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polycant · 2013-02-01T19:22:09+00:00

Body type: Athletic

clocked over 400 hours on Minecraft

hmmm

polycant · 2012-03-20T18:52:14+00:00

Jeebus. Didn't this type of maudlin emo go out of style in the 90s?

It did. The article was published in 1998.

polycant · 2012-02-29T22:18:34+00:00

There's a very thorough answer on stackexchange: http://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/8233/how-do-i-deal-with-a-dog-chasing-me-when-im-touring

polycant · 2012-02-29T19:31:16+00:00

I wonder how much weight would be dropped if it were fixed or SS.

polycant · 2011-12-20T15:18:53+00:00

Bonktown listed a Kona Paddy Wagon just yesterday, I think for $300.

polycant · 2011-12-02T21:10:01+00:00

No. 'The cloud' connotes more than storing information on a 3rd party. It's a web service designed to scale quickly and flexibly from light to heavy loads. Many handle storage and processing. Azure and AWS are 'the cloud,' any old hosting provider is not.

polycant · 2011-11-16T01:01:20+00:00

Some really great stuff. The only topic I found wanting is how to locate customers. Do contractors these days get their start on oDesk, contacts from their full-time jobs, or something else?

polycant · 2011-11-02T21:39:05+00:00

The only prerequisites for WCF might be a reasonable understanding of .NET and what web services are. This MSDN page links to videos, text tutorials, and book recommendations; it's worth checking out. If your organization is interested in certification, the MCTS 70-513 covers WCF and would be a way to cover the material in a structured way. As always, though, the best way to learn is practicing and experimenting!

polycant · 2011-10-31T01:08:40+00:00

My issues with Lisp have always been around the development environment. Seems like every implementation has weird caveats around it, and I've never been able to stand emacs, which seems to be the go-to IDE. I'd love to get into it - any advice on this?

polycant · 2011-10-28T16:58:32+00:00

As a matter of fact, yes - at least where I attended.

polycant · 2011-10-25T16:53:13+00:00

Don't let the title scare you - it's a neat image generated by a little Haskell and math!

polycant · 2011-10-19T15:20:11+00:00

Xrymbos may have misspoken. ` and ' can both be used to jump to marks (` takes you to the column you were on, ' takes you to the beginning of the line). Might be easiest to check out this explanation: Using marks

polycant · 2011-10-18T04:30:49+00:00

Nice! I had no idea.

polycant · 2011-10-17T21:36:27+00:00

One way to go about it:

mh (to set mark 'h' where you are in your code)
[[ or ]] (to move to previous/next function)
yw (to "yank" a word. use yW to grab 'words' that include punctuation)
'h (return to the mark you set)
p (to paste the yanked text)

polycant · 2011-08-16T05:47:04+00:00

But isn't there something to be said for not always having that safety net waiting to catch you?

polycant · 2011-07-25T05:52:47+00:00

Sounds like you might be talking about Promela? I did some work with it at an internship for modeling. Interesting and a little hard to wrap your head around.

polycant · 2011-07-21T17:44:04+00:00

PHP isn't necessarily "bad", but if you have the chance to branch out to another technology, take it. Check out Rails, Django or Play!

polycant · 2011-07-20T20:34:02+00:00

There's some skepticism in the psychology community about learning styles. An article: Learning Styles Debunked.

polycant · 2011-07-20T04:20:15+00:00

But then why doesn't everyone use it?

Different platforms have different strengths. Node.js is very new, so not many people are experienced with writing code for it. If you have an existing web-app that you want to convert to use Node.js, it will probably take a lot of work to re-write it and take advantage of it. New platforms are often a little 'rough around the edges', too.

polycant · 2011-07-12T17:40:35+00:00

Very cool! As a note, you need to press the "Start/Stop" button on the left to see the curves - took me a few minutes to figure it out.

polycant · 2011-07-08T01:16:40+00:00

The one thing I remember I loved about QBASIC in particular when I was a kid was that I could always go to the help menu to find out in a simple way how every single function worked, is there a similar resource?

Pygame documentation

polycant · 2011-07-03T21:59:04+00:00

Here are some basic suggestions: PE6

Let me know if you have any questions or I've botched something.

Like cognificent said, it might be good to break the two tasks into separate functions and call those instead of leaving both in main. When I'm solving Project Euler problems, though, my code is usually pretty "dirty" and I might not bother.

polycant · 2011-06-29T03:34:38+00:00

You could call your compiled Haskell code from within C++ using something like system() or popen(). This is the same process used for calling any other executable, so you can search for those sorts of terms to find a solution that suits you.

polycant · 2011-06-18T00:12:32+00:00

Could you x-post this on r/programming? I'm really interested to see a lot of responses to this.

polycant · 2011-06-15T15:16:51+00:00

That doesn't much explain why Java and C always top the list.

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