Re: [fonc] retro-B5500 Burroughs B5500 emulator announces version 1.0

2014-09-30 Thread Josh McDonald
Cool! -- Enjoy every sandwich. - WZ Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald - j...@joshmcdonald.info On 1 October 2014 12:44, Leo Richard Comerford leocomerf...@gmail.com wrote: The announcement is at http://retro-b5500.blogspot.ie/2014/09/one-point-oh.html , the website is

Re: [fonc] Programming Language Theory Stack Exchange

2014-09-28 Thread Josh McDonald
For anybody interested in this sort of site: I while ago I found myself asking for something more frequently updated and less-demanding of a math degree than LtU, but without all the silicon valley VC navelgazing of HN. A friend pointed me to https://lobste.rs/ which so far seems to have a nice

Re: [fonc] Block-Strings / Heredocs (Re: Magic Ink and Killing Math)

2012-03-12 Thread Josh McDonald
Since it's your own system end-to-end, why not just stop editing source as a stream of ascii characters? Some kind of simple structured editor would let you put whatever you please in strings without requiring any escaping at all. It'd also make the parsing simpler :) -- Enjoy every sandwich. -

[fonc] Beats

2011-05-16 Thread Josh McDonald
Thought you guys would get a kick out of this YAML-WAV sequencer written in Ruby: https://github.com/jstrait/beats -- Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald - j...@joshmcdonald.info - http://twitter.com/sophistifunk -

Re: [fonc] Growing Objects?

2010-10-14 Thread Josh McDonald
I'd say the biggest problem is more in the selection than generation / mutation. In the world, it's easy to determine the winner - he passes on more of his genes. But if we've got two potential solutions, neither of which actually pass the test, how do we select which to continue mutating, and

Re: [fonc] Figuring out what you all want to hear

2010-03-11 Thread Josh McDonald
:41 AM, Josh McDonald j...@joshmcdonald.info wrote: Is the COLA talk available in a format people can still open? I haven't seen a RealPlayer file in 10 years, and frankly that's how I likes it :) I'm not re-encoding it. You can play it with one of the following -- Real Alternative