Catalog (/λ/)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em_tDc1Gc40

https://www.fstar-lang.org/#introduction

This looks extremely cool. It has dependent types and SMT solver to prove code correct, uses monads for effects.

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Let's have a thread about containerization and sandboxing.

I love the idea of compartmentalizing things to increase security. A program that runs in a chroot generally wouldn't be able to see anything outside of its designated area - it's exactly like the matrix.

I'd been using a chroot to run my a web browser with flash player inside for a long time. Recently I've set up an LXC system (linux container) which is supposed to give stronger seperation than a chroot (it isolates more than just the filesystem).

I also use virtualbox for Windows XP (and Dosbox for DOS) - you can do all kinds of things like carefully select which USB devices get through to it, what internet it has. Unlinke a chroot or LXC, you are really running a sepearate OS kernel.

As with anything in security it has two sides: Feel free to discuss chroot breakout attacks, how a lxc container that has X forwarder could key log the host system and so on.

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https://medium.com/@evnbr/coding-in-color-3a6db2743a1e#.56zigp1qh

I just read this article and wondered what lainchan thought of semmantic highlighting vs syntaxic highlighting ?

I think ssemantic highlighting could be a great help to avoid hours of debugging because of a typo in javascript, but I feel like it wouldn't matter that much in other languages. What do you think, lainons ?

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A Call for collaboration on a Lisp Type-2 Hypervisor Environment

Most of us have heard how amazing the Lisp machines of the 80s were, an operating system dedicated entirely to human-computer interaction and abstraction.

What I've noticed that myself and other lisp hackers end up doing is living out of an CL+Emacs ecosystem, bringing environment variables into the runtime from async shell calls, SBCL native handles etc, into S-expressions or M-x commands which turns these hooks and system objects into objects in our lisp environments.

I do this with my browsers as well, bringing DOM objects in from javascript compiled to from ParenScript Lisp (Common Lisp -> Javascript)
https://github.com/olewhalehunter/kommissar

This is all fine and well until you want to run your system on another machine or your computer crashes and you find yourself setting up your desktop from scratch.

I propose we collaborate on abstracting Linux system hooks, various windowing environment utilities, and any command line programs we use into the SBCL runtime, creating a portable Lisp virtual machine with the possibility of bootstrapping an even more powerful version of Emacs from the result.

Macros can then be created at a system level, we can even bind statistical data on command usage and create command topologies to speed up personal automation or even collaborate on distributed machine learning/AI systems.

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Lisp General: A Big-City Language

This is the Lisp General, ask any and all Lisp questions here. Below is a link to the general's pastebin which contains many links to various books, documentation, websites, and other interesting information.


>Check the pastebin first:
http://pastebin.com/u/g-lisp-general


>Read the FAQ:
http://pastebin.com/aDfDm5sZ

>To foster discussion:
Which dialect do you prefer?
Do you use Emacs or a different lisp-based editor?
What was your first experience with lisp?
What have you made in lisp?
What is your favorite Lisp program?
What do you like about Lisp?
How do you think Lisp is (one of) the superior programming language(s)?
How long have you been programming in Lisp?
What are your favorite Lisp resources? Please share, preferably links!
Is Lisp your main programming language or not? Regardless, what do you primarily use it for?
What would you like to see in the Lisp general?
What was your favorite aspect of the Lisp machines?
Do you think we'll ever get something similar to the LispMs again?
What is your preferred method of documenting your code?
In the dialects that allow it, do you make many reader macros or not?
Do you use more than one dialect? What are they and which do you prefer?
What do you consider the criteria for what constitutes a Lisp to be?
What is your favorite function in your chosen dialect(s)?

Challenge:
As painful as it sounds, make something neat with X11.

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Why do you like CS/CE, Lainons?

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Learning Python

A lot of the online resources for learning Python are aimed at total beginners.

I've comfy with programming in a variety of languages. What's the best source to learn Python?

Of course, the best place is the official guide, but I am also looking for other resources.

Thanks!

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Programming Challenges

The Programming Challenges thread is a thread where we'll try to post regular, simple challenges for everyone to give it a try and post their solutions.

