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811.
by nathell 14y ago
An amazing thing about git (and other DVCSs as well) is that even if a much more serious catastrophe had happened (e.g., if a nuclear bomb had struck the KDE datacenter), it would probably still be possible to reconstruct (an approximation
812.
by nathell 14y ago
Awesome. Too bad the Swank protocol is very much CL-centric and this probably has to be heavily hacked around. I'm now waiting until someone writes an nREPL backend for JS.
813.
by nathell 14y ago
Try this in Forth, or Factor. And be sure to read up on genetic programming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming
814.
by nathell 14y ago
Has anybody made a gallery of real implementations of Randall Munroe's hilarious ideas yet? I recall at least three exhibitions: this, M-x butterfly, and Hell Tetris; there are probably many others.
815.
by nathell 14y ago
There once was a guy who, at the age of 24, wrote a short text moaning about how he seemed to have been accomplishing little in his life, and how his peers were having a better start. His name was John Milton. That text was Sonnet VII, "How
816.
by nathell 14y ago
Especially with the C++ change, GCC seems to be on the verge of crashing in under its own weight. I have the feeling that clang or something else, something simpler, will eventually prevail.
817.
by nathell 14y ago
The aesthetically pleasing effect of a good font is very much subconscious. Just typeset the same short text in Comic Sans and, say, Zapfino, and ask people which one they prefer. (Not that Zapfino would be a good choice for Vatican's origi
818.
by nathell 14y ago
This can go on indefinitely, recursively. The story behind this sentence is of two students comparing their texts, the one with "had" (version 1), the other with "had had" version 1, yielding 11 "had"s in a row. Call that story S_0. Now ima
819.
by nathell 14y ago
If they could, they would program in Lingua::Romana::Perligata. http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata....
820.
by nathell 14y ago
If I could upvote this a hundred times, I would. I left a startup I co-founded after almost two years of engagement that was becoming increasingly half-hearted -- with symptoms of a mental health problem already showing and just in time to
821.
by nathell 14y ago
Source code: https://github.com/nathell/bus
822.
by nathell 14y ago
Which editor is this in the screenshot?
823.
by nathell 14y ago
When perusing early Unix code, it's striking how concise and down-to-the-point it is. We've really accumulated a lot of cruft (mostly for the sake of compatibility and feeping creaturism) over the years.
824.
by nathell 14y ago
I like the name!
825.
by nathell 14y ago
Make is an excellent expert system / topological sorting tool with an abominable syntax.
826.
by nathell 14y ago
Awesome! I was actually thinking of something like this but have two left hands when it comes to electronics. This one is an attempt to mimic the on-stop display with no distractions and supporting multiple stops. A 15-minute hack, really.
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Show HN: Live London bus departures from multiple stops(danieljanus.pl)
32 points by nathell 14y ago|10 comments
828.
by nathell 14y ago
I thought I knew C.
829.
by nathell 14y ago
As funny and WTF-ish as it is, I feel it doesn't belong on HN.
830.
by nathell 14y ago
The first call ever made by the main module (MPhotoshop.p) is InitToolbox(8); However, there is no other mention of InitToolbox in the sources. Is it part of the Mac OS API? Which compiler were these sources meant for?
831.
Your Kindle got stolen? Don't count on Amazon's help(vaultausir.blogspot.com)
99 points by nathell 14y ago|99 comments
832.
by nathell 14y ago
I actually find both 6502/6510 and x86 assembly languages fun.
833.
by nathell 14y ago
> Do you realize how many man-years have been spent working around BIOS bugs over the years? Get any kernel developer a drink, then just say the word 'BIOS'; your opinion of UEFI will change pretty rapidly. Isn't it the case that once t
834.
by nathell 14y ago
Absolutely gorgeous.
835.
Linus Torvalds on firmware (2012)(lists.freedesktop.org)
2 points by nathell 14y ago|0 comments
836.
by nathell 14y ago
It's actually "Prawo Jazdy" in Polish. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/473...
837.
by nathell 14y ago
> It imports some classes from Maven in order to integrate with Maven repositories, but the vast majority of Leiningen has nothing to do with Maven. To be more precise, Leiningen 2 uses Sonatype Aether for dependency resolution, unlike
838.
by nathell 14y ago
Yawn. It is not possible to directly compare languages wrt speed: we only can compare the speed of their implementations and reason about the features that make a language amenable to optimizations. And we all know this. So why, despi
839.
by nathell 14y ago
Unfortunately, most of this is propaganda unbacked by facts; the correctness of these statements depends on the particular conditions (what machine is being used, under what conditions, etc.) Plus, it omits a whole slew of problems unique t
840.
by nathell 14y ago
I'm wondering if it's possible to determine the authorship of the letter as well as the identity of several people mentioned, based on the pixel widths of characters in the font used.

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