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jbumon Puzzle for Hackers: From A to craZy.

Google 'accition' to find the answers in paste bin.

jbumon Announcing perl1line.txt - A collection of handy Perl scripts

Agreed - one reason why I still love Perl so much, despite its obvious warts.

jbumon How to Draw a Circle

CG pioneer Jim Blinn wrote an excellent article which provides a myriad of ways to do it.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1435623.1436274

It was republished in his excellent collection of essays "A Trip down the Graphics Pipeline"

jbumon Flying Car (and 0-60 in less than 4 seconds!)

It's not a flying car, it's a driving plane.

jbumon Face Detection on iPhone (including source code)

It's perhaps worth pointing out that this software is for detecting the presence of any old face, not for detecting a particular face, such as you or Osama Bin Laden.

jbumon A Netbook that makes you go wow

Not news. Thinly disguised marketing ploy.

jbumon [dead]

That is one talkative corpse...

jbumon Prog21: Puzzle Languages

The author seems to be equating "puzzle languages" with "languages that are very different from the languages I am comfortable with." In other words, it's a classification which is very relative to the experience of the observer.

The languages he describes as "not" puzzle languages are all spiritual descendants of C and Algol, which is a very familiar idiom to many of us.

I imagine that Forth is far less of a puzzle language for Chuck Moore, it's inventor, and that he might find Ruby a bit of a puzzle.

jbumon Half of US Doctors Routinely Prescribe Placebos

...and the ones that don't are doing their patients a disservice. Placebos are safe, and can be surprisingly effective.

jbumon Reddit vs Hacker News traffic

Google trends is useful here:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=reddit.com%2Cmetafilter....

I left digg off, because it so high that it pushes all the others down into the noise...

jbumon Is Perl Difficult?

Is this article flame bait?

Hmmm... Let's read the following posts and find out!

jbumon The Broccoli Programming Language

I too was looking for a simple "about" page. Correct me if I'm wrong, but here's my description:

This is a lisp-like language whose principal purpose is to help the creator of the language thoroughly understand how programming languages (especially lisp-like programming languages) work.

jbumon Which is your favorite 70-80s computer book?

"Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley.

jbumon Ask YC: What is the best way to learn Perl?

> write as much code as you can

Can't agree with this one enough. Also, it is better to write a lot of small scripts, than to write one big one. They will be easier to debug, and you'll get more done.