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awk matcher performance - what gives?
I'm tapping this out in T9 on my E50 rather than using one of the two keyboards I usually have in my kit bag[ 1]. It's not as goofy a setup as it sounds: one board is a ThinkOutside Stowaway that is smaller than the paperbacks I tote, and the other is an Apple Wireless which is thin enough to be a non-issue. I carry two because I keep the former ( Read more... ) -
Petals on a wet, black bough
On the commute home today, I saw:
- A kid, not a day older than sixteen, in a secondhand jacket, sporting a red fitted cap covered in thin black squiggles with a ( Read more... )
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Dear CBC, Re: Canadia 2056
To: CBC Radio (via) From: [excised] X-from-city: Toronto X-from-province: Ontario
Dear CBC,
I am addressing the broadcasters and/or administrators, and not the show creators, right? Because if this *is* being read by a show creator, I'm talking to the wrong people. Could you forward it on to the guy with the corner office and the speakerphone? ( Read more... ) -
Collection time
Dear internets, I owe you writings. Don't send the goons yet. My wife's been sick, my dog needed surgery, the recession has driven the price of keyboard presses so high... I see that you are unmoved.
Very well, then.
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Moderately open letter to 2K Games about BioShock and SecuROM
I'm frustrated with the BioShock. I want to buy it, but I can't; and I want it badly enough that my frustration has fuelled a letter rather than just a decision not to purchase the game.
The 2K Games BioShock forum has a thread on the topic. It seems that I am far from the only person who feels this way. Also, many of the people I asked for ( Read more... ) -
AACS golf, round 2
Scheme code, with no constant values longer than three decimal digits (i.e. AACS-Golf format):
(let ((^ expt)) (* (+ -170 (* 23 29 101 269 (- (^ 2 11) 307) (- (^ 2 11) 175) (^ 3 4) (^ 7 3) (+ 89 (* (^ 2 7) (^ 3 8))))) (* 2 3 3 11 37 229 (- (^ 2 11) 855) (+ (^ 2 15) 645))))
In ( Read more... ) -
Factoring the Number du Jour
This is terrible, terrible code. Just stupendously terrible. The only reason I wrote it is because I was idly factoring by hand using dc(1) for about twenty minutes and got tired of it.
So please don't judge my coding, or Scheme, by the quality of the below. I know that the algorithm is braindead too.
(define (find-factors-seeded num . start- ( Read more... ) -
User Code on the Nintendo DS
The Nintendo DS is a terrific piece of hardware.
First of all, it's a brilliant gaming device. The touch screen, though admittedly still ever-so-slightly tinged with gimmickry, has been used to great effect in a bunch of different games, and developers seem now to have a firm handle on when to use it and when to concentrate on the buttons instead. ( Read more... ) -
No Thrills
A young man once found himself, as one usually does at the beginning of these stories, in the wrong place at the wrong time. He reacted in an atypical, coolheaded and quick-witted fashion, highlighting by turns his above-average physical prowess, attractive but not overwhelming good looks and his downright innate likability. Unfortunately his ( Read more... )