Living in Hawaii makes you aware of the shortcomings of the USPS. I received a Christmas present on April 17 (and yes, it was sent in December). A few weeks ago, we Express Mailed some x-rays to Oahu, a distance of about 80 miles as the sooty shearwater flies. It …
more ...::: {.Section1} Via a comment by Gregg Irwin, here's a REBOL-based control language \< ?xml:namespace prefix = o />for Excel by Robert Muench. (Wow, REBOL: There's a blast from the past!). Sample code:
goto cell "B6"
change to "Testing"
select "B7"
set to "=B4 \* B5"
select "A5:A9"
change to "=\$B\$5 …What with all the talk about language directions, I was thinking about a hobbyhorse of mine that spreadsheets are proven to be something that a lot of people "get" and that it behooves language designers to pay attention to them. Usually, I speculate about a spreadsheet-like development environment, but in …
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more ...We received a letter on the SD Times reflector with lines such as "you guys mindlessly regurgitating the marketing hype of the self-congratulatory X committees....X is essentially nothing but a tacit admission...that the previous 4 versions of the spec were nothing but an incredibly expensive series of mistakes …
more ...Can you just transform the scope subsequent to the callcc into a delegate, store it in your Continuation object, and then execute the delegate when it's called? Yes, you need compiler support (since you need to transform callcc() from a keyword or method call into the beginning of a new …
more ...casey mentioned that he wants to investigate augmented reality. Having played with the accelerometers on my M200, I'm leary of the challenge of maintaining orientation over many integrations in a handheld or head-mounted device. On a car, though, you can auto-orient using the GPS and a roadmap and there'd be …
more ...Anyone have experience using specialized input contexts with Java/SWT?
more ...I was thinking about buying the videogame "Star Wars: Empire at War" (not that I have any spare time). Anyway, I decided against it because I was sure, like most games, I'd abandon it after a few hours. And I realized that one reason I do that is because, unlike …
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