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A physicist, an engineer and a programmer were in a car…

By probabilityZero | August 15, 2009

A physicist, an engineer and a programmer were in a car driving over a steep alpine pass when the brakes failed. The car was getting faster and faster, they were struggling to get round the corners and once or twice only the feeble crash barrier saved them from crashing down the side of the mountain. [...]

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Python Code Completion in Vim

By probabilityZero | May 7, 2009

Using RopeVim you can achieve this very easily.

Install python-vim and mercurial with your package manager. In ubuntu, you would type this:
sudo apt-get install python-vim mercurial
Download Alexander Artemenko’s easy installer script. Save it from the web, or copy+paste the contents into a new file.
Navigate to the directory you saved the script to (in the command line… [...]

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Yahoo Pipes is actually kinda fun, but not very useful

By probabilityZero | February 7, 2009

If you haven’t heard, Yahoo launched a tool that allows non-programmers to build mashups (web applications that combine data and/or functionality from more than one source) by dragging boxes and lines together in a (usually) intuitive visual interface. I played around with it for a while and made an application for listing one’s XFire statistics, [...]

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Adventures in Flash gaming

By probabilityZero | January 22, 2009

I’ve been working on a little Flash-based shooter for a while now. The game is a fairly standard abstract vertical shooter with some nice visual effects and music. Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like right now:

Once it’s done it’ll be posted on crawlingspirit.com.

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Amusing computer science quotes

By probabilityZero | January 5, 2009

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. ~ Alan Kay
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code [...]

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Helpful online Python tutorials

By probabilityZero | January 4, 2009

I’m studying JAVA in school, but I’ve always felt Python was a more fun language, and I always recommend it to friends wanting to try programming for the first time. Here are a few good resources that can help you get going in your attempt to learn Python, whether it be your first language or [...]

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