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danh1979 | 9 months ago | on: U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

The Conflict and Environment Observatory published an article outlining actual and potential environmental consequences of this war: https://ceobs.org/the-emerging-environmental-consequences-of...

danh1979 | 7 years ago | on: Apple exited the home Wi-Fi market at the wrong time

Still running a 2009 AirPort Extreme at our house. I haven't yet brought myself to replace it, even though I'd probably see a significant benefit from 802.11ac support and better ipv6 support

It has been reliable for nearly a decade with barely a few thoughts. Much more than I can say about any previous router I had.

I can't decide whether to go as open-as-possible-but-more-expensive, or with something like Ubiquity, or what.

danh1979 | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Audioshop – Audio image editing

Has any album art been done with this?

danh1979 | 9 years ago | on: White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA

Everyone knows about weather and climate, but NOAA also does a lot of ocean exploration:

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/explorations.html

danh1979 | 9 years ago | on: Specifying JSON

I use a lot of JSON and YAML via libvariant [0], a set of C++ libraries. e.g. the core class Variant is a JSON-ish object implementation; there are pluggable Serializers & Deserializers, etc.

Libvariant includes a command line tool, varsh ("Variant shell"), that can schema-validate JSON and YAML documents.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/gallen/libvariant

danh1979 | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Lightweight C++ editor that understands your code

I was also really excited to try this, but I mostly sit in front of Mac OS X, a Linux, or a BSD, in that order. Bookmarked!

danh1979 | 11 years ago | on: Quest to Track Every Shot in the NBA Changed Basketball

A curious non-sequitor:

"The data wasn't exactly private, but neither was it public—Goldsberry scraped it from the web."

If Goldsberry scraped the data from the web, wasn't the data inherently public?

danh1979 | 11 years ago | on: TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone

I've been using the TextMate 2 alphas for several years as my daily driver text editor (mainly for: C/C++, python, shell scripts, CMake, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and occasional advanced editing for email and other documents).

I occasionally use vi(m) in a terminal for quick tasks, but I find TextMate to be a very comfortable environment for a combination Mac user/command line jockey.

danh1979 | 11 years ago | on: Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor

The equivalent Xeons to these i7s, the E5-16xx v3 models, should be out very soon[1][2]. v3 means Haswell. If you need ECC, wait a month or two.

[1] http://www.chiploco.com/intel-haswell-ep-e5-1600-v3-35072/ [2] http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2014/2014080502_Xeon_E5-2600_v...

danh1979 | 13 years ago | on: Can code that is valid in both C and C++ produce different behavior?

The compiler for the TI C55x family [1] of fixed-point DSPs is implemented that way: sizeof(char) == 1 and sizeof(int) == 1, both 16-bit fields. A practical consequence is that you can't easily use the same struct header files, for example, on a more conventional platform. Another is that ASCII strings use twice the space.

[1] http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Category:C5000