cmbaus | 9 years ago | on: Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry
Like there are no bigots in NH. When I lived in Central NH I had a long hair and almost got run out of town for being a "fucking long haired hippie"
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cmbaus | 10 years ago | on: Why Some Dead OSes Still Matter (2007) [pdf]
What political factors are you referring to? I think Linux took off because it was easily accessible and widely available, and Linus made a lot of pragmatic choices.
I remember in the 90s how awesome it seemed to get a *nix system for free with a book.
cmbaus | 10 years ago | on: Porsche 911: 52 years of staying true to its roots
But there is a radiator at the front of most air-cooled Porsches; although it cools oil instead of water.
See: http://www.pelicanparts.com/techarticles/911_carrera_oil_coo...
cmbaus | 10 years ago | on: Porsche 911: 52 years of staying true to its roots
I do think there is a subculture of "hip" motorheads. Look at Zeitgeist (bar in SF) for instance. I think Magnus is someone who qualifies as being able to push fashion trends.
cmbaus | 10 years ago | on: Porsche 911: 52 years of staying true to its roots
I'm wondering if early Boxsters and 996s might be good values now because there are fixes for the IMS bearing issue on the market. I've read it can be done with a clutch job.
cmbaus | 10 years ago | on: Porsche 911: 52 years of staying true to its roots
For me it was a Subaru STI. I enjoyed it more in almost every way than the Porsche, other than how it looked. My father has a nice 90s Miyata. I've driven it quite a bit and for the money it is a pretty well thought out and fun vehicle. He's got less into the whole car than I have in my Porsche engine and trans.
cmbaus | 10 years ago | on: Porsche 911: 52 years of staying true to its roots
Magnus's collection is beautiful and I love his aesthetic, but I can't help but think it is the ultra wealthy buyers who own a dozen 911s who are driving up the prices into the stratosphere. It might be sour grapes, but honestly, how many Porsche's does one guy need?
cmbaus | 10 years ago | on: Porsche 911: 52 years of staying true to its roots
I have a vintage 911. It is fun as hell when the thing is running right, but it is never running right. Even the years they call "bullet proof" don't hold a candle to the reliability of a modern Japanese sports car (which I've also owned).
When you start to pull the car apart you see all the hacks that had to be done to modernize the car to keep the original chassis design alive. My favorite is the air conditioning. It is obvious that air conditioning was not part of the original design. Another favorite is the oil cooler under the front fender. There are oil lines that go all the way from the back of the car to the front just for cooling. The original car didn't have them because the engines were much smaller and ran cooler.
If anyone is considering buying an air cooled 911, I'd say unless you've cashed out a bunch of stock that is blowing a hole in your pocket, stay away. With the current cost of parts any common problem with the cars could easily be a $10k fix. Ask me how I know.
cmbaus | 10 years ago | on: Markhor (YC S15) Takes the Middleman Out of Designer Shoemaking
I like the idea. Are the shoes welted?
cmbaus | 10 years ago | on: YubiKey – Making secure login easy
This looks interesting, but I don't totally understand how it works. How is the key changed every time on the server? It looks like it requires server side support.
cmbaus | 10 years ago | on: How Harry's Bought a German Razor Factory
What kind of blades does the company make? Are they multi-blade?
Harry's is a great idea, but I've been happy with double edge razors for a while now: http://baus.net/shave-kit
cmbaus | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Paperless.IO: prototype to create bootstrap grids by dragging the mouse
This is a new idea. Wondering where I should take it next. I would appreciate feedback.
cmbaus | 11 years ago | on: Proxygen, Facebook's C++ HTTP Framework
That's interesting. I had been working something similar years ago. I eventually open sourced it, but discontinued work on it. Http://github.com/baus/swithflow
I'm surprised more systems don't take this approach of doing more work in L7 proxies.
cmbaus | 11 years ago | on: Clib: Package manager for C
This is a good idea. I could see this changing C development for the better.
cmbaus | 12 years ago | on: Chicago’s Last Tannery
Cordovan is not a fussy material. It is meant to be worn hard, everyday.
cmbaus | 12 years ago | on: Chicago’s Last Tannery
I'm a big fan of horween and alden. If you care about quality and craftsmanship, then I think the products are worth the price (even if it has gone up a lot in the past few years). It is possible to wear out cordovan, but you really have to work at it. Horween shell is an awesome material.
cmbaus | 12 years ago | on: Working simultaneously vs. waiting simultaneously
This is a really good way to put this distinction. Most applications use threads because they are waiting on I/O, not because they are concurrently processing.
cmbaus | 12 years ago | on: “var functionName” vs “function functionName”
I'm using asoftmurmur now. I think it is the best noise generator out there. Who cares what the code looks like?
cmbaus | 12 years ago | on: My heart is ok, but my eyes are bleeding
> OpenSSL has an abstraction layer over malloc, which uses an internal stack-based free-list, and which it uses for all allocations
To be clear, this is NOT TRUE. The freelist is used for some allocations, but not in the patch in point. Here is the patch that addresses the bug: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/731f431497f463f3a2...
It clearly uses OPENSSL_Malloc which is basically the equivalent of calling malloc.
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/731f431497f463f3a2...
cmbaus | 12 years ago | on: My heart is ok, but my eyes are bleeding
Here's where the freelist operations are defined: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/21e0c1d23afff48601eb...
But where are they called from?
Update: To answer my own question the freelist is used in
ssl3_setup_read_buffer()
ssl3_release_read_buffer()
ssl3_setup_writer_buffer()
ssl3_release_write_buffer()
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