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jachy

Power-up! By going incommunicado. 3:56 PM May 25th via web
elonmusk Falcon flew perfectly!! Dragon in orbit, comm locked and solar arrays active!! Feels like a giant weight just came off my back :) 1:04 AM May 22nd via Twitter for iPhone Retweeted by jachy and 1762 others
paulg Ugh, Twitter is going to start spamming their users every week. How to turn it off: twitter.com/settings/notif… 10:43 AM May 19th via web Retweeted by jachy and 431 others
progmofo.com always cheers me up. 1:33 PM May 20th via web
Objectivist-C: fdiv.net/2012/04/01/obj… 11:10 AM May 18th via web
@memrise is great for languages, combining mnemonics with Anki-style memory-refresh times. bit.ly/Jv6Qql 12:01 AM May 18th via Tweet Button
Pain in the neck rendering text on the fly for OpenGL cube faces? Just build everything with Minecraft... 4:21 AM May 10th via web
Not sure if I should feel happy that AP Anything is trending in the US or sad that it isn't AP Computer Science... 4:19 AM May 10th via web
@I_am_onlive What's wrong with you? 10:28 PM May 7th via web in reply to I_am_onlive
Just a reminder, don't use md5 for any security-related purpose! mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/md5c… 12:39 AM May 2nd via web
ridiculous_fish A (possibly original) technique for optimizing unsigned integer division: ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/lab… 6:04 PM Oct 19th, 2011 via web Retweeted by jachy and 29 others
Sigh google. Not about the text, but the fact that if I click in the box, the border appears for no reason. twitpic.com/9clz8a 5:53 PM Apr 21st via Twitpic
You can get the ignored "_" syntax for numbers in Clojure early! Just recompile LispReader.java with a replaceAll on intPat.matcher().. 4:54 AM Apr 21st via web
@tarastrong Brony. Only one will win the shirt! Now multiply that one by some big number to see the true potential of the whole community. 8:50 PM Apr 10th via web in reply to tarastrong
1. Increase tax rate to 95% on top brackets. 2. ??? 3. Powerhouse economy returns! 6:02 AM Apr 8th via web
The Rock and The Undertaker win at WrestleMania. Hooray! 1:01 AM Apr 2nd via web
Watched the Atlas Shrugged Part 1 movie... it sucked. The book was about 100 times better, which is depressing since it's not great either. 5:36 PM Mar 31st via web
@tarastrong Rain. 4:42 PM Mar 29th via web in reply to tarastrong
@jandrewrogers What were you trying to say in your GigaOM lightning talk? Something about lists? Or Lisp forms? ;) Not a bad talk otherwise. 8:39 PM Mar 27th via web
It's not that Go itself is particularly bad, I'm just amazed anyone actually uses it. 4:24 PM Mar 27th via web

Name Jach (aka Kevin)
Location Redmond, WA
Web http://www.thejac...
Bio Programmer, OSSer, other stuff. Productive in Python, PHP, Scheme/CLisp, Java, ActionScript, JS, C, C++, verilog, x86 and arm Assembly ORDER BY key(pref, skill)