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New comment by forg0t_username in "Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB?"

forg0t_username — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 21:19:03 +0000

I'd really like to give them the benefit of the doubt, but at this point it's sheer incompetence. It's been pointed out in the past, and it's still growing.

New comment by forg0t_username in "Ask HN: How did you find your current job?"

forg0t_username — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 15:32:47 +0000

5 months from graduating I started looking for job offers. I wanted to get into ASICs D&V so I looked up the jobs from all the well-known companies, and applied to the one that was in Europe and looked the coolest. Got the job.

Realised two months after that that my prof could have got me an introduction there, but oh well!

New comment by forg0t_username in "Common Git Problems and How to Fix Them"

forg0t_username — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 16:48:22 +0000

Did you try to add your development folder to the AV's exception list?

repz ret

forg0t_username — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 17:53:46 +0000

Article URL: http://repzret.org/p/repzret/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16781811

Points: 2

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New comment by forg0t_username in "Ask HN: Best companies to work for in Europe?"

forg0t_username — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 21:01:57 +0000

I work at Arm in the UK. They also have offices in France, Sweden, Norway, and Hungary.

It's a great place to work:

* You're surrounded by smart people

* The work is interesting

* Short hours

* Flexible: if I want to work from home or run some errands during the day, I can drop an email "where is " to let my team know. No need to ask anyone.

There are hardware and software roles, with everything in between: hardware design and test, infrastructure, cluster, web applications, compilers, and a lot of internal software tools.

New comment by forg0t_username in "LLVM for Grad Students (2015)"

forg0t_username — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:45:25 +0000

This is really cool, I had no idea it was this straightforward to manipulate LLVM internals. Definitely a side project to explore.

New comment by forg0t_username in "Software Complexity Is Killing Us"

forg0t_username — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 21:22:37 +0000

The irony is palpable here... The website loads slowly, elements move around the page during the first load, then the fonts blink around and go from system font to some custom font. It loads data from 15 different domains, and four of those are only for tracking.

New comment by forg0t_username in "Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations"

forg0t_username — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:56:22 +0000

You're always one git reflog away of undoing the brainfart. Once you know the CLI well enough, you manipulate the git data model easily. When you're using a code review tool like gerrit, it's impossible to do something you can't undo.

New comment by forg0t_username in "F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules"

forg0t_username — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:06:45 +0000

> only real world example

[Citation needed]. Whatsapp has virtually no competition in Brazil because most carriers do not count it toward the data cap.

New comment by forg0t_username in "Show HN: Enlight – Learn to code by building projects"

forg0t_username — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 19:28:08 +0000

The animation of what you're going to build before even clicking on it is super neat, kudos!

New comment by forg0t_username in "Mobilizing an ER department to handle a mass casualty incident"

forg0t_username — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 22:16:55 +0000

Reminder to donate blood, this is what allows medical professionals to save lives, be it in dramatic incidents such as this one, or in more mundane settings.

UK: https://my.blood.co.uk/

US: http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood

New comment by forg0t_username in "Ask HN: Are Glassdoor reviews a reliable indicator of a company's culture?"

forg0t_username — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:54:13 +0000

Even if you're overestimating your ability, it does not really matter for the case at hand. You can have someone you trust write the review for you.

New comment by forg0t_username in "Ask HN: Where do I get started on ASICs, FPGA, RTL, Verilog et. al?"

forg0t_username — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 07:34:09 +0000

For 5 seconds I was like "but the clock is the analog part of the circuit, this does not make any sense". Then I clicked the link.

New comment by forg0t_username in "Tell me what your company does"

forg0t_username — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 22:15:14 +0000

You forget the people in a) who don't have the time to deal with bulshit calls. That's where you're losing leads.

New comment by forg0t_username in "HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year"

forg0t_username — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 21:58:02 +0000

Seconded, it's a great utility, without dependencies, and very simple.

New comment by forg0t_username in "Extreme Commuting"

forg0t_username — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 01:46:01 +0000

If you spend 1h30 each day commuting with a car, you are the reason why there is pollution in the city.

New comment by forg0t_username in "Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?"

forg0t_username — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 18:47:53 +0000

> Searching for papers/PDFs on specific topics (built a Python wrapper for arxiv/Google/others that goes and fetches the top 5 matches across them and files them on Dropbox)

Any chance you would post your code? This looks interesting, especially if it integrates sci-hub/libgen

New comment by forg0t_username in "Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?"

forg0t_username — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 13:17:52 +0000

That might look a bit cliché, but once in a while I'll Google stuff I'm curious about and for which I have absolutely no background.

Reading academic reviews and looking up the vocabulary on the fly is a great way to stay humble.

New comment by forg0t_username in "Tempest attacks against AES: Stealing keys using minimal equipment [pdf]"

forg0t_username — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:37:12 +0000

Basically, the current in a circuit is dependent of the data manipulated: changing a value from 0 to 1 or 1 to zero generates a current to (dis)charge the gate capacitances.

Maxwell's equations state that a current generates an electromagnetic field, and this field is perceived by the antenna. The attacker is then seeing electromagnetic waves related to the data manipulated.

By carefully comparing the waves with waves where the key is known, the attacker can then guess the key bit by bit.

New comment by forg0t_username in "Tempest attacks against AES: Stealing keys using minimal equipment [pdf]"

forg0t_username — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:50:03 +0000

The keyword you're looking for is masking. Masked implementations of AES resist this exact attack without problem. Higher-order attacks are then needed, and those require exponentially more computation.