mjcohen

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by mjcohen 13y ago
If you took arbitrary fortran, especially with i/o, the results were an unreadable mess - but they compiled and ran. For a project I had (in the early 90s iirc), I had to extensively modify the fortran and make multiple versions before
512.
by mjcohen 13y ago
I often enjoy these kind of articles, especially when the interpolated comments give me information and ways to look at things I did not previously have.
513.
by mjcohen 13y ago
Yes. I enjoyed watching LV code execute graphically.
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by mjcohen 13y ago
I like to indent two characters per level of indentation. If the indentation uses braces, I indent one for the brace and one more for the code.
515.
by mjcohen 13y ago
Amiga was fun. I still miss Marble Madness and Hole-in-one Miniature Golf. And Tom Rokicki was a god.
516.
by mjcohen 13y ago
In the original #define, the parameter is lower case "c" and the expansion uses upper case "C".
517.
by mjcohen 13y ago
Well, she's god.
518.
by mjcohen 13y ago
When is Google Maps going to restore "Save as Contact"? I keep my old Galaxy Nexus around so I can use Maps 6. The new Maps is a definite downgrade.
519.
by mjcohen 13y ago
How soon before the author of this is indicted?
520.
by mjcohen 13y ago
Try n=1000 or n=10000.
521.
by mjcohen 13y ago
And then there is LuaTex: "LuaTeX is an extended version of pdfTeX using Lua as an embedded scripting language." See luatex.org.
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by mjcohen 13y ago
But not for long (at least in their original form).
523.
by mjcohen 13y ago
You just need enough cores so the infinite loop completes in a finite amount of time.
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by mjcohen 13y ago
Which seems to have been invented by Gauss.
525.
by mjcohen 13y ago
Ha! When I was in school, we had to push the electrons around by hand! You kids had it easy!
526.
by mjcohen 13y ago
I wear regular glasses and use sunglasses that cost less than $5 US that slide between my glasses and my face: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00012K3N6/ I think these would work with Glass.
527.
by mjcohen 13y ago
Also in Florida.
528.
by mjcohen 13y ago
1. Generate all permutations of the input. 2. Return the permutation that is in order. 3. Profit!
529.
by mjcohen 13y ago
That latter title made me think of the story "Spacial Delivery" by Gordon Dickson in his collection 'The Right to Arm Bears'. A fun read.
530.
by mjcohen 13y ago
I believe it is "In App Purchasing".
531.
by mjcohen 13y ago
How about the state of Fortran or COBOL after four years?
532.
by mjcohen 13y ago
It's a lot easier to make a living as a programmer than as a chess player. Also, winning and losing as a programmer doesn't apply (except at a hackathon or similar competition).
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by mjcohen 13y ago
Though they had the proportion wrong when describing the perfect rectangle. Instead of a/b = b/(a+b) they had a/b = (a+b)/b, which is obviously incorrect. Also, all their graphs and tables were from the Dover publication
534.
by mjcohen 13y ago
Of course it's welfare. That doesn't mean it's bad, it just means that they are not doing any work to get it.
535.
by mjcohen 13y ago
This sentence is not.
536.
by mjcohen 13y ago
I read the UHH many years ago, and learned a lot of useful information from it. It's a wee bit dated, but still a fun read.
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by mjcohen 13y ago
Another tiny detail: He is Donald Knuth.
538.
by mjcohen 13y ago
So this is why those bast*rds aren't in jail! And how about that second amendment, eh?
539.
by mjcohen 13y ago
So this is why those bastards aren't in jail! And how about that second amendment, eh?
540.
by mjcohen 13y ago
Where's the Gudermannian? From wikipediophile: "The Gudermannian function, named after Christoph Gudermann (1798–1852), relates the circular functions and hyperbolic functions without using complex numbers."

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