Mihail Szabolcs icebreaker

Since this is on Hacker News and reddit...

No, I don't distribute my résumé like this. A friend of mine made a joke about me being the kind of person who would do this, so I did (the link on that page was added later). My actual résumé is a good bit crazier.
I apologize for the use of _t in my types. I spend a lot of time at a level where I can do that; "reserved for system libraries? I am the system libraries".
Since people kept complaining, I've fixed the assignments of string literals to non-const char *s.
My use of type * name, however, is entirely intentional.
If you're using an older compiler, you might have trouble with the anonymous unions and the designated initializers - I think gcc 4.4 requires some extra braces to get them working together. Anything reasonably recent should work fine. Clang and gcc (newer than 4.4, at le

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

World building miscellany

Procedural Generation

Wikipedia: Noctis (Web page)
Noctis - Official site (Web page)
Proteus - early prototype screenshots (Blog post)
Gamasutra: The Making of Elite (Video)
The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress
Interview with Tarn Adams (creator of Dwarf Fortress) (Slides) (Video)

Ubuntu 12.10 setup (rbenv/RVM, Janus, PostgreSQL)

Basic pre-requisites

Some utilities:

sudo apt-get install vim tmux git curl

Copy/paste from the command line:

For a tmux status line as seen in the example image for the wemux project:

The session on the left in the example screen shot uses a patched font from the vim-powerline project. Inconsolata-dz, you beautiful creature.

To duplicate the left status line add the following lines to your ~/tmux.conf

set -g status-left-length 32
set -g status-right-length 150

	#include <SDL2/SDL.h>

	#define MUS_PATH "Roland-GR-1-Trumpet-C5.wav"

	// prototype for our audio callback
	// see the implementation for more information
	void my_audio_callback(void userdata, Uint8 stream, int len);

	// variable declarations
	static Uint8 *audio_pos; // global pointer to the audio buffer to be played

	import os, subprocess, base64
	import tornado.ioloop
	import tornado.web
	from tornado.options import define, options, parse_command_line

	define("port",default=8888,type=int)
	define("branch",default="master")
	define("access",type=str,multiple=True)

	class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):

	#! /bin/bash

	# originaly from http://tinyurl.com/twitch-linux from taladan
	# www.youtube.com/user/taladan

	# gist created by brodul

	INRES="1280x800" # input resolution
	#OUTRES="1024x640" # Output resolution
	OUTRES="800x500" # Output resolution

	A little test of sqlite3 thread safety across multiple processes.

	Ensure sqlite is built with:
	#define SQLITE_THREADSAFE 1

	poll.c will create database and table if necessary and start polling for inserts.

	writer.c will insert the current time into the db once every second.

	TimerQueue code borrowed from:

	class TicketsController < ApplicationController
	def show
	tickets = params[:tickets].split(",")

	ticket_data = tickets.map do \|ticket\|
	parallel { Faraday.get("http://tickets.local/#{ticket}") }
	end

	render json: { tickets: ticket_data.map(&:result) }
	end