pygy

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by pygy 17y ago
There was a tryruby repository at Github, but I don't know if it was all that was needed to run it. One of the things that bother me more is the fact that he also pulled the plug on all the mailing list of his projects, which would have bee
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by pygy 17y ago
I read his original blog on advogado today. There's a mention of his father undergoing a mental breakdown, and of his sister having drugs and alcohol problems. It ends like this: - "and i go home and draw cats and doctors in space. without
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by pygy 17y ago
It was there when he wrote the chapter, with the comic section attached next to it. There are other allusions to him leaving the scene/dying in other writings.
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by pygy 17y ago
It may not be the right place to discuss these matters, but it's the only place I have (with the programming reddit, but the userbase is different).
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by pygy 17y ago
http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/images/the.foxes-6... :-( Tall Fox: -Have you noticed that this book is basically written by a _lunatic_? Short Fox: -Yup Tall Fox: -Seriously, he's way too hyperactive. If he keeps at this franti
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by pygy 17y ago
I'd rather say magicpn ;-) (see potion's source)
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by pygy 17y ago
The hacker side of the sentence is not debatable. He wrote a graphical toolkit, a sound synthesiser, an HTML parser, html template language, a language (grammar, parser, vm and jit, gc, ...), and many other software projects on his own. All
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by pygy 17y ago
There has always been some dark corners in _why's writing, with some dreary biographical detyails permeating. I 2000-2001, his parents divorced, and his father went through a mental breakdown. A bit later he writes that suicide would be the
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by pygy 17y ago
“A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No, that's trendy!'” -- Billy Joel Armstrong. You're missing a few thin
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by pygy 17y ago
He's got humor, you know. That pun chain doesn't seem offensive to me. Thanks for putting up the link.
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by pygy 17y ago
The interresting part is that you can define on the spot a single usen, throwaway function to be used as a parameter of a function that accepts functions as arguments. Another property of lambdas is nested defines with the possibility to re
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by pygy 17y ago
It makes sense for the author to use it, since he wants to emulate the behaviour of the "Recent Applications", etc. Dock folders. A bounce is unwelcome in this case, and the other benefits of the normal application startup (like being regis
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by pygy 17y ago
When I was an intern, I witnessed, helpless, a newborn losing most of his left hemisphere in the first hours of his life because of a massive meningeal hemorrhage (he's hemophiliac). He was only left with an atrophic, gliotic frontal lobe
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by pygy 17y ago
The perception of auras is a kind of synesthesia (emotions => vision). It can also be related to optical illusions (like contrast amplification). Spontaneous synesthetic aura perception is very rare, and I don't know if you can develop
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by pygy 17y ago
I'm using Chrome 2.0.172.33 and I don't experience what you are describing.
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Microsoft Develops Plug-in for Moodle to Aid Teachers, Students(2nd GPL release)(microsoftontheissues.com)
1 points by pygy 17y ago|0 comments
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by pygy 17y ago
"Rational person" is an oxymoron. A sufficient amount of harassing and violence (both mental and physical) can lead someone to mental breakdown. The threshold may vary from one person to the next, of course, but it can be done. Furthermore,
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by pygy 17y ago
Actually, I think that we should give it a user-parsable name, quite like Microsoft did when they switched renamed Palladium (easy to remember, easy to target in the media) to NGSCB (technical gibbersish, scary for non techies), but in reve
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by pygy 17y ago
The feedback mechanism is priceless here. Becoming increddibly good at something nobody wants is somewhat useless.
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by pygy 17y ago
It's usually a consequence of not caring much about one's appearance due to your lack of social skills ans poor self image. Beauty comes in part from your attitude, too.
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Exception handling in 30 lines of Potion (a draft, using continuations).(gist.github.com)
1 points by pygy 17y ago|0 comments
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by pygy 17y ago
It will look identical assuming the 262k colors monitor reduces the gammut using the same method used for that image.
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by pygy 17y ago
It was clear, to me at least :-).
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by pygy 17y ago
I know a future neurosurgeon who, as a teen, used to code 3D demos in 80386 assembly... Including whipping on his own linear algebra routines, for the fun of it... That said, I agree with your point, and thank you for your support.
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by pygy 17y ago
They give the name of the main authors (first and last), and the journal in which it has been published in the same paragraph, which is actually amazing in a vulgarization article... Usually, you can be happy if they named one of the invest
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by pygy 17y ago
Some do, some don't. Most people go back to their natural patterns during the holidays, though. The classification is based on forms asking questions in a context of freedom from external constraints. I'm not very familiar with sleep resear
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by pygy 17y ago
"After 10 hours of being awake" is correct actually. For the behavioral part of the study, "In their relative evening, late risers are more alert and can outperform early birds in a reaction time test assuming they're allowed follow their n
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by pygy 17y ago
The measurements were performed at time points relative to the natural rhythms of the subjects i.e. respectively 1h30 and 10h30 after waking up according to their natural rhythms. Have a look the methods and protocol linked above.
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by pygy 17y ago
"In their relative evening, late risers are more alert and can outperform early birds in a reaction time test assuming they're allowed follow their natural sleep rhythm, whereas there are no such differences in the morning" would be a more
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by pygy 17y ago
I'm sorry I killed the discussion... and you have a point regarding my patronizing tone. I should have refrained from replying to specific comments, but it got on my nerves. Most of these are bordering the "not even wrong" kind. The usual b

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