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Are pointers and arrays equivalent in C? (2009)
Longer answer: it depends on what you mean by "equivalent". Pointer arithmetic and array indexing are equivalent. In other aspects, pointers and arrays are different.
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Replacing Photoshop with NSString
Hello! This post somehow got a lot of attention. Thanks for visiting! If you like it, it would be awesome if you’d check my app Findings, a …
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Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure
A candid account of a decade trying to earn online, tracing my path through websites, affiliate marketing, advertising, and business setbacks.
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HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails
tl;dr; We decided to go to Y combinator with HippyVM , our high performance PHP implementation, and we did not get through after two round...
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Curl, 17 years old today
Today we celebrate the fact that it is exactly 17 years since the first public release of curl. I have always been the lead developer and maintainer of the project. When I released that first version in the spring of 1998, we had only a handful of users and a handful of contributors. curl was … Continue reading curl…
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Right Is The New Left
[Content warning: some ideas that might make you feel anxious about your political beliefs. Epistemic status: very speculative and not necessarily endorsed. This post is less something I will defen…
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A not-so-obvious reason to apply to YC
I’m a YC founder, but I’m not one of the many YC founders whose company has taken off quite yet. Actually, I’m no longer working on the company that I applied to YC with and presented at Demo Day....
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Solving the Go Challenge 1 in Erlang
The first Go challenge is over. So by now, I can take my Erlang solution and write about how you would go around solving the challenge in…
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Quote Origin: The Person Who is Clever and Lazy Qualifies for the Highest Leadership Posts
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder? Erich von Manstein? Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord? Douglas MacArthur? Frederick the Great? Apocryphal?
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Planets in the Fourth Dimension
You probably that planets go around the sun in elliptical orbits. But do you know why? In fact, they’re moving in circles in 4 dimensions. But when these circles are projected down to 3-dimen…
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I Hate the News (2006)
Some people start their day by reading The New York Times . Others end it by watching the nightly news. Some get it from The Daily Show . Others download it from a variety weblogs. Some keep up-to-the-minute by following CNN. Others have instant news updates automatically text messaged to their phone. But everybody…
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YouTube puts the final nail in the loudness wars' coffin
This is HUGE.
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Atreus – kit to build your own mechanical keyboard
My last post documented my initial exposure to the wild world of custom keyboards and the numerous ways it's possible to improve on the conventional design. As I dug deeper into the topic, I was struck with the simplicity of the underlying concepts. While the Ergodox is a notable and admirable achievement of…
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Commandos, Infantry, and Police
As I was driving home, I found myself thinking about a favorite section of the book Accidental Empires, by longtime computer journalist Robert X. Cringely. Originally published in 1993, it’s getting a little long in the tooth, but it still contains a lot of great insights about the personalities
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Your wifi shows me where you live, work and travel
Many people may already know that all your devices try to broadcast your previous connections. I expect that many more have no idea that’s happening. There have been articles published about it before, but without specific examples.
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High quality GIF with FFmpeg
About two years ago, I tried to improve the support of the GIF encoding in FFmpeg to make it at least decent. This notably led to the addition of the transparency mechanism in the GIF encoder. While this is not always optimal depending on your source, it is in the most common cases. Still, this was merely an attempt…
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What you wanted to know about AI
Recently a number of famous people, including Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, warned everybody about the dangers of machine intelligence. …
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