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Lynchpin typo
I found a bug last night with such an illustrious history that I need to document it ( Read more... ) -
Neologism generator
grep "^ex" /usr/share/dict/words | sed 's/^/s/'
Requires Mac OS X and a juvenile sense of humor.
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Patentable(?) idea day
Patentable ideas for you! (Or maybe business ideas, or both.)
Computers- Lossy zip (aka LLZW: lossy-lempel-ziv-welch).
- 3rd-party file compression. Automatic distribution of file chunks via a CDN, using block checksums, ala ZFS de-duplication (this might be what BitTorrent is already doing; this just uses a CDN instead of p2p)
- the coolest part about ( Read more... )
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Code snippet of the day
Handling exceptions is tricky. Opinions vary on whether you should catch and report to a central error handler, only catch exceptions you know how to recover from, or fail-fast and allow exceptions to bubble up until the program exits.
Our email management API takes a different tack:
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HDTR Sculpture
Admittedly I think these are CG renderings rather than physical statues, but I've been wanting someone to do this for a while!
Sculptures in Motion by Peter Jensen
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Code snippet of the day
Ran across this in the heppkat codebase today. I believe the comments come from MFranklin.
// This is the best reason not to use this class. What the hell is going on here ( Read more... ) -
HDTR Links
Couple links I ran across recently that are HDTR related:
Brian Dettmer: Adaptations - 3d surfaces carved in books, using the pages instead of photos as the dimension.
Khronos Projector - these were the guys who wrote the original SIGGRAF paper back when I stumbled on HDTR (independently, dammit!).
Khronos Projector Demo Applet - play with it! -
Hyperbagging: A New Innovation In Gameplay
I would like to introduce the concept of hyperbagging, a.k.a. fourth-dimensional teabaggingIn first-person shooter games, teabagging is the act of killing another player and then rapidly crouching up/down on top of their corpse, in order to humiliate the target. 4th-dimensional teabagging is the same act performed in a higher dimension. Most game ( Read more... )
