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by Luyt 16y ago
JamisBuck's other maze generation algorithm, based on backtracking ( http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2010/12/27/maze-generation-recur... ) seems to create more esthetical mazes. (user@pasta) /home/user/prj/ruby $ ruby backtrack-maze.rb 20
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by Luyt 16y ago
David Pogue joining the ranks of http://www.419eater.com/ ? Love it!
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by Luyt 16y ago
Or have a look at http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/CherryPyTutorial CherryPy is a pythonic, object-oriented HTTP framework. It provides the foundation over which complex web-based applications can be written, with little or no knowledge of t
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by Luyt 16y ago
Win NT 3.51 was the first version I used. It looked like the old Win 3.1 at the time, and using PROGMAN.EXE instead of the windows Explorer (NT4 was the one getting the Win95 look, IIRC). In version 3.51, the video subsystem ran in usermod
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by Luyt 16y ago
You might be interested in http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4221 Today we're going to delve into the murky depths of Jungian psychology, and examine one of its most popular surviving manifestations. The Myers-Briggs test is used all over the
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by Luyt 16y ago
Could you paste the URL here? I tried finding the .flv file in the activity window, but I couldn't locate it.
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by Luyt 16y ago
+1. I use WinMerge on a daily basis on my Windows development machines. It's a very complete and polished program, typically written by people who use it themselves and want their tools to be the best.
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by Luyt 16y ago
These ultra-centifuges spin at 1000-1500 revolutions per second and can easily break when not carefully controlled. The Zippe-type centrifuges ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippe-type_centrifuge ) are probably used in Natanz for enrichm
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by Luyt 16y ago
Does Java have typedefs nowadays?
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This article demonstrates the beauty of taking away cruft until you only have the essential stuff left. I like Scala's succinct way of anonymous function notation.
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by Luyt 16y ago
...because others then can find out how many visitors your site gets? Or perhaps nastier things, like guessing id's?
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How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks(wired.com)
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by Luyt 16y ago
The second movie ended a bit anticlimactic, although I was expecting to be rickrolled eventually.
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by Luyt 16y ago
Weekend challenge: Write a bot which uses http://www.lexicalwordfinder.com/ to bust the high score.
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by Luyt 16y ago
Looking at nature for inspiration is another fine example of 'going outside of your own system'. However, just a set of colors doesn't communicate much unless it's also clear in which proportions they should appear and for what items or la
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by Luyt 16y ago
Bourbaki is a well-known pseudonym (at least in mathematical circles). See 'Nicolas Bourbaki', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki . "Nickieben" could be some altered form of "Nicolas", not sure about that...
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by Luyt 16y ago
I can remember switching from Win 3.1 to Win NT. It was slower to boot up, but in the end saved me much time. I was developing C software at the time, and pointer bugs would usually crash Win 3.1 and leave the system in an unusable state, r
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by Luyt 16y ago
Indeed! VisiCalc was a killer app on the apple ][.
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by Luyt 16y ago
It appears he registered the domain http://receiving.it for his app. Italian domains don't come easy: I had to supply substantial evidence of my existence (a scan of my passport) before I could register my own .it domain.
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"Good programming is not learned from generalities, but by seeing how significant programs can be made clean, easy to read, easy to maintain and modify, human-engineered, efficient, and reliable, by the application of common sense and good
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by Luyt 16y ago
Ha! Editing Clojure source with UltraEdit over a WinSCP SSH connection to my server! There is no need to force yourself to using either emacs or vi (both of which I use sometimes).
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by Luyt 16y ago
This is very exciting, and will probably produce some extremophile (bacterial?) lifeforms which have been hidden for ages, and probably live off volcanic heat and gases.
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by Luyt 16y ago
You can't go wrong with zombies: the public loves them. It is necessary to initialize all variables. This will cause a run time error. This probably should read: 'accessing uninitialized variables causes a runtime error'. It is necessary
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by Luyt 16y ago
why bakeries need websites That'd be an example of 'stepping outside of your system'. Get your ass off the comfy couch and actually talk with bakers to find out their needs and ideas. That could be pretty surprising and not at all what
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by Luyt 16y ago
The type on that page is painfully small, and the page doesn't honor my font preference settings. Hard to read! Other than that, PayFacade sounds good.
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by Luyt 16y ago
Clojure isn't really 'layered on Java'; it does however run in the JVM (just like Java).
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by Luyt 16y ago
Seeing this makes me wanna use vi again.
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by Luyt 16y ago
I have the same experience. SSD's are really great when you have to access many small files. The absence of seek times speeds up some things enormously, and if you're a developer, you'll see a boost in compiling and version control jobs.
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And this is how that happened: "Around 1980, when the news media took notice of hackers, they fixated on one narrow aspect of real hacking: the security breaking which some hackers occasionally did. They ignored all the rest of hacking, an
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It's a wonderful piece of engineering indeed, but not the first one. Gears were used long before that ( http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/IIT-MADRAS/Machine_Desig... ), as early as 2600 BC for opening doors, lifting water and measuring di

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