🔗 Quick links thread
-
The PlayPump is a worthy WTF, but the article is too short.
-
What's pipe 6 for?
Yeah I've read up on the PlayPump idea. It does sound good. So it had that going for it.
-
The PlayPump is a worthy WTF, but the article is too short.
That's the nature of Tyler Cowen's blog, I'm afraid. You might say that it was a quick read.
What's pipe 6 for?
On wikipedia, I find this line:
-
One of these days I'm going to take that animation and try to trace where all the balls go.
-
After all, he saw right through me when I suggested themed summer camps like: Ditch-Digging Camp and Wood-Splitting Camp.
AHA, I see my problem...tech people (me) make EPIC FAIL at Marketing™....
Should be:
Hey KIDS!
Prospect for Gold!
Conquer the Northwoods!Come to our exciting Prospecting CAMP or exclusive Lumberjack CAMP.
Much better.
-
One of these days I'm going to take that animation and try to trace where all the balls go.
In your mom's mouth.
Ziing.
The extra i is for extra zing.
-
-
Hey! Making fun of how she died is not cool.
-
A nice Zed Shaw rant
Compares the tactics OSS authors and modern art artists use to avoid criticism.
-
SOLVED_CLOSED
- Each discrete animation is a 16 x 16 grid, where each grid square is
8 x 8 pixels - Each "ball" is nominally a 6 x 6 pixel unaliased sphere
- There are 3 "inputs" and 3 "outputs" in each animation
- Each output aligns with an input of the adjacent animation - X or Y Plane
- A ball at an output will appear at least one frame before a ball appears at the corresponding input
- The ball at the output will "disappear" when the ball at the input appears, thus giving the illusion of moving from one animation to the next
- Regardless of what each ball appears to do within any single animation, all animations emit and receive balls at the same time.
- There are 30 frames
- Each discrete animation is a 16 x 16 grid, where each grid square is
-
It linked this one (Turd Cookies), which is hilarious and deserves its own mention in this topic :)
-
Compares the tactics OSS authors and modern art artists use to avoid criticism.
Good rant, though I'm a little surprised and saddened that people use those sorts of tactics to avoid criticism of their software. Yes, the personal can be an excellent reason for not acting right now (because life gets in the way) but it doesn't change a bug into a non-bug, or a bad design decision into a good one…
-
###Best explanation of entropy I've ever read
Must read. Trigger warning: reddit
-
Popular Pakistani blogger is locked up in 2009. 6 years later he's let out, and the internet is different than he left it. Very insightful article, even if his recollections are a bit rose-tinted.
-
Good rant, though I'm a little surprised and saddened that people use those sorts of tactics to avoid criticism of their software.
Most people seem to take criticism of their software personally. This has absolutely nothing to do with open source. It's very easy to see someone attacking something you did as attacking you. You just see it out in the open with OSS because it's on the web or something and not in the code review down the hall.
-
Most people seem to take criticism of their software personally.
Only shitty developers.
This has absolutely nothing to do with open source.
That is true, but when you live your life in a glass house people can see your dirty laundry.
-
Only shitty developers.
Bullshit. It's how people react to other people. Some people have it worse than others.
That is true, but when you live your life in a glass house people can see your dirty laundry.
Yeah, I covered that, too.
-
Bullshit. It's how people react to other people. Some people have it worse than others.
Sorry, no. One of my definers of "good" vs. "bad" developers is how critical they are of their own work. It's the first thing I ask in interviews. The tactic hasn't failed me yet.
Someone who either thinks their code is perfect, or doesn't have the emotionally maturity to handle valid criticism shouldn't be allowed within 100 yards of a compiler.
Yeah, I covered that, too.
Read four sentences? What am I, Superman?
-
Someone who either thinks their code is perfect, or doesn't have the emotionally maturity to handle valid criticism shouldn't be allowed within 100 yards of a compiler.
Fuck you you ableist asshole. I think that people of ALL emotional maturities should be able to code!
Read four sentences? What am I, Superman?
Hmm...what's your position on GamerGate?
-
-
No, you're me, you insensitive clod!
No, he's @boomzilla. I thought we've established that.
-
-
Sorry, no. One of my definers of "good" vs. "bad" developers is how critical they are of their own work. It's the first thing I ask in interviews. The tactic hasn't failed me yet.
But some people seem unable to couch complaints about software in any terms other than complaints about the people who created that software. It's easily done, but it really tends to get the authors' backs up. I try to save criticism of the person for when they demonstrate that it is genuinely necessary. Making an error in code doesn't usually justify it.
Not unless it is a particularly egregious front page candidate.
-
Site shows popular dietary supplements and rates the evidence behind them, with links to studies.
-
###Why does my girlfriend always cry?
Reddit tries to help an autistic guy who is dating an overly emotional girl. Funny, sweet and a bit sad.
-- are you dating an actual baby
-- As far as I can tell, she's at least 25 years of age.
...
OP: "How old are you?"
