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josh64

175 karma · joined August 3, 2013

Analyst and Developer based in Sydney, Australia
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josh64··on Energizing Atom with V8's custom startup snapshot
It works fine on my 2011 15" macbook pro with Firefox 54.0b4. I wonder if it is the high retina resolution thats the problem for you?
josh64··on Building a QNX 7 Desktop
I loved BB10 and the Hub. It was my favourite smartphone OS by far.

That being said, I hated momentics!

josh64··on Shutting down CodePlex
SourceForge still provide the best project web hosting service that I know of. They recently enabled https on project sites too.

It will be interesting to see what their big redesign is.

josh64··on Kernel – Fix cluster_write() inefficiency
Isn't NCQ meant to do this? I mean reorder the write commands into an optimal order.
josh64··on OpenXR – Cross-Platform, Portable, Virtual Reality
Sony as well was refreshing to see.
josh64··on Fasting leads to stress resistance, self-renewal, and regeneration (2014)
I love that idea too! I'm going to believe that's the case
josh64··on Announcing Open Source Guides
This is an excellent starting resource. As one of the maintainers of a popular open source project I was wondering how I could get help with the project by attracting new contributors as I work full time and find the balancing act hard.

Users have previously enquired about donations and I didn't know the best way to set up the project to accept them in a responsible manner. This guide points me in the right direction!

josh64··on Flickr – A Year Without a Byte
I'm Australian but even I can tell the accents are fake for the most part. Also, the terrible VoIP quality is a dead giveaway.

edit: I should mention they use "American" accents for Australian customers too.

josh64··on Ask HN: What is your wifi setup?
Have you tried using a dual-band wifi access point? 5GHz is a lot less congested and doesn't travel through walls as well as 2.4GHz so you're less likely to get interference.

It helped me a lot when I lived in an apartment and got a dual band Apple wifi AP.

josh64··on COP21: Arnold Schwarzenegger: 'Go part-time vegetarian to protect the planet'
Or minutes?
josh64··on ThinkPad X1 Carbon
Yes, my Dell latitude experience was filled with coil whine - highly irritating!
josh64··on Ask HN: Why is Notepad++ not ported to mac yet?
This: TextMate is basically the Notepad++ equivalent for macOS. CotEditor[0] isn't bad either, it all depends on what your needs are

[0] https://coteditor.com/

josh64··on GitLab 8.14 Released with Time Tracking Beta and Chat Commands – GitLab
There are still a couple of nice CE changes there:

* Review apps being complete - https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/22/introducing-review-apps/

* Prevent merge until Review is done - https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/merge_requests/merge...

I guess it does seem less exciting considering the huge changes they've made this year. 8.15 will be interesting considering it is meant to close off their "Idea to Production" workflow.

edit: changed the merge request URL from the EE one to the CE one even though the content is basically the same.

josh64··on Let’s replace Twitter with something much better
spam for one.
josh64··on Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel phone resellers
Yeah surprisingly a lot in the last year.
josh64··on HP Unveils Mini Workstation
I still use the 2.3GHz quad core "server" version as my main system and I love it :) I took one of the 1TB disks out and put an SSD in to make a DIY fusion drive.
josh64··on Ask HN: Best Git workflow for small teams
This is a great page that shows a few different approaches. I like the GitHub flow but the GitLab one isn't too different and both would be appropriate for a small team like OP's :).
josh64··on Apple’s First Phone, from 1983, Never Made It to Market (2014)
Wow that newton emate picture really brings back memories. I love the design of that thing!
josh64··on Spotify excessively writing to drive
Yeah especially the latest version of Slack - it helps if you remove any unnecessary teams.
josh64··on Pencil: open-source GUI prototyping tool
Well they had 3.0 RC1 released in July 2016 http://pencil.evolus.vn/Next.html and their GitHub page at https://github.com/evolus/pencil/ is fairly active.
josh64··on BeagleBone Black Wireless
Check the kernels available too - often these pi-like boards only have 3.x version Android kernels available.
josh64··on OS X-KVM: Running Mac OS X El Capitan on KVM and QEMU
FWIW you can use JavaScript now instead of AppleScript.
josh64··on OS X-KVM: Running Mac OS X El Capitan on KVM and QEMU
The reason they cut off older macs was due to them not having AES accel in the CPU, so there was a small reason for it.
josh64··on GitLab Master Plan
If they support markdown at all... (I'm looking at you, hipchat).
josh64··on FreeBSD 11.0-RC1 Now Available
Rumour has it they are the same person.
josh64··on The Truth about Linux 4.6
I think BlackBerry use them on their Android kernels.
josh64··on OS X app in plain C
I feel the exact same way about it but hopefully it isn't going to go anywhere any time soon.

WWDC 2016 will hopefully have some nice objective C announcements just like last years did.

josh64··on The Suicide of Venezuela
Interesting that Australia (Western Australia in particular) still hasn't learned this lesson.
josh64··on Western Digital makes a $46, 314GB hard drive just for the Raspberry Pi
For DIY NAS devices I think you need to spend more ($128 USD) and get something like the APU 2 http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2c4.htm and add more SATA ports with the mini PCI express slots.

I got a banana-pi m3 but the onboard sata is now just a USB bridge :(

josh64··on Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
There is an Apple repair program for that issue http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/06/late-2013-mac-pro-video-...

Good luck!

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