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Feedback loop applied to an HTML5 element(catseye.tc)
1 points by cpressey 12y ago|0 comments
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by cpressey 13y ago
Unfortunately, it's hearsay to me; it came up in conversation (about computability and complexity) with a professor, and I took his word for it at the time; I've been meaning to ask him for a reference ever since, but never got around to it
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by cpressey 13y ago
I'm interested in approaches like this too, but there are some practical considerations that seem to complicate it: * from a systems point of view, an infinite loop is no worse than a routine that doesn't return after a reasonable amount of
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by cpressey 13y ago
I upvoted this because it was hilarious. I can only hope it was intentionally so. "Hodgson Gestation Services, LLC"
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by cpressey 13y ago
Good to know that "by definition" it's "not outsourcing". Failing to fall into that particular narrow categorization makes all the difference to the economies involved. (Yes, this is sarcasm.)
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by cpressey 13y ago
To this day, I find myself deleting comments or whitespace under some misguided pavlovian notion that my code will run faster. Ouch! btw, I think "fill the screen with @'s" must be the "Hello, world!" of Commodore machine-language program
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by cpressey 13y ago
Useful information to disseminate; however, I fear trying to "correct" the popular perception on this would be quixotic, much like trying to change how "begs the question" is used back to what it originally meant. Descriptivistically, the "
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by cpressey 13y ago
If that theory was correct, one might expect Forth to be really popular among Japanese speakers. I don't see a lot of evidence for that. I tend to think it's a more general effect where humans actually want a certain amount of irregulari
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by cpressey 13y ago
You'll have a hard time finding a chromatic trumpet outside of a museum. This is kind of a confusing statement to me. Most instruments called "trumpets" where I come from are valved instruments which are fully capable of producing chroma
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by cpressey 13y ago
We can debate how large an obstacle it is, or whether learning to overcome it is valuable, but clearly it is there, even if it's just an annoyance. I just think it would be really nice for (e.g.) a clarinetist to be able to sub in on an al
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by cpressey 13y ago
I've often thought that if there's space for something to be reformed in musical notation, it's the fact that different wind instruments are notated in different keys[1]. I realize there are historical reasons, but it just seems like such
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by cpressey 13y ago
Redundancy can actually be useful in notation as a sort of error-detecting code. In this case, if the pitch-symbol and pitch-position don't match up, someone must have made a mistake in transcribing it. Whether it helps one when reading mu
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by cpressey 13y ago
I completely support anyone who wants to invent new notations for things. It's fun. But I'd just like to note that if logical, regular notation was necessarily better, we'd all be speaking Lojban and programming in Scheme. Also, I suspec
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by cpressey 13y ago
I wonder if the value would ever fall to precisely zero. Mightn't they still have value as a novelty or collector's item? Like, "Hey, a Bitcoin! I remember those... sure, I'll buy one, just to say I have one." It's unfortunate that you
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by cpressey 13y ago
> It’s not sharing, it’s bragging. Some would call it "narcissism", which (with an appropriately nuanced meaning) I think is more accurate than "bragging". I strongly agree with the article. Sharing your experiences with social netwo
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by cpressey 13y ago
"Stop using strncpy already!"... or you might as well write an article called "Stop using null-terminated strings already!"... or since many commenters here have already pointed that out, and the author is talking about C++ anyway, perhaps
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Video Games: 14 in the Collection, for Starters(moma.org)
1 points by cpressey 14y ago|0 comments
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by cpressey 14y ago
After the third paragraph, I interpreted the title as "Programming is Not [the Career Choice] for Everybody".
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by cpressey 14y ago
I dunno. There are vast patches of ocean that are going pretty much unused right now. (Yes, I know that's still science-fiction, but is it really that much more of a stretch than the AI/robot/automation "software will eat the world" firm-b
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by cpressey 14y ago
Since I've been trying to deconstruct "programmer" into "systems analyst" and "coder" in other comments, I might as well continue in that vein here, but with a slightly different tack: Farming is a lot more like "software engineering" than
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by cpressey 14y ago
Does being able to land on other celestial bodies and examine them up close not count as world-changing for you? Or do you think we could pretty much just do space exploration without computers?
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by cpressey 14y ago
I don't disagree - but energy, mining, and forestry are also fundamental parts of the economy (with transportation, construction, and manufacturing on the level just above those), and if we're talking about giving kids a rudimentary insight
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by cpressey 14y ago
That's a reasonable answer, and yes, it makes sense. You could say analysis is a theoretical form of programming, or correspondingly, that programming is an applied form of analysis -- specifically, applied on computers. I guess my main res
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by cpressey 14y ago
I agree with your point. But to riff off dschiptsov's comment, how do you define "programming" (as opposed to, say, "coding"), and how does knowing programming help you answer questions like "How can I speed up harvesting on my farm?" I wo
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by cpressey 14y ago
YMMV, but I found this poisonous. At least mildly so. My hobbies are what I do for fun. I don't give one whit if they're ultimately "successful". I engage in them because I find them intrinsically interesting. After reading this, I feel
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by cpressey 14y ago
I understand there has been a sharp rise in natural gas (and a corresponding drop in coal and nuclear) in the past two years, since fracking took off. (I wouldn't be surprised if coal is still at the top though.)
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by cpressey 14y ago
http://monster.salary.com/SalaryWizard/Software-Developer-I-... http://monster.salary.com/SalaryWizard/Software-Developer-I-... http://monster.salary.com/SalaryWizard/Software-Developer-I-... So that does seem like the ballpark figure
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by cpressey 14y ago
Oh crap, I just accidentally thought about deleting my document.
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by cpressey 14y ago
This is one of my pet peeves, too.
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by cpressey 14y ago
It sends the message that this year's CEO moves fast and breaks stuff! :)

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