Month: May 2017
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A Constructive Look At TempleOS
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 640x480 covenant of perfection. Unfortunately Terry also suffers from schizophrenia, and has …
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How I Ruined Office Productivity With a Face-Replacing Slack Bot
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...
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15 Weird Things About Ruby That You Should Know
Ruby is an amazing language with a lot of interesting details that you may not have seen before...
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
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seriously, the guy has a point
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
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 … -
Would You Edit Your Child's Genome?
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Code Quality 3
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Found GLQXF927 Arnside Viaduct (revived)
This checkin to GLQXF927 Arnside Viaduct (revived) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. 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 …
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Found GLQXDQBE Bzb - BR
This checkin to GLQXDQBE Bzb - BR reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Nice easy find while on the way to catch a train. Good hiding place for keeping safe and dry! TFTC.
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Found GLQXBVZP Shopperholics Paradise - Deepdale MK II
This checkin to GLQXBVZP Shopperholics Paradise - Deepdale MK II reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. 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
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Couldn't find GC64G35 Time for a cup of tea and a biscuit
This checkin to GC64G35 Time for a cup of tea and a biscuit reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. 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?
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Found GLQX5W4D My Oooooooold School
This checkin to GLQX5W4D My Oooooooold School reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Took a little walk to find this from my mother's house while visiting from Oxford. Lovely container! TFTC.
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Found GLQX5RN4 Church Micro 5673 ... Deepdale
This checkin to GLQX5RN4 Church Micro 5673 ... Deepdale reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. 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 …