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Computer Scientists Build Computer Using Swarms of Crabs(technologyreview.com)
2 points by vq 11y ago|1 comments
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Researchers Develop Robot That Lets Them Feel Softness of Virtual Breasts(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by vq 11y ago|0 comments
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Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)(250bpm.com)
122 points by vq 11y ago|143 comments
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by vq 12y ago
Not that quadrangle made that point, but a program written in point-free style could still exhibit dynamic behaviour. Still not very constructive or relevant criticism on the page though.
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by vq 12y ago
C-v and M-v in Emacs and friends and CTRL+b and CTRL+d in vi and clones. EDIT: and if you were fine with reaching for PgDn then SHIFT+up, SHIFT+down in vim is probably a viable option as well.
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by vq 12y ago
I'm 1.95 and I almost always duck slightly when passing a door, even when there is space and no threshold. Its like a bad habit. I'm lucky when it comes to cars, most cars I've driven has been alright when pushing the seat al
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The $5000 Compression Challenge(patrickcraig.co.uk)
323 points by vq 12y ago|168 comments
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by vq 12y ago
I got a similar setup, one vertical and one horizontal. I got an Emacs frame for both of them but end up doing most coding with the vertical monitor and using the horizontal one for peripheral tasks (browsing, calc-mode, reading docs, etc)
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by vq 12y ago
Thanks for pointing it out, I actually thought that was the article and didn't realise my mistake until I saw your comment.
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You can’t compare language features, only languages(lukeplant.me.uk)
3 points by vq 12y ago|0 comments
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by vq 12y ago
As a Haskell dev about to get into Rust (and appreciates occasional parallels to OCaml) I found this very insightful. I especially like the attention given to the tables of language literals. Not that it takes away from the purpose of the
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by vq 13y ago
It was even banned internally for a couple of years and Armstrong left Ericsson as a result. I know it gets some use within Ericsson for running quickcheck tests against C-code.
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by vq 13y ago
My configuration: http://imgur.com/UvWrDNN Won in 234 generations.
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by vq 13y ago
Check the post again, it got a recent update at the top titled "Thoughts on the death of Ma Ailun".
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by vq 13y ago
A small tangent for those inspired to sculpt by this. The free 3D-suite Blender recently got support for dynamic topology sculpting (that is adaptively change the mesh density as you sculpt). Cross-platform, quite capable and it's a
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by vq 13y ago
The PUL (swedish privacy law) restricting where and how you can store information about citizens is quite famous (infamous?) among swedish technologists. Which is not saying that you're wrong, I wouldn't expect non-swedes to be fa
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by vq 13y ago
I used FreeBSD for a couple of years around 2003, other than that I have been running GNU/Linux since the Atari ST days.
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by vq 14y ago
Even if you do you'll still need EDITOR for interactive rebase.
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by vq 14y ago
It would have been nice to see some case studies with games that already implement simultaneous turns, what makes them great or what other problems hold them back.
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by vq 14y ago
I think Haskell wins out here since it has neither in the core language. Much easier to reason about. ;)
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by vq 14y ago
This is often the case in Haskell APIs, easily abusable or functions with hard to predict side-effects are usually prefixed with "unsafe", for example unsafeCoerce or unsafePerformIO.
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by vq 14y ago
The Humble Store has a number of Linux games: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Humble_Store Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a favourite of mine, not sure how easy it is to get a copy of these days though. DEFCON, Darwinia: http://introversion.
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by vq 14y ago
A Z-machine file would be nice. :)
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by vq 14y ago
x for "look at" and i for "inventory". (I see that you have already fixed these). "look around" used to be "look" even in the old days iirc and in these days "l" is the common alias. It seems like you have given to many functions to a "use"
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by vq 14y ago
I haven't gotten far into the game yet, but so far I really wished that you had followed the text-adventure idioms better, the interface feels really clunky for someone who is used to playing text-adventures. Feel free to call me a youngste
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by vq 14y ago
Although I'm the kind of guy who usually have JS disabled I could be made to see your point. But this page is actually a good example of why I run with JS disabled. It magically positioned links and boxes over the scrolling bar and caused m
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by vq 14y ago
ZODB
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by vq 14y ago
He probably meant to write "Superstition".
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by vq 14y ago
Are these opinions really that controversial? My favourite, "Loops considered harmful", aren't even on that list and I consider it more controversial than most of them.
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by vq 14y ago
I use MPD. It's really lightweight, have a simple and straightforward concept of playlists and I can use the standard *nix tools to mutate and create playlists. http://mpd.wikia.com

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