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by qohen 10y ago
And, if you really like RuneQuest's world of Glorantha, you might enjoy this [0] Kickstarter (active for 18 more days) for a boardgame w/great minis a la Cthulhu Wars (by the same guy): Designed by Sandy Petersen and based on the
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Then this [0] (from 6/15) might interest you: We have pressed the reset button... In 1975 Chaosium started out as a quirky boutique game company. We were all about creativity, artistry and craftsmanship. With every game we provided y
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Little over a year ago, at Erlang Factory SF, Visa was poking around looking to hire Erlang developers too, not sure what ultimately happened with that though. The guy from Visa was at Erlang Factory again this year and, from what he told
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Or, if you don't want to chase those blogposts down, here's the nutshell version, from reference [1]: In order to explain current default Erlang’s GC mechanism concisely we can say; it is a Generational Copying garbage collection
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I don't know how the Erlang GC works so I can't really comment on that If you're interested, here are a few helpful blogposts on the subject: - This is a pretty short and readable post, though it's a bit old (2008): &q
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Also, if you want to dive deeper, the book, "Prolog and Natural Language Analysis" by Fernando C. N. Pereira and Stuart M. Shieber, is available as a free PDF from the publisher: http://www.mtome.com/Publications&#
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As usual with Wikipedia on technical topics it looks like a poor introduction, sorry. There are real tutorials on DCGs available, e.g. http://www.pathwayslms.com/swipltuts/dcg/ (BTW, SWI-Prolog, which the tutori
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From a FAQ in the Akka docs [0]: Where does the name Akka come from? It is the name of a beautiful Swedish mountain up in the northern part of Sweden called Laponia. The mountain is also sometimes called 'The Queen of Laponia'. A
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Dell sells refurbished/off-lease laptops which are solidly built, at: http://dellrefurbished.com/laptops (They also sell refurb'd desktops, servers and monitors). The machines are a few (3?) years old, but they ar
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I wonder if the same might happen to Elm, should Phoenix adopt it as their browser language of choice. There's definitely a connection there -- for what it's worth, the keynote at 2016's Erlang Factory conference was a shar
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This letter [0] from a NASA administrator in reply to a nun may not be what you were referring to, but it is related (and worth reading): In 1970, a Zambia-based nun named Sister Mary Jucunda wrote to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, then-associate
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Not sure who is doing big data with Erlang, or why anyone would want to Nokia created an open-source Hadoop-replacement called Disco [0] that used Erlang for coordination/orchestration -- an underappreciated strength of the language
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Indeed, Jim-gray's (from tandem) paper 'why computers stop and what we can do about it' is an quite good For your convenience: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-85.7.pdf
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Not so drab -- that sort of thinking can lead to a pretty big deal, namely, the Curry-Howard Isomorphism[0]. From the linked WP page: In other words, the Curry–Howard correspondence is the observation that two families of formalisms that
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If you're able to get to San Francisco, there are places serving free food every day, in some cases several times a day. There are also places offering other essential services. http://www.freeprintshop.org/ -- has upd
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In case you haven't seen this, this site takes your zipcode and gives you get back a list of places offering essential services nearby, including free meals, help with transportation, shelter, etc. -- it works across the U.S. (e.g. I t
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Long (album) version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRVwcPTnug8 Short (single) version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTlM6OBRc8w By Sweet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sweet
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ExtJS is wicked heavy, though. And it's expensive: https://www.sencha.com/store/
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There are YouTube videos demonstrating what org-mode does, including this 18 minute one (many others in the side-bar): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgizHHd7nOo And, on Org-mode's Wikipedia page -- https:/&#x2F
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The circle is complete: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ii5wNiMRq8o/VGAZVysO5nI/AAAAAAAAN...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_horse_%28toy%29
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s/hobbies/hobby horses/ ;-)
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I haven't seen that episode yet For anyone who hasn't seen the Sherlock special, "Sherlock: The Abominable Bride" yet, it's being streamed by PBS online till Jan. 24 @ 11:59PM Eastern Time (i.e. New York time) her
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made it explicit that in the show Sherlocks's mind palace 'technique' is actually just a drug trip This isn't really so. Sherlock uses the memory palace technique, without drugs, throughout the entire series. SPOILER-
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Without a business class, every seat on the plane would be a bit larger and more comfortable. And rather more expensive.
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_patent A submarine patent is a patent whose issuance and publication are intentionally delayed by the applicant for a long time, such as several years.[1][2][3] This strate
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I thought 1and1 and Godaddy were unbeatable FYI, when renewing a domain with GoDaddy not long ago, I was pleasantly surprised to find their site to have been redesigned -- and useable. (And: in general, GoDaddy has changed course in recen
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This isn't cryonics by any stretch, but doctors are seriously looking to put gunshot victims into suspended animation by drastically cooling them down so they can be worked on [0]: When a shooting or stabbing victim goes into cardiac
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What is it that they want? "What ISIS Really Wants" (The Atlantic, March 2015) [0]: The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key
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By the way, for anyone who's interested, Hemingway was not only a syntactic minimalist (i.e. using simple language) but also a semantic minimalist -- he chose to leave things out of his stories, which he likened to icebergs, where

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