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Bouke van der Bijl

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bouk··on Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine in 111 lines of Python
It's kind of a weird idiom because you end up with a class 'Position' inheriting from another class named 'Position'
bouk··on 100-year-old negatives discovered in Antarctic (2013)
Highest res images I could put together: http://imgur.com/a/zlGL8
bouk··on 100-year-old negatives discovered in Antarctic (2013)
Uploaded all of the images in the highest quality to imgur: http://imgur.com/a/zlGL8

Also added descriptions that I found in http://www.nzaht.org//content/plugins/gallery6/xml/gallery_2...

bouk··on Google Code Jam – Contest scoreboard
Three to four hours of practice a day is quite a lot, in comparison Johnny Ho (http://www.quora.com/TopCoder/Who-is-Johnny-Ho) only did about 1 or 2 a day while practicing for IOI 2012

Source: me asking that exact question to him at IOI 2012

bouk··on Google Now for Chrome
Thanks for the flags tip!
bouk··on Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight
Python has weird ideas about comparisons, I'm pretty sure it's the only language where this is possible: https://eval.in/113749
bouk··on 4 apps, one weekend
Oh man, Do Something looks like a great idea! Good job man
bouk··on How To Generate Procedural Racetracks Without Noise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk would be something that can be utilized for this
bouk··on Google just approved our first CyanogenMod phone
Yes, root access is system-level root access

A user that does not know what the security implications of root access are will most likely just click "allow" when presented with a dialog

bouk··on Dell introduces 28" 4K Ultra HD Monitor for under $1K, shipping early 2014
What's confusing about it? Apparently the 28" is cheaper to manufacture
bouk··on Why GNU grep is fast (2010)
This is not just because of algorithm and data structure though, it's also very well implemented
bouk··on From a Frat Social Network to a GPU Compiler for Hadoop
Cool story, and good luck with your company!
bouk··on Alcohol without the hangover?
The point is that he wants to open the conversation for other drugs that are generally illegal (like weed) but have (arguably) less side effects
bouk··on EU citizenship for sale
"the riots, car burning, head chopping" you're kidding right?
bouk··on Winning at Candy Crush
Yeah it's kind of unneccesary, I just wanted to see how fast I could get it :)
bouk··on Winning at Candy Crush
Also, my solution can easily do boards up to 30*30 or so
bouk··on Winning at Candy Crush
Remember Draw Something? That game that was sold for $180 million to Zynga? I wrote an API library for that in Python https://github.com/bouk/drawsomething-api that allowed me to just add coins (the currency they sell for real money) through simple API calls.

Good times

bouk··on Winning at Candy Crush
Nice! I did the same: https://github.com/bouk/rumble-solver
bouk··on Coin
From the FAQ:

Q. Does Coin support chip and pin (EMV)?

A. Coin is currently designed for the U.S. market and does not support chip and pin (EMV), however, future generations of the device will include EMV.

bouk··on Coin
There are already crazy small devices that accomplish the same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0w_ktMotlo
bouk··on Coin
Credit card theft like you describe is already possible and already happens
bouk··on How much revenue top companies earn per second
It's there: http://www.happier.co.uk/infogram/amount-top-companies-earn-...
bouk··on Rot8000 – Rot13 for the Unicode generation
Pretty sure it's meant as a joke
bouk··on The Slash Programming Language
Note that the creator of slash doesn't claim to be the 'PHP successor' that's just what the OP made the title
bouk··on The Slash Programming Language
What? Ruby works the exact same way. Pretty sure Slash doesn't make variable have an implicit value like PHP does
bouk··on The Slash Programming Language
Nobody is forcing you to switch languages, this is just a hobby project made by someone
bouk··on The Slash Programming Language
There's compilation and installation instructions here: https://github.com/slash-lang/slash
bouk··on The Slash Programming Language
There's an intepreter here: https://github.com/slash-lang/slash and you can execute code online here: https://eval.in/1471
bouk··on Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007
I think it was a glitch in Apache that made it spill out the sourcecode
bouk··on Golang Object Oriented Design
Yes, generics are not (yet??) possible in go
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