The Christian Science Monitor reports on the newly announced Open Tree of Life, a freely accessible unified interface to, and archive, of biological taxonomies.
A crucial comma is in totally the wrong place there. It should say:
The Christian Science Monitor reports on the newly announced Open Tree of Life, a freely accessible unified interface to, and archive of, biological taxonomies.
It is a system/structure/format/layer for doing Literate Programming (LP). WEB sits on top of whatever language you choose, and has two translators: TANGLE and WEAVE. TANGLE takes your LP source, throws away the documentation, and translates the code into your target language for the compiler to digest (which happened to be Pascal in the early TeX days). WEAVE does the opposite: It formats the documentation and code for reading by a human.
Is that the "null set" symbol? Just kidding. Yeah, I am actually not a fan of the slashed zero either, but I'd prefer it to the dotted zero. My actual preference is for a zero with nothing inside it, and for the capital O to be shorter and rounder. The font Lucida Console is my favorite for monospace terminal/coding work.
I agree. The oval zero is a showstopper for me. My favorite zero is actually the one that Lucida Console has — it's thinner and taller than the capital letter O, with no slash or dot in it — but at least I can tolerate a slashed zero. This? Not so much.
Whoa. Did not know that!
I want to share this fact with friends. Is there any specific hardware platform that you know of? Something I can search for with Google and give a link to my cow orkers? They'll be shocked.
I'll grant you it's more easily debugged. But the whole point of lining them up vertically instead of a bunch of if/else's is so that it's more readable and therefore more maintainable. Ternary operator is awesome when used properly (which is maybe 5% of the time).
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I couldn't agree more.
The Christian Science Monitor reports on the newly announced Open Tree of Life, a freely accessible unified interface to, and archive, of biological taxonomies.
A crucial comma is in totally the wrong place there. It should say:
The Christian Science Monitor reports on the newly announced Open Tree of Life, a freely accessible unified interface to, and archive of, biological taxonomies.
No really. Apple has handled 3 CPU architecture transitions fairly seamlessly in the past 2 decades.
Those would be what?
1. PowerPC to Intel (circa 2005)
2. Intel to ARM (internal testing only)
3. ???
Instead, since Apple has their A series of CPUs - A5 to A9 so far,
FTFY
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Is that a Pixar short based on Cars?
"Rogue Group, use your harpoons and tow cables. Go for the legs. It might be our only chance of stopping them."
the same level that HP calculators fail at: infix notation for math.
HP calculators use postfix notation, not infix. Infix is what is natural for humans. Lisp uses neither infix nor postfix: Lisp uses prefix notation.
Once you've learned Haskell, it helps you understand a lot of design decisions in other pograming languages.
Sounds interesting. I look forward to learning Haskell and writing pograms in it!
WEB is not a programming language.
It is a system/structure/format/layer for doing Literate Programming (LP). WEB sits on top of whatever language you choose, and has two translators: TANGLE and WEAVE. TANGLE takes your LP source, throws away the documentation, and translates the code into your target language for the compiler to digest (which happened to be Pascal in the early TeX days). WEAVE does the opposite: It formats the documentation and code for reading by a human.
Is that the "null set" symbol? Just kidding. Yeah, I am actually not a fan of the slashed zero either, but I'd prefer it to the dotted zero. My actual preference is for a zero with nothing inside it, and for the capital O to be shorter and rounder. The font Lucida Console is my favorite for monospace terminal/coding work.
I agree. The oval zero is a showstopper for me. My favorite zero is actually the one that Lucida Console has — it's thinner and taller than the capital letter O, with no slash or dot in it — but at least I can tolerate a slashed zero. This? Not so much.
Keming problem?? It's a monospace font, dude. Keming is a non-issue.
Leading, on the other hand, is a problem for me with this font. Too much leading (inter-line spacing). I want it a lot tighter vertically.
Depends on your screen resolution. On a retina device, they look great. (I don't use them for coding, though.)
I would like this font a lot more if the zero had a slash through it instead of that ridiculous ellipse in the center.
They're using a tuned automatic translator to translate working flash into "maybe it works" HTML5.
Tell uncle if he gets a tuned automatic translator, be sure it speaks bocce.
That's just sick and wrong. But kinda in a cool way.
Ever since I learned of it, I say “cow orker” whenever I get the chance. :)
Whoa. Did not know that!
I want to share this fact with friends. Is there any specific hardware platform that you know of? Something I can search for with Google and give a link to my cow orkers? They'll be shocked.
Ah, I see. And back in the Pascal days, there were actually non-ASCII systems in use.
Well, next time write:
x = ++x;
Diagnosis? When it crashed it was out of FDs.
I usually just switch to using FEs and FFs when the FDs run out.
Nobody had heard of version control back then [80's]
I don't think that's correct. Wikipedia says that SCCS was first released in 1972.
What's wrong with that? c now contains the delta from 'z' to 'a', which is a well-defined –25 because char literals are signed ints.
I'll grant you it's more easily debugged. But the whole point of lining them up vertically instead of a bunch of if/else's is so that it's more readable and therefore more maintainable. Ternary operator is awesome when used properly (which is maybe 5% of the time).
Just as an aside, C does have a boolean (by that I mean non-bitwise) xor operator: it's called !=.