May 2017 Archives

A Constructive Look At TempleOS

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TempleOS is somewhat of a legend in the operating system community. Its sole author, Terry A. Davis, has spent the past 12 years attempting to create a new operating from scratch. Terry explains that God has instructed him to construct a temple, a 640×480 covenant of perfection. Unfortunately Terry also suffers from schizophrenia, and has a tendency to appear on various programming forums with a burst of strange, paranoid, and often racist comments. He is frequently banned from most forums…

Richard Mitton

How I Ruined Office Productivity With a Face-Replacing Slack Bot

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Chris works in an office full of people that like to Photoshop his face onto various things, and then post the results in the company Slack…

Jason Hutchinson

15 Weird Things About Ruby That You Should Know

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Ruby is an amazing language with a lot of interesting details that you may not have seen before…

Jesus Castello

Practical Color Theory for People Who Code

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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code

seriously, the guy has a point

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I got metaphorically spanked a couple of days ago. Folks have been talking about the Fearless Girl statue ever since it was dropped in Manhattan’s Financial District some five weeks ago. I have occasionally added a comment or two to some of the online discussions about the statue.

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Gregory Fallis

You’re eating recursion!

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How a bullet turns into a beep

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Here’s a minor mystery:
echo •
That last character is U+2022. Select that line with the mouse, right-click, and select Copy to copy it to the clipboard. Now go to a command prompt and paste it and hit Enter.

You’d expect a • to be printed, but instead you get a beep. What happened?

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Raymond Chen (Microsoft)

Would You Edit Your Child’s Genome?

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Idea Channel

Code Quality 3

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XKCD

Dan Q found GLQXF927 Arnside Viaduct (revived)

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Found without difficulty before a cross-bay walk. Had to hang around for a few minutes to find a muggle-free opportunity to enter the GZ, but sitting on the grass had made it easy to work out where the container was in the meantime. TFTC!

Dan Q found GLQXDQBE Bzb – BR

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Nice easy find while on the way to catch a train. Good hiding place for keeping safe and dry! TFTC.

Dan Q found GLQXBVZP Shopperholics Paradise – Deepdale MK II

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I remember when this was all… well, not this! Strange to come back to a town I lived in on the 80s and see how much has changed
Found without difficulty. Totally room for a bigger container here: perhaps worth an upgrade! TFTC.

Dan Q couldn’t find GC64G35 Time for a cup of tea and a biscuit

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No luck despite an extended search (we hadn’t seen the recent DNF logs at the time). Suspect muggled some months ago. CO: want to check and/or mark as unavailable?

Dan Q found GLQX5W4D My Oooooooold School

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Took a little walk to find this from my mother’s house while visiting from Oxford. Lovely container! TFTC.

Dan Q found GLQX5RN4 Church Micro 5673 … Deepdale

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Used to live just around the corner from here! On a visit back, my mother and I took a walk out: I to find this cache, her on a “pokewalk”. Found without difficulty after a few minutes search. TFTC!