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For those of you that use Pidgin, there's also a really great libpurple plugin that I've been using: https://bitbucket.org/EionRobb/purple-hangouts/ It works really well, but it do…

Does anyone know of a good collection of exercises for other UNIX tasks besides text-based ones like this?

I think it is totally reasonable that a blind person could code, but how does a blind person learn how to code initially? Did he become blind later on after learning how to code?

Not a big fan of the name... Thought it had to do with concurrency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming)

The last chapter in Oliver Sacks' book "The Mind's Eye" discusses this phenomenon and how people who became blind adapted and compensated. Highly recommend it. He suggests a phenom…

My favorite number: http://numbermatics.com/n/142857 It's cyclic :)

Sine-wave speech reminds me of R2D2 from Star Wars. Does anyone know if sine-wave speech was used as an inspiration? Maybe R2D2 actually says coherent sentences in the movies, but …

This is ridiculous. Doesn't this seem counter-intuitive for it to be anything else besides 0 or undefined?

Does this support drawing? If it doesn't, that's not very useful

This looks way harder than the SATs, or rather any standardized test for college admissions that's in use today.