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Comment on The Geekiest Hello World by pajai

pajai — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:07:16 +0000

Hi Ben!

hey, that’s cool your version in Python.

Cheers!

Comment on The Geekiest Hello World by BenP

BenP — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:00:24 +0000

gah not formatted properly, but you get the gist…

Comment on The Geekiest Hello World by BenP

BenP — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:59:29 +0000

Ha cool, my turn…

class Hello:
def __getattr__(self,name):
print(\Hello \ + name + \!\)

h = Hello()
h.pat

>> prints \Hello pat!\

Comment on Self-Reproducing Program in Groovy by pajai

pajai — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:23:53 +0000

@Alex

I was wondering also if there was an easier way to do it, as you suggest, to have a way to reference the source file. Of course this would work only for script languages (which are not compiled). Groovy is a bit in between, since it is normally compiled to byte code, but there are also ways to execute (after on-the-fly compilation) a groovy source code.

@Ben

I recon. But it’s an interesting problem (I think).

Comment on Self-Reproducing Program in Groovy by BenPorter

BenPorter — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:25:20 +0000

Wow, that’s so nerdy Pat!

Comment on Self-Reproducing Program in Groovy by Alex Schröder

Alex Schröder — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:25:35 +0000

Much less geeky but always useful was Perl’s ability to refer to the source file, allowing you to trivially write CGI scripts that print their own source code. Excellent for software licensed using the GNU Affero General Public License.

A simple example I wrote myself a while ago:
http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/m20-hard-core-characters

And the Affero license link:
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

That’s the license used by Laconica, for example.
http://identi.ca/

Comment on Ubuntu Nano Backspace Problem Fix by Rowan

Rowan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:38:26 +0000

Thanks for this! It was driving me nuts.

Comment on New Mix: Electro-rock to Minimal by BigCat

BigCat — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:47:17 +0000

It’s been a long time … I’m impatient to discover the next exquisite mix delicately brewed by Pajai …

Ph.R.

Comment on Better Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac X11 Apps by Pete

Pete — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:02:53 +0000

Answered my own question. It appears that leaving “Enable key equivalents under X11″ checked allows me to use command for both Mac and X11 functions. Command-~ works, and Command-Q will quit X11, but Control-Q can be used to quit individual programs.

I’m not sure what other effects this checkbox will have.

Comment on Better Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac X11 Apps by Pete

Pete — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:50:53 +0000

Hi,
One small problem that this introduces is to make the command key not behave in the default “Mac” way. For example, I can’t hit “command-Q” to quit, but more importantly, I can’t hit “command-~” to switch windows.

Do you know if there is a way to retrieve this functionality? Obviously, one could switch control to map to command (the converse of this hint), but this would be unintuitive as well. I wonder if command could take on both roles?

Cheers.