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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Old people who are still hung up on Deluxe Paint may appreciate grafx2: http://code.google.com/p/grafx2/
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Having simple, established ways for doing most common things makes it easy to write code without thinking about decisions around the programming language, such as how the syntax should be formatted, how the symbols should be named, how shou
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
There aren't many happy Symbolics Lisp Machine programmers around, though.
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Programming languages aren't just tools like hammers, they're sometimes also tools like railroads and AC mains power supplies. There you will be in a world of hurt if you want to pick different rail distances and voltages for each project.
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
I was wondering the same. For whatever reason, the first thing I thought of when I read that was something like those proposed vacuum tube train things (eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain ).
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
I only have so much energy after waking to get started with anything creative like project design, so it comes down to managing that. One trick that works is waking up at 5 AM to work on a personal project, then going to work at 9 AM. This
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Plugged in a physical keyboard in mine, then unplugged it when I realized there was no way to make the tablet use the Colemak keyboard layout for it.
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Schools are terrible at the craft of software style stuff. The one time they did teach me about comments, they seemed to insist on something like seen in this story: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/39 I think there might actually be an ol
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
iki.fi is a Finnish mail and homepage url rerouting service whose selling point is trying to stick around forever with minimal overhead. With it, people can use their ISP-provided email addresses and homepages and use the Iki addresses as c
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
C++11 lets you do compile time string hashing, so you can automatically generate the IMGUI_SRC_ID from __FILE__ and hopefully get rid of one bit of manual handholding with GEN_ID.
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Helsinki, Finland Umbra Software is looking for C++ programmers to work on computational geometry middleware for AAA video games. There are currently open positions for a graphics programmer, a QA engineer and an infrastructure programmer.
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
A bit off topic given the drama going on, but I've been wanting to see stats about people who got a WakeMate and used it continuously for at least a month for a while now. Will you still have a consistently easier time waking up after your
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
Huh, they actually made Go to replace C++. I always figured it had a deliberate intent to be a better C. I find that being able to define your own numeric types and use them as stack-allocated things that use the standard operations is a pr
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
At this point, seeing this kind of extremely high production value animation used to enact this kind of fantasy scene instantly makes me think of hackneyed backstory and plot focus-group optimized to death to appeal to slightly dull 14-year
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
For me, the Wake Back to Bed, when it does work, generally involves first the 30 minutes staying up, then 40 to 90 minutes of lying awake in bed before falling asleep. So that does unfortunately mess a bit with the sleep cycle, even though
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
I've been able to get poor-quality "wake-induced lucid dreams" reasonably regularly lately by waking myself with an alarm 3 or 4 hours before my usual wakeup time, walking around for ten to thirty minutes so I won't immediately fall back to
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
The equation is pretty much built into the connotations of the word as it's currently used. Documents called "articles", "reports", "wikis" or "blogs" don't create the expectation of potentially being printed and bound like documents called
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
If the Pareto principle applies to technical books, you should be able to write a 100-page version of a good 500-page technical book that still imparts 80 % of the understanding the original book did.
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
The point about a specifically authored narrative leading to a deeper understanding is a good one, but what about the suitable length for that narrative? The length of technical books is dictated by printing technology and market pressure (
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
I wonder how much help mature 3D printing might be. You could already do a rough approximation of form-fitting case and keys for a one-hand chorded keyboard with today's printers. The microswitches and electronics would be all DIY though. L
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by rsaarelm 14y ago
I like the "computational thinking" concept for computing literacy that doesn't imply being a professional programmer, as described in this article: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wing/publications/Wing06.pdf Familiarity with those concepts might
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Flowcharts, the once and future programming language(vanemden.wordpress.com)
1 points by rsaarelm 15y ago|0 comments
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
Fun. Though it has the problem many of these kind of gun defense things seem to have, where first you are completely dominating the enemy for a long time, with practically no challenge, and then the balance tips over to where you can no lon
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Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import [pdf](commonsenseatheism.com)
1 points by rsaarelm 15y ago|0 comments
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A big part in training to have lucid dreams is just plain suggestion, so maybe just having a constant culture-wide preoccupation with lucid dreams would make people pay more attention to their dreams and have more lucid dreams. Too bad hear
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
Those are still getting made as well: http://ifdb.tads.org/search?sortby=rcu&newSortBy.x=0&#38... Interestingly, the IF scene is some ten years older than the current indie game boom, and they're pretty much entirely non-commercial. T
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Going Native 2012: Bjarne Stroustrup on C++11 Style(channel9.msdn.com)
11 points by rsaarelm 15y ago|1 comments
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Hm. Now I wonder where I got the idea that of course it's supposed to be upright. Though I have been reading the Princeton Companion book mentioned in sibling. I guess the problem is that the system drops the space between the expression an
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
Looks like it knows it's supposed to print "sin" and "cos" in non-italic text, but not the 'd' in \int x d x. Extremely neat in any case.
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When GitHub kills Open Source(t-machine.org)
84 points by rsaarelm 15y ago|49 comments

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