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Ask HN: Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next?
28 points by s3graham 18y ago|25 comments
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by s3graham 18y ago
Yeah, I'd have to say this one's a little less exciting web-design-wise than whitehouse.gov. Body text as img, and two people that were maybe a little overly proud of their accomplishment in the source. (not that my html & css skillz ar
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by s3graham 18y ago
"Actually," normally starts a disagreement, but AFAICT, you restated what I said and agree. Or do I misunderstand?
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by s3graham 18y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply your measuring process was fluff. When I did 452 we had to do something on-screen, to demonstrate responsiveness. I did the "water demo effect" (similar to http://www.derschmale.com/demo/pixelbender-water/Pixe
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by s3graham 18y ago
Ah, that video brings back nice memories of bleary-eyed nights in the Real-Time lab. :) ... That and rage at the crappy, broken, unreliable sensors we had at the time. Damn hardware always messing with pretty software abstractions. What was
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by s3graham 18y ago
Sharepoint! You f#@ker! Koss!!! shaking fist (Sorry, that's lame, take my karma.. I couldn't help it.) Good marketing though, since they presumably have a bunch of free space, and offering one "free month" is costing next to nothing.
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by s3graham 18y ago
That "works" (minus circular references) in simple cases, but it still has bad worst case performance (if your decrements chain, causing many decrements and frees). And in something like boost::smart_ptr, the cache performance is awful beca
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by s3graham 18y ago
I didn't realize it for quite some time, but what I actually use is: - dark means "brain: use vim keys" (:colo darkblue) - light means use arrow/CUA keys, a la most "normal" applications. (ps, please add <ul>/<ol> f
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Methane on Mars suggests possible life(cbc.ca)
2 points by s3graham 18y ago|0 comments
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by s3graham 18y ago
I guess if you don't have a Lisp environment for your target, it could be somewhat better than having to write C code directly (because you could more easily generate it with macros, etc.)
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by s3graham 18y ago
Neat. Might be neat to try "merging" movies for a particular page. Perhaps it's not too easy because you're modifying one copy of the DOM though. It seems like it'd be useful to watch a whole bunch of users' interactions with a particular p
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by s3graham 18y ago
I'm not sure if you're trolling, but I don't see how adblocking this site gets you much. I'm sure many large sites get the same information in similar or other ways, but just don't happen to be outsourcing the gathering of that information.
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by s3graham 18y ago
Assuming "stacking memory chips on top of the processor" means local stores for each processor, it's pretty much a given at this point. That's how GPUs work (~16k local), and that's how the PS3 SPUs are (256k local). It's extraordinarily
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by s3graham 18y ago
Unfortunately, data plans are brutally priced here too (in Canada) so that's not yet a great alternative. I still pretend to hope for WiMAX (or something), but chances are slim-to-nil given the setup here.
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by s3graham 18y ago
This might have been better as an email to one's executive team, rather than a public blog post. I'm not convinced about being a deployment platform. Sun's repeatedly been eaten from below by "cheaper" alternatives of arguably lower quality
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by s3graham 18y ago
Neat, seems to work reasonably well. Inkscape's a bit slow, and the breakout game has some horrible sound lag, but the get/install/run UX is really great. Anyone know how the virtualize is done?
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by s3graham 18y ago
Personally, I use Git and hg at home and for small work projects. But, for the main work projects (console games: lots of code, but also many large assets), none of the alternatives to p4 are reasonable. (Yes, I'm well aware Perforce has va
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by s3graham 18y ago
I'd guess because they're assuming/hoping most people are slower to read books so there'll be less back and forth? Does seem like a big problem though. Local distrib centres might help once they were sufficiently "big".
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by s3graham 18y ago
I've been telling people for years that libraries should do this for extra money. I'll be really curious to see how they do.
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by s3graham 18y ago
... "Here's Tom with the weather."
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by s3graham 18y ago
Hertzberg and Handey, always look forward to reading them every week when they have a spot.
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Defacto timezones(wired.com)
1 points by s3graham 18y ago|0 comments
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Web Sokoban in Clojure(blog.learnr.org)
4 points by s3graham 18y ago|0 comments
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Google adding voice search to iPhone(cbc.ca)
2 points by s3graham 18y ago|0 comments
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by s3graham 18y ago
Hmm, or maybe not. http://science.howstuffworks.com/brainport2.htm That picture's not really sellin' it.
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by s3graham 18y ago
Neat. Is there any cheap "commercial" ones? If I could delegate the "it-won't-kill-you" testing and pay double, I might go for that. What I really want though, is that 100x100 tongue point video camera that Hawkins mentions in "On Intelli
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by s3graham 18y ago
Nice list, here's my additions to it: http://blog.learnr.org/post/59098925/configuring-vim-some-mo...
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by s3graham 18y ago
Yeah, I'm with you on this one. I felt like it was a prerequisite for useful CL/Clojure work, though it probably isn't really. It'd be especially nice to see someone's who'd used Vim for 5+ years and then switched so there's setups for mayb
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by s3graham 18y ago
Yup, who doesn't? "Expert F#", "Founders at Work", "Walden", and "On Intelligence" are all part-finished right now. I read a lot of fiction in high school, but I don't much anymore. "The New Yorker" every week. "The Walrus" and "The Economi
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Frozen mice cloned; wooly mammoths on horizon(cbc.ca)
10 points by s3graham 18y ago|4 comments

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