>Which languages should I use?
Use whatever you want or feel the most comfortable with.

>For what purpose?
This thread is supposed to provide us the oppurtunity to improve our skills by both practicing and reading other peoples code.
In the spirit of everyone learning collectively, feel free to ask questions about anything in other peoples code you can't figure out yourself.

>But I don't know how to program.
No problem, get started with one of these excellent books:
Learn Python the hard Way: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good: http://learnyouahaskell.com/
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf

>You have an idea or want to help us come up with one?
That's great! Just post your idea in here or come hang out with us on #learnprog on freenode.

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The Beginner's General

This is the Beginner's General for beginner's questions.

If you have a simple question and a suitable thread doesn't already exist, just post it here and someone will probably try to answer it for you.

Remember to do some research before asking your question. No one wants to answer a question that a simple search can already resolve.

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Is it good taste that makes the great programmer?

You can frequently hear mathematicians talk about the beauty of certain proofs and the whole of mathematics. Some even claim that to be a good mathematician, knowledge and skills are not enough, you need a sense of aesthetic pleasure in mathematics.

Is there something similar in programming? I can certainly appreciate the beauty of well-written programs and notice the ugly. But it is actually important? Shouldn't it just work?

If it's actually important, we are doing it so wrong. Very few courses or books talk about beauty, and even if they do, it's syntactic at best. It would also mean that we need to focus a lot more on collecting, studying and imitating great code.

What do you think?

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Hey lain. Thanksgiving just passed, so let's be thankful. What's done software your thankful for?

For me it's django, notepad++, terminator, and just Python on general.

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Haskell Tips & Tricks

Let's have a proper Haskell thread!
Post learning resources (beginner & advanced), neat tricks, stuff you wish you'd have known about sooner or simply talk about Haskell projects you are working on.

Currently reading the Haskell WikiBook at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell
I personally prefer it over lyah since lyah lacks exercises (I still skim through it since it is fun to read).
I also plan to work through "Thinking Functionally with Haskell" by Richard Bird, are there any opinions on this?

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Java General: Unlimited Virtual Machines Edition

Any and all Java questions and discussion here. Do RTFM when in doubt. If you did RTFM but are still confused or it didn't have enough classes to get things done, this thread is for you.

>RTFM
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/

It's a big language that tends to cause a lot of frustration when least expected, while still being one of the most demanded skills in information technology.

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Volafile Room

https://volafile.io/r/kUFzLJ

Come on in, share something with the others, Lain.

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Books

What books should every programmer read?

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In Depth Morphis testing

So I used to communicate with the programmer of morphis but hes disappeared for about 2 months now. Morphis didnt get any press coverage and barely has anyone who knows about it.

Morphis already works as a distributed datastore and deprecates email. There is a distributed, fully encrypted, email replacement built into morphis and you can upload anything. morphis detects when you upload html and allows you to create free distributed webites.

I think it'd be really smart for lainchan to look through the code and experiment with it and test it out because this has huge potential but was barely ever given a chance.

https://morph.is/v0.8/

lets share some uploads here and see how fast it can get when we have a lot of connections. also, share Dmail keys.

To run download from morph.is extract to a folder, open terminal in folder and run ./run.sh

if you need sqalchemy use pip3 install sqalchemy

also check the readme

heres a wallpaper for your troubles

http://localhost:4251/qhq8w779ysbebkgxzxq9gryucmjb54kcexaryu9epoa1xaet9d5j4awdmqduykkcb3or6ksz963ecdydqk43n1c3p1inf771rn58qyr

if you install the firefox plugin you can use morphis:// i believe

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Secure dark cloud OS

What if you had ChromeOS, but...

* all documents were stored on a distributed darknet like freenet, or in LAFS grids?
* all messaging apps and systems were secure by default (tofu), and could be verified to get from default to known secure?

This is more engineering than lam, but how could this work?

Pic not related.

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Living in the fast Lain

I'm making a Visual Novel, and was wondering if anyone would be interested in contribooting.

