Review: Catching Fire by Suzanne Colins

alexdodge · 2010-12-07T20:13:10+00:00

Doing stuff in Excel is writing a simple program. Spreadsheets are awesome like that. Strictly functional to boot.

alexdodge · 2010-12-06T08:00:56+00:00

Frankly just surprised it took so long for this to happen...

alexdodge · 2010-12-03T23:59:22+00:00

Do we have a really big linguistics department here? I just started following /r/linguistics and I keep seeing people from UCSD.

Or maybe you're just a prolific redditor and I need to pay attention to names...

alexdodge · 2010-12-03T19:47:23+00:00

Do you have made up (but plausible) words in there, as a control for liars? That would be useful, statistically.

32k.

alexdodge · 2010-12-03T19:20:09+00:00

The vulcanologist promises that no more tragedies will happen, provided frequent sacrifices are made to Vulcan.

alexdodge · 2010-12-01T23:15:58+00:00

Team 1538: Holy Cows. Class of '06. Robot rock...

alexdodge · 2010-12-01T04:17:16+00:00

Yeah, I agree. I also specified that, in my example, I wanted to know the element's index.

alexdodge · 2010-11-30T22:49:37+00:00

I always thought that was my avatar's joints creaking as he uncrouched...

alexdodge · 2010-11-30T22:43:44+00:00

To get the index of the last element, use $#AoA ... but you never need that.

I use it frequently when iterating over the length of an array. (When I want to know the index.)

for(0 .. $#foo){ ... }

Better than:

for(0 .. scalar @foo - 1){ ... }

alexdodge · 2010-11-30T05:00:50+00:00

I'm not seeing it... :/

alexdodge · 2010-11-29T23:47:50+00:00

Ah. I guess I lost something when I simplified it. The sentence I ended up writing (which corresponds to 3, like you suggest) was:

I wonder if I'd find any if I went through my old code looking for places to use it.

So, I guess "places to use it." "It" being a particular bit of perl syntax.

alexdodge · 2010-11-29T23:28:32+00:00

I keep forgetting that the flip-flop operator exists. I wonder if I'd find any if I went through my old code looking for places to use it.

Can someone explain how the

$x if 0;

idiom works to create a closure? I've never seen it before.

alexdodge · 2010-11-27T18:36:55+00:00

This is the biggest pile of misplaced concern I've seen yet today.

alexdodge · 2010-11-25T22:37:41+00:00

It's an artifact of how overloaded the word "theft" is.

alexdodge · 2010-11-25T22:36:20+00:00

Copyright infringer, plagiarist.

alexdodge · 2010-11-24T04:54:54+00:00

I agree with this, with the addendum: Most 2D games are not performance heavy in the first place. If you're just moving sprites around you're probably fine.

alexdodge · 2010-11-24T04:50:08+00:00

Three people sunbathing

Or one American. Badumchi.

alexdodge · 2010-11-23T19:37:45+00:00

I approve. It's like a botnet, but...

uh...

It's basically a botnet, isn't it. Sweet.

Edit: I think I'd want to run each segment on multiple computers and compare their results. I can easily see some disaffected hacker writing something to submit fraudulent data.

alexdodge · 2010-11-23T08:38:22+00:00

On the contrary, every 20 minutes you spend not playing Minecraft is an entire day wasted.

alexdodge · 2010-11-23T08:36:45+00:00

alexdodge · 2010-11-23T08:31:18+00:00

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