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Fun project! I had a similar project a while back, but my medium of choice was the Uno card game. I called it UnoScript [1] and it had similar mechanisms as color was an important …

Is this written up anywhere? I.e. anywhere that walks thru a sample business model?

Have been using a version of this recently: with C++ in Visual Studio you can add `#pragma region X` that will let you expand/collapse regions of code in the same file. Can be usef…

And within labyrinths, the Library of Babel is a good place to start. Circular Ruins and the Pierre Menard/Don Quixote one are favorites.

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man." A good hook, but I had a tough time finishing Notes. The narrator really shows that yes, he is in fact a sick and spiteful man. Not one I'…

Thanks for sharing. I've looked at getting a PowerPC dev board, but didn't find anything at a reasonable price. I never made the connection that microwatt plus and FPGA would get m…

Unrelated, but thank you for your blog! I check in occasionally, mostly looking for a reason to justify buying one of the Raptor machines at work. I really enjoy the articles on qe…

Cool project! I'm familiar with column, and this looks like a good replacement. Curious, how do you handle formatting on cells with long strings that need to overflow to multiple l…

I can make sense of nested Python list comprehensions if I read them as shorthand for nested for loops, in which case you need to define variables in the outer loop before you can …

The author of Longitude gave some good examples of the human cost of the Longitude problem: a ship running aground and sinking, or sailors dying from scurvy because they traveled t…

Beat me to it... I just finished Longitude and it was a great read! Harrison is an interesting character since he really spent his whole life working on the same problem of keeping…

The grasshopper escapement was invented by John Harrison, who built the first clocks that could keep time at sea. These were used to calculate Longitude. There's a nice short biogr…

TIL Ice IX is a real thing, though less catastrophic than expected

Thanks for naming "model-based testing"--added to my vocabulary. I was thinking more about this, and I would expect very little overlap in the bugs that you could expect to catch w…

First time reading about compiler fuzzing, but seems like there's some parallels with TLA+. With TLA+, you could check a compiler's specification before you implement it. Then, onc…

I can second Lamport's series of video lectures. I worked through them recently and found the teaching and the examples to work through very engaging.

Thanks for sharing. I have a debian box that I try keep as standard as possible, and I think this setup would fit my environment well.

GEB is pretty dense. Comparing GEB to short stories by Borges, I feel like Borges is able to capture the same ideas (recursion, infinite permutations) in a more engaging way and at…

I can recommend anything by the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. He's primarily an author of short stories. Of those, The Library of Babel is how I was introduced to him. There'…