bulte-rs

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by bulte-rs 15y ago
Very true. I stand corrected. Only thing left is browser "splash screen"/loading image customization and the experience could be near native.
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
> installing apps, updating and uninstalling is a ghost long dead. So, when not installing native apps (which takes time) we add - in the case of e.g. the iphone - webapps (links) to our home screens. Which is faster than installing a n
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
Still; I think that the experience of deriving mentioned language constructs from almost nothing is a great learning experience in itself. It's this kind of teaching - along with efforts as "The Elements of Computing System"[1] - that facil
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
I always thought that either means "one or the other".
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
Finally a vim user that admits to using the arrow keys. I have them disabled in command mode (just to annoy my co-workers) but regularly use them in insert mode when it's to much of a hassle to hit the escape key. Time to remap that one too
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
When considering the 'classics'; it's either joining the cult of vim, or entering the church of emacs. Both have pros and cons; both are in the same everlasting-holy-war and once in a while either will start a new crusade.
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
This is one of my favorites; until I learnt about b# (:b#) to 'toggle' to the last open buffer. Quickly remapped this to <leader>, (being ,,). Et voila: lightning-uber-fast-buffer-toggling.
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
That last thing is the most important thing to notice since this is what most people think is the main result of air crash investigations: making a change to break the event chain leading to the incident. In this case there were probably a
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
Fortunately for some of us (e.g. me), judging is not something computers are particularly good at right now.
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
The OpenGL Superbible is a nice read; but - as already noted - not really suitable as an introductory tutorial by itself. You should at least couple it with a basic knowledge of linear algebra. 'Back in uni' (I don't like saying it, makes m
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
The only thing more awesome than this would be a JS environment written for the turing machine which is able to run itself.
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
You've got a 'carer' right here. I'd love to read more on 'traditional' algorithms applied on CG.
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
Certainly going to be there! Anyone else from HN planning on going?
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
Perhaps it is true that pilot's who fly commercially too long (i.e. > 10yrs?) "forget" some basic flying skills. But based on the examples mentioned in the msnbc article I personally think the problem lies more in the fact that pilot's
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
That's what dotshare.it (no affiliation whatsoever) is for. The whole idea sounds nice though.
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
Please don't do this again this early in the morning; I had 10 people eyeballing me for strange laughing behaviour.
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
Perhaps a little bit specific, but definitely worth the read: "Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence" by Ivan Bratko (0321417461)
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
offt: i do now.
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by bulte-rs 15y ago
Same here, all University of Amsterdam CS students (informatics, AI and information sciences) took a compulsory course in Prolog. Except I was lucky enough to have a use for it after uni (about two years ago), writing generators for various
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by bulte-rs 16y ago
Well, this is the way I explain it to other people; including the oversimplification part. The real problem - which is probably just my lack of educational experience - comes up when people are really interested and ask about the way it rea
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by bulte-rs 16y ago
It's well known - and instructed - within the "pilot community" that the theory taught in most books is oversimplified to the point that it is almost wrong. I understand how it works from the practical and theoretical side; but can't think
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by bulte-rs 16y ago
I'd better get my mint copy of SICP off the bookshelf then. Being a SE able to dissect frogs and not faint at the sight of blood apparently doesn't mean anything these days ;-)
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by bulte-rs 16y ago
Do they still provide a job guarantee these days? The Dutch flying school stopped doing that quite a while a go; even the 'prestigious' KLM Flight Academy doesn't guarantee a job anymore; only an interview and grading (last time I checked,
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by bulte-rs 16y ago
In the EU it's more of the other way around... That pay can be good (starting salaries in the range of EUR4500 p/month are not exceptional at legacy airlines). It's just the fact that you pay 100K (euro's) for your education.
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by bulte-rs 16y ago
Perhaps, in a few years time, this book will be known as "the Hobo book".