So you could say that a predicate slot is a shortcut for the <THE <> BLOCK> block in the Boolean slot?
EDIT: Had an extra ? mark at the end of my sentence :I.
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mythbusteranimator wrote:
dies to death
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I'm loving my new monitor, by the way! Three vim windows side-by-side...
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bharvey wrote:
Scratch and all its children
Now maybe that's how I should refer to "Scratch program or one of its derivatives"...
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blob8108 wrote:
bharvey wrote:
Scratch and all its children
Now maybe that's how I should refer to "Scratch program or one of its derivatives"...
Who's the mom? (or dad)
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mythbusteranimator wrote:
blob8108 wrote:
bharvey wrote:
Scratch and all its children
Now maybe that's how I should refer to "Scratch program or one of its derivatives"...
Who's the mom? (or dad)
Scratch needs a spouse to have children?
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bharvey wrote:
mythbusteranimator wrote:
Who's the mom? (or dad)
Smalltalk, or Javascript, or Flash, I suppose.
I smell an inter-paradigm marriage coming along...
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DigiTechs wrote:
So you could say that a predicate slot is a shortcut for the <THE <> BLOCK> block in the Boolean slot?
Sort of, except that if you actually did put a THE BLOCK in a Boolean slot, the procedure would get confused, because it's expecting a true/false value and instead it's getting a block.
I'd rather say that a Boolean (unevaluated) slot is a shortcut for an invisible THE BLOCK in a Predicate slot!
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blob8108 wrote:
Either you have really long arms, or that picture was taken from a really strange angle!
I'm glad to see that your taste in window background colors is better than your taste in text editors.
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bharvey wrote:
[Humo(u)rous reference...]
Aw, that's no fair — now we have to guess! (Though I like the multicultural spelling...)
Either you have really long arms, or that picture was taken from a really strange angle!
Both?
I'm glad to see that your taste in window background colors is better than your taste in text editors.
I hate you.
(Though I might try Emacs again one day, if someone writes some vim keybindings in elisp...)
EDIT: excessive smileys
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Happy birthday, OS X/Growl users!
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blob8108 wrote:
(Though I might try Emacs again one day, if someone writes some vim keybindings in elisp...)
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/VimMode
If the human mind can imagine it, someone has written it for Emacs.
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Jens wrote:
Sometimes you can also see their Latin counterparts
You see "binary" more often than "dyadic" in the computing literature. The problem with the Latin names is that they ("binary" especially, but Turing machines count in unary) have a whole different meaning as names of number representations, which is why Ken Iverson started a movement to get computer scientists to use the "-adic" names.
And there's really no good alternative to "niladic."
(EDIT: ... even though "niladic" is a linguistic mongrel, since "nil" is Latin!)
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bharvey wrote:
I knew that would be a thing.
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Today's crazy idea:
The Beauty and Joy of Computing team are planning a workshop for high school teachers this summer that will serve both teachers who are new to BJC and those who took our workshops in previous summers. (If you're thinking "I'm not a teacher," keep reading.) The way we'll serve both groups is this:
The workshop for new participants is six weeks, of which the first and last are face-to-face, with four weeks of taking our online course in the middle. The plan for returning participants is that they'd come only to the last f2f week, so it'd be twice as big, might have parallel threads, and will be a prototype for a possible annual Snap! conference.
Now, what we're talking about so far is a conference for adults, like Scratch@MIT as opposed to Scratch Day. But what if we had a kid thread too? We don't have hundreds of thousands of Snap!pers, so a geographically distributed Snap! Day would (at least at this time) be silly. But, umm, I just think it'd be fun to bring our gang together.
I know, it'd be expensive, and you all have summer plans already, but just the same... We're talking about the week of July 29-Aug 2, in Raleigh, NC. We can get dorm rooms for $20/night, one reason it's in NC rather than CA. Maybe a week is too long and we'll get bored with nothing to do, and should think about picking one day as Snap! Day, but otoh the airfare doesn't seem so expensive if it's for a week instead of a day.
If everyone were coming to Barcelona it'd be different, but hardly anyone can do that.
So, am I crazy or what?
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@bharvey That sounds fun, but it'd be pretty expensive, especially if I go to Barcelona.
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blob8108 wrote:
new monitor
Glad to see I'm not the only one with a nonretina MacBook Pro… I missed it by a month!
Happy Birthday
Now modify it to support notification center!
Doesn't it guzzle internet? I think a menubar app may be better (I can already see the stylized "S" character on my menu bar.)
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bharvey wrote:
I know, it'd be expensive, and you all have summer plans already, but just the same... We're talking about the week of July 29-Aug 2, in Raleigh, NC. We can get dorm rooms for $20/night, one reason it's in NC rather than CA. Maybe a week is too long and we'll get bored with nothing to do, and should think about picking one day as Snap! Day, but otoh the airfare doesn't seem so expensive if it's for a week instead of a day.
I already have one trip to the US sometime in May, so sorry.
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Hardmath123 wrote:
I already have one trip to the US sometime in May
Wait, have we been through this and I've forgotten? Will you be here before May 9 or after May 27? Why oh why did you(r parents) have to pick the month I'm in Japan?
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Actually, the trip fits neatly between those two dates.
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I bet I'll be in Berkeley at least once in the next 5-7 years…
EDIT: And there's a chance I make it into Sparc.
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