Baby: "wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah"
OP: "25!"When I say she cries she isn't full out balling or anything. She wells up and maybe 5-7 tears per cheek fall. Sometimes it is harder. Which was when we had sex. Or when the cat rolled in her spaghetti.
...
- when we got stuck in traffic on the way home from a concert and i pulled out my "stuck in traffic" kit with candy
...
My kit contains a few kinds of candies in case I'm stuck with small children or my parents. A book on tape that I will never finish. And sometimes there are sustainable snacks in case I am stuck for legitimate.
-- Maybe you should stop going in dry?
-- I don't know what this means. Do I need to get more kleenex?This guy is amazing
- when we got stuck in traffic on the way home from a concert and i pulled out my "stuck in traffic" kit with candy
-
###Homage To Strict
Guy reminds us of the ups of strict coding.
-
•when i told her that i might be late to dinner
•after i showed up for dinner on timeYikes. I feel for the guy.
At some point you've got to ask yourself who's the one with the problem. As far as I can tell, he's hellbent on finding out what he does wrong and hardly considering that she's reacting a bit irrationally there. And as much as I can sympathize with him on account of being a naturally insensitive clod trying to do some good in his life, I don't think he'll be getting any results this way.
-
Guy reminds us of the ups of strict coding.
"Shitting out code strung together by duct tape is not a good strategy". Well, yeah, I don't disagree, but the fact that some people need a reminder on that just shows how sad the programming landscape is becoming...
-
laughed at this comment:
Ring a quiet bell every time she cries and then give her skittles. See if you can eventually get her to start crying at the ring of the bell or giving of skittles
Mean but funny :)
-
laughed at this comment:
Ring a quiet bell every time she cries and then give her skittles. See if you can eventually get her to start crying at the ring of the bell or giving of skittles
Mean but funny
I read this comment and immediately felt like eating pavlova
-
My brother's married to a woman who once had a crying fit because someone closed her browser tabs.
-
My brother's married to a woman who once had a crying fit because someone closed her browser tabs.
Rage. Seething rage is the proper response.
-
Guess what the first transport aircraft to break the sound barrier is...
[spoiler]
-
Well they were used to transport thetans to the volcano planet, so I assume they can exceed the sound barrier.
-
-
Except it seems that it was Fox News, not News Corp who issued the takedown (their headline and article contradict the youtube screenshot). Either another technical glitch in automatic submissions or their sister company didn't get permission to stream it.
-
But Fox News and Sky News are part of the News Corp conglomerate. Why wouldn't the UK arm be permitted to stream it? And how does this action reflect on the US arm, agitating against another part of their own empire?
-
Why wouldn't the UK arm be permitted to stream it?
I don't know what sort of deals they have between themselves, but they're still different companies.
And how does this action reflect on the US arm, agitating against another part of their own empire?
It reflects somewhat poorly on both of them. I don't know anything about any agreements they may have with each other.
OTOH, some people are speculating that this is likely to be Youtube's fault:
KitGuru Says: While we don’t know for sure, it is likely that this DMCA notice was the fault of YouTube’s flawed Content ID system. Maybe such a high-profile mistake will cause Google to re-work its tool a bit because right now it seems to cause more harm than good, particularly to independently run YouTube channels.
-
Maybe such a high-profile mistake will cause Google to re-work its tool a bit
Hmm… Nah.
-
###The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here
Another scary climate change article. Your weekly reminder that, long term, we are all doomed.
-
-
Is it quiet the other side of the sound barrier?
-
.. I was watching some of it, just for the fun of it...
It was too fun, I specially liked the clown with funny hair but the rest also did a marvelous job, acting grumpy and making silly faces.
-
###How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code
Article is a bit all over the place. But basically, it advocates in favor of Project Euler as a pretty good way to learn programming.
-
It obviously belongs to here, what a better way to lampoon VR, and laugh at the expense of others :)
-
Nice. Spoilers break links... I'd forgotten that.
-
Your weekly reminder that, long term, we are all doomed.
Yeah, but at least we'll have nice weather.
-
If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23.
Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000.
Huh, is that a programming puzzle? Because it seems like purely a math puzzle, and trivially solvable without really running any code:
floor(1000/3) = 333 sum(1..333) = 333*334/2 = 55611 floor(1000/5) = 200 sum (1..200) = 200*201/2 = 20100 floor(1000/15) = 66 sum(1..66) = 66*67/2 = 2211 55611*3 + 20100*5 - 2211*15 = 234168
It probably makes me into a mindless drone applying the rote knowledge to a problem instead of approaching it creatively, but hey, at least I only needed a calculator and 3 minutes.
-
-
And for explaining how thermodynamic entropy is the same as information entropy, I think the wiki article for Maxwell's demon does a good job.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon
Basically: to know whether to open the door for a molecule, the demon would need to know the speed of the molecule. It just so happens that the minimum energy required to erase one bit of information is greater than the maximum energy that could be gained from a single particle. So even if you could set up the experiment with a demon that had more memory than the number of particles in the experiment, you would just be converting entropy from one form (mixed fast and slow particles) into another (a string of random bits).