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sreekotay
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Comment #46998422
I always liked: is it like shaving, getting a haircut, or getting a tatoo?
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Comment #46372303
Exactly this.
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Comment #45852962
This is the real answer (amongst other goodness) - this one is well executed and differentiated Every language at scale needs a preprocessor (look at the “use server” and “use gpu”…
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Comment #44763914
Most of that you can get with diligence in high school and a smattering of College classes as HS junior/senior IMHO.
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Comment #44763899
Nailed it in one. Or (similarly) never makes the priority/cut-off list because "what metric does it move?"
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Comment #44382858
Are... are you comparing quicksort to... Quickdraw? Lol - ok that's genuinely funny :). slow clap
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Comment #44325550
do you have any examples of this online to play with? I see the samples in the arvix doc and some documenation at github but not examples I can see live.
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Comment #43994970
This is realtime capture/display? Presumable (at this stage) for local viewing? Is that right?
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Comment #43899989
hunh - THAT's cool. Learn something new every day. That said - it does appear encapsulated, much like an iframe - css doesn't take, etc. so though more "pure" HTML I'd argue doesn'…
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Comment #43883201
( •_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) Deal with it. :)
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Comment #43881537
you need a server for HTML to work, as practical matter. But yes. There IS a workaround to that too, if you're REALLY determined, but you have to format your HTML a giant JS commen…
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Comment #43881521
While you do need a server i think this is the functional equivalent? The fetch JS and insert outlined (linked to) in the article is async. This blocks execution like you'd expect …
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Comment #43881431
This has always worked for me. Pretty much the ask? https://gist.github.com/sreekotay/08f9dfcd7553abb8f1bb17375d...
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Comment #43255505
Depends on your definition of robust (e.g. how are you handling T-junctions) but in general I would agree with this, in that that some things that are NOT trivial should rightly be…
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Comment #43079752
The core problem with pure text as an interface tends to be discoverability. Where to go from where I am is often unclear.
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Comment #41119397
Under rated reply. (Though I think here the author means "free algebra" in the colloquial sense)
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Comment #40827321
But .... it sounds like it was was? The original MIT SLIP version (yes SLIP not LISP) had a framework for embedding dynamic modules - so could do an early version of "learning." It…
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Comment #40730263
Can't wait for OpenSSL and LibreSSL...
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Comment #37870241
Yep OS X wasnt til 2000/2001 and absolutely NOT smooth even on relatively new high end Macs at the time. OS 8 and 9 were winXP like in terms of desktop effects - no soft anything.
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Comment #37870214
Was a graphics and lead app engineer on many of the Kai line of products at the time. So much fun. And polarizing for sure - but more fans than detractors, and the business didn't …
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Comment #37866193
What OS do you think you were running in 1996?
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Comment #36356589
Can you say more on recipes? I had always heard that it had to with copyright - that one needed the copy above to create a copyrightable work.
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Comment #35795793
Genuinely lol'ed! This is such a perfect child + 1 argument - well played :)
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Comment #34054325
My contribution: http://sree.kotay.com/2007/04/shift-registers-and-de-bruijn-...
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Comment #33606290
Is that right? So if a set is infinite but a provably strict subset of another - would we not say that set/infinity is smaller?