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by orangeduck 13y ago
This is a great article. I relate to Jonathan Franzen in his mission to get others to seek out the one-to-one relationship he had with Kraus. I believe this relationship is really what the whole piece is about. In many of his points he is t
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by orangeduck 13y ago
Author here. Yeah the syntax looks much better with correct highlighting. I've provided a custom definition for Notepad++ on the repo - and of course there is the definition used on the website too. I'm also a big fan of DSLs and
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by orangeduck 13y ago
As an idiom I quite like this form. I often do similar for double iterations: for (int x = 0; x < width; x++) for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) { do_something(x, y); }
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How Nature Builds Computers(theorangeduck.com)
1 points by orangeduck 13y ago|0 comments
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Blind hiker customized GPS for Appalachian Trail trek(mercurynews.com)
3 points by orangeduck 14y ago|1 comments
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by orangeduck 14y ago
Notepad++ also has a spell checker which is pretty decent and afaik supports other languages.
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Advertising is an Annoying Rich Friend(everything2.com)
1 points by orangeduck 14y ago|0 comments
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by orangeduck 14y ago
This is an excellent explanation. As you say, if we assume that my set of macros are the machinery, then truly my "BRAINFUCK()" macro is Turing complete. Using this distinction between language and machine, how peculiar that a Turing Comple
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by orangeduck 14y ago
Yeah using $ was pretty cheeky. I use a few other GCC specific features such as nested functions, which is why I specify that the standard is GNU99 rather than C99. If you have any errors on mac please post a bug report as I don't have a ma
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by orangeduck 14y ago
This is correct. "Table" is a datatype which copies the values into the table, while "Dict" is a data type that holds references to the objects. The same semantics hold for "Array" and "List". Although not perfect this was probably the best
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by orangeduck 14y ago
That's a lot of questions. I will do my best to answer them but note I am not trying to sell a language here. I'm just a student and wanted to show an interesting project I'd been playing with. The performance implications are much like vta
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by orangeduck 14y ago
Well Objective C is a separate language entirely. This is just a library for GNU99 C. Point about name noted, open to suggestions :)
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Show HN: Introducting C+(github.com)
148 points by orangeduck 14y ago|47 comments
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by orangeduck 14y ago
Great article. The lego air plane analogy is very accurate. It is certainly true that maths has lost some of its mysticism in early education but I think perhaps telling students that "maths is a set of abstract made up rules governing an i
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The aesthetics of code(theorangeduck.com)
1 points by orangeduck 14y ago|0 comments
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by orangeduck 14y ago
If this becomes verified then it is very exciting - give me my hover board. Even if it is entirely impractical in use, the thought that a room temperature superconductor may exist in one form or other is just more evidence that little stops
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by orangeduck 14y ago
Ultimately nihilism is non-prescriptive as to how you should behave or feel. Under nihilism you can very easily turn "Why Bother?" into "Why Not?", or "Why do I exist?" into "Why would I not exist?" - because all are meaningless questions.
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How to Launch on Hacker News(youtube.com)
6 points by orangeduck 14y ago|1 comments
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by orangeduck 14y ago
This is very clever. I've used exported curves from photoshop to generate color correction LUTs, but actually just displaying the LUT in the screenshot, and then using the manipulated result to generate back a new LUT is much more flexible
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by orangeduck 14y ago
Because it is the most common letter in English and used for variable and identifier names.
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by orangeduck 14y ago
Even if a snap judgement were right or did add missing perspective it would only be by chance, or only useful in hindsight. Such as the distinction between "knowledge" and "a true belief", armchair commentary is basically unproductive even
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How I learned to stop worrying and love statistics(everything2.com)
2 points by orangeduck 14y ago|0 comments
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by orangeduck 14y ago
As the submission hit the front page the site went down and I had to kill the link to prepare the server for a second (I couldn't even SSH in). Spamming wasn't my intention.
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Six Myths About Ray Tracing(theorangeduck.com)
20 points by orangeduck 14y ago|19 comments
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by orangeduck 14y ago
BMesh sounds pretty cool. It is a feature which Wings3d (my go-to modelling package) embraced from the get go, and it sounds like Blender has added many of the same tools which were fantastic in Wings. Unfortunately Wings has fallen a littl
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The Web Giants Will Fall(theorangeduck.com)
1 points by orangeduck 14y ago|0 comments
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by orangeduck 15y ago
Fair enough, I agree that it isn't the prettiest or most natural of code but it isn't any "magic" too far beyond convention. Without C++ templates this is the only way to achieve certain things - and is fairly standardized. See va_args for
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by orangeduck 15y ago
By runtime I mean that the functions which are avaliable are registered at runtime - rather than being statically wrapped or converted by some previous tool in the toolchain. Sure, there is some macro stuff going on, but if you were to eval
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Show HN: Autowrap C functions at runtime for the Python/C API(github.com)
7 points by orangeduck 15y ago|6 comments