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Glad to hear the book is still a work in progress! I was a bit disappointed when Amazon canceled my pre-order.

I wouldn't want to apply there. My desires for world domination are entirely rational.

Is 9 taken yet?

Speaking of Bush and third derivatives... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics)

You know that's on purpose, right? Different browsers have different defaults. Therefore, the easiest way to ensure consistency is to start from a clean slate and be explicit.

Oh nice! If so, then I'm glad I signed up for Amazon Prime. I'm still getting an iPad, though :D

This post makes an interesting point about the nature of co-operation in competition. It sounds very much like the Nash equilibrium in game theory.

Hmm. It's very nice, but in Chrome I can't figure out how to make the video play in full-screen mode.

Don't forget about Johnny von Neumann! Read his biographies too.

The referenced paper on deliberate practice by Ericsson has been linked on HN many times before.

Here's a link I found on Google: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti...

This piece stands in stark contrast with how computers are received in Go. Past the beginner level, you are discouraged from playing a computer player at all, lest you pick up bad habits that will hinder your progress later on.

Although, admittedly, this is because Go AI hasn't progressed to the level where it can defeat professionals at all, much less consistently. Once this happens, I can only begin to imagine the level that will be attained by some future kid with plenty of time to practice against such a formidable opponent.

Leading spaces aren't much of a problem, but aligning comments on the right-side is much harder due to the variable widths of each line. And even if you align them in your editor, they'll be misaligned for people who use fixed-width fonts. Does that make any sense?

More like "assemble a web browser in python", IKEA-style. Still, this looks like a nice and easy way to build your application's help browser, among other things.

NumPy

I made both tall, but you can still win if you build up enough speed. The collision detection needs to be improved :-)

Any sources for that? I know Lua is often used as a scripting language in 3D games since it is very easy to embed a Lua interpreter into your game. If you haven't seen it, you should take a look at the lua source code. It's beautiful.

Essentially, you are making a nice internal API to your engine objects that you can manipulate, and experiment with, on a higher level without recompiling your application all the time. Python is also nice for this purpose (see OGRE 3D), but it's not as lightweight as Lua.

So in a sense, it's better to use Lua for parts of your engine that will change a lot, depending on what aspect of the engine you are a focusing on at the moment (like tweaking how the enemy A.I. works, for example). This is especially useful at the prototype stage of your application.

Is that what you had in mind, or am I mistaken?

The mob is sated....for now.

Any chance you could implement a "Mail HN Link" similar to what Tweetie 2 does for "Mail Tweet"? That would make it really easy to forward HN links to a number of friends.

If you haven't seen that feature of Tweetie 2, it's awesome. It embeds the tweet itself, along with any relevant links, in an html email. Oh, and most importantly, sending the email doesn't require you to quit the app.

I suppose you'd be embedding the story title, description, a link to the HN thread, and of course, the link to the original story.

> What do I win?

100k, apparently. Since you know how to win, go for it!

Yeah, because ghosts are physical corporeal entities that couldn't possibly be in the same place at once :-)

It would be also be nice if the list of steps wasn't displayed all at once, but more like a lazy evaluator (Show-Me-Next-Step?). That way you can let Mathematica lead you for a bit, but then still be able to proceed on your own without too much guidance.

Then again, knowing the answer ahead of time doesn't really hurt since understanding the steps in between is what matters.

Of all things, they forgot to mention the nano-Dijkstra, the standard measure of Hubris.

INTP.

More than 100 years after Tesla worked out his prototype, I'd say it's about time!

They forgot to mention that 6 is afraid of 7.

Nice journal! I should start one for my next major project.

I'd heard of Goodreads before, but was already using LibraryThing.com by then. Now I'll have to take a second look at goodreads and see what's new.

Incidentally, does anybody know if there's an easy way to transfer books between those two sites?

Oh believe me, I've customized both extensively. My annoyances are extremely minor, but annoying nonetheless.

I also recommend this one: http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html

I definitely take advantage of the Emacs daemon, and use emacsclient extensively. However Viper just doesn't cut it for me, since I rely on a lot of vim plugins (as Locke1689 pointed out) for extra functionality. It's not just the keybindings or the modal interface.

But hey, these two programs are great. I've tried other IDEs, but always end up coming back to one of those two for real work. Some things are easy in one and annoying in the other so they complement well.