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Watching the Earth Move with a Raspberry Pi(jeffgeerling.com)
2 points by davegauer 4y ago|1 comments
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by davegauer 5y ago
http://ratfactor.com/ Content is statically generated from an AsciiDoc text file wiki managed by a Vim plugin. Though I write heavy Web applications for a living, there's no JS on my personal website except on specific
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by davegauer 5y ago
Yeah, _Automata, Formal Languages, and Turing Machines_ looks like a good topic match (it seems "formal language" is the keyword I was missing?) and Parsing Techniques sounds like an excellent book as well. Thanks for the recommen
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by davegauer 5y ago
Oooh, thank you! I had heard of "The Cinderella Book" before, but hadn't looked into it. Seems especially promising given the title that came before it: > The first edition in turn constituted a major revision of a previou
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by davegauer 5y ago
Yes, that very much falls under the area of interest! And following one of the Wikipedia citation links: > Among his [Backus's] library at the time were the works of the modern philosopher and theorist Noam Chomsky, who studied the
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by davegauer 5y ago
Thank you. Indeed, I have The Dragon Book and I think it's a great resource! But it does leave me with the feeling that I'm learning about a practical byproduct of a whole other field of study. In other words, I feel like I'v
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Ask HN: Book recommendations for grammar as it relates to computing?
8 points by davegauer 5y ago|9 comments
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by davegauer 5y ago
Thank you for this reminder! It has slowly dawned on me over the years that when "everyone" thinks something is easy and I don't, it's often because we're comparing a surface level understanding vs. a full grok.
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by davegauer 5y ago
Make that several browser windows . And that's a good point. I sometimes end up inefficiently scrolling up and down a document to reference different parts of it. It almost never occurs to me to open another browser window with the sa
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by davegauer 5y ago
> Life only has meaning when viewed through the collective... This may be true for ants. But I've never seen how this can be an absolute truth for humans for two reasons: 1. If one life is truly meaningless (0), how does multiplying
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by davegauer 5y ago
Heh, now imagine that knowledge is not in README files, but in a certain popular slow WYSIWYG SaaS document product.
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by davegauer 5y ago
I like this a lot. Or even without a distributed system, just having a server deliver varying levels of compute/bandwidth based on the position of the Sun (a forum goes text-only at sunset, starts delivering images again at sunrise, do
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by davegauer 5y ago
Howdy! Good question. It's one I seem to not be able to answer satisfyingly even in, uh, $ wc -w wiki/ratf/src/notes.adoc 7621 words. (Geez.) The "wrap-ups" (the distillation process from daily -> w
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by davegauer 5y ago
Oops, ha ha, thank you! That's the downside of having a wiki plugin that creates links when you hit enter in normal mode. :-D
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by davegauer 5y ago
When I can, the pockets of FORBIDDEN CARGO PANTS (fashion screams intensify).
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by davegauer 5y ago
Someone recently emailed me that they had found my website through https://stumbled.to/ and I was delighted to discover: > Stumbled was created by Kevin Woblick to revive the famous discovery experience StumbleUpon offer
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Why Pluto Is a Planet (2015)(philipmetzger.com)
1 points by davegauer 5y ago|0 comments
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by davegauer 5y ago
I'm always interested to hear what people think regarding full text feeds versus headline/summary feeds. I hand-edit my feed, so the brief summary is easiest for me to keep up to implement. I've also always felt that it was a
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by davegauer 5y ago
> which is also why i use Thunderbird instead of web mail clients Thunderbird is a great feed reader! I doubt I would be using RSS/Atom feeds at all if had to check a separate client application. Having them show up when I check my
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by davegauer 5y ago
This is fantastic! It also has some projects I thought had been lost to the mists of time when Bitbucket stopped hosting Mercurial repos.
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Let Web Pages Flow(ratfactor.com)
3 points by davegauer 5y ago|0 comments
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by davegauer 5y ago
Still building mine. An incredible learning exercise. If you want to save some considerable hassle sourcing parts, you can buy the computer modules as kits: https://eater.net/8bit/kits I build the Clock Module first to
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by davegauer 5y ago
Unsurprisingly, these are incredible. There is something magical about small, beautiful things. It's not profound to say it, but I find it hard to tire of the fact that you could package up all of the demoscene, 64k, code golf, and JS
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by davegauer 5y ago
The first piece of "real" software I ever wrote was called "DISC" because it's initial feature was printing out the discriminant of a parabola. But I added to that program as the high school algebra class continued
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Dataflow Architecture(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by davegauer 5y ago|0 comments
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by davegauer 5y ago
This is absolutely wonderful. I am LOVING the results I'm getting back from it: the sort of content-rich sites that have become nigh unreachable using traditional search engines. Thank you for building this!
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An Implementation of J – Incunabulum (2008)(jsoftware.com)
50 points by davegauer 5y ago|16 comments
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Interpreter Speed(people.csail.mit.edu)
2 points by davegauer 5y ago|1 comments
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by davegauer 5y ago
This is spot on. How many people who believe they do not have the ability to draw have ever actually put deliberate practice into it? I can't sit down at a piano and play a song, not because I'm incapable of it, but because I&#x27
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From Ivory to Metal – Concatenative Programming (2017)(youtube.com)
2 points by davegauer 5y ago|0 comments

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