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by colomon 15y ago
I'm just barely suppressing an urge to rant on the obvious superiority of the Oxford Comma, which I suppose means you are absolutely right.
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by colomon 15y ago
Heh, usually the table gets filled with munchies when we play face-to-face. :) That said, I'm convinced this is worth trying out, and will definitely keep an eye on it. If I can find the money in our budget, I'll contribute on Kickstarter
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by colomon 15y ago
Any HD TV should work as a monitor, no? Presumably many people already own one. And USB mouse and keyboard are available dirt cheap.
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by colomon 15y ago
A very cool project, I've passed word on to the gaming friends I thought might be interested. Heck, I'd be completely geeked about playing D&D or d20 Star Wars using it, particularly with the vast majority of my gaming friends living a
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by colomon 15y ago
Oh! Well, then that's another for the trivial to make ack do it list... :)
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by colomon 15y ago
Oooo. I've still got to search lots of things that aren't grep, so it's not a complete ack replacement for me, but wow, git grep is like two orders of magnitude faster in my quick tests!
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by colomon 15y ago
Much as I've loved ack, I'd be all in favor of a replacement that was really significantly better. That said, the readme there lists five reasons why Silver Searcher is better than ack. Two of them are nonsense (who cares what language it'
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by colomon 15y ago
Shhhh.... don't give away our secret weapon!
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by colomon 15y ago
This is very cool! What would push it over the top for me would be the ability to start a game of it with my friends...
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by colomon 15y ago
I'd think just a simple standard for 80x25 text would be a great start...
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by colomon 15y ago
Ha! I was going to post a Perl 6 version of this to show how much shorter it is when you don't go through all the rigamarole, but of course you remind us that it's that short in C++ if you do it in a sensible manner. Bravo.
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by colomon 15y ago
Perl 6.
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by colomon 15y ago
Unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html In fact I think this is the only software that I know is written in a functional language that I use on a regular basis. I've always figured that said very good things about OC
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by colomon 15y ago
You might guess from my example how little respect I have for the "don't overload operators" argument. All I can say is, all the OO languages I've spent any time programming do indeed let you do that, and I'm sorry for you if your experien
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by colomon 15y ago
Er, I've never used a OO language that didn't allow you to add new operations freely without modifying a class. Not all of them allow you to add new methods, sure, but new functions and operators are par for the course. And surely you're n
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by colomon 15y ago
I'd say the advantages are: 1) Naming it vastly clarifies further data structures and interfaces. (This is shared with having a Point3D data-structure, obviously.) 2) Providing functions and operators specific to the type. At it's simplest
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by colomon 15y ago
I program 3D geometry and topology professionally. Let me tell you, the idea that my code would be simpler and clearer if I didn't have a Point3D class is purest insanity. That doesn't mean everything needs to be a class -- that's crazy to
528.
by colomon 15y ago
PS Now have unit tests that the ABC parser can parse time signature changes.
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by colomon 15y ago
Also, it's the simplest thing that can possibly work! (And for very small values of x is also the best possible implementation.)
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by colomon 15y ago
Who said anything about unit tests? But okay, is it really so much easier to write a test which just tests changing the time signature? It's still going to require doing OCR. And if I'm really testing it, I've got to make sure the time si
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by colomon 15y ago
"If that doesn't seem doable you might be taking on a task that doesn't have a good set of requirements." Or it might have perfectly good requirements which are very hard to write automated tests for. Consider (for instance) a program to t
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by colomon 15y ago
Do you have any actual stats to back that up? Software doesn't need to be printed in 32 large, luxurious volumes and sold by a cadre of door-to-door salesmen.
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by colomon 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Random
534.
by colomon 15y ago
"About half a million households pay a $70 annual fee that includes access to the full database of articles, videos, original documents and access to mobile applications." That's $35 million a year, which is not as good as the best year of
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by colomon 15y ago
I've been a Synergy user several times in the past, and it always seemed great for the first few days and then descended into annoying bugs. (No connection this morning for no apparent reason. Or my mouse gets trapped on one system once o
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by colomon 15y ago
Another simple example from my work of the moment: my goal is to import points from a file (that I'm assured does have points) using a 3rd party file import library. I don't know in advance how the 3rd party library imports points, so the
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by colomon 15y ago
In the world of traditional music, it's already the case that many of the best musicians earn their living doing something else. Jerry Holland (RIP) was a world-class Cape Breton style fiddler, I'd guess almost everyone involved in "Celtic"
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by colomon 15y ago
Ack, I got so frustrated at the beginning of the paragraph I didn't notice the author was making up his own definitions of monotonic and polytonic, and instead assumed he meant monophonic and polyphonic. My bad. Anyway, I suspect the answe
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by colomon 15y ago
"Monotonic music is boring. Real music is polytonic..." "Ego Trip", MacDara Ó Raghallaigh. An hour of solo fiddle and foot tapping. Best album I have heard in heard in ages. But then, he occasionally double-stops, so I guess it's not pur
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by colomon 15y ago
Well, if Buddy spent two years writing the algorithms to dynamically place the names on the on-line maps, how is that placement "happenstance"? Just as much effort went into it as went into the hand-drawn map...

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