frsyuki

My thoughts on MessagePack

Hi. My name is Sadayuki "Sada" Furuhashi. I am the author of the MessagePack serialization format as well as its implementation in C/C++/Ruby.

Recently, MessagePack made it to the front page of Hacker News with this blog entry by Olaf, the creator of the Facebook game ZeroPilot. In the comment thread, there were several criticisms for the blog post as well as MessagePack itself, and I thought this was a good opportunity for me to address the questions and share my thoughts.

My high-level response to the comments

To the best of my understanding, roughly speaking, the criticisms fell into the following two categories.

Explorer09

#!/bin/sh

# ntfs_attr.sh - Display or change attributes on an NTFS filesystem

# Tools required:
# getfattr(1) and setfattr(1)
# http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/attr/
# (In Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install attr)
# ntfs-3g (pre-installed in most Linux distros)
# http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

fd0

# ~/.asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf
# ALSA configuration file

##### USAGE #####
# Save this file as "~/.asoundrc" (for user-specific sound configuration) or
# "/etc/asound.conf" (for system-wide sound configuration) and specify ALSA
# device names ad described in the next section.


##### DEVICE NAMES #####

gbaman

Raspberry Pi Zero OTG Mode

Simple guide for setting up OTG modes on the Raspberry Pi Zero - By Andrew Mulholland (gbaman).

The Raspberry Pi Zero (and model A and A+) support USB On The Go, given the processor is connected directly to the USB port, unlike on the B, B+ or Pi 2 B, which goes via a USB hub.
Because of this, if setup to, the Pi can act as a USB slave instead, providing virtual serial (a terminal), virtual ethernet, virtual mass storage device (pendrive) or even other virtual devices like HID, MIDI, or act as a virtual webcam!
It is important to note that, although the model A and A+ can support being a USB slave, they are missing the ID pin (is tied to ground internally) so are unable to dynamically switch between USB master/slave mode. As such, they default to USB master mode. There is no easy way to change this right now.
It is also important to note, that a USB to UART serial adapter is not needed for any of these guides, as may be documented elsewhere across the int

mslinn

java -cp "C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 15.0.2\plugins\java-decompiler\lib\java-decompiler.jar" org.jetbrains.java.decompiler.main.decompiler.ConsoleDecompiler -dgs=true . src

pwlin

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=32696#c5

If you have a certificate that is not
trusted by Android, when you add it, it goes in the personal cert store.
When you add a cert in this personal cert store, the system requires a
higher security level to unlock the device. But if you manage to add your
cert to the system store then you don't have this requirement. Obviously,
root is required to add a certificate to the system store, but it is quiet
easy.

tkersey

Quick access

• Books I'm tracking

2025

May

• Vibe-Rules: The Unified Management-Approach

  Sharing context in ways that tools understand.

  AI development tools are giving us more ability to steer them and share the context that's in our heads. Some things are my global desires, while others apply project-wide or org-wide. This has all given birth to a plethora of "rules" files that we need to manage.

• Variadic Types in Swift and How to Count Them

seignovert

Set Icon to a File / Folder on macOS

Since macOS High Sierra sips --addIcon is no longer supported. An easier way to add and image to a file/folder is to use fileicon npm package.

The new syntax is:

fileicon set foo img.png

ahmed-musallam

How to compress PDF using ghostscript

As a developer, it bothers me when someone sends me a large pdf file compared to the number of pages. Recently, I recieved a 12MB scanned document for just one letter-sized page... so I got to googlin, like I usually do, and found ghostscript!

to learn more abot ghostscript (gs): https://www.ghostscript.com/

What we are interested in, is the gs command line tool, which provides many options for manipulating PDF, but we are interested in compressign those large PDF's into small yet legible documents.

credit goes to this answer on askubuntu forum: https://askubuntu.com/questions/3382/reduce-filesize-of-a-scanned-pdf/3387#3387?newreg=bceddef8bc334e5b88bbfd17a6e7c4f9

unoexperto

How to patch Android app to sniff its HTTPS traffic with self-signed certificate

• Download apktool from https://ibotpeaches.github.io/Apktool/
• Unpack apk file: java -jar /home/expert/work/tools/apktool.jar d [email protected]
• Modify AndroidManifest.xml by adding android:networkSecurityConfig="@xml/network_security_config" attribute to application element.
• Create file /res/xml/network_security_config.xml with following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<network-security-config>
    <base-config>