jon6

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by jon6 14y ago
This is the most useless academic 'discovery' I've ever seen. Am I wrong?
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by jon6 14y ago
How is the engine for BFG different from the older Doom3 version?
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by jon6 14y ago
I vaguely remember using this knowledge of the scales to "cheat" on the violin. If you move your hand into whatever position puts your first finger on the first note in the scale then you can always move the rest of the fingers in exactly t
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by jon6 14y ago
I tried it on my kubuntu i386 netbook earlier today. The ppa installed ok and when I ran 'netflix-desktop' for the first time the wine installer downloaded and installed mono, then proceeded to install firefox. I noticed some errors but did
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by jon6 14y ago
Is there a youtube video? I found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDGl-eDEuNQ but I'm not sure if its the same game.
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by jon6 14y ago
They are not homoiconic. The underlying datastructure for many schemes, and racket, is not a list. It is a syntax object. Of course you can still do metaprogramming with syntax objects but I wouldn't call it the same thing.
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by jon6 14y ago
You can still do anaphoric macros with hygienic macros. http://blog.racket-lang.org/2008/02/dirty-looking-hygiene.ht... <edit> And http://blog.racket-lang.org/2011/04/writing-syntax-case-macr...
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by jon6 14y ago
Its disingenuous to call scheme and racket lisps. They have parenthesis and first class functions but the similarities stop there. So yes I equate Lisp with common lisp. I didn't read the entire article (far too long) but he does mention 'd
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by jon6 14y ago
To understand Lisp is to understand interpreters. With that understanding you can create domain specific languages which is extremely powerful. But I wouldn't recommend using Lisp itself.. macros in particular are unhygienic.
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by jon6 14y ago
hipster.. overload..
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by jon6 14y ago
The major issue he has seems to be that visual studio is much easier to use than the command line + makefiles. Ok that may be but if you are porting to linux then you probably are already familiar with the command line and makefiles. Suppor
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by jon6 14y ago
Also Nacl supports threads while emscripten does not. For a large set of applications (including my own games) this is a deal breaker to using emscripten.
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by jon6 14y ago
Beej's networking guide is pretty good http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
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by jon6 14y ago
I suppose bitcoin could be used as the technical solution. Maybe receivers of money can white-list certain senders so they don't have to pay anything to send to them. Then only spammers and unknown people would have to pay.
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by jon6 14y ago
Clearly you can't perceive sarcasm.
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by jon6 14y ago
$ t command not found clearly they could have named the compiler just 't' instead of the overly verbose 'tsc'. all those extra characters!!
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by jon6 14y ago
I'm not a network engineer but is this all that difficult to do? I imagine if you control the AS (autonomous system) then you can control all routes into and out of the country, so they can easily block anything out of the country unless it
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by jon6 14y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with this assessment but you can easily create functionality in C that requires looking at multiple source files to understand whats going on. x = foo(bar(), baz()); Now you have to look at the definiti
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by jon6 14y ago
I spent a few minutes trying to figure out how to install the thing so for anyone that is equally as lost $ pip install sh or goto the github page https://github.com/amoffat/sh
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by jon6 14y ago
I agree, although I have never had a performance bottleneck related to std::list that required a move to std::vector. Do you know at what point std::set becomes more optimal (in some dimension) than std::vector?
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by jon6 14y ago
165 billion divided by the population (311 million) divided by 365 days is about $1.45. irb(main):007:0> 165e9 / 311e6 / 365.0 => 1.45355239395675 Which thankfully also is consistent with the other number mentioned in t
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by jon6 14y ago
OT but is this an official signed application that can work with gatekeeper on 10.8? I recently discovered that my open source project won't work by default on osx 10.8 without me paying $99 to get an apple certificate, which I'm not very i
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by jon6 14y ago
Stories should be able to be tagged using an arbitrary set of tags similar to stack overflow. Possibly only people with a certain karma should be able to tag stories. Then let people filter stories by the tags it has. This would alleviate t
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by jon6 14y ago
You are only so smart. Once the complexity of the programming model reaches a certain point a debugger is necessary to validate and discover the true nature of a system. Often that point is quite low.
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by jon6 14y ago
Seeing a pull request like this might be fun once in a while but it gets old very quickly when you deal with it somewhat frequently.
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by jon6 14y ago
What are those pictures of? This one http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/workspace/apss/ORT-1... Looks like a building with a garage door on it and some random pipes sticking out.
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by jon6 14y ago
Using reflection to "find" the computation from some input types to output types seems a bit naive in the face of real world problems. It seems likely to me that most types can be combined in a myriad of ways that can't be found automatical
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by jon6 14y ago
"Why? Because we want to be better." This is the least transparent reasoning I've seen in a long time.
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by jon6 14y ago
I remember being amazed that impulse tracker was written in assembly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_Tracker
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by jon6 14y ago
Ok, I'll bite. No I have not read any other cyberpunk books, but necromancer was recommended to me. Anyway (unlike the implication from ynniv) I had no problem with the metaverse. Here are the issues I can think of at the moment 1. no chara

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