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by a1k0n 15y ago
Iggy Pop's concert rider appeared on the Smoking Gun several years ago, and it's a very amusing read -- they were clearly sick of venues screwing things up as well by not reading carefully. It's only 18 pages: http://www.thesmokinggun.com
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by a1k0n 15y ago
You can also play against a dumbed-down Javascript version of the bot. It only spends a few milliseconds searching for a move rather than a whole second, and its move evaluator isn't as smart -- but at least a human has a chance of beating
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Cool. Bug report: the first element appears behind the phone as soon as you move it around (you can still drag it around behind the phone). Subsequent elements work fine. This is on Chrome/OSX.
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Ha, altavista.com is just a Yahoo! search box.
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My weeknight project: HTML5 Tron with AI(a1k0n.net)
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Oops. Actually it's not a z' in the denominator in the second fraction, but a comma following the fraction bar. That's confusing; I have removed it. Thanks!
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by a1k0n 15y ago
I don't know of any, but browsing through the archives of ioccc.org is probably an education in itself. That's where I got my own inspiration.
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Anecdotally, yes.
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by a1k0n 15y ago
In a highly technical post like this I'm never sure how well I'm explaining it. I tried to keep things at the high school trig/algebra II level for this one. I've proofread it a billion times now but is there anything I can clarify?
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The story of 15 Second Copy for the C-64 (Mike Pall's followup to FCopy)(pagetable.com)
6 points by a1k0n 15y ago|1 comments
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Out of curiosity, how does @hotmail.com compare to @live.com, or even @yahoo.com or @ymail.com in the perceptual hierarchy of free email providers?
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Wouldn't that put it in the bss section and therefore not initialize it (but most OS's will probably zero out the page for security reasons)? Ether way, as it's a 1-bit field, the value can only be 0 or 1 and is always > -3.
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Even though HN has seen enough of my site in the last couple days, I also have a little tilemap demo using the two approaches shown here (4-bit and 8-bit). I initially wrote the 8-bit version (I had to make a lookup table mapping the 256 p
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by a1k0n 15y ago
It's really not that hard, once you have some idea of the kind of program you're writing. Write it out normally, and start eliminating everything that can be eliminated (in particular, whitespace, braces, if statements that can be conditio
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Well, since you seem to have signed up to HN just for this (and have done an admirable job already)... I'm afraid so.
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by a1k0n 15y ago
<ESC>[H ("home") moves the cursor to the upper-left hand corner, so I initially clear the screen and then use "home" to do the animation. An alternative method to animate ascii stuff, used in the Yahoo logo, is just to cursor-up 25
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Re: repeatedly computing sin(A)/sin(B)/etc: I don't remember why I did that, as it was five years ago, but it was probably intentional just to move code around so it fit within the shape. Or it was an oversight. IIRC, yes, 5 and 2 are the
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by a1k0n 15y ago
A 3D quine? I've considered it. I have a blog post about something completely unrelated to obfuscated C coming up, but maybe after that I'll make an attempt. If nobody beats me to it.
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by a1k0n 15y ago
(also, click on it)
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Haha. I don't get why this particular one attracts so much attention, as it was my first one and is pretty amateurish compared to this one: http://a1k0n.net/2006/09/20/obfuscated-c-donut-2.html
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Thanks. :) I'm most proud of my IOCCC 2006 winner (the IOCCC organizers announced the winners, but not the actual entries, then disappeared from the planet): http://a1k0n.net/2006/09/20/obfuscated-c-donut-2.html
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by a1k0n 15y ago
I could have said "in 454 characters of C" but that wouldn't have been as linkbaity. Thanks for clicking! Yes, the aim was compression (golfing), not obfuscation. Compression of silly ASCII things has been sort of a hobby of mine for a wh
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by a1k0n 15y ago
I can, and it obviously was.
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Yahoo Logo ASCII Animation in six lines of C(a1k0n.net)
4 points by a1k0n 15y ago|0 comments
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by a1k0n 15y ago
I threw together a quick and very dirty decoder for the "tune" string in the URL yesterday morning before I went to work.. I didn't really get a chance to do anything with it as I was busy, but I intended to write a generator. Anyway, here
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by a1k0n 15y ago
You could also solve it analytically with dynamic programming, computing the probability of falling for each spot on the plank.
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Bitcoins are much less anonymous than normal net traffic, even. If someone sends you some money, you get to know the address it came from, and plug it in on http://blockexplorer.com/ and you can see which addresses that address got its m
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Actually I have to update my own comment here, due to a completely unexpected circumstance. I just happened to diassemble some 64-bit test code I wrote tonight (unrelated to testing out the string instruction theory) and lo and behold, App
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by a1k0n 15y ago
> I know of no compiler that generates the Intel string instructions. Not even Forth! Yes, because they are measurably slower than their equivalent primitive instruction sequences, and the space saved isn't really all that significant w
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by a1k0n 15y ago
Yeah, it's described as something more akin to Usenet than anything else from what I remember.

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