Hacker News: albertcardona

Asynchronous Cellular Automata in Erlang

albertcardona — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:10:40 +0000

Article URL: http://eric_rollins.home.mindspring.com/async/asyncCell.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1981061

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Conway's Game of Life in Erlang

albertcardona — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:01:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/fitzgen/life/blob/master/life.erl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1981038

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by albertcardona in "Pencil balancer in 2D, using very fast silicon retina cameras"

albertcardona — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:37:47 +0000

Don't miss the silicon retina cameras by Tobi Delbruck, used for the pencil balancer:

http://siliconretina.ini.uzh.ch

Pencil balancer in 2D, using very fast silicon retina cameras

albertcardona — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:36:09 +0000

Article URL: http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~conradt/Projects/PencilBalancer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1953717

Points: 24

# Comments: 3

New comment by albertcardona in "Unbelievable balancing robot - stabilizes an articulated inverted pendulum "

albertcardona — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:01:25 +0000

Pencil balancer in 2D, using very fast silicon retina cameras:

http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~conradt/Projects/PencilBalancer/

(The cameras: http://siliconretina.ini.uzh.ch )

New comment by albertcardona in "How a programming language documentation ought to look like: clojuredocs"

albertcardona — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:47:25 +0000

It has a search function.

I has example code and comments. Just like http://php.net did and which gave it enormous popularity and ease of use. What the docs don't explain a comment or an example clear it up.

The clojuredocs author knows the site needs to become even better. I thank him for what the site already delivers.

How a programming language documentation ought to look like: clojuredocs

albertcardona — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:26:18 +0000

Article URL: http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/defn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1922666

Points: 83

# Comments: 34

New comment by albertcardona in "Algorithms and Data Structures by N. Wirth [pdf]"

albertcardona — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:18:58 +0000

With Google Chrome and other browsers reading PDFs directly inside the browser, there isn't much point for scribd as an embedded reader.

Quantitative easying explained

albertcardona — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:23:05 +0000

Article URL: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1321625.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1914900

Points: 28

# Comments: 39

New comment by albertcardona in "Generating code from natural language is closer than you think"

albertcardona — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:32:00 +0000

... but a certain precision of thought that is easiest to teach just by teaching students to program.

Thank you, you have just pointed out a likely cause for my improvement in writing scientific papers. I learned how to program.

Dr. Tae: Depersonalization 101 (at University)

albertcardona — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:42:23 +0000

Article URL: http://drtae.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1911312

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by albertcardona in "When we got to the scanner, I opted out. Then they opted out."

albertcardona — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:28:52 +0000

The actual letter from Prof. John Sedat and others, UCSF:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ost...

New comment by albertcardona in "The Python IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions"

albertcardona — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:04:57 +0000

Regarding the "if thr wr any", and the rise of Haskell and Clojure, I wonder whether such caveat applies any longer.

As for content of the Python IAQ, I've enjoyed learning about two python idioms I had never known possible:

1. The ternary conditional operator:

x = if else

2. Using or to assign an alternative value when the first is False or None

x =

The Python IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions

albertcardona — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:34:46 +0000

Article URL: http://norvig.com/python-iaq.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1897330

Points: 83

# Comments: 36

New comment by albertcardona in "Ask HN: How do I give my son a head start?"

albertcardona — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:50:39 +0000

Meta: interesting that you think HN will exist in a recognizable form by 2028. 18 years ago, the web looked very different. I wonder what will we call "web" in 2028.

New comment by albertcardona in "Life and How to Survive It (2008)"

albertcardona — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:48:31 +0000

Fantastic read. One sample:

" It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable."

(The Anna Karenina principle, in other words.)

New comment by albertcardona in "Apple deprecates Java"

albertcardona — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:39:08 +0000

GTK is trying to get there. Gimp was ported to MacOSX GTK--haven't checked in a while the state of the port. The Inkscape dev team at least has high hopes that GTK will become stable for MacOSX.

http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/

New comment by albertcardona in "The reverse job applicant"

albertcardona — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:51:27 +0000

I did a reverse job application once. I put a "hire me" link in my webpage, leading to 3 sentences about what I wanted. It worked--the webpage presented a small piece of software, and I was hired to write a bigger version of it. It led to my current job today.

New comment by albertcardona in "Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP"

albertcardona — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:43:17 +0000

A few weeks ago I visited the Acropolis in Athens for the first time. To know that, about 25 centuries ago, Euripides and Sophocles presented their premiers in there, at the theater of Dionysos, suddenly gave a pile of rubble an extraordinary sense of purpose and meaning.

I admire the wit of Taleb to call Mandelbrot a Greek--in this modern world of very Roman panem et circenses.

New comment by albertcardona in "Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP"

albertcardona — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:41:23 +0000

That reads like "Slaughterhouse five" by Vonnegut.