Hacker News: carmen

New comment by carmen in "Show HN: A miniature Linux distro for non-rooted Android devices"

carmen — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:07:45 +0000

with a trivial script to setup bindmounts and such, you can easily run a full linux distro on android's kernel, concurrent with the main Android OS. Debian Kit for Android is just one example. gcc, emacs, ghc, whatever you need is an apt-get install away, w/ the Hacker's Keyboard and JackPal's term emulator, you are in as good or better shape than you would be on Maemo or Meego or Tizen..

New comment by carmen in " What Happened to the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated"

carmen — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:14:13 +0000

emotional responses by weird aspies is not particularly surprising to me

New comment by carmen in "Using Streak to Find an Apartment"

carmen — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:37:39 +0000

a blank page even after enabling javascript on every host - google, googleapis, blogger, blogblog, streak - suspect cookies are required on some of the hosts too

New comment by carmen in "Inside Larry Ellison’s Insane Plan to Turn America’s Cup Into a TV Spectacle"

carmen — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:26:26 +0000

NBC aired a race from Newport a month ago, and a similar round of articles circulated. does anybody remember all the 3D racecourses and SGI logos everywhere in 1992 america's cup? or all the wild Quokka webcoverage of the 95-98 stuff?

New comment by carmen in "How 'Marklar' OS X on Intel owes its start to a one-year-old boy"

carmen — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:19:34 +0000

up until OSX DP1 the x86 builds were regularly shipped to ADC members with a familiar Mac UI. it seemed like "Classic" aka OS7/8/9 binaries running with minimal emulation was the main reason x86 builds temporarily disappeared from the public eye (to a very strange shock & awe in journalistic circles upon its return)

New comment by carmen in "A 29-year-old on the difficulties of landing a first job "

carmen — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:32:09 +0000

i had that happen in SF, sent an email, got a phone call about 7 mins later, they said they were downtown, i said i was at Van Ness, 10 mins later i found their subletted unlabeled space. we chatted a bit, then they said "hey a RedHat upgrade messed our custom perl install, wanna try fixing it? so about an hour of deciding i wanted a job i was getting paid doing something i'm decent at.

New comment by carmen in "Splunk (big data) IPO Raises $229.5 million ($1.6 billion valuation)"

carmen — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:29:28 +0000

for now.. Taibbi wrote about a new law that exempts reporting for 5 years

New comment by carmen in "Avi Bryant Joins Etsy"

carmen — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:21:47 +0000

aliexpress,taobao,ebay,amazon-stores,paypal button,bitcoin,square in a busy location. lots of competition on the ad-hoc sale tip. tightly coupling this with a particular kind of item is not my cup of tea either

New comment by carmen in "Re: Gmail's new look: Do Not Want"

carmen — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:51:27 +0000

stop-script dialogs on GMaps + Twitter also (2x2ghz Atom, 850MHz ARM, webkit/firefox). its easier to ctrl-W than bother manually rewriting www to m on twitter and hoping it still works (with hashbang craziness often not).

ive just given up on even bothering reading anything on most of the internet, not worth fighting with unoptimized gobs of clientside code that ultimately just display a short bit of text and maybe an image in the end. even ipad V1 can barely handle twittter

New comment by carmen in "Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS codecs"

carmen — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:40:04 +0000

mozplugger has long played every media format ever by hooking into system ffmpeg/mplayer tooling, on firefox/iceweasel. likewise most minimalist webkit wrapers (midori, surf) just seem to use gstreamer/ffmpeg too, which has clean-roomed free support of even nasty old codecs like realvideo. arguing over what is officialy 'shipped' when the browser supports plugins, Xembed and so on is kind of a pointless tempest in a teapot

New comment by carmen in "Headphones for Hackers"

carmen — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:27:24 +0000

ive had mechanical issues with every headphone ever. V6 has a flimsy folding hinge mechanism with tiny plastic tabs that break off, Beyer 770's cable has split in half and frayed open several times, and earbuds 3.5mm connectors with crap strain relief that lose connectivity after a few dozen pocketing cycles of your phone/musicplayer.

i just use cheap throwaway earbuds in girly colors on commute and FM radio for music into solid Advent loudspeakers that have been going strong since the 70s

New comment by carmen in "Built in Boston: Why Great Entrepreneurs Are Choosing MA to Build Their Startups"

carmen — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:23:36 +0000

it doesnt matter where, once i tell people i wont sign NDAs or work on closed-source code, theyre no longer interested.

i'm sticking with boston though, at least it has seasons

New comment by carmen in "What Craigslist Did Right: User Management Without Usernames or Passwords"

carmen — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:09:14 +0000

ive been unable to get Craigslist's phone-token thing to call my VOIP DID without throwig errors. title there and here is misleading, i need a username/pasword to login to both VOIP and EMail accounts to fiddle with all of CL's post-approval stuff. it feels positively mid-90s

New comment by carmen in "Ruby Frameworks? Which one? Bye bye Rails."

carmen — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:01:52 +0000

i didnt want to write new code each time my data-model changed: migrations, model code, new controllers/views. this meant a Resource class, a uniform controller request/response cycle following web-arch/linked-data standards. at this point, would have had to significantly monkeypatch both rails and its attempts at providing a generic Resource class to override its magic (and/or incur the CPU usage for the magic to do what i didnt want). it was a lot simpler to just start with a Rack handler from scratch.

ive been using my web framework for 5+ years for personal and professional projects, and as far as i know there are no other users. Ry Dahl was churning out all sorts of 'concurrent' web-frameworks and servers in Ruby building on EventMachine and so on for years, and im pretty sure i was one of the only people using his code. eventually he scored a hit as node.js when finally rewriting one of the concepts in Javascript

New comment by carmen in "Puma: A Ruby Web Server Built For Concurrency"

carmen — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:17:29 +0000

puma's README wording make it seem like the Ragel parser is some new thing unique to Puma, and doesnt mention Zed. no wonder he hatest rubyists

also, thin has had a --threaded flag for years

New comment by carmen in "Ask HN: Are you doing anything to fix apartment rentals?"

carmen — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:52:31 +0000

when i moved to SF i walked around the TL and rang building managers of nicer buildings and asked to see what was available. in Boston the most up-to-date info was not online but in a steno book of a guy in a subbasement in the Fenway that connects to various buildings via utility tunnels, even getting to him required 2 elevator-trips and some stairs, but it really illuminated how things work. in between padmapper, hotpads, trulia, zillow and the exclusive broker-listings and MLS-shared rentals therein, as well as alumni-mailinglists/forums containing for-owner listings and carefully-crafted CL search-bookmarks and working with a couple human brokers it was possible to get a good sense of roughly everything in the market

New comment by carmen in "What the Vaio Z says about Sony's little design problem"

carmen — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:42:53 +0000

Vaio X has a standard DC barrel pot, ive powered it on anything from junk-heap printer wall-warts to 20-cent car-adaptors to lab bench-supplies without hassles.

other things it has over the air are half the weight owing to carbon fiber vs aluminum and a smaller battery owing to an Atom CPU (a feature - can tell which code is slow), and a full array of hardware ports and slots, a matte-screen with almost 0 reflected light readable in direct sun, a fan that is off most of the time, and GPS/3G. gma500 is main problem, but Alan Cox's driver is getting OK enough to use

New comment by carmen in "USV invests in Duck Duck Go"

carmen — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:28:19 +0000

sure, SSH to your iOS device and add/edit a .plist entry in your editor of choice

New comment by carmen in "Google Plus sounds nifty. Too bad I can't see it"

carmen — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:08:07 +0000

can't' see it either - in Chrome or Firefox. i think it is a