chaosagent's comments

chaosagent | 8 years ago | on: Why So Many Top Hackers Hail from Russia

The article mentions an "AP Computer Science" curriculum that it claims does not cover programming and is not actually APCS, but is instead AP Computer Science Principles, an "intro to computers" for less stem-oriented students that was introduced last year. The actual APCS curriculum mostly involves learning basic programming constructs and some Java APIs, and is done solely in Java.

Also, there used to be AP Computer Science B covering basic algorithms and data structures, but CollegeBoard killed it because barely anyone took it.

chaosagent | 9 years ago | on: Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes

(not GP) I'm actually building something that would require running large amounts of containers of varying usage (some almost never used, some constantly queried) that serve up webapps and other network services, and being able to run services inside of containers instead of functions from fission would be awesome.

chaosagent | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring high schoolers?

I'm currently pretty familiar with webapp backend development with Python, Flask, and a bunch of its plugins (SQLA, WTF, Jinja, etc) and Python in general. I'm also exploring Rust and am beginning to feel comfortable in it. I have experience with all sorts of miscellaneous stuff, but these two are the ones I'm most involved in at the moment.

I'm currently working on a CMS-ish style scheduling platform for CTF competitions, an ptrace-based application sandbox in Rust, an online judge system (like a programming assignment grader), and an IRC server in Rust with Tokio and futures.

I have a good amount of experience with cybersecurity and algorithms and data structures too despite a lack of formal education in them ;)

Website (just some links): http://chaosagent.io CV: http://chaosagent.io/resume.pdf

chaosagent | 9 years ago | on: CES: The Das Keyboard 5Q doubles as a light-up notification board

I think one can do this with current keyboard with individual-key backlighting.

I have a Logitech G710 (with a community-made Linux driver) and I can control the backlighting on some of the keys by passing a bitmask to something in /sys/bus/hid. A simple daemonized python script linked to this would replicate such behavior.

chaosagent | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is firing? (January 2017)

Cyanogen Inc.

They (used to) make a custom Android distribution for manufacturers, CyanogenOS. They grew out of an open source project, CyanogenMOD, but their business people apparently could not find a good way to monetize a phone OS, so most of not all of their developers (30 out of 130 employeed) were apparently laid off or quit. They have apparently turned to providing system-level apps, and a Reddit user who claims to have been a former employee says that they plan to create a Google Now competitor by mining data from 3rd party apps.

The company has completely withdrawn support from the open source OS it grew out of, but some of its developers will continue its development under the brand LineageOS.

Sources: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/07/report-cyanogen-inc-t... https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5k55vo/the_dea...

chaosagent | 9 years ago | on: Pipfile for Python

They're probably claiming that using a lockfile excessively would put less incentive on library developers to keep backwards compatibility, because nothing would break if the user doesn't explicitly upgrade.
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