cswetenham

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by cswetenham 13y ago
A couple I'm aware of that aren't in the list: - Aardappel (visual functional programming) [1] - Widget Workshop (something like a cross between The Incredible Machine and visual programming) [2] [1] http://strlen.com&#
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Python trademark at risk in Europe(pyfound.blogspot.co.uk)
3 points by cswetenham 14y ago|0 comments
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by cswetenham 14y ago
Am I correct in thinking that instead of symlinking .bashrc, etc. to new_bashrc.sh, you could simply have them 'source new_bashrc.sh'? This would also mean you could keep all your dotfiles in a git repository without worrying about the syml
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by cswetenham 14y ago
Just for interest, this still can be done with unique keys: Officer Alice handcuffs prisoner and wants to hand off to Officer Bob. Officer Bob locks prisoner with his own handcuffs (prisoner is now wearing two pairs), then Officer Alice rem
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by cswetenham 15y ago
Embedded Vimeo videos never seem to play for me, and the video is apparently private on Vimeo so I can't view it there either.
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You don't want to work in the Games Industry(theaveragegamer.com)
3 points by cswetenham 15y ago|0 comments
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by cswetenham 15y ago
I hope I'm not the only one who finds this article poorly written; I got a better understanding from the list of bullet points on the slide than I did trying to follow the rambling paragraphs below them.
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by cswetenham 15y ago
A better reason to replace lists with trees might be for parallel execution. I enjoyed this talk by Guy Steele on replacing lists with trees in Fortress: http://vimeo.com/6624203
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by cswetenham 16y ago
I've not read it, but I think you're looking for "The 4-Hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferriss
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by cswetenham 16y ago
If you leave aside the fact that they're talking about Pointcast, the article gets a lot of things right in terms of what is now possible with RSS feeds, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, NetFlix, Hulu...
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by cswetenham 16y ago
You could do worse than Lua if you're going that route - it's small, clean, and fast, designed for embedding and you can move smoothly from simple config files to complex scripted behaviour.
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by cswetenham 17y ago
"What is required is the wholesale adoption of the standards applied in the pharmaceutical industry drug trials: double blind trials (aka peer reviewing)" I think the gentleman who authored this article neglected to look up the terms in que