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by jdnier 15y ago
REX is most useful is when you're focusing on lexical details of a document -- for example, when transforming one kind of text document (e.g., plain text, XML, SGML, HTML) into another, where the document may not be valid, well formed, or e
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by jdnier 15y ago
If you enjoy reading about regular expressions, Cameron's paper is fascinating. His writing is concise, thorough, and very detailed. He's not simply showing you how to construct the REX regular expression but also an approach for constructi
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by jdnier 15y ago
In the spirit of Tom Christiansen's lexer solution, here's a link to Robert Cameron's seemingly forgotten 1998 article, "REX: XML Shallow Parsing with Regular Expressions". http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/REX.html """ Abstract The synt
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by jdnier 16y ago
Wisconsin's Republican governor elect has forgone $900 million in stimulus spending for a high-speed train line from Milwaukee to Madison. Californians are pleased.
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"Thanks a billion, cheeseheads."(articles.latimes.com)
2 points by jdnier 16y ago|2 comments
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by jdnier 16y ago
Lala's streaming catalog was huge (>8 million songs) and included music not available on iTunes. I enjoyed using the service and have since lost any infatuation with downloading and storing MP3s. Being able to listen to anything once wa
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by jdnier 18y ago
But as I said, its four months later. Government shouldn't keep secrets from it's citizens in general. You're the one who introduced the hysterical shouting of "fire." The Bush administration increased the level of secret keeping massively
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by jdnier 18y ago
I'll only point out that this happened last September. It's the first I've heard about the details. It's not shouting "fire", it's waiting four months to explain why there's a burnt-out hole in the ground where the theater used to be.
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by jdnier 18y ago
Holy freaking cow! I've not heard anyone explain/disclose the details of what actually happened before. Cheers to Representative Kanjorski for disclosing the details. The government shouldn't keep secrets.
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by jdnier 18y ago
See especially the last bit about whether you're a lark or an owl. (Owl definitely!)
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by jdnier 18y ago
An interesting essay, excited by President Obama's pledge to “restore science to its rightful place,” that considers the relationship between science and democracy and how the health of one influences strongly the other. “If there is anythi
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“Science and democracy have always been twins.”(nytimes.com)
10 points by jdnier 18y ago|9 comments
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by jdnier 18y ago
For me, it was having something practical to accomplish (and better if it had a deadline attached). String processing (manipulating text) was, for me, a comfortable place to start. Python is a great first language to learn and will let you
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by jdnier 18y ago
I was going to say I think we've (well, a lot of us) have forgotten how to make and engineer mechanical, physical things... but you're completely right, it's not like a computer is any less complex. Still, hot metal is impressive!
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Seriously mechanical (gears!) Rube Goldberg corkscrew and wine pourer. (oneofonehundred.co.uk)
2 points by jdnier 18y ago|2 comments
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by jdnier 18y ago
The cameras are really easy to make (disposable) and require no chemistry to develop. You end up with a color-like negative using simple black and white photo paper. Here are a couple related howtos: http://www.pinholephotography.org/Solar
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Six-month long exposures made with a pinhole camera.(pinholephotography.org)
52 points by jdnier 18y ago|3 comments
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by jdnier 18y ago
Ivan Krstić was the security lead for the One Laptop Per Child project. Here's his completely unrelated retelling of the downfall of Adolf Merckle, one of the world’s richest men, who committed suicide yesterday by throwing himself under a
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A “short squeeze” sounds innocuous enough...(radian.org)
224 points by jdnier 18y ago|51 comments