Luyt

106 ms·

901.
by Luyt 16y ago
You will love the mechanical analog ballistic computers of 50's: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/19/how-a-1950s-ballisti.ht... It explains all the mechanics used for adders, integrators, differentiators, etc... very insightful.
902.
by Luyt 16y ago
Brian Dunning wrote an interesting article about the Antikythera Mechanism: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4184 "Astronomers and astrologers probably could not have afforded it. It could have been used as an education tool. Most likely it
903.
by Luyt 16y ago
When I programmed FORTRAN, there were much uglier things to shoot yourself in the foot with. For example, parameter lists in function calls were not checked: you pass in a double, and the function expects an integer? Good luck with that,
904.
by Luyt 16y ago
Very elegant algorithm, and nicely visualized, too. Closely related to the Voronoi Diagram is the Delaunay Triangulation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaunay_triangulation "For modeling terrain or other objects given a set of sample p
905.
by Luyt 16y ago
I wish I could do this for application prototypes. But from experience I know that prototypes can take much more time than $15 justifies. Or maybe I could just accept the ideas which interest me. Hmmmm....
906.
by Luyt 16y ago
But he can stop at any time. He can even send back the money for unfinished jobs.
907.
by Luyt 16y ago
and Archie, too ;-)
908.
by Luyt 16y ago
I knew about 'Mystery Meat Navigation', but this site offer 'Mystery Meat Text': Text that only becomes readable if you hover over it.
909.
by Luyt 16y ago
significant whitespace Many years ago, this delayed me looking seriously into Python. But when its powerful data structures finally convinced me to start using it, I quickly became accustomed to significant whitespace: I always indented
910.
by Luyt 16y ago
I liked 'Master Foo and the Script Kiddie' more... http://catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/script-kiddie.html
911.
by Luyt 16y ago
That's why I put a cache in front of my blog. The cache is only invalidated when the content of the article changes, or a comment is added. Works really great, page requests take about 10 msec cached, 200 msec uncached (on a shared hostin
912.
by Luyt 16y ago
Yes, and I severy dislike software where the 'UI bling' gets in the way of usability, or where the application author disregards my user preferences (like system colors and fonts) and tries to force his taste on me. So-called 'skinned' app
913.
by Luyt 16y ago
Shouldn't be too hard. I think the shadow behind the titles look great, tho.
914.
by Luyt 16y ago
Ah, I was referring to <strong> and <em> vs. <b> and <i>.
915.
by Luyt 16y ago
Sex sells! Depraved sex maybe even sells better. Remember Philips' V2000 video tape format? It went titsup because Philips wanted to project a 'decent image' of itself and didn't allow porn on V2000. The rest is history...
916.
by Luyt 16y ago
I shouldn't apply, since I tend to use semantic HTML markup.
917.
by Luyt 16y ago
FreeBSD has procfs, although it's not mounted by default. mount -t procfs proc /proc ls -alR /proc
918.
by Luyt 16y ago
Agreed, but I wished he removed the shadows from the body text. It distracts and makes it harder to read (a bit like moving pictures next to the text).
919.
by Luyt 16y ago
Use Firefox with Adblock Plus and you won't see any ads anymore. Everytime I'm behind my MacMini with Safari, which happens from time to time, I am amazed at the quantity of ads that are shoved before my eyeballs. Compared to that, Firefox
920.
by Luyt 16y ago
A long time ago, I also made these kinds of programs. That was on a PET 2001, and I didn't have the luxury of bitmaps back then. I would use the PET's graphic characters as 'actors', and POKE them to the video memory. It started with sim
921.
by Luyt 16y ago
Even is this is a hoax, it serves well to keep vigilant when dealing with something important as freedom of speech and censorship. Luckily the online community hadn't fallen asleep yet.
922.
by Luyt 16y ago
Having to anticipate implementation problems kills my creativity. Instead of developing the application and solving problems as they arise, thinking and worrying in advance about potential roadblocks, showstoppers and lack of acceptance can
923.
by Luyt 16y ago
This question made me realize again that I pretty much have anything I need already (in a materialistic way). I only want stuff if it replaces some other broken or old stuff. So I'd like to have a few pair of socks, and maybe a SSD to repl
924.
by Luyt 16y ago
Well, let me upvoted you for a change ;-) But what makes you think the Macintosh line will be abandoned by Apple? Mere aversion to product diversification? They discontinued the Xserve ("nobody buys the things"), but I have the impression
925.
by Luyt 16y ago
Matt poses the idea of using two or more Kinects at the same time to reconstruct a true 3D-view of the room. But when I watch the video and see how a Kinect determines depth -by projecting infrared light dots- I have my doubt wether this w
926.
by Luyt 16y ago
...and if you're processing text files line by line, it isn't even necessary to call read() or readlines() on the file, since a file object supports iteration. You could say: for line in open("todo.txt"): # do something with l
927.
by Luyt 16y ago
Reminds me of something I read on http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4217 : Appeal to Lack of Authority Authority has a reputation for being corrupt and inflexible, and this stereotype has been leveraged by some who assert that their own lack o
928.
by Luyt 16y ago
I agree with that: the cost of a few extra mirror disks is negligible compared to the amount of time one loses rebuilding a machine (OS + applications + configuration) from scratch. Yet, all too often I come across people who don't want RAI
929.
by Luyt 16y ago
Also a related interested read: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4184 "... Most archaeologists agree that this particular device was neither unique nor the first of its kind. Two factors contribute to this: First, its design is quite refined
930.
by Luyt 16y ago
Related: Luke Halliwell's Weblog, http://lukehalliwell.wordpress.com/ (Found via: Ex-Realtime Worlds Employee Examines APB Fiasco, http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103563-Ex-Realtime... )

More ›