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adunsmoor

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About adunsmoor

Ahran Dunsmoor ahran@dunsmoor.com

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    Comment #31121340

    I'm a long time user of Tcl. For me, the biggest strength of Tcl is it's C API. It's quite straightforward to implement extensions. That, and the people that were involved in the l…

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    Comment #12747547

    Jobs like you

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    Comment #9964251

    Tcl and the Tk Toolkit by J. Osterhout is an old reference but very useful for getting started with the C API to Tcl including embedding an interpreter. The last 1/3rd of the book …

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    Comment #8394750

    CLK Design Automation - Boston, MA or San Jose, CA (Full time) Applied Mathematician CLKDA is looking for a PhD level mathematician / Principal Software Engineer familiar with elec…

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    Comment #8252958

    Littleton, MA - CLK Design Automation ( http://www.clkda.com ) FULLTIME Applied Mathematician CLKDA is the technology and market leader for advanced semiconductor timing and varian…

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    Comment #8242467

    Your error looks like there might be an extra space after the line continuation (backslash) in the example. The trace command is split in to 2 lines for readability but the web pag…

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    Comment #4287369

    Even if you go with the "it's not their data" argument Craigslist would seem to own the specific compilation of the data. I'd apply the same copyright principle as phone books or e…

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    Comment #3890351

    Intel's Threaded Building Blocks ( http://threadingbuildingblocks.org ) has a very nice collection of threaded data structures and algorithms. I've found the performance to be quit…

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    Comment #3672509

    It doesn't work well with Google's account switching yet. I happen to have 2 google accounts (personal and work) and was logged in to both. With mail and docs I can switch back and…

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    Comment #3602062

    Here's my feedback after playing with the demo tree that's on your front page. The demo looks very nice. It's attractive and makes me want to interact with the page. That's great. …

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    Comment #3583871

    What do you mean? exec cat /etc/passwd | grep root works just fine. You can also use Tcl's open command with a pipe to do back and forth communication with a subprocess. http://www…

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    Comment #3579912

    I wish I could have. I'm not working at the same place anymore. The CPAN equivalent for Tcl has been tried a few times. See Teacup for the latest. None of these ever reached critic…

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    Comment #3579851

    Tcl is used quite heavily as a command line shell EDA tools. Google "pt_shell tcl" or "ncsim tcl" for examples. Cadence and Mentor Graphic's digital simulation GUIs were built with…

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    Comment #3579299

    I'm a long time Tcl/Tk user - it's still the defacto standard in the electronic design automation industry. My own tl;dr for this comment: David makes good points and his experienc…

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    Comment #2734111

    It's been a while but I believe when using the "Send mail as" feature in gmail it puts your preferred address in the from: field but keeps your gmail address in the sender: field. …

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    Comment #2733967

    I used to forward from my Google Apps account to regular GMail but different people would see my email address from my domain and others from gmail.com depending on their mail clie…

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    Comment #2733941

    It looks like Google has improved deleting users since the last time I had to do it. That's a relief! They've been improving Google Apps a lot in the past year. http://www.google.c…

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    Comment #2733627

    I use Google apps for both (1) and (2) above (although I'm not confused when mydomain.com doesn't work like my GMail account). In the case of (1) the biggest issue I see is when pe…

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    Comment #2490045

    I really liked the site, in general. I could see using this when traveling with my family to find places to stay once there are more listings available. Some thoughts as I browsed …

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    Comment #1076111

    It looks like there is a bug when using the prefix and suffix fields together. Entered "ns" in the prefix field and saw a bunch of domains. Added "ing" to the suffix field and noth…

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    Comment #652801

    Agreed. I think it's up to the interviewer to redirect the responses towards something more meaningful. For example, "what criteria would you use to evaluate what you find on Googl…

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    Comment #607518

    If I think about the pain points from the perspective of the person supporting whatever issue they are writing about a few ideas spring to mind. If you could take your app one step…