pkrumins

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   by pkrumins 17y ago

   * explained http://www.catonmat.net/blog/sed-one-liners-explained-part-o... :)
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   by pkrumins 17y ago

   I wonder if any of them still are current. "At the time I originally wrote this I was using a 100MHz Pentium running BSDI."
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   Summary of MIT's Linear Algebra. Lecture 4: A=LU Matrix Factorization(catonmat.net)

   17 points by pkrumins 17y ago|2 comments
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   by pkrumins 17y ago

   I watched all of the guy's videos, he's the hacker of woodwork. No doubts about it. It's nice to see how other professions besides computer programming have masterful hackers. The most intriguing video was this: http://www.youtube.com/watc
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   Comet with Node.js and V8(amix.dk)

   7 points by pkrumins 17y ago|0 comments
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   Prisoner's dilemma on £100.000(youtube.com)

   1 points by pkrumins 17y ago|2 comments
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   by pkrumins 17y ago

   I found this video scary. Possibly because of uncanny valley. The person looks almost human, yet acts strangely.
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   by pkrumins 17y ago

   I had never heard about "The Art of Prolog". Gonna check it out!
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   by pkrumins 17y ago

   Someone has bought me "The Reasoned Schemer"! :) I will now have all three books, reasoned, seasoned and little schemer. :) Huge thanks to the person who bought the reasoned schemer! Merry Christmas!
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    Thanks for "The Seasoned Schemer" book! You are absolutely right that I'd also appreciate "The Reasoned Schemer". :)
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    Two swiss knives for me then. One in the right pocket, the other in the left. ;) Gonna write about strace in one of the next articles. And possibly also about dtrace in another article.
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    Swiss Army Knife of Unix Debugging: lsof(catonmat.net)

    130 points by pkrumins 17y ago|27 comments
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    I watched it a while ago but I did not understand what was the key idea that he wanted to say. Okay, the corn syrup is just fructose, and as I understood from the lecture it's equivalent to poison so we should avoid it. But then sugar from
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    Just found this comment. I am not exactly sure if they are Turing-complete. The code in (??{code}) can be anything, so I guess, they are.
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    Guys in the article recommend FastSpring.
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    Can you tell more about "money market option"? I'd like to try it but I can't find it anywhere in my PayPal account.
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    Wondering if anyone has a success story with PayPal?
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    Plurk’s official response to Microsoft’s apology(blog.plurk.com)

    97 points by pkrumins 17y ago|61 comments
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    Summary of MIT's Linear Algebra. Lecture 3: Matrix Multiplication and Inverses(catonmat.net)

    32 points by pkrumins 17y ago|17 comments
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    You're welcome. Watching video lectures is my most favorite hobby. I'll let you all know when I start doing this!
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    I'll download all his lectures, convert to a good format, re-upload to youtube, and then write summaries of all of them!
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    Well said. I will include this in the article. Couldn't figure out how to say it well before because they are still not equivalent to context-free languages, they are just sometimes powerful enough to describe some of the context-free langu
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    You're right. I wouldn't have.
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    You can still try hard and cover many cases where it would go into an infinite loop. And then try even harder and cover even more cases.
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    Completely true. In fact nothing is hard in the computing world. Everything is doable. And if someone says it's not doable, they are not trying hard enough.
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    This is an awesome backport. Thanks for reporting.
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    You're right! I just fixed this serious error in the article and updated the explanation. Thanks! I was thinking about ? but wrote it down as * without realizing that * may insert several $regex$regex... thus breaking the regex.
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    Recursive Regular Expressions(catonmat.net)

    44 points by pkrumins 17y ago|21 comments
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    Thanks, I'll think about it.
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    by pkrumins 17y ago

    Not sure I would use it. I would need the knowledge database to be customized exactly to my needs. Perhaps other people would use it.