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Can you elaborate you that last statement? Are Rails developers less terrible than the C/C#/C++ people with whom you’ve worked? If so, what are your thoughts on why that may be?

Is TLPI available for free now? It's a great book and I hope that people will continue to support both NoStarch and the author.

The second edition introduces high-level assembly (HLA) though. I never found HLA to be that appealing. I'd be curious to know if anyone who has read the book found it to be useful…

I installed OpenBSD on my apu and picked up a Ubiquiti AP AC Pro for wifi. I also picked up a couple wifi nics that I'd intended to use with hostapd as you suggested. However, I ha…

I picked up a couple of these and I have to say I'm pretty impressed. They're pretty inexpensive little machines and they ship quick from pcengines. I have openbsd on one and ubunt…

I do agree that you can pick up a good linux laptop that will run circles around today's MBP (system76 fully spec'd lemur or gazelle) but, imo the overall industrial design leaves …

Interesting project but it looks to me like it's solving an entirely different problem. "usbkill is a simple program with one goal: quickly shutdown the computer when a USB is inse…

Your Apple engineers smuggling code example seems a little out of left field. I haven't been following this super closely but as the recall the FBI is essentially asking Apple to p…

I'd really appreciate an invite if you still have any. It's wild to see just how in demand these are right now.

Source? I always took XHTML to be an effort to make html into a stricter more parse-friendly format. Xhtml lets you use an xml parser to pull apart a page rather than having to dea…

That only addresses the language component though, right? You'd still be stuck with HTML and CSS. I'm okay with javascript although I'd love to see another language supported in a …

I think it's coming. There was a HN post about MS working on bringing Obj-C to MS without any kind of emulation layer simply by leveraging llvm and the existing MS C++ compiler. It…

I think the debugging experience is the same as just about any other platform that I've worked on. It's not significantly better or worse (I work mostly in C++/VS/Win have recently…

The fact that the article is mentioning MemGC as a defense against use-after-free attacks (something I don't believe managed languages need be concerned) and the way Control-Flow-G…

At approx. 26min he mentions four processors that their code generator has to target: ARM32, x86, x64, and a new one coming out in the fall. What would that be? ARM64? *edit - neve…

I agree that the government can do a lot worse and that governments certain have in the past. That said, the more comfortable the relationship between government and a corporation …

The iPad air is less than 10" diagonal (9.7?) which seems like a bit of a difference from 13". I've got a late 2010 MBP 13" and it's pretty large compared to the iPad. I'd love to …

It's interesting that you'd say this as I've found myself doing the same thing for very much the same reasons. I'm actually a little hesitant to use Chrome at all except in those c…

I think you'd be hard pressed to run Win8 on a 32Gb drive with 4Gb Ram (although, admittedly, my Surface Pro runs Win8 adequately on 4Gb so it's the tiny drive that will get you). …