mepcotterell

77 karma · joined July 29, 2012

mepcotterell··on Regex that only matches itself

Ahh. Thank you.

mepcotterell··on Regex that only matches itself

I think I might be missing something. Wouldn't something like "a" be a valid 1-byte regular expression that only matches instances of "a"?

mepcotterell··on [dead]

The experience they've grown accustomed to.

mepcotterell··on Rich text editing with WriteLatex

Actually recommended this site to my Discrete Math students last Fall (this and sharelatex). They seemed to like it a lot.

mepcotterell··on Hexagon 16384

This is my favorite version of the game, with the doge version coming in a very close second.

mepcotterell··on Linux has better hardware support than OS X

Duh. Why is this even a story?

mepcotterell··on A beginner's guide to setting up Python on Windows

If you're in a position where you need to follow a guide to install Python on Windows, then you're probably so new to Python that you're unlikely to be working with legacy code. Therefore, I'd suggest working with Python 3 and using 64-bit.

mepcotterell··on Google Glass

I'll take one with a wayfarer blue blocker attachment!

mepcotterell··on PHPPHP: a PHP VM in PHP

I made a PHP VM in PHP once, but it was just the eval function (http://php.net/manual/en/function.eval.php).

mepcotterell··on Bootstrap 3.0 Upcoming changes

Any reason why you prefer that over "deprecated"?

mepcotterell··on Algorithms [pdf]

f(n) = O(g(n)) irritates me, but I know that people like to express Big-O that way for convenience.