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by praeclarum 13y ago
Calca takes ideas from Soulver and super sizes them: * Soulver allows free text editing within a line of computation; Calca allows free editing in the entire file * Both update as you type * Soulver understands arithmetic; Calca knows algeb
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by praeclarum 13y ago
It's from scratch C# code using Xamarin to build the UI layers for iOS/OS X. Well, I also use a parser generator jayc which is based on jay which is a yacc cc. Everything else is mine. It's a pretty standard Expression tree i
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by praeclarum 13y ago
Developer here, yep that was a bad omission. The worst part is I do that kind of math all the time! You can count on it showing up in updates either as a function or as syntax.
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by praeclarum 13y ago
Oh interesting. No support for that now, but it should be possible to add. Perhaps shelling out and just reading stdout? Binary interfaces would be harder.
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by praeclarum 13y ago
Glad you like the spaces in names! It's not hard to implement without too much ambiguity. :) There are a few tricks I need to pull to make things like: `if x then y else z` be interpreted correctly. Fun fact: The slowness is bottlene
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by praeclarum 13y ago
Agreed! I have this exact feature on the todo list. It just didn't make it for v1.
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by praeclarum 13y ago
Bug in the doc. :-) just ran on the device and got the expected: f(a) = m*a f(20) => 20m
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by praeclarum 13y ago
Hi I'm the author. I took a lot of inspiration from Soulver. I basically wanted a smarter Soulver with more programming constructs and better treatment of undefined variables. Hope you like it and OS X version will be out in a couple w
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by praeclarum 13y ago
Hi I'm the author. Yep Mac is done and just being submitted for review. I just couldn't resist announcing the iOS version.
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Reverse engineering the Nokia Maps 3D WebGL tiles(idiocode.com)
1 points by praeclarum 15y ago|0 comments
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by praeclarum 15y ago
I refuse to kowtow also but rarely get into hot water. I'm curious what you're saying to these people. :-) If someone does try to assert their superiority (I'm trying to think of an example, but am having a hard time) then I tend to appeal
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by praeclarum 15y ago
Educate me some more and please name a social hierarchy I belong to. I'm a pretty standard geek so feel free to make assumptions. I really want to know who my superiors are so I can call them up and apologize for treating them as equals all
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by praeclarum 15y ago
"Social superiors"? Man. There's just so much wrong with that...
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3 Mobile App Development Problems and Some Ways to Solve Them(infoq.com)
2 points by praeclarum 15y ago|0 comments
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by praeclarum 15y ago
Except, of course, for those few SSNs and addresses that Paul the grad student sold so he could play with a botnet. Oh, and we gave the database and algorithms over to the DoD who sponsored our work. I'm sure they won't harm any SSNs or fac
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by praeclarum 15y ago
He's relating auto manufacturing (something I have experience with) to software development and startups (something I have experience in). No. I will not read the book, because all information in it will be stretched analogies. Trust me whe
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by praeclarum 15y ago
Snake oil salesman. Read the quick bio: everything revolves around him teaching how to do development, not actually leading any real projects. I worked at GM during the lean craze and read my fill of these "we should be doing it like the Ja
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by praeclarum 15y ago
So when your latency goes from 150ms to 300ms, you'll know who to blame.
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by praeclarum 15y ago
Guys, if you don't like clients and don't like most clients' ideas, then, uh, don't take on clients. Programmers can: 1. Work at Big, Co. and make a decent living. 2. Work on your own projects and sell them directly to consumers (App Store)
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by praeclarum 15y ago
"speeds up pathfinding on uniform-cost grid maps" How useful are uniform-cost grids? Every implementation of A* I've ever used has been applied to varying-cost grids.
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by praeclarum 15y ago
Well, at least it does the coercion for you (unlike Java).
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by praeclarum 15y ago
Yes, I take exception to my statement also. I did not actually mean anti-depressives, I was thinking of harder stuff: cocaine, heroine, meth. Very poorly worded on my part.
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by praeclarum 15y ago
I like how we use the word "burnout" in place of the word "depression". When you're depressed, even the things that you used to love doing become chores. Taking a vacation isn't the right answer to depression. You have to identify and attac
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by praeclarum 15y ago
Sorry, no blog entry. Snarky forum posts aside, I usually stay silent on legal matters. But I will tell you that there are a lot of us LCARS devs and more and more apps are appearing in the store.
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by praeclarum 15y ago
And here's where I clear this BS and remind everyone that it is NOT copyrighted, and NOT trademarked and CBS has no right to it (and does not claim to). I am the author of the LCARS Reader iPad app and have been bullied by CBS many times. T
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by praeclarum 15y ago
997 > 100 * 6, 330 > 100 * 1, 7000 > 100 * 63
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by praeclarum 15y ago
Reminds me of the Alice Cooper scene from Wayne's World. I was raised to believe that these hedonistic punks knew only sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Learning that they were in fact professionals who intimately knew their craft (and, yeah,
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by praeclarum 15y ago
Right. In this case it was 3 months worth of code. I think the analogy is closer to "we tore down this clay hut we built". Easy to build, easy to tear down. If this were a mature code base, I would be a little more shocked.
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by praeclarum 15y ago
Retroactive laws are common place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law
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by praeclarum 15y ago
You've got to be kidding me.

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