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You can make user level systemd instances run at startup and stick around regardless of login/logout. loginctl enable-linger This enables some nice deployment strategies that don't…

Not a brag--just wanted emphasize how straightforward and fun something like this can be.

It would probably be worth it to temporarily define one of the reserved opcodes as putchar.

Sure. I aim to have our interview cycle take under a week, although in honesty, I think it takes about 10 days. I often take on a little more work myself (especially in the phone s…

LuaJIT adds another massive speed-up on top of the already healthy Lua performance. http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html http://luajit.org/performance.html That said, I do agree …

Could be the result of an earn out. Basically: deal is X, but if condition Y holds true for the next year, we'll given you an additional Z.

Let me start by asking $15k/month in revenue or profit? Do you have capacity to hire? Courting investors is a full time job, but so is hiring if done right. You probably can't do b…

We often (jokingly) measure time in kiloseconds around my office. As rue points out, that's just a bit over fifteen minutes, so its actually a useful unit. "See you in the conferen…

Perhaps you're thinking of a different phone? I believe the Optimus T/S/V line all have capacitive screens.

I have an LG Optimus T on T-Mobile. I got it a while back for $200 with no contract. My $60 plan through T-Mobile is more expensive then the Virgin one mentioned in the article, bu…

The biggest loss here is the Mac specific GUI bits. Not only does Apple Java use native drawing primitives for ui (instead of requiring X11 like some ports), it also doesn't look c…

Remember, it's basically only Linux distros that have the capability to upgrade a third-party library like that (ironically, distro maintainers actually have the source code requir…

Every process has "my-actor" defined in its global environment. It provides methods related to basic actor functionality. In this case I'm calling the "announce" method to say some…

We don't build any in, but the same strategies (ie, requiring a license key, etc) that work for regular applications like Microsoft Word also work for fluid applications. The bits …

Ignoring user interface and the mechanics of peer discovery... user-interface, discovery-system | # This process is spawned with two pids as arguments # If either pid halts, I halt…

Here's some basic syntax. values = '[1, 2, 3] incremented = values.map({ n | n + 1 }) summary = incremented.join(", ") summary.starts-with?("1").then({ fail("Increment failed.") })…

What sort of examples would you be most interested in seeing?

You can build message passing code that suffers from race conditions. In practice, though, it's almost always obvious if you're about to do something dangerous. On p.173 Joe writes…

Hi nivertech, I'm sharing one of the lessons we learned building our own programming language. I love how many language designers there are on HN! We're working on an invite system…

True, the nice things about libraries is that they can compete and make your ecosystem stronger. But the nice thing about building it into the language is that it becomes a common …

I actually spent some time reading that spec yesterday while hunting a bug. I was trying to figure out if maybe we were violating the protocol in some way. I'm not enough of an exp…

I loathe source code templates. To use web (newspaper?) terminology, it puts the content below the fold. It also raises the cost of factoring code out into its own file. Even a sim…