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by mjd 11y ago
Article 0/23 is now posted at http://blog.plover.com/aliens/dd/p00.html
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by mjd 11y ago
I've got the next five of these written now, ready to go out. So there's hope that I might complete the entire series of 25.
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by mjd 11y ago
Free download at http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/
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by mjd 11y ago
Thanks very much for your kind words. Coincidentally, I am working right now on a series of at least 25 blog posts explaining the message to the aliens. If you think I'm fun and interesting, you should check out my blog at http:/
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by mjd 11y ago
There's an explanation in the earlier article ( http://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/monad-search.html ), but it's because the `bind`/`bd` function takes the solution arrays from its callees, and conca
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by mjd 11y ago
What is the time to actually run the iterator to the end and extract and print the solutions?
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by mjd 11y ago
It's a stupid comment and deserves downvotes.
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by mjd 12y ago
Warning: Not actually about cookies.
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by mjd 12y ago
tl;dr
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by mjd 12y ago
It's always been a good community. I think a lot of that comes from Larry.
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by mjd 12y ago
Attributing the book's longevity to "availablity of new copies" is tautologous.
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by mjd 12y ago
tl;dr
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by mjd 13y ago
Wrong.
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by mjd 13y ago
tl;dr
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by mjd 13y ago
[Source code]( https://github.com/mjdominus/topology-doc ). Patches are welcome.
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by mjd 15y ago
Subtitle: "Alien horrors from the dawn of Unix"
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by mjd 15y ago
It might be worth pointing out, for readers who missed it, that this article was written in 2003. So instead of asking whether it correctly describes the situation today, you might find it more useful to ask whether it correctly described t
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by mjd 15y ago
"Smart" match is a pile of shit, and anyone reading the manual description for it should conclude the same. You can't know what it does unless you can remember the details of a 23-item table. It's undergoing major revision, and not a minut
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by mjd 15y ago
I'm a fairly well-known member of the Perl community, and I thought it looked okay. I'm not angry and I'm not Sam Hughes' enemy.
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by mjd 15y ago
> The following anecdote illustrates the hazards of being editorial assistant of the Annals in the early thirties. A manuscript was submitted by the brilliant Soviet mathematician, Lev Pontryagin. Since paper was then exceptionally sc
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by mjd 15y ago
It's a one-month perpetual calendar, not a one-year perpetual calendar.
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by mjd 15y ago
The same co-worker has a Lucite perpetual calendar on his desk. I asked him how many different calendar options it had. "Seven." "Doesn't it beggar belief that one of those seven would only get used once every 800 years?"
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by mjd 15y ago
Also this: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8ufl1/gray_code...
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by mjd 15y ago
The same question came up on Reddit (in the agressive know-it-all tone typical of Reddit ( http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8ufl1/gray_code... ) when I first posted this blog article. So I asked the pediatrician, and the answer
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by mjd 16y ago
I'm sorry that I didn't get your error report, or that you didn't get my reply to your error report. But I maintain an errata page, and that error has been on it since 2005-05-24. See http://hop.perl.plover.com/errata/errata-p-1.html#p19
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by mjd 16y ago
It's section 6.5, "Regex string generation". Page 272: "Given a regex, how can one generate a list of all the strings matched by the regex?"
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by mjd 16y ago
I don't get any money, but I'm happy that you bought my book. Thanks very much!
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by mjd 16y ago
Getting another job was not actually that difficult, so there is no need to worry on that score. But if anyone wants to send donations anyway, I will still gratefully accept them.
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by mjd 16y ago
Sorry you were worried. I lost my job in 09/2009, but got a new one in 12/2009. I am okay, just very busy dealing with having two children instead of one. This is starting to get easier as they get older. I got out of the habit of blogg