mcweaksauce
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Comment · 10 years ago
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 doesn't have history scrollback. I'm happy when I don't have to open up my browser to chat with people.
Comment · 10 years ago
Does anyone know of a good collection of exercises for other UNIX tasks besides text-based ones like this?
Comment · 10 years ago
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?
Comment · 10 years ago
Not a big fan of the name... Thought it had to do with concurrency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming)
Comment · 10 years ago
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 phenomenon like this is primarily biologically predetermined.
Comment · 11 years ago
My favorite number: http://numbermatics.com/n/142857
It's cyclic :)
Comment · 11 years ago
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 we aren't used to that form of speech interpretation
Comment · 12 years ago
This is ridiculous. Doesn't this seem counter-intuitive for it to be anything else besides 0 or undefined?
Comment · 12 years ago
Does this support drawing? If it doesn't, that's not very useful
Comment · 15 years ago
This looks way harder than the SATs, or rather any standardized test for college admissions that's in use today.