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I've only written three articles, but the one I worked the hardest on and I thought had the highest "neato"-factor(*) had the fewest likes (and those were from friends being polite).
(*) I won't point it out to you because a big part of it was me learning how to hand-roll a parser, and that would make your brain asplode.
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if you wrote TinyPG, props. It's a pretty good little LL(1) parser but i don't think that's the one your talking about.
We all learn at some point. I'm learning to write B+ trees (the kind used in primary key indexes in an RDBMS)
So I don't judge. Recently I released a little web server project here that only served one client at a time. Whoops. I had to write a whole new article and direct everyone to it. Unfortunately my flop was very popular.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I would have used regex replace to do that, but to each their own.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I considered that, but regex operates on a single string. For this application, an LTTL formula operates on an arbitrary collection of strings.
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i mean, loops. but yeah, okay.
I made a lexer with rules to handle that, but it all works using regex, and in this case would have to be modified in order for the rules to do replacements. It was never really intended for that, but just probably because I already developed that if it were me I'd extend that and approach it from that angle.
As I said, to each their own.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Should you never order pea soup from a waiter that loves puns?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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If you do urine trouble.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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And the waiter would be in deep sh*t!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"Waiter, there's soup on your fly."
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You should also not ask him/her/it for a good wine.
If your name happens to be Mark, you should definitely not ask him for three quarks!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It has often been said to newbie cooks: "A person who cooks carrots and peas in the same pot is very unsanitary".
But, also beware of asking for 'leak soup' from that waiter!
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"two hot dogs franks sausage inna bun* to go!"
(* dibbler specials)
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lopatir wrote: sausage inna bun Is that really KSS ?
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I have mentioned before that I am an Edge/Bing (now Bing beta) user most of the time. I also use Chrome/Google for some stuff, usually when I can't find what I want from Bing. I use IE for financial stuff, because my bank has given me free some high security software for it, and I have Firefox for checking sites if they are not working properly.
I am, you my say, an equal opportunity employer.
For the last week I have been frantically Bingleing some fairly esoteric techy stuff and was getting nowhere - except sites that MS or Google wanted me to go to. (Insert various pachydermial Soapbox expletives here).
Out of frustration, and while consuming a cup of Orange Pekoe, I recalled I had installed Vivaldi a couple of months ago. I quickly updated it, configured it to my liking, and set up DuckDuckGo as my default browser and home page.
Within two hours I had found more useful stuff that I was looking for than in the previous week with Bing and Google. Finally I have a search engine that finds the sites I want rather than those which pay the search entity the most, and a browser that stops elephants from following me all over the web.
... though it may have been the tea...
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bing? really?
now I know who is the other* guy that uses bing.
(* not really, joking, I use startpage/duckduck or maybe google ...so you are the only one.)
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I wrote exactly the same thing here a few days ago. Duckduckgo just gives you results.
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I didn't click a single story in today's daily news email but felt so compelled to tell everyone about this. Maybe this will make tomorrow's "Your say!" list. Even the cartoon wasn't funny, I was cringing when I saw the final frame. Does anyone still put a laptop on their laps? I remember radiating my nether regions on the frequent!
/=ë\/er9ô5 (shout out to the BBS days)
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Michael DeMutis wrote: Does anyone still put a laptop on their laps?
Yes.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I have failed you.
Now Chris will have us executed at dawn, per our employment contract. But first, we need to work on tomorrow's newsletter!
TTFN - Kent
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My 10 year old (189,000 miles) Suzuki SX4 is on its last "wheels" -- transmission problems, exhaust problems, and starting to sound like engine is giving up the ghost soon. So it was time.
Fuel mileage is almost 3x what I was getting with the Suzuki, especially on the commute to work which is 45 - 55 MPH, mostly flat, and a surprising amount of the drive is purely on electric power.
Very
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You've got your priurities right
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Marc Clifton wrote: 45 - 55 MPH
Can the Prion already drive by itself? I would fall asleep if I had to crawl like that. I thought the days where you had to sneak around like that were over. Provided that the weather is good and not too many eggheads roll around in the way, I love to drive at 130 MPH or a little more.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Quote: I love to drive at 130 MPH or a little more. I really miss living in Germany sometimes. One of the hardest things when I moved to the US was the highway crawl.
Worse than that, I moved to Tulsa, OK where they seem to think that any speed over 45 MPH in the middle or left lane will cause irreparable brain damage!
In some cases I observed, I can believe that is actually true!
I remember doing an 880 km (550 miles) trip in under 5 hours including two stops for petrol and one for a sit-down breakfast!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Every day on my way to work, I find myself walking faster than the traffic. I suspect that all those motorists are dreaming about being able to go at 40MPH!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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