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by johkra 16y ago
I first saw it today and I was about to thank the administration for this new feature when I realized that it was a user's (or bot's) comment. The functionality is imho highly desirable, but a more dynamic solution (regularly updating the n
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by johkra 16y ago
In the first screen you have to click on "Options" to change this. I like the streamlined installation process, but the options are indeed very easy to overlook.
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by johkra 16y ago
See http://www.wolfire.com/humble (World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru, Penumbra + Samorost 2)
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by johkra 16y ago
Could anyone post a screen shot? I see nothing special with Opera and Firefox, but I would be interested in how it looks. Thanks a lot!
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by johkra 16y ago
Thanks a lot for the link, I'll look through it. I also found the GLL paper at p. 113 [123] of http://ldta.info/2009/ldta2009proceedings.pdf
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by johkra 16y ago
What is actually state-of-the-art in parsing? When I, as an Amateur, last looked into it, PEG[1] and extensions like OMeta[2] seemed to be the best options. I've heard good things about Parsec[3], too. [1]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pars
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by johkra 16y ago
I can read it partly and I find it very useful for instance for French, where è, ê, ai and sometimes e are all pronounced [ɛ]. I have not learned it, however, and don't understand the meaning of all characters.
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by johkra 16y ago
Well observed, I didn't think about this when writing the title. It's too late for me to edit the title, but I think "20 000" would be a good option. (The wikipedia article advocates a thin space as separator.) I would appreciate if someone
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by johkra 16y ago
I bought "Seven languages in seven weeks", "Behind closed doors" and "SQL Anti-patterns" this morning. (CET) The e-books were available less than 5 minutes after ordering and everything went very smooth.
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A computer system in less than 20k LOC progress report(vpri.org)
22 points by johkra 16y ago|3 comments
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by johkra 16y ago
Indeed, I'm glad I didn't miss that video, it almost got lost on HN.
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by johkra 16y ago
Wow, I didn't know Quantz was written in Scheme. I actually helped beta test the game on Linux, although I didn't end up playing it much after I bought it. Nice to see you can write practical code in Scheme, too.
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by johkra 16y ago
Every time I see a presentation given in SmallTalk, I'm deeply impressed and I feel so useless working on my web applications when even Children can use etoys to create amazing things like the ant simulator. And seeing OMeta or similar syst
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Programming and programming languages (Alan Kay)(vpri.org)
28 points by johkra 16y ago|2 comments
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by johkra 16y ago
I would be interested in a code sample. I didn't know Lua supported TCO. (I bought PiL, btw, and it helped me tremendously in understanding many programming language implementation issues. Highly recommended.)
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by johkra 16y ago
Too bad that even simple commands like "sum [1..10]" don't show output. :-( Just "[1..10]" or a simple calculation like "1 + 1" work fine.
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by johkra 16y ago
Wow, that's interesting. I didn't know they resumed payment after WW2 - I always assumed that it was over when Hitler refused to continue paying. My history teacher (in Germany) didn't mention anything about continued payments, either. I do
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by johkra 16y ago
Steam is becoming a package manager for windows?
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by johkra 16y ago
What the heck? I've bought more than 25 games on GOG and I was just thinking about buying a new one (Still life) today - were there really so few people buying the games? Were the prices too low? I hope I can still buy some of the games on
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by johkra 16y ago
Selecting a number of unrelated items from a list. Example: You have a folder with music files and want to select some to copy onto your portable music player. It's easier to click on the items to select them than typing all the names, even
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by johkra 16y ago
You can also use :! command to execute a command from within vim. This is handy to execute :!make for instance.
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by johkra 16y ago
Has it really been a year? I didn't know much about _why until after he left. I only experienced his works later, had a look under the hood of Potion and was inspired by his passions. In this spirit I'll take the rest of the day of and go h
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by johkra 16y ago
Very interesting - I see myself using it. My test case: def sumTo(n): def sumTCO(num, sum): if num == 0: return sum return sumTCO(num-1, sum + num) return sumTCO(n, 0) print(sumTo(1
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by johkra 16y ago
Isn't dog cão? (My Portuguese is barely good enough to talk and influenced by both European and Brazilian Portuguese.)
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by johkra 16y ago
Mh, I always use du -sh , are there any reasons (compatibility?) to grep the output instead?
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by johkra 16y ago
This is a good, well-written article, painting a good picture of the issues involved. My grand-father is in a similar situation. After years of dementia, he was diagnosed today with pneumonia after he stopped swallowing last week and reacti
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by johkra 16y ago
I wish I could have been there. I can't wait for the videos.
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by johkra 16y ago
Thanks for showing us how it looks. I hoped it would be more similar to the strange loops Hofstadter showed with a TV (ex. http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Droste-wikipedia.jpg ), but it's still interesting.
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by johkra 16y ago
That's exactly what I was wondering after he opened the terminal inside XP: What happens when you open a VM inside a VM?
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by johkra 16y ago
I don't think so, but I'm European and I've only learned to drive with manual transmission and on the right side of the street. I even think it's the other way around: Holding the wheel is easier than changing some setting on the radio, bec

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