on Bing (currently in China) is django-cms.org.

jackyb··on Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?
I have done little Wordpress development (just some plugin for a prototype that my company wanted). But I don't see anything that prevented it from being used to develop a web application since the theme/plugin system seems to fulfill everything. Django also describes itself as a CMS platform on their website so I kind of thought they are comparable.

Just wanted to make sure I know what I'm getting before I jumps in further into either Wordpress or Django :D

jackyb··on Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?
I've never developed using Django. How does it compare to Wordpress? Or under what situation is it preferable to Wordpress?
jackyb··on Why we chose Vue.js over React
Interesting. I'm also looking at Vue.js and wondering how it can benefit me. Just one thing that I want to know: how do you do checks and tests in it? Are there any frameworks or tools to do that?
jackyb··on Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?
I would want to have something like Wikipedia that takes account of the user's context and knowledge to present transformed text that is customized for the user so it's easier to digest.
jackyb··on Count me as a systemd convert
Those are the ones I found too, but the previous parent says that Linus has spoken against systemd which is new to me.
jackyb··on Count me as a systemd convert
Could you point to where Linus said he doesn't like the design of systemd? AFAIK he's only disliked the binary logging (perhaps among a few other small things) but he liked it overall.
jackyb··on “C++ is a horrible language” – Linus Torvalds
He used C++ for pragmatic reasons, not for the shiny features (mostly for user interface programming which Qt is best for).

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/bnfi25LuAMd https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/GkLj5pyvJ7D

jackyb··on Ask HN: What is the best resource to learn to code?
http://hello.processing.org/ (probably too basic if you already know how to code) http://learningprocessing.com/videos/ (more in-depth)

It teaches Processing (which is technically Java). It got me into programming again and maybe it will help you too.

jackyb··on Ran: a simple static web server written in Go
I don't know why but it often takes a really long time for me to reload the web page using Python 2 and 3 on Linux. Anybody has similar experience?
jackyb··on A Code of Conduct for the Go community
I think it's just because of internet. I bet they would be much nicer IRL.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect

jackyb··on Java vs. Go performance
I wonder if there will be any improvement if the Go code is compiled with GCC.
jackyb··on The March Towards Go
As far as I know, Go already has a really strong static type system (int32 cannot be assigned to int for example). Which parts are weak?
jackyb··on Who Needs Git When You Got ZFS? (2013)
One thing that Git does not do is to track files, for a good reason. Git was designed primarily to track content which means it can track code movement between files and be smarter about compression. It is not limited by architecture of a file system.
jackyb··on Google Trends: Golang is popular in China
One of the Go developers did say that Go has a big following in China in GopherCon 2014, thanks to Windows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=u-k...

jackyb··on Google Trends: Golang is popular in China
No, Chinese word for ninja is 忍者 (ren zhe).
jackyb··on Git 2.0
Use "git clone --depth [depth] [remote-url]"?
jackyb··on Pixel graphics in terminal
Terminology is what you might be looking for: http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology
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