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by hsmyers 15y ago
OK, everyone here who codes in ADA, raise your hand. Atlas?
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by hsmyers 15y ago
I read a lot of fantasy and I've always been bothered by the decidedly bad maps found in the frontispiece of most of them. I wonder if there is a method to go from gross features to a polygonal 'state' and then forward again?
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Haven't peeked under the covers in years---this is enough to make me go take a look. Now if someone would write a mode for time-lines then that would pretty much finish up the usual writer (fiction) shopping list.
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Be interesting to see a court case with the much touted 'feds beat states' on the one side and the 1st amendment's 'or the right of the people peaceably to assemble' clause on the other. Might even lead to the whole TSA operation being stru
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Seems to me that the maxim 'put nothing on the internet that you don't want exposed' should be applied to cell phones as well. Given the decreasing protection provided by the courts, this sort of tool will be used more and more often. Those
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by hsmyers 15y ago
One of the reasons that I prefer the reprints of much older texts by the great mathematicians is that in most cases (all?) the writing meets the conditions that are listed as desired. The previous sentence clearly doesn't---sorry! The books
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by hsmyers 15y ago
I agree. Visual programming has always been an interest of mine. I see physical parallels in the maker/electronics world and wonder why it has never seemed to spark in the code domain. Don't know if it will help, but I sent a message offeri
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by hsmyers 15y ago
CLint meet CLang and the better for it. Although if I read correctly between the lines, there might be a little trouble getting the engineers to buy in :) Every met anyone who could actually make it all the way through CLint with all warnin
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Based on what was mentioned in the article, the 'refining' you mention might well be a plug in. Tagging anything can be a significant task---tagging many 'anythings' creates problems of scale. Another thing to consider; if this is in place
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by hsmyers 15y ago
My primary objection to both of the 'sacred' editors mentioned (not talking TextMate---I've no knowledge of it) is that they violate the original Unix tool rule: 'One task, done well...' All of the bolt-ons so the programmer could sit on hi
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by hsmyers 15y ago
As a one-time (long ago) silver smith, I can tell you that while there were more than 30 hammers on the wall, there was not one nail-gun. A brief tour of books on subjects from book-binding to leather engraving should demonstrate that there
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by hsmyers 15y ago
The constant references to 'dead paper' belie the denials that Mr. Godin is not anti-book. Of course he is. And with that blind spot in his perspective he misses a number of advantages found only in a library. I've been wandering up and dow
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by hsmyers 15y ago
I'd like to see some automatic procedure set in place for notification in channel. Vague arm waiving at this point, but would be nice if there were something to indicate at least a kind of 'we heard you' back from government organizations.
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by hsmyers 15y ago
For no particular reason that I can think of I write modules relating to Chess on CPAN---probably not what you were thinking of, but it fits the description in that I've recently (last few weeks) updated/revised all of them. As to their pop
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by hsmyers 15y ago
It might be just me, but I have this perception that the censors are winning. That in fact the fight is pretty much over...
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by hsmyers 15y ago
you beat me, but it looks like you at least belong to the correct family :)
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Literally, "Too long; didn't read" Said whenever a nerd makes a post that is too long to bother reading.
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by hsmyers 15y ago
You would deprive all of the tech sites with the ad revenue generated by the lemming rush! How cruel...
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by hsmyers 15y ago
If one actually reads 'Zen Mind: Beginner's Mind' it should be abundantly clear that enlightenment can come to anyone at any age. That said the primary reason why the 30 year old is not over the hill is that he or she can still see the 60 y
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Nonsense! Do you refuse to use books? Not avail yourself of libraries? Don’t wander through (pick your favorite department) the halls of your academic situation? Of course not, that would be majorly stupid. This is no different— in fact wha
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by hsmyers 15y ago
So according to this headline, we have 31 reactors all on the Pacific coast? I don't think so. And none of the reactors follow the design of Fukushima in so far as I know. 3 Mile may have been a nightmare, but it did result in better standa
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Hard to beat Arthur Schopenhauer--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer Even better since much of his work is freely available from sources like Gutenberg and similar...they even have 'Studies in Pessimism' as an audio book!
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Important new tech for HN (pressure relief system)(arstechnica.com)
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Open an account. Create a biography. Attempt to add more interests (or whatever they call them)--- Presto watch what you created (the biography) disappear! Not only do they not have the answers to the questions asked, they don't have the an
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Given what China will demand and the likelihood that Facebook will give in to 'gain market' there better be some way to distinguish between Chinese customers of Facebook and everyone else. Having anyone in the Chinese government even being
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by hsmyers 15y ago
A C++ Repl while really interesting and nice and all that--- does not an AWK make. Given the examples shown, you can do some AWKish things, but so can Perl or Lua or whatever... Tis cool though, gotta give it that!
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by hsmyers 15y ago
There was in fact, too much emphasis on 'success for everyone'. That said, if you look at the rest of the arguments, I think that he begins to form a new definition of success, one that may be a better fit for far more people. In some respe
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Regardless of their slightly dated information, I'd add to your list the standard 'Perl Cookbook' by Christiansen and Torkington. Likewise 'Programming Perl' by Wall, Christiansen and Orwant. While not perfectly up-to-date, the reader s
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I no longer have a truck large enough to haul the size of the grain of salt necessary when reading Techcrunch, so this disclosure (or is it boasting?) doesn't bother me nearly as much as it once might have...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I would like to see two things; 1. change the '...a lot of...' to '...all of...' with reference to the data being accessible. And 2. expand the purview beyond institutional sources to individual sources. I've got documents that would make a

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