jbum
Re:Puzzle for Hackers: From A to craZy.
on Monday May 14, 2012 @01:03PM (#3971930)
Google 'accition' to find the answers in paste bin.
Re:Announcing perl1line.txt - A collection of handy Perl scripts
on Monday November 14, 2011 @04:07PM (#3235696)
Agreed - one reason why I still love Perl so much, despite its obvious warts.
Circles, Spirals and Sunflowers in HTML5/Canvas
http://www.krazydad.com/tutorials/circles/
A new HTML5 tutorial by Jim "Krazydad" Bumgardner
Re:How to Draw a Circle
on Friday October 14, 2011 @01:40PM (#3112109)
CG pioneer Jim Blinn wrote an excellent article which provides a myriad of ways to do it.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1435623.1436274
It was republished in his excellent collection of essays "A Trip down the Graphics Pipeline"
Re:Flying Car (and 0-60 in less than 4 seconds!)
on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @07:23PM (#2562266)
It's not a flying car, it's a driving plane.
Curmudgeonly advice for unit tests
http://krazydad.com/robusttesting.php
A war-weary veteran of the testing wars offers some advice.
Wheel of Stars: A music box made from 118,218 stars
200 Character Processing Competition
http://vagueterrain.net/content/2009/08/tiny-sketch-200-character-processing-competition
A fun competition to create eye candy in the Processing language in under 200 characters.
Re:Face Detection on iPhone (including source code)
on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @10:43AM (#595824)
It's perhaps worth pointing out that this software is for detecting the presence of any old face, not for detecting a particular face, such as you or Osama Bin Laden.
A Twitter Honeypot
Re:A Netbook that makes you go wow
on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @05:04PM (#493685)
Not news. Thinly disguised marketing ploy.
Re:Perl is dead
on Monday February 23, 2009 @04:37PM (#492280)
That is one talkative corpse...
Re:Prog21: Puzzle Languages
on Sunday February 08, 2009 @02:27PM (#472362)
The author seems to be equating "puzzle languages" with "languages that are very different from the languages I am comfortable with." In other words, it's a classification which is very relative to the experience of the observer.
The languages he describes as "not" puzzle languages are all spiritual descendants of C and Algol, which is a very familiar idiom to many of us.
I imagine that Forth is far less of a puzzle language for Chuck Moore, it's inventor, and that he might find Ruby a bit of a puzzle.
Re:Half of US Doctors Routinely Prescribe Placebos
on Friday October 24, 2008 @10:40AM (#342389)
...and the ones that don't are doing their patients a disservice. Placebos are safe, and can be surprisingly effective.
Re:Reddit vs Hacker News traffic
on Sunday August 03, 2008 @04:27PM (#265713)
Google trends is useful here:
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=reddit.com%2Cmetafilter....
I left digg off, because it so high that it pushes all the others down into the noise...
Re:Is Perl Difficult?
on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @04:37PM (#240324)
Is this article flame bait?
Hmmm... Let's read the following posts and find out!
Re:The Broccoli Programming Language
on Thursday May 29, 2008 @06:36PM (#203796)
I too was looking for a simple "about" page. Correct me if I'm wrong, but here's my description:
This is a lisp-like language whose principal purpose is to help the creator of the language thoroughly understand how programming languages (especially lisp-like programming languages) work.
Re:Which is your favorite 70-80s computer book?
on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @04:34PM (#176964)
"Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley.
Re:Ask YC: What is the best way to learn Perl?
on Monday April 07, 2008 @02:11PM (#157056)
> write as much code as you can
Can't agree with this one enough. Also, it is better to write a lot of small scripts, than to write one big one. They will be easier to debug, and you'll get more done.