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oofoe
16y ago
Well, he did say that he'd read all of Knuth's books... (See http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story... )
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oofoe
16y ago
I usually get a month of out of 4 AA's. It's very power efficient...
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oofoe
16y ago
I'll give you Erlang, but the Ruby solution is cheating rather.
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oofoe
17y ago
You might enjoy the topic of the Professor's symposium in the "Futurological Congress", by Stanislaw Lem.
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oofoe
17y ago
See also http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/rocketaday.html - "A Rocket a Day Keeps the High Cost Away", written in 1993...
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oofoe
17y ago
This guy has integrated it with org-mode for Emacs: http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#sec-13.1
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oofoe
17y ago
It's almost exactly like writing out HTML. The advantages are that you're writing something that your editor and your program can understand. The editor can highlight things appropriately, the program can insert or delete html easily since
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oofoe
17y ago
I completely agree, may I suggest http://hotwax.infogami.com/HeRF as well? It's maybe not too fancy, but it's very short and simple to deal with. It also ensures correct tag closing without any special effort on your part.
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oofoe
18y ago
Actually, yes... As one example, Jef Raskin pointed out that Click-Drag was an innovation of the Macintosh group (compare to Click-Drag-Click as used by the Star). Also the single button mouse, which while it might have been too far in the
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oofoe
18y ago
When I try it, there's a big Gimp install dialogue taking up most of the site snapshot. The title is "Opening Gimp-2.6.1-Leopard-Intel.dmg". Good idea though!
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oofoe
18y ago
for i in xrange(1000000000): print i xrange() addresses the problem you describe and has been in Python since, like, forever. However, range() is nicer for learning the language, since it's easy to see how it composes into a list.
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oofoe
18y ago
Couldn't enter a standing offer for a game. Tried before I created an account and after. Both times, it would only do anything when I clicked "no" on the offer box. Other than that... It was fairly easy to figure out and use (until the prob
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oofoe
18y ago
Check out Paul Heckbert's ray tracing business card at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/ (you'll need to load the page, then search for "business card"). The files themselves are chunks of PostScript code -- they can be viewed with GhostScript o
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You're Not as Smart as You Could be
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18y ago
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oofoe
19y ago
I really hope not. I don't really like Adobe as a company, but whenever Apple buys a professional tool house, they kill it but awful. Witness the demise of Shake and Silicon Grail, both top notch compositing packages for Irix, Windows and L