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The wording on question 9 (the regex one) is a little unclear: both b[l]. e and ([^b] b[^b]*){3} will match blabber but not babel. Presumably the intended meaning is that the entir…

The last time I made a world generation algorithm for a voxel engine prototype I got reasonable results through the judicious combination of different types of noise, (specifically…

There's no need for XML, nor for all-white video. A 32x32 icon of some color noise, stored as PNG, GIF, or BMP, takes about 2-3 KB. Writing an algorithm to procedurally generate a …

And yet another short, functional solution: pairs = (>>= \ ~(x:xs) -> map ((,) x) xs) . init . tails EDIT: Or as a list comprehension: pairs xs = concat [map ((,) h) t | (h:t)

I don't know if this will add much to the article, but let's go over things step by step. scanl is the same as foldl, save for the fact that it outputs a list of all intermediate v…

As an alternative to the zipWith method of calculating the Fibonacci series, you can use scanl, resulting in (in my opinion) an even more elegant version: fibs = fix $ (1 :) . scan…

$40? As long as Joss and the original cast are on board I'll happily pay $100, maybe even $200, even if it's only another half season. Just promise not to start this project before…

Alternatively, for those who want good-looking text but prefer the WYSIWIG approach: just use a half-decent DTP program like InDesign, which will get you everything mentioned in th…

Interestingly, if you multiply 15 years by 365 days and the two hours a day mentioned at some point in the article, you get 10,950 hours, which is remarkably close to Malcolm Gladw…

I've tried it a bit, but I found the syntax rather ugly compared to Haskell. I know, I'm nitpicking and it really shouldn't matter that much, but it put me off the language. Perhap…

No, I mostly make a new one per project. All the functions are pretty much one-liners anyway, so it's not too much work to make. It's more of a documentation thing; anything in Has…

I can't comment on Lisp, but I've been working with Haskell for about a year or so now, so I'll cover that instead. My personal history goes something like QBasic -> Visual Basic -…

Not so much obsession as convention. Generally versions 0.x - 1.0 are the alpha and beta releases, with 1.0 being the first "stable" release. Obviously there are hundreds of projec…

Very nice site, thanks. In case anyone from Grooveshark is reading this, here are two minor UI suggestions: - It's rather easy to miss the volume control since it's so far removed …

For some examples of high-quality prosthetics, watch the two TED talks of Aimee Mullins: http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics... http://www.ted.com/index.ph…

And for those too cheap to buy the book, this 70-minute Google talk by the author of Presentation Zen will give you most of the information for free: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

There is also a strong correlation between global warming and the amount of pirates ( http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/001857.php ). While I agree that dismissing it a prior…

"Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence." I must say it's getting really hard to tell the difference in this case. "less is being paid for than ever b…

From what I understand you're supposed to get the result (in your example 6) by combining the cells in that box with the given operator (in this case times). So a "6x" box with two…

Indeed. Though there are some fairly easy steps to reduce this as much as possible. 1. Give guests full use of all the features of the site. Posting, editing, befriending, etc. Sto…

Obligatory: Larry Lessig's TED lecture on why remixing shouldn't be illegal. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law...

Reminds me of George Carlin's dissection of the language used on airplanes. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DagVklB4VHQ&feature=relat... Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch…

Not necessarily. In Haskell the oneliners are frequently short enough to fit on one screen. For example, I recently needed to do some Run-Length Encoding: import Control.Arrow impo…

Yeah, that works for really short methods, but for anything even a little more complex you're just replacing vertical scrolling with horizontal scrolling.

Completely agree. The main reason for my preference is that one of the things I hate most in C-style languages is that one-line functions take up three or four lines (depending on …