FalconNL

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by FalconNL 9y ago
The wording on question 9 (the regex one) is a little unclear: both b[l]. e and ([^b] b[^b]*){3} will match blabber but not babel. Presumably the intended meaning is that the entire string must be matched, but the question does not make thi
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by FalconNL 11y ago
The last time I made a world generation algorithm for a voxel engine prototype I got reasonable results through the judicious combination of different types of noise, (specifically simplex, ridged and turbulence noise) and transforming the
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by FalconNL 14y ago
There's no need for XML, nor for all-white video. A 32x32 icon of some color noise, stored as PNG, GIF, or BMP, takes about 2-3 KB. Writing an algorithm to procedurally generate a vaguely interesting video and music can easily be done in le
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by FalconNL 15y ago
And yet another short, functional solution: pairs = (>>= \ ~(x:xs) -> map ((,) x) xs) . init . tails EDIT: Or as a list comprehension: pairs xs = concat [map ((,) h) t | (h:t) <- tails xs]
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by FalconNL 15y ago
I don't know if this will add much to the article, but let's go over things step by step. scanl is the same as foldl, save for the fact that it outputs a list of all intermediate values. So where foldl (+) 0 [1..10] would output 55
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by FalconNL 15y ago
As an alternative to the zipWith method of calculating the Fibonacci series, you can use scanl, resulting in (in my opinion) an even more elegant version: fibs = fix $ (1 :) . scanl (+) 1
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by FalconNL 16y ago
$40? As long as Joss and the original cast are on board I'll happily pay $100, maybe even $200, even if it's only another half season. Just promise not to start this project before Castle has stopped being good, since I love Nathan in that
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by FalconNL 16y ago
Alternatively, for those who want good-looking text but prefer the WYSIWIG approach: just use a half-decent DTP program like InDesign, which will get you everything mentioned in the article except for the per-character transparency.
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by FalconNL 16y ago
Interestingly, if you multiply 15 years by 365 days and the two hours a day mentioned at some point in the article, you get 10,950 hours, which is remarkably close to Malcolm Gladwell's claim from the book Outliers that it takes 10,000 hour
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by FalconNL 17y ago
I've tried it a bit, but I found the syntax rather ugly compared to Haskell. I know, I'm nitpicking and it really shouldn't matter that much, but it put me off the language. Perhaps when they finally release a full-blown implementation of F
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by FalconNL 17y ago
No, I mostly make a new one per project. All the functions are pretty much one-liners anyway, so it's not too much work to make. It's more of a documentation thing; anything in Haskell.cs can be assumed to work exactly the same as its Haske
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by FalconNL 17y ago
I can't comment on Lisp, but I've been working with Haskell for about a year or so now, so I'll cover that instead. My personal history goes something like QBasic -> Visual Basic -> PHP -> Java -> C# -> Haskell. Since Ha
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by FalconNL 18y ago
Not so much obsession as convention. Generally versions 0.x - 1.0 are the alpha and beta releases, with 1.0 being the first "stable" release. Obviously there are hundreds of projects that follow a different schema, but it's used enough that
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by FalconNL 18y ago
Very nice site, thanks. In case anyone from Grooveshark is reading this, here are two minor UI suggestions: - It's rather easy to miss the volume control since it's so far removed from the other play controls. Perhaps it would be an idea to
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by FalconNL 18y ago
For some examples of high-quality prosthetics, watch the two TED talks of Aimee Mullins: http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics... http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aimee_mullins_on_running....
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by FalconNL 18y ago
And for those too cheap to buy the book, this 70-minute Google talk by the author of Presentation Zen will give you most of the information for free: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ2vtQCESpk
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by FalconNL 18y ago
There is also a strong correlation between global warming and the amount of pirates ( http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/001857.php ). While I agree that dismissing it a priori is a bad idea, correlation still does not mean causation.
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by FalconNL 18y ago
"Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence." I must say it's getting really hard to tell the difference in this case. "less is being paid for than ever before." Really? The second the first recording company came
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by FalconNL 18y ago
From what I understand you're supposed to get the result (in your example 6) by combining the cells in that box with the given operator (in this case times). So a "6x" box with two cells results in (1 and 6) or (2 and 3), since those are th
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by FalconNL 18y ago
Indeed. Though there are some fairly easy steps to reduce this as much as possible. 1. Give guests full use of all the features of the site. Posting, editing, befriending, etc. Store this information by identifying them by the combination o
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by FalconNL 18y ago
Obligatory: Larry Lessig's TED lecture on why remixing shouldn't be illegal. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law...
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by FalconNL 18y ago
Reminds me of George Carlin's dissection of the language used on airplanes. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DagVklB4VHQ&feature=relat... Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjKciefHo38&feature=relat...
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by FalconNL 18y ago
Not necessarily. In Haskell the oneliners are frequently short enough to fit on one screen. For example, I recently needed to do some Run-Length Encoding: import Control.Arrow import Data.List encodeRLE :: (Eq a) => [
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by FalconNL 18y ago
Yeah, that works for really short methods, but for anything even a little more complex you're just replacing vertical scrolling with horizontal scrolling.
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by FalconNL 18y ago
Completely agree. The main reason for my preference is that one of the things I hate most in C-style languages is that one-line functions take up three or four lines (depending on whether or not you use K&R style). This greatly increase