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Minecraft-ros (Robot Operating System maps to Minecraft worlds)(ros.org)
1 points by housel 14y ago|0 comments
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by housel 14y ago
I remember reading this when it was new, and typing it in. Not very usable as a Lisp programming environment, running doubly interpreted on a 1.78MHz 8-bit CPU. But, it was certainly nifty.
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by housel 14y ago
I don't know if they count as serious naysayers or not, but: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?76208-FreeBSD-is-D...
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by housel 14y ago
Of the skills I learned in college, the most useful have been 1) spoken Mandarin and written Chinese; 2) data structures and algorithms (as many have noted); 3) reading electronic schematics and digital timing diagrams; 4) proficiency in vi
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by housel 14y ago
Appeasement is different from addressing the concerns of constituents in a democracy.
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by housel 14y ago
Then there's also the potential confusion with 三 (the Chinese character for "three").
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by housel 14y ago
That's a feature, not a bug. Write-protecting memory areas using mprotect() and the like, and handling the resulting SIGSEGV, is a popular technique for implementing a write barrier needed for generational garbage collection.
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by housel 15y ago
At work: 1. 64-bit Windows 7 displaying a 32-bit Linux VM on one of the two screens 2. 32-bit Linux running native on an HP TouchSmart (for doing embedded Linux cross-development) At home: 1. 64-bit Windows 7 running usually at least 2 or 3
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by housel 15y ago
The ADM3A was a "dumb" terminal, constructed using a board full of 7400-series TTL ICs with no microcontroller. Probably to simplify the design, it wasn't capable of sending any multi-character escape sequences. (The ANSI escape sequences h
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by housel 15y ago
Or, for Emacs, Magit http://magit.github.com/magit/
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by housel 15y ago
Yes, one can write libraries in literate style, and I have done so ( http://monday.sourceforge.net/ ) in the past. However, from reading interviews with Knuth it seems that he does not find reusable software very interesting in itself.
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by housel 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
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by housel 16y ago
The copyright belongs to each contributor: http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#copyright
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by housel 16y ago
When I worked in Taiwan the office lights were normally turned off for 20-30 minutes after lunch while colleagues napped. I personally was seldom able to manage a nap, however.