cesare

15 ms·

121.
by cesare 17y ago
This is the funniest thing I've read in a long time.
122.
by cesare 17y ago
> but it's fun to telnet into a message queue and issue plain ascii commands You can do this with Redis too.
123.
by cesare 17y ago
FWIW, that's how it is called in Italy (informatica).
124.
by cesare 17y ago
Posted it yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=842893 It has not been killed but got 0 points and 0 comments. I thought it was entertaining too.
125.
by cesare 17y ago
Content aware resizing (using the seam carving algorithm) is also available as a plugin for GIMP: http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/ Here's the presentation (SIGGRAPH 2007) from the authors of the library used in the plugin: http://www.yo
126.
Bootstrap (teaching programming to middle-school students with DrScheme)(bootstrapworld.org)
1 points by cesare 17y ago|0 comments
127.
by cesare 17y ago
SVG is XML-based and it's very easy to output graphics from your code from any programming language. There's a cl-svg library ( http://code.google.com/p/cl-svg/ ) but I haven't tried it. There's also cl-cairo2 ( http://www.cliki.net/cl-cair
128.
by cesare 17y ago
s/Codeworrior/Codewarrior/g
129.
by cesare 17y ago
Yes it's spelled Codewarrior. Sorry.
130.
by cesare 17y ago
Doesn't make much difference to me.
131.
by cesare 17y ago
> You ignored the requirements and demonstrated expertise in the wrong area, IMO. The assignment was about implementing the functionalities of a simple library management app. And it was explicitly to test using pointers, linked lists e
132.
by cesare 17y ago
I dropped out of college (CS) instead, also because of an episode related to this. An assignment for an exam was to make a simple library management program in pascal (cataloging books, leading, receiving them back etc.), mainly to test our
133.
by cesare 17y ago
Yep. Much of the original Mac OS was written in Pascal. I still have a boxed copy of Symantec Think Pascal. I used it to make my first steps in window based/event driven applications programming on the Mac (in 1990). I remember coding my fi
134.
by cesare 17y ago
Maybe your iPhone OS doesn't have GC. His one has it. Another example of anecdotal evidence! ;-) p.s. Sorry, I couldn't resist. It' just a joke. Please take it lightly.
135.
by cesare 17y ago
I see. Anyway, I posted this just to warn people about some possible issues with this update.
136.
by cesare 17y ago
> I have had my iPhone for about a 1.5 years and it has worked spittingly. The article is about the latest firmware (3.1) which came out two weeks ago.
137.
by cesare 17y ago
Here's the support forum thread about the issue: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2151766&#3... Better skip this firmware update.
138.
Apple sends iPhones into 'Coma Mode'(theregister.co.uk)
10 points by cesare 17y ago|20 comments
139.
by cesare 17y ago
Maybe I haven't been clear enough, sorry. The title of this post implies that if you're a programmer automatically you are a poor user interface designer. To me this is offensive to both programmers and designers. These are just narrow-mi
140.
by cesare 17y ago
Probably. Even more with the second comment (about double negatives).
141.
by cesare 17y ago
She knows how to code a game. She has learnt objective-c, Xcode, the iPhone sdk api and the chipmunk physics library. She also does her own graphics (a blog entry is titled 'How to polish your game', in two parts) with a style that is clear
142.
by cesare 17y ago
duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=828992
143.
by cesare 17y ago
I agree that they shouldn't be punished or anything. But calling them heroes is a bit of a stretch.
144.
by cesare 17y ago
I agree completely. BTW, there's more about this story here: http://extras.denverpost.com/books/chap0411h.htm
145.
The man who sold his 10% share of Apple for $800(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by cesare 17y ago|2 comments
146.
by cesare 17y ago
Very original marketing gimmick. Edit: as if it wasn't obvious enough, check the hands in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZATuhCoJLc Of course a story like this brings a lot of traffic to pocketgamer. It's not worth to check i
147.
Build your own Segway: These students did (for $2,275)(mnn.com)
4 points by cesare 17y ago|0 comments
148.
Apple Says It Again: We Did Not Reject Google Voice(businessinsider.com)
1 points by cesare 17y ago|0 comments
149.
by cesare 17y ago
Simple and elegant.
150.
by cesare 17y ago
Tried: a := TextWindow new: 'a test'. a moveX:200 Y: 200. It worked. Nice. Tried to add a factorial instance method to the Number class: factorial "comments" self = 0 ifTrue: [^ 1]. self > 0 ifTrue: [^ self * (self

More ›