hsmyers

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by hsmyers 14y ago
Wouldn't mind an invite myself. While I was wandering the site I thought I had a break through idea only to discover that such a thing already existed. What I wanted was the pushd (dos command---dating myself) Then I realized that if I only
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by hsmyers 14y ago
I remember articles asking for this in the 80's. Shame no one listened. Guess we were all to busy programming to worry much about what the IDE (if there was one) could be doing. Here is an interesting example http://www.sorting-algorithms.
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by hsmyers 14y ago
With apologies---'Program what thou wilt an it harm no one'...
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Perhaps as a certified Old Grouch(tm) I'm merely being paranoid in that I use a three step approach to this problem: 1. local project; 2. backup project to thumb drive; and 3. backup project to the cloud. Of course there is a reverse approa
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Lots of iconic material this weekend---enough to make me start thinking about how to use them in my apps. Particularly with the addition of color! Might have to give it a go just to test things out. Currently I use Unicode as though it were
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Did you forget the <disbelief></disbelief> tag pair?
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by hsmyers 14y ago
While I'm not truly clear on what gittip does, I applaud the message from the guy in charge. I like the approach and the intent---and above all the open-ness. Curiously that is combined with a sensible amount of 'quiet' with reference to ex
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Might be nice if there were some shapes available either on the menu or on the tool bar to the left. Arc, circle, box, rectangle, all come to mind. Then the ability to scale and instance of same would be quite handy. First thoughts...
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Unlike some, I see no problem with this being on the front page. That said, I do have a question, why is the '10' smaller than the other numbers? This seems to be the same with the cards you forked.
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Nice work! So my question is where did you get the text to analyze?
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Err---that would be Marion Zimmer Bradley (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley ), not Lovecraft. It's possible she got it from "The King in Yellow" usually referred to as 'The Yellow Book', but not know for sure. See:
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Having used PC-Lint almost all the way back to it's origins, I can testify to just how scary it is to run this on your code. Code you wrote as well as code written by teammates. In self defense, you HAVE to spend time tuning the system in t
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by hsmyers 14y ago
To hell with the suggested three strikes nonsense. I would prefer the more draconian solution: 10k fine for every instance of bogus takedown. Money going to owner of the site in question.
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by hsmyers 14y ago
At the moment: 1. 1,108.00 --- VA Disability 2. 100.00 --- Client retainer 3. 934.00 --- Social Security (starting in October) Total: 2142.00 Analysis: It is good to like Ramen Noodles! --hsm
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Since to my knowledge Scheme has been replaced with Racket, is this blog out of date or is he just holding on to the old name. In any event, I've not had any problems with the existing approach and don't see quite why this 'change' is neede
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by hsmyers 14y ago
I was lucky enough to spend a fair amount of time in college with a senior citizen who was aiming for a fine arts degree in painting. As in most colleges, this does not require algebra which she thought was a shame as she had been home scho
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by hsmyers 14y ago
All of these music filing schemes fail miserably when confronted by Classical music. There you often have four 'obvious' candidates for leading tag---composer, performer, conductor, title etc. There is even an entertaining amount of discuss
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by hsmyers 14y ago
I read the article with some interest remembering what it used to take to work with SVG (the Adobe plug in---free, but still). Just for grins I copied one of the examples to my editor, EditPlus which uses whatever version of IE that you hav
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Excellent idea! Now if we could only convince w3C that the entire Unicode Symbol Set deserves names and not hex or octal then I'd be very happy indeed ♞ should be bnight and so on...
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Macros for HTML---good or bad?
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by hsmyers 14y ago
They have known and been doing things about bad Perl advice for a lot longer than a year. There have been idiots who have made reputations based on some of the worst possible code you can imagine and it has taken a lot of time to convince n
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Conway's 'Game of Life' in FORTRAN on an IBM 360. Hardly the third grade, that would have been in 1955. My next program was a 'Key Words in Context' generator written in BAL, likewise for a 360 (370 by the time I finished[model switch over
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by hsmyers 14y ago
As an 8 year art major who wandered across the campus to the keypunch room (run by the business school as at that time there was no computer department) I sat down, learned to program and discovered that there was (at an abstract level at l
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Know what you mean. One of my favorites is the Netscape Lighthouse T. Only nit I have with what you say is that you should get over the 'too worn thin/ragged' thing. Far as I can tell, no one cares anymore. How often do you see jeans withou
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by hsmyers 14y ago
When I came back to college after the war, I resumed my studies as an art major. For those of us involved, the 'zone' was pretty much a natural state. We would drop in and out for conversations and such. But mostly as soon as you pick up a
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by hsmyers 14y ago
When he says "Do we imagine that such progress is achieved through the kind of Luddite thinking that leads people to value "hackability" over never-before-achieved levels of precision and portability?" he pretty much proves that he does not
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by hsmyers 14y ago
He is not visiting, he has been a member all along.
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Why is it that every time I ask a question another method (possibly the answer) occurs to me. In this particular case, the answer was to use another browser. I had been using FireFox so I switched to Chrome with nearly instant gratification
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Facebook General Settings page seems non responsive
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by hsmyers 14y ago
You might want to look into V8 as a way to un-hook JavaScript from your browser while you are converting your apps. See: http://code.google.com/p/v8/ I've not investigated as I've been busy writing JavaScript apps for our projects browser

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