At first I was all how am I going to deal with the order of operations? and I thought about maybe creating a parse tree.
That seemed excessive, especially when I thought about how simple calculators usually work, from a usage standpoint. Which was okay, even good, but how to account for brackets. Or better, nested brackets?
There’s probably a real name for this method, but I don’t know it. Karl will definitely know? And if he doesn’t he’s lying.
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There’s a calculator on my cell phone. There’s probably one on your cell phone.
So I made one for my mp3 player (iRiver SPINN).
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I missed the 24th by two days! (I thought it was the 26th.)
Oh well, Bradicon2 has been live now for two months and two days, and has converted 32,821 icons, averaging ~513 per day.
Don’t know if you know this or not, but that is a lot of icons.
Relatedly, I have two (non-local) web servers. If either dies bad things will happen. Much will be lost. I will probably get yelled at.
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I installed VirtualBox the other day, to test out virtuals, and it completely killed my network. And continued to do so as soon as, and every time, it was started. Which was frustrating.
But eventually I stumbled across the sequence of words google needed, and was lead to a solution.
I downloaded ISOs for Gobolinux and Solaris 10, but onto another machine, since my wireless is unreliable. I mounted them from the network at first, which lead to problems whenever the connection cut out. My wireless is unreliable.
Once I copied them to a flash drive, everything went smoothly. They both also could use the internet right away!
So now I have a virtual Gobolinux and a virtual Solaris set up on this machine!
VirtualBox is pretty awesome!
So last week Jimmy decides it’d be smart to wear cleats while playing ultimate. It’d give him an advantage – be able to accelerate quickly with no thought to slip, instill fear for feet and shins in his enemies.
And then he runs right over my frisbee, punching a hole clear through it. Frisbee ruined.
I really liked that frisbee.
Whatever. I go to buy a new one. I want one as similar as possible in colour and design. No luck. Limited options.
I pick up a Frisbee. It doesn’t feel quite right. I voice the observation with words: this doesn’t feel right.
Whatever. I buy it.
Bring it home. Compare. It’s bigger than my other frisbees! Same weight, slight difference in size. Why would the manufacturers do this to me? There’s probably a reason, but I don’t know enough about frisbee classifications to say.
Classic form factor issue.
Yeah so I got a new computer. Don’t know if you heard.
It is pretty good at performing many simple calculations and in quick succession. Better than me at it, though maybe not so great an accomplishment.
I ordered the parts from newegg.ca. They all worked, and I was suprised. I figured, that many parts, odds are something will be defective. Pulled a Gladstone Gander.
So this computer, right? It has one of those intel rectangles in it for whatsit — processing? One of those generic looking i7 920s. It has 12 GB of RAM and two video cards.
It’s going to be terrible for developing on. I’ll write some code, and it’ll work fine. The frame rate will be reasonable, the computer will be happy, I’ll be relieved. But then someone else will try it out and manage ~3 frames per second. And three frames is just too few per second. It’s going to look bad.