Comments for porges

Comment on Functional programming, APL and Unix pipes by Daniil

Daniil — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:39:12 +0000

Hey, nice post, but I would like to bring your attention to the fact that “~>” is not really a pipe operator. You see, what you do is basically this:
file ~> sort ~> uniq -c ~> sort -n
Which is not cool. If you want to be more pipish, you gotta do

(sort file) ~> urniq -c ~> sort -n, which is not really cool too.

Do you know, is there a way to make actual pipes in haskell?

PS: Sorry for my English, I am not a native speaker.

Comment on Rhythmbox Plugin: Stop after current track by yin

yin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:10:21 +0000

how do you set it permanently instead of having to click it everytime u choose to hear a song?

Comment on Normalizing your MP3 collection with mp3gain by Carlos Vieira

Carlos Vieira — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:40:50 +0000

The GUI frontend is called easyMP3gain, BTW.

Comment on Normalizing your MP3 collection with mp3gain by Carlos Vieira

Carlos Vieira — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:33:08 +0000

There’s a GTK frontend for mp3gain, aacgain and vorbisgain. I’ve found it on the Ubuntu repositories. Doesn’t work with FLAC, though.

Comment on Rhythmbox Plugin: Stop after current track by Maxe

Maxe — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:49:19 +0000

I love you.

It’s hard to say good bye, but now Rhythmbox is perfect. So i have to say good bye to Banshee, that was a good friend for a long time.

Comment on Computing with XSLT by mixcrazy

mixcrazy — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:21:10 +0000

Hi, I’m searching tutorials about the comparison between the concept of XSLT and functionnal programming. please help me

Comment on A quine in Haskell by tranto

tranto — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:50:25 +0000

This one involves less dark magic:

main = putStrLn (s ++ show s) where s = “main = putStrLn (s ++ show s) where s = “

Comment on Rhythmbox Plugin: Stop after current track by ievCe

ievCe — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:01:09 +0000

Thanks A LOT from me as well! :>.

Comment on Rhythmbox Plugin: Stop after current track by Tec5nical

Tec5nical — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:23:50 +0000

Thanks alot! Good job

Comment on Rhythmbox Plugin: Stop after current track by vana

vana — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:28:46 +0000

thanx a lot..

Comment on Implementing futures in C# by Porges

Porges — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:01:30 +0000

It’s worth noting that Future is now part of .NET 4.0

Comment on Implementing futures in C# by henon

henon — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:30:05 +0000

thanks a lot for this post! futures are making multi-threaded background initialization easy.

– henon

Comment on Rhythmbox Plugin: Stop after current track by Federico

Federico — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:01:25 +0000

Thx, I’ve been looking for this for a while.

Comment on Simple socket programming with Haskell by Prashant Borole

Prashant Borole — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:36:14 +0000

Nice. Thanks!

Comment on n-pivot quicksort by Porges

Porges — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:58:27 +0000

I’d also point out that this implementation isn’t particularly fast; note the call to ‘length’, for example.

Comment on A simple BigNum library for .NET by Mr Amazing

Mr Amazing — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:34:13 +0000

Just an FYI, but if anyone’s interested in a decimal / floating-point library for C#/VB/.NET I found “W3b.Sine” which is under the BSD license. http://codeplex.com/sine

Comment on Making Maya’s Python palatable by Porges

Porges — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:59:07 +0000

Yes, I never meant it to be more than an easier, or ‘more natural’ syntax-hack for those coming from Python. That’s why I named it “Wrapper”!

For what it’s worth, I ended up extending this to be a little bit smarter… for one thing this short example only affects the first object in the array returned by cmds.sphere. However, I don’t seem to have kept it (I just cooked it up for a short Uni project).

Thanks for your comments

Comment on Making Maya’s Python palatable by Rob T.

Rob T. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:10:53 +0000

Nice trick, but your comparison is not really fair. Your negative example is using the "sphere" command to get and set the radius attribute. Then, your code is little more than a string substitution into the setAttr and getAttr commands. Nice use of Python, by the way, but not a substitution for the "sphere" command. The actual Maya.cmds example that you are addressing is:

s = cmds.sphere()
r = cmds.getAttr( '%s.radius'%(s) )
cmds.setAttr( '%s.radius'%(s), 10 )

I'm not criticizing your skills at all. I've just had to diffuse a few viral e-mail threads at my studio claiming your Wrapper class is some sort of object-oriented Maya.cmds wrapper, when it only wraps setAttr and getAttr.

Comment on A simple BigNum library for .NET by Porges

Porges — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:26:23 +0000

Robin, A better route to take might be to have a look at the .NET 4 beta that is currently out; it has support for BigInteger arithmetic built-in (under System.Numerics). You could download the .NET 4 beta and use System.Numerics.dll, then just distribute that DLL with your code. As to the rest of your question, there is already support for RSA built into the .NET framework, or are you trying to write your own implementation as an exercise?

Comment on A simple BigNum library for .NET by Robin

Robin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:48:27 +0000

Hi Porges, I hope you’re still active?
I use Visual Studio 2008 for Visual Basic .. I can add the BigNum dll as reference (include the dll~) but at runtime it says it can’t use gmp.dll because it’s not a valid assembly or COM component :S I need BigNum for Visual Basic to handle RSA cryptography