Hacker News: burgerdev

New comment by burgerdev in "Opmsg – A GPG Alternative"

burgerdev — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:01:01 +0000

Which aspect of elliptic curves would you like to understand better? The original paper for Curve25519 contains a dedicated subsection for attack models, for example, and leaves only marginal room for hidden backdoors with its detailed reasoning about curve parameter choice. The implementation of EdDH or EdDSA is specified in RFCs that are explicitly written to be "fool-proof", as others already commented.

New comment by burgerdev in "GNU Awk 5.0"

burgerdev — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 06:50:36 +0000

The 6 page summary in the 7th edition manual turned out to be comprehensive while still being approachable. I knew next to nothing about awk, not counting some snippets found on the web, after reading through this document twice awk feels like home.

https://9p.io/7thEdMan/v7vol2b.pdf (starting on page 105)

New comment by burgerdev in "The Programming Languages Zoo"

burgerdev — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 19:36:18 +0000

I guess what jesse_m had in mind were the mini languages from the article. I'd say 'calc' looks like a good starting point, but I agree that picking an order is hard.

New comment by burgerdev in "Show HN: unicode.style"

burgerdev — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 23:58:51 +0000

Is it just me, or does the BB style render the most interesting characters as rectangles? (Chrome on OS X)

𝔸 𝔹 𝔺 𝔻 𝔼 𝔽 𝔾 𝔿 𝕀 𝕁 𝕂 𝕃 𝕄 𝕅 𝕆 𝕇 𝕈 𝕉 𝕊 𝕋 𝕌 𝕍 𝕎 𝕏 𝕐 𝕑

New comment by burgerdev in "A website where opinions/posts don't get to the top based on likes from others"

burgerdev — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 11:45:06 +0000

... and the first 10k digits of pi might be 'true', but are neither educational nor entertaining.

New comment by burgerdev in "IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival"

burgerdev — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 12:06:45 +0000

I would love to read the post-mortem on this one!

New comment by burgerdev in "After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea"

burgerdev — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 07:57:12 +0000

They are probably right advising careful use of Ibuprofen, not because of kidney problems but because of heart conditions. There have been a couple of threads in HN recently, e.g. http://time.com/4568552/ibuprofen-naproxen-inflammation-safe... and http://time.com/3952889/painkillers-safety/?iid=sr-link1.

New comment by burgerdev in "How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)"

burgerdev — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:03:17 +0000

I've been running my mail server for 6 years now. Mail to Microsoft's servers (live.com, etc.) keeps ending up in the spam folder, even though spf, dkim and dmarc are set up and my IP has been clean for the entire period. The bright side is that I only notice this in the rare case of "mail to all contacts", since noone is on outlook.com these days.

New comment by burgerdev in "Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (2015)"

burgerdev — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:42:34 +0000

With software that respects the users' freedoms? With users empowered to make the tradeoffs they prefer regarding privacy?

New comment by burgerdev in "Terminal: How the airport came to embody our national psychosis"

burgerdev — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 15:21:21 +0000

A post about airport depression without a single reference to Douglas Adams? Welcome to 2018, I guess.

New comment by burgerdev in "The Internet I Knew (2014)"

burgerdev — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:53:31 +0000

> some boring dude working at [some company] that just [happens to offer coupons for the first 300 likes]

I'd say that sentence generalizes pretty well.

New comment by burgerdev in "Haven: Keep Watch"

burgerdev — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 20:24:53 +0000

Maybe more appropriate: "Wow, my phone can _optionally_ run an onion service!"

https://github.com/guardianproject/haven/blob/0fd6f690ef6303...

New comment by burgerdev in "Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations"

burgerdev — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:41:13 +0000

In choose your own adventure style: http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html

New comment by burgerdev in "Generic Programming Made Easy in F#"

burgerdev — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 00:58:44 +0000

Sounds a bit like the Scala story: could be a really nice language, but the bagagge ... :)

New comment by burgerdev in "Generic Programming Made Easy in F#"

burgerdev — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 00:00:05 +0000

I apologize for the tone of my comment, but still think that ML is not supposed to be written like that.

New comment by burgerdev in "Generic Programming Made Easy in F#"

burgerdev — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 23:39:53 +0000

> if isGenTypeOf typedefof<_ option> then

Wow! This code looks horrible. Why don't you just accept the fact that the language is strongly typed and abolish reflection altogether?

New comment by burgerdev in "LightVM – A new virtualization solution based on Xen"

burgerdev — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:57:31 +0000

Maybe that ZeroVM is a NaCl sandbox, while LightVM is a Xen VM?

New comment by burgerdev in "Databases and Distributed Deadlocks: A FAQ"

burgerdev — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 06:37:57 +0000

Reading this makes me wonder in which situations locking will actually help. If you have two distributed updates like "UPDATE table SET value = 6 WHERE key = 'world'" and "UPDATE table SET value = 5 WHERE key = 'world'", isn't there some kind of design (or usage) issue? Are immutable tables transformed with monads going to be a thing in distributed relational databases?

New comment by burgerdev in "The Marketing Behind MongoDB"

burgerdev — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:50:51 +0000

I maybe missed it in the posts, but would you mind to explain why you focus on MongoDB in particular and NoSQL in general?

New comment by burgerdev in "Ask HN: Is any senior dev reasonably happy with their job?"

burgerdev — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:25:57 +0000

Since you seem to like snow sports, you should perhaps try downhill longboarding.