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by anthay 1y ago
As I get older what to do with books collected over a lifetime is something I more often wonder about.
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Show HN: Will Crowther's 1976 "Colossal Cave Adventure" reimplemented in C++(github.com)
1 points by anthay 2y ago|0 comments
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by anthay 4y ago
Thank you for the links. Lovely online ELIZA. I appreciate you responding.
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by anthay 4y ago
I agree with you. I think the presence of START is accidental and is not supposed to be part of the script. The ELIZA code uses a Slip function called LISTRD to read the script rules one by one. If it reads an empty list it stops reading th
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by anthay 4y ago
Weizenbaum says the list must be there, but may be empty: "Finally, the script writer must begin his script with a list, i.e., a message enclosed in parentheses, which contains the statement he wishes ELIZA to type when the system is f
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by anthay 4y ago
That's really cool. (The paper uses the palidrome example to try to demonstrate how a Turing machine might be encoded in an ELIZA script.) ELIZA scripts must begin with some opening remarks, e.g. (HELLO. PLEASE TELL ME YOUR PROBLEM), a
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by anthay 7y ago
Hasn't this comment been made 100 times before?
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by anthay 7y ago
Well, I believe you get more privileges in HN when you have more points. And it makes you look more attractive.
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by anthay 7y ago
Ha! Well, I have 52 karma now. So I'm enjoying the view before the next downvote comes along. :-)
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by anthay 7y ago
Thank you. I'll do my best.
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by anthay 7y ago
All I did was submit this Ask HN here. I've not posted a link to it anywhere. As I write the post has 13 points and I have 51 points. Again. I'm sure my life would be much better if only I could escape from the clutches of 51. (I&
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by anthay 7y ago
Thank you. So for example, and I realise this isn't a great news story, this Ask HN post of mine is showing me it has 6 points (upvotes?), but my karma is still 51.
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by anthay 7y ago
Awesome, back to 51 points. Is it because I'm talking about karma and get automatically downvoted? I don't usually mention karma and yet still my little 1 point doesn't get added to my "score."
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by anthay 7y ago
I posted one yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20722765
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by anthay 7y ago
I see after your comment I've jumped to 52 points. Usually, I write a short reply on some thread and although my post shows me "1 point by anthay" my karma doesn't change. I'm sure it used to.
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Ask HN: Why am I stuck on 51 HN karma points?
17 points by anthay 7y ago|21 comments
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by anthay 7y ago
Join XR? https://rebellion.earth/
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by anthay 8y ago
If you sum all the numbers in your input do you get the right answer?
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by anthay 8y ago
I did the AoC last year for the first time and was amazed how quickly some participants solved the puzzles, e.g. < 60 seconds. (I wrote about my experience here: http://howtowriteaprogram.blogspot.com/2017/12/ad
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by anthay 9y ago
Sadly, I couldn't find it on archive.org.
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by anthay 9y ago
It's probably a bit late for this reply, but... Another clumsy workaround is to use operator(). Again, standard C++ and this one has access to local variables: int g() { int x, y; struct local { i
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by anthay 9y ago
In the past I've sometimes used standard C++ local structs to nest functions. E.g.: int f() { struct local { static int nested_func() { return 123; } };
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by anthay 10y ago
I made a basic LISP-like JSON-like thing: http://loonfile.info
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by anthay 10y ago
Will you permit a couple more quotes apropos taste? "Good judgement is the result of experience and experience is the result of bad judgement." - Mark Twain and "To write a good program takes intelligence, taste, and patience
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by anthay 10y ago
It was a private sale to a US company. I believe it was for an amount many times that figure.
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by anthay 10y ago
You may well be right and to be honest I don't really understand exactly what happened. But I do know I thought I'd get more than I did.
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by anthay 10y ago
I was one of the first employees in a UK tech startup. I was given share options that I calculated represented about 0.5% of the value of the company. When the company was sold about 10 years later, making the founders multi-millionaires, I
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by anthay 10y ago
It might also help to remind you about what you already have and what is truly important to you.
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by anthay 10y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to see prices quoted in £GBP - the Powerwall is available in the UK! But, we don't have enough sunlight here to run a typical house off-grid year-round, do we?
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by anthay 10y ago
That's cool and I agree about the advantages you mention. In your code \n must be a line separator rather than a line terminator. (Otherwise, if the last line is \n terminated, the function returns 0.)

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