patrickas

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by patrickas 16y ago
You can send private messages to the bot and it will reply to you with the result ... so no problem there. The one liner limitation still apply, but they can be very loooong one liners ;-)
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by patrickas 16y ago
> One of my pet perl hates, the inability to write "sub foo($a, $b, $c) {" is fixed. I think you're in for a good surprize there, you can even do subset Even of Int where { $_ % 2 == 0 }; sub foo(Even $a) {say $a;} foo(2); # prints 2 fo
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by patrickas 16y ago
Why can't you blame the original author since you know it was likely his first larger program? I know that Perl's defaults (mainly lack of strict and warnings) can make it easy to write code that easily breaks or has bugs or is harder
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by patrickas 17y ago
This is amazing and all, but this technology has been available for GIMP users for years. I have been using something very similar since 2004 or 2005. http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer This page http://slacy.com/blog/2005/04/
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by patrickas 17y ago
That's not even the home screen on Android! They opened the applications "drawer" which shows an icon for each application you have ... and showed that next to the iPhone's home screen. Icons aligned in a grid on a screen have been used eve
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by patrickas 17y ago
There is something strange, in the Arabic article both the human and the Google translation say "[..] soccer great Diego Maradona" where as the original arabic there is no mention of anything resembling "great". Was the human translator inf
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by patrickas 17y ago
Here ya go http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/pi.c
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by patrickas 17y ago
This reminds me of Acme::Bleach for Perl :) http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Acme-Bleach-1.12/lib/Acme/Bl...
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by patrickas 17y ago
It's just a poem, written in Perl instead of English. perl (ver3 or 5 for the updated poem) can compile it but running the poem doesn't do anything useful.
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by patrickas 17y ago
I think the claims are true, but the headline and content is a bit over dramatized. Here are the studies, you can draw your own conclusions: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1573365 "The subjects were 1445 male smokers, initially aged 4
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by patrickas 17y ago
A couple interesting related posts from Overcoming Bias http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/smoking-followup.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/animal-smoking-studies... Robin's conclusion: "Bottom line: a randomized trial su
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by patrickas 17y ago
Really! How so? From that wikipedia page: " An indentured servant is a laborer under contract to an employer for a fixed period of time,[...], in exchange for their transportation, food, clothing, lodging and other necessities. " Here you
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by patrickas 17y ago
WOW I had no idea Ruby was so succinct compared to Perl! Could you please share a sample of code that takes 20 times more lines in Perl than Ruby.
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by patrickas 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback! The flag is a bug not a feature! It was supposed to display the flag of the country the user is connecting form but I messed up the geolocation api and forgot to remove it :-) It is gone now. (actually replaced by
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by patrickas 17y ago
Shameless self promotion ... my (part time) startup http://yoolki.com
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by patrickas 17y ago
Nokia is actually committed to Symbian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian They denied the "announcement" made in that article: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090812-702406.html?mg=...
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by patrickas 17y ago
I'm an idiot :-) Here are the correct links http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2009/06/18/the-new-firefox-i... http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2009/05/15/creative-brief-fo...
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by patrickas 17y ago
You are right! Mozilla is reworking some details of the icon for 3.5 release. Here is a <a href=" http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2009/05/15/creative-brief-fo... ; with all the details . You can also see in the archives the evolution of
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by patrickas 18y ago
Mark Jason Dominus wrote about this a couple of years back at http://blog.plover.com/law/Godel-dictatorship.html and http://blog.plover.com/law/Godel-dictatorship-2.html then again here http://blog.plover.com/law/Godel-dictatorship-3.h