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FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

Since 2008 or 2009 I work on Apple hardware and OS: back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001), and switched to something that Just Works. Six years later, it less and less Just Works, started turning into spyware and nagware, and doesn't need much less maintenance than Linux desktop — at least for my work, which is system administration and software development, probably it is better for the mythical End User person. Work needed to get software I need running is not less obscure than work I'd need to do on Linux or othe Unix-like system. I am finding myself turning away from GUI programs that I used to appreciate, and most of the time I use OSX to just run a terminal, Firefox, and Emacs. GUI that used to be nice and unintrusive, got annoying. Either I came full circle in the last 15 years of my computer usage, or the OSX experience degraded in last 5 years. Again, this is from a sysadmin/developer ki

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

My OS X “VPN only” Setup For #30C3

You should never let passwords or private data be transmitted over an untrusted network (your neighbor’s, the one at Starbucks or the company) anyway, but on a hacker congress like the #30C3, this rule is almost vital.

Hackers get bored easily, and when they’re bored, they’re starting to look for things to play with. And a network with several thousand connected users is certainly an interesting thing to play with. Some of them might start intercepting the data on the network or do other nasty things with the packets that they can get.

If these packets are encrypted, messing with them is much harder (but not impossible! – see the end of this article). So you want your packets to be always encrypted. And the best way to do that is by using a VPN.

	#!/bin/bash
	# TODO: skip tiny files (so small they couldn't be photos)
	# TODO: make sure sym links and other file system oddities are handled
	# TODO: look at paralellization for perf boost

	#
	# Constants
	#
	CHAR_COUNT=12
	BLOCK_COUNT=6

	#include <assert.h>
	#include <stdio.h>

	float takes_a_vec3(float *v) {
	return v[0]+v[1]+v[2];
	}

	float takes_three_floats(float x, float y, float z) {
	// look ma, no hands!
	return takes_a_vec3(&z);

	// Just before switching jobs:
	// Add one of these.
	// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
	//
	// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
	// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
	// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
	//
	// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
	// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,

	apply plugin: 'java'
	apply plugin : 'war'

	group = 'com.cadrlife'
	version = '1.0.0'

	buildscript {
	repositories {
	mavenCentral()
	}

	#!/bin/sh

	###
	# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
	# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
	###

	# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
	# on the web, most from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx