mxyzpt1k

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   by mxyzpt1k 6y ago

   My kids and I played Warcraft 3 together quite a bit. It came with an editor that let you create custom maps, including the creeps. From about the age of 10 my oldest loved making worlds for the rest of the family to explore. It was enough
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   by mxyzpt1k 6y ago

   Thank you. Redis has been the nervous system of my main project for the last eight years.
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   by mxyzpt1k 7y ago

   Perl incorporated regular expressions into a general purpose programming language in a way that seemed fairly unique at the time. Today they seem to be everywhere, often with the help of PCRE-Perl compatible regexps.
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   by mxyzpt1k 7y ago

   alias gerp=grep For just that reason
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   by mxyzpt1k 7y ago

   I have a copy for home, one for work, and one to lend. "On Lisp" by the same author is a wonderful glimpse into the power of macros.
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   by mxyzpt1k 11y ago

   From the very end of the article... In the meantime, the Paris-based International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service will keep track of the gradual slowing of the planet, caused in part by drag created by the Moon. Millions of ye
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   by mxyzpt1k 12y ago

   There's a chapter about Sierra On-Line in "Hackers" by Steven Levy -- a fascinating book.