zzkt

530 karma · joined January 24, 2009

submissions comments

zzkt··on Ask HN: what's a good pet for the working programmer?

ferrets. several.

zzkt··on Working hard is overrated

But I'm sure he would agree that working hard on the wrong thing is.

zzkt··on Homebrew is a new package management system for OS X based on git + ruby

It's about as easy as translating from American into English.

zzkt··on The trouble with non-profits

can i have 17 kilos of better world please?

zzkt··on Coding Scheme Live, to Music

"A rapid prototyping, livecoding and playing/learning environment for 3D graphics, sound and games. Extends PLT Scheme with graphical commands and can be used within it’s own livecoding environment or from within the DrScheme IDE. Fluxus is crossplatform (Linux, Windows, OSX), and is released under the GPL licence. "

zzkt··on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)

I've upgraded a few MBPs (1st & 2nd gen) and even some old powerbooks all of which perform perceivably better with 10.5 YMMV

zzkt··on How to Create a Self-Referential Tweet

to too much recursion too!

zzkt··on Ask HN: Has anybody here worked with the Connection Machine or the Lisp Machine?

you might also want to crank up the Lisp (star lisp) simulator, more details of which can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp The common lisp code can be found at http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang...

zzkt on What does a non-libertarian transhumanist future look like?

Except for the anarcho-syndicalist transhumanists. ..

zzkt on Non-technical mistakes made by programmers

Just under "Assuming the demo won't end up in production"

zzkt on HN: Like playing Go? Review my new site. It was a "weekend hack."

perhaps by having them play against gnugo a few times at varying levels?

zzkt on Seed7 programming language

I think its unfortunate that more don't.

zzkt on The Difference Between An Amateur, A Scientist, And A Genius

The genius was in measuring the temperature outside the visible spectrum, and proposing a theory for it.

zzkt on Command Lines

One of the points the article makes is not that it can be done (by whatever shell) but that any context dependent completion that happens with current shells needs to manually track details of each command to some degree.

zzkt on The Cult of Done Manifesto

there should be an emphasis on the "almost".

zzkt on Computer music: a bastion of interactive visual dataflow languages

Ptolemy is an academic project work looking at. From this perspective, its an attempt to incorporate some of the advantages of 'real' programming into a visual environment. http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptIIlatest/

zzkt on Live Lisp coding as art

Some other work that is a bit more generative is 'No Copy Paste'. You can see some of their videos are at http://ncp.kibu.hu/

zzkt on Principles for a Black Swan-proof world

April Fools Day was last week.

zzkt on An introduction to global warming impacts: Hell and High Water

If you are interested in current climate science and commentary on the science "Real Climate" is worth reading http://www.realclimate.org/

zzkt on Want your own Github? Check out the open source Gitorious.

on the other hand, the proprietary solution lasts only as long as the company providing it stays in business.

zzkt on Bernard Madoff’s Courtroom Confession About His Ponzi Scheme

only because he got caught.

zzkt on The stock market loves Wednesdays

...except when it loves Tuesdays, or Fridays, or perhaps Mondays or Thursdays. I'd bet my portfolio on it.

zzkt on Facebook: "We can do anything we want with your content. Forever"

Did you actually read the terms of service?

zzkt on Ask HN: Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup?

(defun remove-distractions () (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen 'fullboth))

← PreviousPage 2 of 2