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Gift for a geek child (or adult): Haynes manual for Thomas the Tank Engine(haynes.co.uk)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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by alaricsp 17y ago
I set my colleages a challenge: write porn using only prime words. "WIDEST WOMB WOMAN WATCHED PET PERVERT WHIP BLINDFOLDED YIDDISH BITCH" "BAREBACKED BARD RUTTED BLINDFOLDED BITCH" "BAREBACKED BARD PULVERIZED TRUCKMAN RUTTED TORRID" "YARDMA
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The One Million Application Store(technovia.co.uk)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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by alaricsp 17y ago
Some highlights: "Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in a
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WW2 "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" declassified [pdf](cgsc.cdmhost.com)
14 points by alaricsp 17y ago|6 comments
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Concurrency bugs are all the rage(blog.geniedb.com)
11 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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Wikipedia page on Scheme: recently revised, expanded, and updated(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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I want this toy: augmented reality world map and orrery(nixweb.com)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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by alaricsp 17y ago
What about OneIS? It's hosted, which isn't for everyone, but it does mean one less thing to worry about. I've used it as an intranet, and it's easy to pick up: http://www.oneis.co.uk/
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The UK Ministry of Defence Manual of Security has been leaked(snell-pym.org.uk)
3 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces [vid](mollyrocket.com)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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3 Tips for Cloud Companies Riding the Hype Cycle(prbrew.com)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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Deploying a replicated database into a cloud environment(blog.geniedb.com)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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Condition Handling in the Lisp Language Family(nhplace.com)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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by alaricsp 17y ago
I couldn't watch it all the way through. It made me feel sick.
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How to Throw a Windows 7 Party: Step 1 - Shoot Self in Face(tmblg.com)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|1 comments
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by alaricsp 17y ago
Oooh, beautiful...
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by alaricsp 17y ago
That rogue-like cave generation algorithm isn't the kind of terrain I'm after, but is nonetheless quite awesome in its results. I'm now wondering if I can find an excuse to involve caverns in my game ;-)
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by alaricsp 17y ago
Alas, no :-)
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by alaricsp 17y ago
I'd love to find the book again... I bet it's out of print, though. It had lots of detail on modelling damage to tanks, and creating terrain, and working out things like line-of-sight in complex worlds, and I think some basic AI, but had no
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by alaricsp 17y ago
True, I glossed over my previous research; I didn't think it'd interest people, but you're right, it's wise to show some evidence of your previous attempts before asking for tips... My googling always just found me more and more ways of gen
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Ask HN: How to generate random terrain
31 points by alaricsp 17y ago|33 comments
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by alaricsp 17y ago
Perhaps I've just been unlucky ;-) This was Allied Telesyn kit IIRC. But this is by the by! Rather than a damning indictment of STP, my real point was that having to configure all the layers of a network - physical cabling, VLANs, routing,
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by alaricsp 17y ago
Sorry about the bad grammar :-) Ok, the deal with STP and VLANs is thus: STP works at the level of the actual Ethernet cables in the system, rather than the VLANs. Imagine you have four switches, A B C and D. Say vlan 1 exists on A and B; v
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Why are networks so hard to build?(snell-pym.org.uk)
5 points by alaricsp 17y ago|7 comments
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What Exactly is Cloud Computing?(blog.mariaspinola.com)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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“The Internet is everything” Deja Vu all over again(technovia.co.uk)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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A proposal for R7RS(snell-pym.org.uk)
19 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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Replication lag (or: why master/slave replication sucks)(blog.geniedb.com)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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by alaricsp 17y ago
This issue is dear to my heart, too, as a hobbyist programming language designer myself ;-) I've never seen it as a route to income in itself - but it can do so indirectly. My project, ARGON ( http://www.argon.org.uk/ ) is all about reinven

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