jbum | 14 years ago | on: Puzzle for Hackers: From A to craZy.
Google 'accition' to find the answers in paste bin.
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jbum | 14 years ago | on: Announcing perl1line.txt - A collection of handy Perl scripts
Agreed - one reason why I still love Perl so much, despite its obvious warts.
jbum | 14 years ago | on: How to Draw a Circle
CG pioneer Jim Blinn wrote an excellent article which provides a myriad of ways to do it.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1435623.1436274
It was republished in his excellent collection of essays "A Trip down the Graphics Pipeline"
jbum | 15 years ago | on: Flying Car (and 0-60 in less than 4 seconds!)
It's not a flying car, it's a driving plane.
jbum | 17 years ago | on: Face Detection on iPhone (including source code)
It's perhaps worth pointing out that this software is for detecting the presence of any old face, not for detecting a particular face, such as you or Osama Bin Laden.
jbum | 17 years ago | on: A Netbook that makes you go wow
Not news. Thinly disguised marketing ploy.
jbum | 17 years ago | on: Perl is dead
That is one talkative corpse...
jbum | 17 years ago | on: Prog21: Puzzle Languages
The author seems to be equating "puzzle languages" with "languages that are very different from the languages I am comfortable with." In other words, it's a classification which is very relative to the experience of the observer.
The languages he describes as "not" puzzle languages are all spiritual descendants of C and Algol, which is a very familiar idiom to many of us.
I imagine that Forth is far less of a puzzle language for Chuck Moore, it's inventor, and that he might find Ruby a bit of a puzzle.
jbum | 17 years ago | on: Half of US Doctors Routinely Prescribe Placebos
...and the ones that don't are doing their patients a disservice. Placebos are safe, and can be surprisingly effective.
jbum | 17 years ago | on: Reddit vs Hacker News traffic
Google trends is useful here:
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=reddit.com%2Cmetafilter....
I left digg off, because it so high that it pushes all the others down into the noise...
jbum | 17 years ago | on: Is Perl Difficult?
Is this article flame bait?
Hmmm... Let's read the following posts and find out!
jbum | 18 years ago | on: The Broccoli Programming Language
I too was looking for a simple "about" page. Correct me if I'm wrong, but here's my description:
This is a lisp-like language whose principal purpose is to help the creator of the language thoroughly understand how programming languages (especially lisp-like programming languages) work.
jbum | 18 years ago | on: Which is your favorite 70-80s computer book?
"Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley.
jbum | 18 years ago | on: Ask YC: What is the best way to learn Perl?
> write as much code as you can
Can't agree with this one enough. Also, it is better to write a lot of small scripts, than to write one big one. They will be easier to debug, and you'll get more done.
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