joepie91

The Freenode resignation FAQ, or: "what the fuck is going on?"

IMPORTANT NOTE:

It's come to my attention that some people have been spamming issue trackers with a link to this gist. While it's a good idea to inform people of the situation in principle, please do not do this. By all means spread the word in the communities that you are a part of, after verifying that they are not aware yet, but unsolicited spam is not helpful. It will just frustrate people.

Update 3 (May 24, 2021)

A number of things have happened since the last update.

slightfoot

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.SurfaceTexture;
import android.os.Build;
import android.text.TextPaint;
import android.util.AttributeSet;

joepie91

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

• A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
• A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
• There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

dom96

Studying for a Tech Interview Sucks, so Here's a Cheat Sheet to Help

This list is meant to be a both a quick guide and reference for further research into these topics. It's basically a summary of that comp sci course you never took or forgot about, so there's no way it can cover everything in depth. It also will be available as a gist on Github for everyone to edit and add to.

Data Structure Basics

###Array ####Definition:

• Stores data elements based on an sequential, most commonly 0 based, index.
• Based on tuples from set theory.

Araq

This document describes how Lambda Lifting (LL) works. LL is responsible for transforming 'closures' into (environment, function) pairs.

The basic approach is that captured vars need to be put on the heap and that the calling chain needs to be explicitly modelled. Things to consider:

proc a =
  var v = 0

tsiege

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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jasonrudolph

5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Let's have some command-line fun with curl, [jq][1], and the [new GitHub Search API][2].

Today we're looking for:

• The hottest repositories created in the last week.
• The oldest user accounts with zero followers. (So sad.)
• Issue trends by language.
• Clojure projects defying convention.

AdrianV

import math
import sequtils
import sdl

const 
  width  = 1280
  height = 720
  fov    = 45.0
  max_depth = 6 
  

fowlmouth

## entitty has been moved to the fowltek package 

dom96

# Compile with --threads:on

import math, os, strutils, osproc, locks

type 
  TComplex = tuple[re, im: float]
  TThrParam = tuple[start, size, realsize, id: int]

var bytes: array[0..3, cstring]
var lengths: array[0..3, int]