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If all you need to do is create a negative version of pre-existing image, you can use ImageMagick on the command line: $ converge in.png -negate out.png

Pashin' it doon

It's hard getting something that sounds consistently good in all listening environments - I've seen cases where music is offered in digital format either as 'play anywhere' loud .m…

The shell '>' redirect will truncate the file first of all, for example: echo "foo" > message.txt ; ( sleep 3 ; echo "bar" ) > message.txt & echo "message: '$( cat message.txt )'" …

Vim's built-in encryption is pretty useful, although the default cipher is weak (you can override this in the vimrc).

I always liked the quantum bogo-sort algorithm: 1) Randomise list 2) if list not in correct order, destroy the universe The universe that's left will have the correct answer.

Yes - Go is full of concepts like 'aji' (lit. "taste"), thickness, influence, good and bad shape which are features that can only really be evaluated in terms of actual points doze…

Yeah :-)

According to Google - $14,281.50

I play Go a lot, and chess occasionally. I think it's about mindset not skillset - games like these are about solving local problems ('tactics') to achieve a greater aim ('strategy…

I'm a senior engineer at a small company, and for family reasons I'm going to moving to a remote part of the country soon. My company have been accommodating and want to keep me on…

I got some very interesting results from feeding fractal images into a program like this a few years back - unfortunately, I don't have the resulting sounds, but you pick less busy…

Do you really need to debug events from 3 and half years ago? Full logs only really need to stick around as long as you're likely to want to debug them. Log rotation is a must (I'v…

Interestingly, that book has a review quote by Ken Thompson. I always wondered if the naming of Go(lang) was related to the game ...