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Blenderheads Episode 13 [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ptrott2017 2d ago|1 comments
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by ptrott2017 2mo ago
StandardML is a rather nice modular high level functional programming language with algebraic datatypes, pattern matching, compile-time type checking and type inference etc. Poly/ML extends this with strong proven multi-core and cross
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by ptrott2017 3mo ago
Not eries (obviously) but if you switch out shareholder for stakeholder i.e. maximise stakeholder value, you gain a wider set of responsibilities more aligned with Eric's comment. This is in itself not a new idea, it partly emerged out
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by ptrott2017 4mo ago
@atomicnature - thank you for posting this. I saw the title and wondered if it was books on lean startups or lean manufacturing, very happy to find a collection of links to books on the Lean programming language (and the rest of the site is
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by ptrott2017 4mo ago
Valid concern which should not be downvoted. For some this will be too early to garner interest or confidence. For others, especially those interested in the Pascal language family or building a compiled language with QBE, there is a lot o
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by ptrott2017 4mo ago
You can use Lazarus from a C interface - via liblcl. There are bindings for Go and Nim that use this method. Given the QBE backend, this may be one possible route for Blaise but needs investigation.
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by ptrott2017 2y ago
Historic crane populations crashed due to hunting and then loss of habitat as wetlands were drained and agriculture and housing expanded etc. Today you can find cranes in the wild in Norfolk, Suffolk and the Fens district which are all regi
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by ptrott2017 2y ago
and if you want some additional explanation: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
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by ptrott2017 2y ago
Factor provides support for both file and image based workflows. Factor is image-based and uses files when sharing, loading or refreshing vocabularies. however, just like lisp and Smalltalk, you can also save, share and restore system stat
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by ptrott2017 2y ago
Not the OP but suspect the source is this: https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cpr/censu...
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by ptrott2017 2y ago
For those outside US where content is currently not available at your location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=451xJqNGFqU
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by ptrott2017 2y ago
22+ odd years ago I emailed Ross out of the blue. At the time I was working at a small startup attempting to build mobile banking infrastructure for rural poor in South Africa and elsewhere. I was after a copy of a paper he had mentioned i
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by ptrott2017 3y ago
Blender Apps are on the medium to long term plans for the Blender foundation (i.e. planned on roadmap but not currently under active development). The Blender team currently have a lot of projects on and are resource bound so have prioritiz
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by ptrott2017 5y ago
This is very cool - recommend checking out the demo and examples: https://glisp.app/commit:e7fbaae/ - its a very nice UI experience - try hello world then move the circle and see the code update automatically. If you a
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by ptrott2017 5y ago
I found the docs a better starting point: https://docs.lucidarch.dev/ https://docs.lucidarch.dev/concept/ https://docs.lucidarch.dev/principles/ https://docs.lucidarch.
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by ptrott2017 5y ago
Super excited to see this and thanks Mikhaed for posting! Intel's Loihi and Manchester's APT SpiNNaker ( http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/hardware/ ) are two extremely interesting pr
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Story of Mint(indiereader.com)
2 points by ptrott2017 5y ago|1 comments
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by ptrott2017 5y ago
Anton Commissaris was one of the founding team at Mint - now part of Intuit. His recent book: Mint - The Arc of the valley ( https://www.amazon.com/ARC-VALLEY-Silicon-Soaring-Success/dp... ) is an insider’s view of the
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by ptrott2017 5y ago
Great to see this - Barrelfish is a very interesting OS and its really good to see ETH Zurich continue its history of creating original intriguing hardware for research and teaching. Hopefully Enzian can can get enough traction in the R&am
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by ptrott2017 5y ago
As it says on the website: Oberon+ is fast statically typed, compiled, general-purpose, procedural, object-oriented, garbage collected programming language in the Pascal tradition, with support for generic programming. Syntax wise it will b
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by ptrott2017 5y ago
Leonid Zamdborg et al published a good paper on this a few years ago and it has a very good overview of related previous work. All the referenced papers in the background and related works section are all worth reading: https://
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by ptrott2017 5y ago
the online simulator is worth playing with to get an idea of the functionality and code on github makes for an interesting read. fantastic project.
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by ptrott2017 5y ago
Commercial per node. There are also maintenance licenses etc as per most other commercial renderers You can also rent 10 nodes per week fot $50 (for example rendering on multiple nodes in a small render farm) For non-commercial there is a
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by ptrott2017 5y ago
Renderman 24 which is currently in beta and planned for release in 2021 will support Blender as a full authoring 'bridge' tool (same as Maya, Houdini and Katana).
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by ptrott2017 5y ago
It does and with acknowledgement that Conway's life was then the best known example of 2D cellular automata. However, Conway's life CA was not the focus of the article hence limited references to it. There was an increasing of int
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by ptrott2017 6y ago
Nope not a tutorial - but the code is nice and clear making it easy to work through and make changes/ add features in as a good learning exercise. The Lite editor plugins also give a good modular way to understand how specific feature
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by ptrott2017 6y ago
Sciter has been around a while and has a good reputation amongst those who have used the SDK. The OP also has a good reputation amongst devs and hackers who are familiar with his work. Its just not well known outside those circles. Rather
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by ptrott2017 6y ago
yeah i just found the kickstarter when I was replying to this thread. Off to go and sign up for it now...
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by ptrott2017 6y ago
C-smile (OP) ported Fabrice Bellard's gcc code to standard C (without gcc extensions). The Sciter engine currently uses TIScript - a language c-smile orginally developed and the kickstarter proposal is to open source Sciter as is, then
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by ptrott2017 6y ago
Sciter is a very nice engine with a solid API/SDK and rock solid engineering behind it. For developers building efficient UI apps it can be a real alternative method to things like electron or as a lighter alternative to QT with QML sc

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