safetyscissors

Slackware was my alternative to Gentoo at the time. Gentoo was cool because it was all compiled, more efficient etc. That shit sounded good to me as a teenager. I remember one summer I had the Gentoo ISO all burnt on a CD-R and stayed up all night to watch it install and compile on my Athlon Thunderbird PC (My parents didn't spend money much on computers and I had to make do with stuff that I saved for with birthday money). I fell asleep on a bean bag and woke up finding that it failed to compile something. I had to resort to asking the main IRC channel and message board to help me fix it, but I didn't have time :) I was disappointed as a 14 year old. I then downloaded Slackware and printed off the installation guide at school. I followed it to the T and it worked. It was fun and awesome because it allowed me to understand how things worked under the hood and provided insights on how a linux system hung together. Those days in the 00s are gone but the memories are still there.

I am a iOS developer and I have an M1. There are some issues that need to be ironed out with some packages that I use not compiling for some reason on the arm iOS simulator, but that has diverted me to compiling on device which isn't much of a hassle.

I am not bothered as much by the 16gb of ram, it is still rather usable. What I really bought the machine for was the battery life. I've had it for a day or two and it is amazing how long I can stay away from my power socket. Also this thing runs really cool. I have not even heard the fans spin up once, even during the recent Sydney heatwave (45°C).

I'm in the same position thinking of making a pivot into the security sector (coming from a mobile developer background). I think if you're good and always on top of infosec stuff and contribute to the community, you'll always have work.

"BlackBerry 10: AWESOME. If the hardware matches it, RIM jobs are safe"

Stay classy Register.

Really amazing guy. Kinda makes me feel inadequate all of a sudden :(

Any vim ports?

Sure! my email is jason[at]safetyscissors.co

Cheers!

Thank you :)

I'm getting a 500. Anyone have a mirror?

I think where they are going is completely amazing. I have dealt with cocos2d in the early days and it was kind of hard for a beginner to pickup and there weren't as many tools out there to work on sound, sprites and tile maps. But its nice that they are focusing on different platforms :) makes porting things a whole lot easier.