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And the old(er) building right next to it is named after Kristen Nygaard. Simula was used as the first programming language for informatics students at the University of Bergen unt…

Aristid Lindenmayer used it originally as a model to study the growth of algae, so it has some scientific applications. While computer graphics is the most common use case, L-syste…

I wrote an L-systems implementation in Common Lisp as part of a thesis around 2002. The software, thesis and some raytraced images are still available at my old university home pag…

Agree with these, and would like to add one more: $(subcommand) as an alternative to (subcommand) PS: I have been using fish as my primary shell for about a year now, very happy wi…

For comparison, integers in clisp: [1]> (eq (expt 2 47) (expt 2 47)) T [2]> (eq (expt 2 48) (expt 2 48)) NIL Explanation here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node17…

Humpback whales apparently have to defend their juveniles against hunting orcas. It is surprising that they would defend other species in the same way, but it seems likely to be th…

Interesting, indeed. I didn't get that, but it is probably similar to the effect caused by videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVgOLWVYytM

After using Delphi professionally for some years, I pretty much hated it. Some of my least favorite features are automatic and locale-dependent string/WideString conversions, and t…

Running a hash function directly on a hash makes little sense. You probably meant: md5(md5(password) + user_salt)

I don't know... why should I worry about Dropbox security in this context? The risk that someone could steal my Dropbox data is of course there, but that they then would be able to…

I use KeePass and synchronize the database file through Dropbox. I can recommend this combination, it works well both on my computers and (Android) phone. The downside is that I so…

I find the CIE Standard Observer graph enlightening: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space#Color_matc... As far as I understand this, the red function, which correspond…