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nerdyon 99 Bottles of OOP

It seemed expensive but I bought it anyhow because any small insight into programming or process could easily be worth $50 over time.

It's worth noting that the book is incomplete, chapters 5 & 6 are still being written. If I'm able to complete the book in the next day or so I'll post a follow-up.

nerdyon Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code

How about the code apparently marked for deletion? https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/dc4ea6735c4646...

I've often wondered many things about the cleanliness, maintainability and style of such code (this particular system, in fact). It's fun to be able to actually poke through it.

nerdyon Wearable keyboard that turns anything you can touch into a typing surface

Which brings us to perhaps the best review on Amazon: "Das bard es ver gad! A've traed et far tree weex ad et werx great! A recabed et ta aw Agazad watcxers! Fave stars!!!"

nerdyon Search Bangs

Anyone know how !g works, particularly in the context of Google's recent changes[1]?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11625633

nerdyon An insomniac's guide to the group theory of mattress flipping (2005)

Why not just write the name of a season on a corner for each of the 4 configurations and call it a day? The incorrect season on the same side would be written upside down. If the season is wrong, flip/rotate accordingly.

  ----------  ----------

  ɹǝɯɯnS----  ƃuıɹdS----

  ----------  ----------

  ----------  ----------

  ----Winter  ------Fall

  ----------  ----------

While not flip or rotate, it is a single operation: "Align the current season to the bottom"

nerdyon Time Warner Cable, Cox Suffer Widespread Outages in Northeast

This service outage is strange: Phone service is out. DNS is out but internet access otherwise works (can't use default DNS provided by Cox). Cable service works for local channels only.

nerdyon Remote code execution vulnerability in ImageMagick

Exploit samples: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/04/imagemagick_exploits...

nerdyon Google Deactivates Web Search API

Doesn't this only allow you to search your own page, as mentioned at the URL you linked?

"With Google Custom Search, add a search box to your homepage to help people find what they need on your website." (emphasis mine)

Their video also seems to indicate the same thing: https://youtu.be/Qd9z48Bo8ZA

They say you can search "one website or even a specific topic across multiple websites". This is specifying multiple domains, not a full-index search.

nerdyon ImageMagick Vulnerabilities (including one RCE)

Dubbed "Image Tragick" ~groan

POC and updates will be available at this URL after some time has passed to allow patching: https://imagetragick.com/

nerdyon Show HN: Discover new music through an infinite suggestion graph (React/Redux)

Might be useful for anyone who doesn't have Spotify. The information is similar to (some omissions, maybe a max of 3 recommended?) what Spotify recommends in the "related artists" panel.

By the way, the footer says "Copyright Date.now()"

nerdyon Firefox 46 supports some -webkit prefixed CSS properties

As I understand it, WebKit's feature flags will not include the webkit prefix:

"WebKit’s new policy is to implement experimental features unprefixed"

But Mozilla still plans for experimental features to be prefixed:

"Mozilla supports a number of extensions to CSS that are prefixed with -moz-.

Some of these properties have been included in draft CSS specification for inclusion in the final recommendation, but are still experimental... Once standardized, and the support for the un-prefixed variant added, the prefixed properties are dropped."

nerdyon Firefox 46 supports some -webkit prefixed CSS properties

It seems they agree the existing state of affairs isn't acceptable, but don't agree about how to proceed.

Consider Mozilla's perspective... they're trying to refocus on Firefox[1] and immediately after they find a suitable place for Thunderbird[2] they release support for WebKit prefixes while Apple announces dropping the same prefixes. Not only does this mean Mozilla arguably wasted time, it also means they'll have this prefix code as an artifact for some time while it becomes increasingly irrelevant. At the same time, it makes Firefox seem antiquated while the floor falls out from under its user base[3].

1. http://news.softpedia.com/news/mozilla-wants-to-ditch-thunde... 2. http://news.softpedia.com/news/two-foundations-are-willing-t... 3. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

nerdyon Firefox 46 supports some -webkit prefixed CSS properties

Very interesting considering WebKit is moving away from prefixes: https://webkit.org/blog/6131/updating-our-prefixing-policy/

nerdyon Ask HN: Can't concentrate to focus, until it's last minute or later

That's quite a confident endorsement of this mentality shift you've got there.

(Unless you enjoy that sort of thing)

nerdyon Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam

HT, Gamma, victims we aren't aware of, or any government who could believably threaten to prosecute then offer a deal for cooperation?

Some people even do it out of curiosity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11304752

nerdyon Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam

He's likely to be identified as he gets more brazen. Even authoring this volume of text is risky, and there are other notes from the same author linked within. Spelling can be used to approximate region and phrases or errors such as "the hard of the business" ("heart of") and "passtime" ("pastime") are even stronger markers. Of course there's no way to tell if these are unintentional or planted errata.

