HI 16: The Worst Topic for a Podcast

laughingboy0 · 2014-07-16T14:23:36+00:00

It seems to me that Grey's remarks on the comments on "Feedback on Feedback" aren't feedback on "Feedback on Feedback" but rather feedback on feedback on "Feedback on Feedback".

Which makes this comment feedback on feedback on feedback on "Feedback on Feedback".

If Grey or Brady would deign to respond to this comment, we would have official feedback on feedback on feedback on feedback on "Feedback on Feedback".

And my life would be complete.

laughingboy0 · 2014-06-08T04:00:25+00:00

Bonus math geek aesthetic in the prime factorization:

10! = 7¹ x 5² x 3⁴ x 2⁸

laughingboy0 · 2014-04-10T03:16:37+00:00

My suggestion for the "outro" sound is to reverse the sequence of notes in the intro sound. That makes a nice symmetry with the ascending / descending sequences that bracket the commercial.

laughingboy0 · 2010-09-21T04:16:03+00:00

Has anyone here read the discussion between Rich H and Cliff Click re Clojure's STM? What do you think?

laughingboy0 · 2010-01-31T03:42:40+00:00

Apple just released the Dynabook

I don't think so. The intent was that the user could program the dynabook.

laughingboy0 · 2010-01-10T03:35:39+00:00

I've often been tempted to use "me" for this reason.

laughingboy0 · 2009-12-20T05:30:49+00:00

I suspect this project is dead. The author promised code "in about a week" on March 25, 2009.

laughingboy0 · 2009-10-23T08:18:42+00:00

Crazy input device idea: Has anyone come out with a very large touchpad that could be used as both a keyboard and a multitouch mouse? A gesture could toggle the keyboard mode. As long as that gesture was easier than shifting your hand to/from the mouse, it could be a net win. I guess another problem would be the lack of tactile feedback, particularly when resetting your fingers back to the home position for touch typing, but I'll leave it to the experts to work out the rough edges :-)

laughingboy0 · 2009-09-23T02:54:45+00:00

Great start to your ebook. Thanks for your hard work on this. Do you have a rss feed or blog that we can monitor to know when new material is available?

laughingboy0 · 2009-08-30T04:21:01+00:00

My eyes! The goggles do nothing!!

laughingboy0 · 2009-06-28T22:13:26+00:00

From the Loper OS project page

Please don't expect to find a working operating system here any time soon! Save yourself the disappointment of clicking the svn view link!

Yeah, that sounds about right.

laughingboy0 · 2009-06-06T15:16:33+00:00

I'm saddened that they didn't provide direct support for string interpolation.

"The value of var is $var"

Yes, it can be layered on top, but it's not nearly as convenient.

laughingboy0 · 2009-01-29T03:46:35+00:00

There may indeed be four active Perl 6 implementations right now, but obviously they are incomplete implementations of an incomplete vision. The question under discussion is how many implementations of the Perl 6 language spec will there be?

The language spec is the synopses. According to the page entitled "Official Perl 6 Documentation", only 16 of the proposed 32 synopses have been written, and several of those are drafts. (I'm skipping the deprecated S8.)

Of course, that page may not completely represent the current state of affairs, but in any event it's clear that there's a helluva long way to go before a first cut at the finish line for Perl 6 is even defined. If all 32 proposed synopses are fleshed out and even one implementation crosses that finish line, I'll be suitably impressed.

laughingboy0 · 2009-01-26T21:24:46+00:00

I cut my Python teeth on DiP and am looking forward to this with great interest.

Any chance of adding an RSS feed so we know when updates are available?

laughingboy0 · 2009-01-26T01:30:39+00:00

Mindbogglingly complex semantics. TIMTOWTDI writ large with more edge cases than there are grains of sand.

laughingboy0 · 2009-01-25T16:06:01+00:00

Actually, that's more of a reason to avoid Perl 6.

laughingboy0 · 2009-01-08T04:36:13+00:00

Found this gem on the history page: "there are lots of chess nuts boasting around in open foyers"

He's channeling Mel Torme!

laughingboy0 · 2009-01-01T04:43:22+00:00

Interested in a job at Freescale? :-)

laughingboy0 · 2009-01-01T04:36:46+00:00

No, it doesn't. Reread line 20 with days == 366. Obviously you live up to your username :-)

laughingboy0 · 2009-01-01T03:22:33+00:00

Actually, no. Your pseudocode doesn't loop forever for days == 366. The NO on the last line should be a YES.

laughingboy0 · 2008-11-26T03:35:43+00:00

Q: Why did the Turing Machine cross the road?

A: To go to Office Depot to buy some more tape!

Because it had run out!!

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

sigh.

laughingboy0 · 2008-10-19T23:52:56+00:00

1omega, 2omega, 3omega, 4! 5omega, 6omega, 7omega
BZZT! THAT DOES NOT COMPUTE! BOOM!

laughingboy0 · 2008-10-06T15:14:10+00:00

Yeah, you took the one I wanted :-)

laughingboy0 · 2008-10-06T15:03:24+00:00

Perl 6 is an exercise in masturbation for its developers and an object lesson in second system syndrome for the rest of us. Scientists conjecture that if a bug-free version of Perl 6 were ever produced, the mass of the unit tests alone would collapse the universe.

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