hsmyers

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by hsmyers 16y ago
Best obscure joke/satire thus far in December :)
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I spent almost a decade as an art major at various campus's across the US and one of the dirty secrets was that while we put up with shit from the business majors 'cause we knew better (we told them to try and sell their products in plain u
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by hsmyers 16y ago
No, a large part of your problem is fluency. The ability to read code like this, code written by someone whose knowledge is more advanced is a matter of literacy. Your 'vocabulary' doesn't match his (his is larger). Further, all languages h
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Claim strikes me as a bit premature given the amount of Yacc based code there is in the world busy producing away day in and day out. If the algorithm is what it is said to be and I've no reason to doubt that, then at some point we will all
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Best quote 'Occam was a strange fellow anyways. As the editor of his Opera Omnia Gideon Gal used to say: "But the fellow was really mad!" '
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by hsmyers 16y ago
PDP-8 first, then PDP-11, then VAX in all cases there is very little difference between the assembler and C...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I suppose this means I have to put my faithful IBM 13inch green screen on the shelf--- <sigh>
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I've changed my whole style of programming using Data::Dumper::Simple It does the obvious, but instead of a more or less anonymous (unless you use extra key strokes) dump of a given variable, Simple allows named dumps of multiple values one
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Worthy of an 'atta-boy' from Knuth himself...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Since the book talks about accessing the geolocation facilities of the phone via JavaScript then that should clue you in to that as a kind of lower limit to the limitations. God that's garbled--- I think I mean to say if you can mess with G
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Would be interesting if by the time Senate hearings get around to looking at this (if they ever do) that a simple demo will show how useless the actions were in the first place...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
While it no longer makes economic sense to manufacture buggy whips, perhaps there is a Renaissance in the construction and sale of jack boots?
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by hsmyers 16y ago
The best way to create an API that feels like their creators never used them is to build one that you would use yourself. If you want to build one that others can use and use easily then you need to put yourself in their shoes, not your own
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Those of us who unwittingly leave coffee stains, tend to leave more than one and at different concentrations (color of stain) so I'd like to see a bit more complexity in the image...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
As Sir A. C. Clarke said (or at least to paraphrase)-- predicting the future is at best a crap shoot. That said I know what I'd like to see. As suggested elsewhere, much of what we see in 'new' languages is syntactic sugar bolted on to exis
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Intuition is very often a direct result of experience--- I still remember my math professors all chanting various mantras about training my 'mathematical intuition' and over the years, I'd have to agree with them. I don't think in terms on
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by hsmyers 16y ago
When I tell folks that my mother was a bomber ferry pilot, these are what she flew...too bad she wasn't declared a veteran until the Clinton administration.
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Part of what Mr. Adams proposes is already happening. The fact that both parties are entering a period of 'splinter' is an indication that even those who identify with a party are not happy with the party in question. As this gets both stro
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by hsmyers 16y ago
The only industry left that might fit Mr. Kasparov's prescription is the aerospace industry. There are still cowboys with calculators if not slide-rules and things moving from cad space to real space that are more than revolutionary and a d
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I've played tournament chess on and off since the mid-70's and as was pointed out elsewhere, to get good you need to devote a substantial amount of time to the game. Not that this is a bad thing, but you do have to ask yourself just how muc
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by hsmyers 16y ago
At 1440x900 the bar is annoyingly in my face. I'd prefer that it be at the top. Don't mind the small amount that shows on the 'other' side of the bar, just expect menus to be at top--- perhaps if it wasn't so thick it wouldn't be so bothers
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Punish me if you must, but the first thing I thought when I saw the headline was 'Flyswatter!'--- weather change up here in Idaho and the damn flys are moving inside...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
He's alive according to: http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.Nsf/mnames/Mandelbrot+Be...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
That's all well and good Francisco, but could you pause a moment and explain to me just how RIAA and ACTA fit into all of this? Or for that matter the immortal copyright of Mickey Mouse?
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Same for me, except it was a 360 :) That, coffee, an 8 foot manual rack along with a copy of Stern's book on Assembly kept me going until the wee hours...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Does anyone know if the Logitech offering will work with 'older' TV sets? I've a ViewSonic LPW425 that works a treat, but doesn't seem horribly compatible with digital hook-up.
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by hsmyers 16y ago
One of the comments makes a request for TeX output, so it wouldn't surprise me if that were to show up at some point, particularly since Mathematica already deals with two way input and output of TeX. See http://reference.wolfram.com/mathe
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Here in Idaho, with the largest concentration of Basque short of the EU (might be larger, not sure), such a thing would be an excellent idea. I grew up wondering what people were saying and it always sort of drove me nuts :) These days when
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by hsmyers 16y ago
It is not a sense of entitlement--- it is years of watching network television where the content (that cost millions) doesn't cost the viewer one red cent; it is all supported by advertisements.
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Alcohol does nothing at all if you 'look' at it--- to achieve excess or moderation (shudder) you have to 'drink' it...

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