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631.
by leif 16y ago
Never noticed before that Hanoi states are homomorphic to Sierpinski triangles. That's gorgeous. :-)
632.
by leif 16y ago
Do it anyway, and find little things you can do differently or better.
633.
by leif 16y ago
> This doesn't necessarily make sense. Memorization is a first step to learning, nothing more. I don't believe you can learn the higher level concepts of any subject without memorizing the details of its primitives at some stage of your
634.
by leif 16y ago
(extra notes) Please ignore the current need to manually download a bunch of my own personal library code for no good reason, and the current big fat bug, and my total inability to package perl code for CPAN. That said, if you run alpine on
635.
Show HN: sexy ubuntu notifications for alpine mail(github.com)
1 points by leif 16y ago|1 comments
636.
by leif 16y ago
It's the BSG thing, right?
637.
Poll: Do you read phrack?
2 points by leif 16y ago|2 comments
638.
by leif 16y ago
Yes, every article, every issue.
639.
by leif 16y ago
A couple articles from each issue that look cool.
640.
by leif 16y ago
Once in a while, if I happen to check and there's a new issue, I'll read an article or two.
641.
by leif 16y ago
I've skimmed one once.
642.
by leif 16y ago
I know what phrack is.
643.
by leif 16y ago
What?
644.
by leif 16y ago
Same reason the Hurd never materialized. Linux was good enough that nobody cared to put in the massive effort required to make the slightly better solution industry-strength. It's something like the death by a thousand cuts, only in this
645.
by leif 16y ago
Man, sometimes I find it hard to express how much I love watching awkward dudes with enough money to think they're important get into catfights across blogs.
646.
by leif 16y ago
I agree, there doesn't seem to be a degree bias when you compare partners of high-degree vertices to the rest of the population.
647.
by leif 16y ago
It's not about context switching, it's about having to copy data from kernel space to user space and back. If there's no processing done between the calls to read() and write(), then there's no point copying it to user space.
648.
by leif 16y ago
So...when can I use this to share data between a BSD and a Linux machine?
649.
by leif 16y ago
ModernCV looks a lot better than the OP, especially with fontspec.
650.
by leif 16y ago
Yeah I think 30MB is correct. 30GB is about 7 DVDs.
651.
by leif 16y ago
Minor edit: gmail's file limit is not 30GB, and there's no way a 1m 10s video fills up that much space. ;-)
652.
by leif 16y ago
That's not a problem to read, and it's really easy to recognize since everyone's been sent it at some point in their life. For those having trouble: bomb() { bomb | bomb & # spawns two subprocesses, each running bomb
653.
by leif 16y ago
I usually review but don't run it....
654.
by leif 16y ago
From that file, this guy http://swiecki.net/index.html is mentioned a few times in the comments, I'd guess it's him (perhaps this is what the other reply to this thread meant).
655.
by leif 16y ago
Well, this is how we got stuck with autoconf (of course, then some genius decided m4 was a good idea). Interestingly, sh (at least, the common intersection of all the shells) is a good choice for a language that needs to bootstrap, since p
656.
by leif 16y ago
I cherry-picked the good parts because that's what it was built for. Obviously, misusing it is going to give you a terrible experience, you never answered my question about using another programming language in place of an interactive shel
657.
by leif 16y ago
Lousiness of the unix shell? The shell is beautiful and useful and not in any way lousy. It's not supposed to be a programming language, in fact, the only places it's used as such are places where it's unreasonable to expect a system will
658.
by leif 16y ago
Assuming you know something about digital snooping, and he doesn't know anything about privacy, you can figure out a lot about him, possibly even remotely access your computer and (if it has a webcam) take a picture and report everything to
659.
by leif 16y ago
Author pretty clearly knows very little about number theory. It needs a lot of optimization, pruning, and caching to be useful. Nice simple lisp intro though.
660.
by leif 16y ago
Excellent work! Suggestions: - tif not recognized as image, probably other formats as well (someone below said an image without an extension was rejected, maybe you need a smarter file rejection algorithm) - 900k is kinda small, maybe you s

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