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JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: “This change deletes the C implementations of the Go compiler and assembler”

Yep, with different numbers of comments.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Scroll Slow. Have Fun

Also on an older iPad

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: When printf debugging is a luxury (2010)

A game that is popular at my school has these modal ads with a close button that is smaller than you can accurately tap. Every third time it opens I end up in the App Store. It drives me nuts. A confirmation would be nice.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: When printf debugging is a luxury (2010)

The greatest "feature" of Blogspot. It is the most obnoxious thing on mobile devices.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: GitHub's “hub” tool rewritten in Golang

No, smaller, because you don't need the Go compiler to run it, just to build it. Therefore, you won't need the compiler at all, just the binary.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: GitHub's “hub” tool rewritten in Golang

Somebody rewrote hub in Go a while ago and called it gh. The team behind hub only decided recently to merge in gh and make it the new, GitHub-approved version of hub.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: The Horror of Cross-platform Audio Output

MathJax (http://www.mathjax.org/) will render LaTeX math in the browser. The result is quite pretty.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Firefox for iOS on GitHub

They have no other choice; Apple won't accept apps with custom web rendering engines.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Welcome, cryptanalyst

Two non-digits followed by three non-whitespace characters

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Try Git

nano is less confusing than vim, though that is another bad habit to form. I used it for a very long time, but switching to vim has been amazing. I think that -m is probably best for teaching a beginner, though.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Try Git

I've wondered for a while how they deal with situations like that. For instance, when they implemented stars, there was likely a user named stars, but then they reserved /stars for their new feature, presumably removing that user. I just wonder if they emailed the user and said, Hi, we need your username for a new feature. Thanks, GitHub.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue

Unrelated: Don't factory reset your router. The software to set it up requires you to downgrade to 10.7 or something. It'd be nice if linksys would update their software, or at least remove the version cap.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Chrome for Mac 64-bit Support

> Thanks for your patience, everyone.

5 years and 3 months after the issue was opened...

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web

I wonder how many of the cheap web hosts will impelent this. I think the increased hosting cost on top of the certificate itself also discourages people from using TLS. Wishful thinking, perhaps...

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: The Middle School Plunge

Where I live, elementary starts at 8, middle starts at 9, and high school starts at the wonderful time of 7:30. The transition from middle school to high school was especially painful. I wish we used the times your district used; they make so much more sense than ours.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Unofficial Demake Port Of Super Smash Bros Arrives On TI-83/84 Calculators

I'm sure my math teacher would love me playing this in class. It's amazing what you can do with just a calculator.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted

I don't understand how copyright would help in this case.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: The Man Who Solved the Mysterious Cicada 3301 Puzzle

Fermat's last theorem has been proven; there is no solution, people. In this case, you can't verify this using "any old calculator," as most show only ten digits and these diverge at digit 12.

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance?

Any podcast recommendations for the HN crowd? I personally listen to Hello Internet (CGP Grey and Brady Haran) and Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project (Adam Savage and friends).

JoshTheGeek | 11 years ago | on: How long do GUIDs really need to be?

Couldn't you generate a UUID and then check the database that it is unique before using it? You could then repeat until you got a unique identifier.