The Linux Launderette
[OT] One for Ben: pTerry made his own sword
Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:25:12 +0100
http://www.news.com.au/technology/terry-[...]-meteorites/story-e6frfro0-1225926584339
'Pratchett, who has Alzheimer's disease, also said he had thrown in "several pieces of meteorites - thunderbolt iron, you see - highly magical, you've got to chuck that stuff in whether you believe in it or not".' ... 'He said: "It annoys me that knights aren't allowed to carry their swords. That would be knife crime."'
-- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.
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The programmer hierarchy...
Jim Jackson [jj at franjam.org.uk]
Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:36:51 +0100 (BST)
Dunno if people have seen this...
http://blog.linux-lancers.com/images/articles/2008/10/28/programmerhierarchy.jpg
I have no wish to start a programming langauages war[1], and only offer it
up as amusement 
Jim
[1] but it really is remarkably accurate in all sorts of ways :-P
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The Web is dead, apparently.
Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:46:14 +0100
On 18 August 2010 20:42, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> JS without Ajax? Awesome. Next up: Assembler to DOS Batch File Language > converter. The conversion is 100% accurate, but the output feature is > still in development...
Not quite what you mentioned, but not a million miles away:
http://www.secretgeek.net/dod_intro.asp "DOS on DOPE is the modern MVC framework built on the awesome power of Batch scripts."
-- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.
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Statistical Machine Translation, with rhyme
Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:06:45 +0100
Discussed here:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2673
("it's too bad that they didn't set the system up to match the actual
norms of English metered verse")
they mention this:
http://research.google.com/archive/papers/review_in_verse.html
a review in verse
-- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.
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