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by a-nikolaev 12y ago
The only thing missing in MyAnimeList are good suggestions, based on your tastes (something similar to Last.fm's recommendations).
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by a-nikolaev 12y ago
Agreed. I have been using DDG for ~two years. Maybe once or twice a week, I actually ask DDG to search in google (with awesome "!g" or "!img" bang-commands). DDG works consistently great, and the new DDG is even better,
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by a-nikolaev 12y ago
Since open source is practically standard in programming language design nowdays, it is almost definitely Apple's intentional choice to make Swift closed. Also, they could take an existing open source language that is in the same categ
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by a-nikolaev 12y ago
I don't think this is very functional. First of all, the let binding inside the condition has type bool by itself (instead of the normal let-in construction). Also, it's scope permeates into the body of the if condition. The whole
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TalksDump (talks from FOSDEM, DEFCON, BlackHat)(youtube.com)
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by a-nikolaev 12y ago
A shorter one: let (+) 2 2 = 5 in 2+2;;
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by a-nikolaev 12y ago
Interesting software. Actually, I wish there was a way to use some other character (or string) instead of the lozenge character (◊) for commands. I mean, I see the reason for using a weird symbol, but I'm not even sure how to enter it
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by a-nikolaev 12y ago
The article is a reminder to all well-intentioned people: When working on something, design it as if you are going to use it yourself. Abstracting your customer is not acceptable. Especially if they are people with disabilities, or if they
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by a-nikolaev 12y ago
Don't know. I tried to play QWOP and did not like the controls at all. I tought about something more streamlined, but it's hard to say exactly what would be good controls. Maybe, you can select the target by clicking, and the play
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by a-nikolaev 12y ago
Not only dodging bullets, they also have this: http://forgifs.com/gallery/d/198537-1/One-bullet-left.gif I think, this game could make sense if player's arms (and preferably the whole body), were simulat
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by a-nikolaev 12y ago
Cool. Language extensions are easier to write. Honestly, never had the guts to really learn camlp4 beyond an introductory tutorial, so I am happy to hear that this new approach is easier and also more practical. There is a link from the art
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
Use OCaml, it is open source, free and unux friendly. In fact, F# is an adaptation of OCaml for .NET platform.
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
He donated some money to support his believes. By doing so, he did not do anything bad to anyone. If you want to have a civil discussion on any topic, boths sides should be able to express their views, otherwise this is unfair.
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
They say that this is an extension of Box2D, not a really new engine. This is kind of important, because the simulation of soft spherical particles is a much easier problem than the simulation of rigid bodies. (Unless they are doing some fa
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
Can you compare Krita and MyPaint[1]? (In terms of features, completeness, UI, etc.) From the video, it seems that Krita is a bit more advanced, with image transformations, texture tiling and probably other features. But both programs are d
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
I'm not an Economist, my background is in Physics and CS, so my experience is anecdotal. But I was really surprised by this story, so let me share my thoughts. Once, I was programming a game and wanted to implement a simple economical
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
Absolutely agree. OpenGL, SDL, Cairo, all are great and useful for their own purposes, with rather small overlap between then. A single uniform API for graphics is practically impossible, so why bother? To attract beginners? Graphics has ve
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
People in North Korea are probably well aware about the hard truth. And also, in my opinion, it's very difficunt to create a good foreign made documentary/educational movie, which is not a propaganda itself, and is not insulting o
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
He simply made a good gun, not a weapon of revolution, and not a weapon for guerrilla armies. It was just a new gun for regular USSR army. Kalashnikov was a simple soldier during the WW2, so he knew very well that a new rifle: 1) has to be
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
This machine is interesting. It does not look periodic, fractal-like patterns are slowly changing with time: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,3,3... A related machine, but eventually diverg
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
and "process calculus" too, imho.
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
it's called curse of war https://github.com/a-nikolaev/curseofwar/wiki
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
ascii.io works great with ncurses games http://ascii.io/a/4682 Showterm had buggy black background http://showterm.io/ff11970f1363de1386cbc
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
thanks, I didn't know.
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
The soviet war in Afghanistan was a part of the confrontation between the USSR and the USA, all major powers were heavily involved there. http://terrorism.about.com/od/warinafghanistan/ss/Afghanista...
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
Btw, the blog author, Andrej Bauer, is an amazing guy. I was really fascinated by some of his older blog publications (and I was only scratching the surface): http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-imposs
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
You are not exactly right. FYI, Newtonian mechanics = differential equations and calculus. And more advanced Lagrangian mechanics is a reinterpretation of the same ideas. I'm almost sure that Calculus was created by people like Newton
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
I think, the algorithm is not really special btw. In fact this is very basic physics simulation. I could not decipher the JS code, but each lock can be replicated as a chain of connected nodes (i.e. there is a force between them or a constr
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by a-nikolaev 13y ago
Nitpicking: In general, an NP problem can be reduced to an NP-hard problem (in poly-time).
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Yes, I agree that it sounds great. But, it does not mean that you really have to use this property. It was not necessary for the task, this is the point.. Well, in general, modular code should not make assumptions about other parts of the p

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