I'm grateful for the information. It's incredibly interesting, but it might come at great expense to the author.

nerdyon “IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON FABLE LEGENDS” – Lionhead Studios Is Closing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11239461

nerdyon Massively Distributed Backup at Facebook Scale [Live]

Shlomo Priymak presenting at Etsy Labs

You can Tweet questions @codeascraft

nerdyon CaptionBot by Microsoft

It's only a matter of time before a repeat of Microsoft's last AI experiment (Tay), when the Internet teaches CaptionBot all of the positions in the Kama Sutra.

nerdyon Making a Video Course – Behind the Scenes

"You could go on forever improving & polishing everything, but in the end you have to remember to just fucking ship it."

Words to live by.

nerdyon Calculus Learning Guide

Learning new material is hard at the beginning. You don't have any context and the terms are foreign. You might not even know Wolfram Alpha exists if you're uninitiated. Despite its ease of use, some people appreciate a guided approach to learning.

While the subject can't be trivialized, if someone gains learning momentum (whether by interest or confidence) then this kind of material did a great deal to help them.

nerdyon Cloudcraft Pro

This is right on. When I saw the pricing I had major sticker shock but after looking at this post and seeing the homepage it seems like certain organizations might find value in it.

nerdyon [dead]

Yeah discord is down too

nerdyon Moxa vulns won't be fixed until August, others won't be patched

And others are unconfirmed: "Moxa has not yet been able to validate the buffer overflow and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that have been identified in the public reporting."

nerdyon Are you a grammar pedant? This might be why

> The point is you don't sit down and weigh how others judge you for using "impacted".

I do now! :)

nerdyon SpaceX Dragon's Rendezvous with ISS Live Feed

Original target was 7AM Eastern. They're running 30 minutes behind due to atmospheric drag but trying to get back on schedule, may wait less than 15 mins @ 250m interval.

Update: Looks like they're shooting for 7:30am ET/11:30am UTC.

nerdyon Are you a grammar pedant? This might be why

> do you believe these people are worth less because you believe yourself we choose our values and inherit our intelligence ?

No, but I would probably be less inclined to want them as a housemate (RE: the article). The premise is that the e-mail is all you have to go on, so while it's definitely reading into the details it'd almost certainly be a consideration.

For example, if someone places a low value on communication then it would likely be more difficult to come to reasonable mutual understandings about household protocols (chores/cleaning, respectful practices, etc).

> Do you despise them even more so now that it's a value question and not an intelligence one ?

I wouldn't say I despise (or even dislike) them at all, we'd simply be unlikely best friends.

> Or are they not intelligent enough to pick up the adequate values ?

> It also depends on how you pick up on the less grammatically versed or bully them into shame when pointing out their mistakes. Do you do that ?

> More importantly: s our grasp of grammar strong enough to make up for the perceived deficiencies of the other interlocutors ?

Even if it is, it can be a terrible experience where one side is doing an incredible amount of work compared to the other. Incorrect homophones can be very difficult and when you combine them with spelling errors and other errata, it's often as bad as a garden path sentence because the message can be legitimate but have changed meaning. Just omit commas for some fun: "Rachael Ray finds inspiration in cooking her family and her dog"

nerdyon Are you a grammar pedant? This might be why

well nevr git lexical nirvana wo brakeing rulez

nerdyon Are you a grammar pedant? This might be why

But what does this tell us about introverts? Is the "pebble in the shoe" of an introvert an annoyance with the perceived carelessness on the part of the grammatical offender? Or maybe a lack of respect? Is introversion the cause, or a sibling to pedantry of a broader psychological trait?

I hated English classes in school, never paid attention. Skipped. Failed. It seemed inconsequential at the time. Gaining access to a BBS was a bit of a culture shock. Computers were fascinating but suddenly my peers cared about spelling, grammar... even punctuation (it happened to be a BBS for a local paper, maybe related). So at 15, I felt out of place and committed to thoroughly learning all of the things I'd skipped in school. Not because of snarky responses, corrections, or others’ expectations but because it impacted my ability to communicate - which I don't particularly enjoy but feel is important. Even now, I'm communicating... but it isn't for the sake of making noise or banging on a keyboard, it's about an idea. We communicate to share thoughts and without that mechanism we wouldn't have shared learning which resulted in anything commonly considered "technology" or "machines" today.

My visceral reaction to grammatical errors is the feeling that the person places less of a value on communicating ideas. It isn't about intelligence, it's about values.

Does anyone else feel this way? Am I just a pedantic, judgmental asshole?

nerdyon Tesla may need cash to deliver on the Model 3: Analysts

Analysts, meteorologists, and software estimates are mostly well-meaning but never to be completely trusted.