rhdoenges

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   by rhdoenges 15y ago

   the apple2 screensaver is a thing of beauty.
2. 62.▲
   by rhdoenges 15y ago

   Is there a linux alternative to that? I want it incredibly badly.
3. 63.▲
   by rhdoenges 15y ago

   I actually asked him some time ago and he said (much to my disappointment) that he did it in post-processing.
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   Rubber duck debugging(en.wikipedia.org)

   4 points by rhdoenges 15y ago|0 comments
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   The specific heat of supercooled helium is ∞(en.wikipedia.org)

   2 points by rhdoenges 15y ago|0 comments
6. 66.▲
   by rhdoenges 15y ago

   Everything here is great. relevant: http://isitchristmas.com/
7. 67.▲
   by rhdoenges 15y ago

   I use find for one thing and one thing only--listing all the files under the current directory. du works , but I prefer find. find | while read i; do grep 'foo' $i; done
8. 68.▲
   by rhdoenges 15y ago

   Dwarf Fortress sounds to me like nethack in its difficulty but unlike nethack in its endlessness. You can play all you want, but there will be no end!
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   Embellished Donut in Obfucsated C(a1k0n.net)

   2 points by rhdoenges 15y ago|0 comments
10. 70.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    His entire blog is a pure obfuscated goldmine. Just look at his footer: _=0;k;main(){while(_<641){for(k=0;"##K#8(38D-##C]L5870.X7\\M_b;90\\" "MC-M/NZGB6Q,I0VGB6a0FbN<VG.6Q\\bNb7^@`X=N@`XQaOVX:^]NX=:Z8PY]B`:>P" "NY8
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    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    Thanks for the advice. I just now made a forrst, since they let you in if you have an active github. Best of luck to you as well!
12. 72.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    https://github.com/nicolasH/frankensteins/blob/master/___.sh... You just grepped out each `echo` in the file instead of writing a usage() function? That's brilliant!
13. 73.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    also the robots in the source code!
14. 74.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    I love some of the alt-text on the robots. Very polished.
15. 75.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    I like the design, but the ads interrupt it, so maybe move those off to the margins. Other than that? Excellent!
16. 76.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    A truly good writer can not only write well, but can mimic the writing of great writers. This guy is a great writer. Also--that whole thing is hilarious.
17. 77.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    If you haven't checked out three.js yet, you should. Mr. Doob really knows his 3D and makes it really easy to draw cool stuff. http://github.com/mrdoob/three.js -- there's examples there.
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    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    Thanks for the link! I definitely have thought of interning, it's just that most internships are for college students only. I'm thinking of bothering some Seattle tech companies as well to see if I can convince them to take me for a summer.
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    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    I remember speaking to a university student at a Q&A session. Someone asked him, "what class did you take in high school that you feel helped you most here?" and he replied immediately, "AP English." He said it gave him the interpersona
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    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    I did Google Code Jam this year, which was really rewarding. Topcoder looks like it could be even better, especially with the frequency of competitions. As for IOI, my school only has a robotics team (which I am a member of), so I might sta
21. 81.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    Thanks. Best of luck to you as well!
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    Ask HN: What's a young hacker to do?

    13 points by rhdoenges 15y ago|16 comments
23. 83.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    That explains why they have JVM support but have neglected to do Scala or other JVM languages yet.
24. 84.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    There's nothing that speeds up a website like well-spent unicorn dollars.
25. 85.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    So much for neat and clever url hacks. Now everyone can do something like del.icio.us or script.aculo.us. :(
26. 86.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    Byobu is really just a fancy configuration for screen. It still sits on top of the crazy screen codebase.
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    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    For all his faults, Zed Shaw is really a great personality to have in the programming world. He loves to code, but doesn't get caught up in the minutia and cargo-culting.
28. 88.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    "preeminent patron saint of pre-adolescent sartorial taste" Now THAT is good writing.
29. 89.▲
    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    I love discovering all these new python data structures. Last week, I realized how handy namedtuples are, and I will definitely use this.
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    by rhdoenges 15y ago

    That opening paragraph is the most beautiful writing about memes that I have ever read. Absolutely lucid.