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IanChiles | 11 years ago | on: Twitch acquires eSports pro-gaming team Evil Geniuses

Tinker and Alliance are looking pretty shaky in the long term - Tinker just dropped out of a tournament and Alliance was unable to play games of theirs earlier today. It looks right now like they'll soon see major changes, disband, or become one team. Alliance also sponsors a League of Legends team and a few other teams in other scenes though.

EDIT: This also includes D2L - a relatively large DOTA league, as well as parts of CLG (CounterLogic Gaming) - http://clgaming.net/news/611-kelby-may-steps-down-as-general...

IanChiles | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

Having spend the last week or so working with client certificates, they could be so much more if browsers implemented a proper interface for managing them, or at least a much more intuitive one than they do at the moment. They work spectacularly for building closed APIs where you control both sides, however. They're just a bit tricky for the end user most of the time

IanChiles | 12 years ago | on: DragonFly BSD

Currently, I don't think there's a fully working HAMMER implementation for Linux - there may be a read only one floating around though, IIRC

IanChiles | 12 years ago | on: Bitcoin Value Loses Its Mind as Trading Lags on the Mt.Gox Exchange

The fun thing about Bitcoin is the immense latency in moving money (USD) between exchanges, which has at minimum 4 days of transit. This makes just about anything involving multiple exchanges or high frequency (especially arbitrage trading) absolutely impossible to do without a service such as bitinstant, which is currently MIA

IanChiles | 12 years ago | on: Bitcoin $645? Yeah, That’s Totally Reasonable

Now I'm just a little bit disappointed I didn't buy any when I first heard of them... But this feels like the same bubble Bitcoin has had twice before - it spikes then plummets, but it plummets to a point higher than the last drop

IanChiles | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Native apps for the browser

Could you use Docker as a backend on Linux? I feel like it would eliminate a lot of the size overhead, and be significantly easier to ship (a single static binary)

IanChiles | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Kirk

Which is exactly what it'll be. I really hope to keep the userland portable - so Kirk/FreeBSD or Kirk/Darwin could happen in the distant future

IanChiles | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Kirk

I considered Ruby and have worked heavily with it in the past, but it's simply too slow/heavy for this type of programming.

I can't believe I left this out of the post, but all/most new code will be written in Go - I'll explain why more clearly in my next post

IanChiles | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Kirk

If there's any confusion, that's absolutely what I plan on doing - but I firmly believe that if it's kept simple/lightweight that it's more than doable. The GUI portions slightly worry me, but they're not happening until much later down the line

IanChiles | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Kirk

I assure you that I won't do that. If I wanted to make a Debian clone I wouldn't be doing this

IanChiles | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Kirk

For me, at this moment, it's simply not a feasible goal to learn the ins and outs of a kernel in any reasonable amount of time. And Kirk doesn't just exist as a blog post, I've done a relatively large amount of work on it, but am just now starting to write about it by request of a friend.
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