zplesivcak
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2014)
on Saturday November 01, 2014 @10:42AM (#8543197)
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Remote: Maybe
Willing to relocate: Yes, US (California), Canada, Australia
Technologies: C, Bash, Linux (Gentoo/Ubuntu/Mint), Git/SVN, Matlab/Octave, Java/J2EE/Swing, Python; (some experience with: HTML/Javascript/CSS, Scheme)
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Interests: systems administration, tools (CLI and other), any part of web-stack
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Re:How to Make a Computer Operating System in C/C++
on Sunday December 01, 2013 @02:36PM (#6828835)
Here [1] you can find another example of writing OS from scratch. Going through chapters progress is made iteratively by making limited changes in each step. This OS is intended to be (RT)OS for embedded computers, but example arch-level is implemented for x86.
Re:Diablo III Economy Broken by an Integer Overflow Bug
on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @12:33PM (#5675156)
" The game was also balanced around the auction house - meaning fewer high quality items drop, with the belief being that you're selling those few high quality items & kitting yourself out from the auction house."
AFAIK, Blizzard collects interest on each real money transaction, so if they're optimizing for maximization of that interest (I'm assuming they do) they aren't minimizing occurrence of the rarest of the items. They should behave like diamond cartel...
Re:Indian Coders Found Cheating in Google Code Jam?
on Sunday May 05, 2013 @11:29AM (#5658591)
If someone barely missed passing through 1st round, chance for him to make it through any of the following rounds is practically non-existant. Exception being if he's experienced competitor who fell short for some reason.
Re:How 19-year-old activist Zack Kopplin is making life hell for creat...
on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @05:57PM (#5063681)
I don't find it acceptable to budle up issues of creationism/evolution and climate change. Writer is being devious when he's doing it so lightly as he did; especially when climate change wasn't mentioned in the title.
Re:Things I learned by pretending to be blind for a week
on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @06:48AM (#5025822)
Just a note of marginal importance: I'm pretty sure that speeding up movie 1.5 times would bring its runtime from 2hrs to 1hr:20mins (not 1.5hrs as mentioned). With 24 frames per second 2hr movie has 172800 frames. Speedup brings framerate to 36 fps, and dividing we get 4800 seconds, or 80 minutes.
Edit: Thank your for pointing that out leberwurstsaft!