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mcweaksauce | 9 years ago | on: Yakyak: Electron Chat Client for Google Hangouts

For those of you that use Pidgin, there's also a really great libpurple plugin that I've been using: https://bitbucket.org/EionRobb/purple-hangouts/ It works really well, but it doesn't have history scrollback. I'm happy when I don't have to open up my browser to chat with people.

mcweaksauce | 9 years ago | on: Unix for Poets (2013) [pdf]

Does anyone know of a good collection of exercises for other UNIX tasks besides text-based ones like this?

mcweaksauce | 9 years ago | on: We Hired a Blind Coder

I think it is totally reasonable that a blind person could code, but how does a blind person learn how to code initially? Did he become blind later on after learning how to code?

mcweaksauce | 9 years ago | on: SpiderOak Semaphor [video]

Not a big fan of the name... Thought it had to do with concurrency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming)

mcweaksauce | 10 years ago | on: Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind

The last chapter in Oliver Sacks' book "The Mind's Eye" discusses this phenomenon and how people who became blind adapted and compensated. Highly recommend it. He suggests a phenomenon like this is primarily biologically predetermined.

mcweaksauce | 10 years ago | on: Numbermatics – the number explorer

My favorite number: http://numbermatics.com/n/142857 It's cyclic :)

mcweaksauce | 10 years ago | on: The curious case of whistled languages and their lack of left-brain dominance

Sine-wave speech reminds me of R2D2 from Star Wars. Does anyone know if sine-wave speech was used as an inspiration? Maybe R2D2 actually says coherent sentences in the movies, but we aren't used to that form of speech interpretation

mcweaksauce | 12 years ago | on: 0^0

This is ridiculous. Doesn't this seem counter-intuitive for it to be anything else besides 0 or undefined?

mcweaksauce | 12 years ago | on: Introducing OneNote for Mac

Does this support drawing? If it doesn't, that's not very useful

mcweaksauce | 14 years ago | on: Harvard 1869 entrance exam

This looks way harder than the SATs, or rather any standardized test for college admissions that's in use today.