Hacker News: wangman

New comment by wangman in "Copy Fail"

wangman — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:14:23 +0000

RedHat has also changed it to "Important severity" and "Affected" now.

New comment by wangman in "Cisco to acquire Isovalent"

wangman — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:45:01 +0000

I guess the new CNCF Cilium Certified Associate (CCA) is a Cisco certification soon :)

New comment by wangman in "Charging My MacBook Air M1 with a Standard Mobile Phone USB Charger"

wangman — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:16:38 +0000

I guess you'll have to deep in the apple cult to be amazed by other phone chargers. Power Delivery have been around for over 10 years, follow standards and have enough power and it charges.

New comment by wangman in "TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C"

wangman — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:29:16 +0000

Wow 82 sloc. That just way too much bloat.

New comment by wangman in "Omega2: $5 Linux Computer with Wi-Fi"

wangman — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 12:49:38 +0000

wth! That page tells us nothing useful. The hardware headline has a picture of it, a pinout diagram and nothing more. What kind of hardware is it built with? What architecture is it? What's the wi-fi chip? Does it have good support? What libraries are you using? What distros are supported?

All I can see it that it's running busybox and a two year old kernel.

New comment by wangman in "Use Atom to edit in Chrome"

wangman — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 22:28:49 +0000

What about Vimperator or Pentadactyl?

New comment by wangman in "Why use www?"

wangman — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 22:41:47 +0000

Nice!

I would have gone for a simpler loop:

echo -e "sec\tmethod\turl";for url in {https,http}://{www.,}{en.wikipedia.org,{google,reddit,facebook,youtube,netflix,amazon,twitter,linkedin,msn}.com,google.co.in}; do curl -sL "$url" -w "%{time_redirect}\t${url%:}\t${url#//}\n" -o/dev/null; done|sort

New comment by wangman in "Why use www?"

wangman — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:45:20 +0000

Thanks, it sure looks less ugly with -o/dev/null{,} I couldn't find any other way to get curl to stay silent and still output redirect times. Hence the crude hack. (Obviously my bash and curl versions had no problem with the spaces or I wouldn't have posted it)

New comment by wangman in "Why use www?"

wangman — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:54:34 +0000

This is because reddit.com and www.reddit.com gets you the http-versions, which both are redirected to https

Try this: curl -sL https://{www.,}reddit.com -o\ /dev/null{,\ } -w "%{time_redirect}\n"

New comment by wangman in "Textract, a Python package for extracting text from any document"

wangman — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 10:46:47 +0000

I also assumed that it was some kind of Python wrapper or implementation of Tesseract OCR when I saw that name. One would think so when Tesseract being (one of?) the best preforming OCR-programs out there.

New comment by wangman in "Negative Ships and Unlimited Money Postmortem"

wangman — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:50:23 +0000

I'd rather have No-Ships and Unlimited Spice.

New comment by wangman in "Yogscast Kickstarter failure is a painful reminder of the risks of crowdfunding"

wangman — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:54:07 +0000

"The Yogscast's Yogventures was the first Kickstarter I ever saw that set off alarm bells in my head" What? Was this also the first Kickstarter the article author ever saw?

New comment by wangman in "List of fictional computers"

wangman — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 23:17:46 +0000

Yes both the Vinculum and the Central Plexus should on that list. The Vinculum is specifically described as a processing device whereas the Central Plexus might be more of a switchboard. (Edit: all this is VOY not TNG ofc)

New comment by wangman in "PirateBox 1.0"

wangman — Fri, 30 May 2014 21:12:21 +0000

Can't you just switch on the Wifi-hotspot on your iPhone and connect together that way?

New comment by wangman in "Email Patterns for Web Apps"

wangman — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 19:04:18 +0000

I agree. The e-mail patterns here are so different that I don't think they belong in the same article.