It's about Lain Iwakura, a Japanese exchange student who transfers to MIT. When she arrives, she meets none other than her classmate RMS. They develop a complex, almost abusive relationship with interesting dynamics.

Plus it has 100% of your daily recommended memes.

Living in the fast Lain.

Any suggestions are highly welcome!!

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C hacks thread.

Post some cool tricks in C or Makefiles

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Programming Folklore

What are your favorite programming folklore stories? Stuff like the 300 mile email, the MIT magic/more magic switch, the first computer bug, etc. Here's a fresh one straight from my job:

We were working on a kernel-level video codec driver for Windows. Our demo method was to stand in front of a camera and move around, holding up different objects to see how it looked on our sample application. It worked great when it was just us, but whenever our boss's boss came over and stood in the frame, the PC would bluescreen. He would give us some time to work on stability and come back, and inevitably, the driver would crash as soon as he came in to demo.

After several occurrences of this, we finally figured it out. Our bosses boss, you see, typically wore bright striped shirts. Our codec was variable bitrate and performed best with simple colors and few patterns. Somebody brought in a shirt with bright stripes and put it in front of the camera. Instant crash.

We budgeted a buffer of 100 or so milliseconds of video with little wiggle room. When bright colors and patterns were encoded, the bitrate increased dramatically and the buffer overflowed, crashing the driver and bringing Windows with it. We increased the buffer size and the problem went away.

I'd love to hear if my fellow /lam/das have any similar experiences.

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Text Editors

Let's talk about the text editors we use.

Do you use a common editor or something more exotic?

Are you using an exotic form of a common editor?

What are you looking forward to in future editor development, currently?

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Haskell vs F#

Should I pick up F# or Haskell?

I really like C# and I want to be a C# developer later, but right now I'm looking into functional programming as a hobby, could you help me decide, lainons?

F#
+I can use .Net
+Closer to my original domain of knowledge
+The company I'm interning is using it, could earn me plus points if I go for full-time here
-Not purely functional
-Questionable application outside the windows realm

Haskell:
+Great, sexy syntax
+If I could not get work advantages from F# I would instantly choose this
+Community seems cool, many tutorials and resources
-It is said to have a steep learning curve, not sure if I will be getting the kicks out of it

Could you list some more pros/cons for me, from the programmers point of view?

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So, anyone else here who like to read old "obsolete" books on programming?

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OO Language Discussion

What do you think about Object Orientated (OO) languages? What are their pros and cons? Do they add unneeded complexity without any unique advantages or do they empower programmers to think in an abstract way while reusing code?

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Programming for Hardware Projects

Perhaps I've been looking in the wrong areas, but it seems that most common programming guides instruct new users the basics, then how to design software for use in phones and computers; phone apps, operating systems, macros, calculators. All of the aforementioned things are great and I use them every day. However, my immediate reason for teaching myself to code is to design automated and remote-controlled versions of production systems such as greenhouse pH and humidity controls.

Are there any recommended books or guides explicitly for writing programs that communicate with non-computer machines? I'm currently learning both C and Python for this purpose.

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hi, lainons.
i just recently got a flash cart for my gameboy, & i've been searching for an lr35902 assembler for freebsd or os x, but so far, all of the information i've found is unreliable, any help?

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Happy Dennis Ritchie Day, Lains!

Pay respects to your lord and savior for creating the greatest language of all time: C.

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"Not for commercial use", what does that *really* mean?

So there's a really sweet commercial IDE that's free when you doesn't use it for commercial purposes. So you use it to code easier.

Then your iOS or Android program is ready and you re-compile the source code it on compiler that doesn't have the same restrictions.

Anyone with two co-operating brain cells can realize that you used the non-commercial IDE to make it easier for you and only used the other compiler in order to not make any formal errors.

So when will they charge money? After you started make money on the program?

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C++

Didn't see a C++ thread, so thought I'd start one.

What's λ working on?

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Good Programmers

How do you tell a good programmer at a glance?

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anyone got a good book (PDF) on ARM assembly?

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Has anyone worked through SICP completely? How long did it take you? What do you think about it?

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Lainchan Homepage Project

Hello /λ/ainons

I've been talking to Kalyx about the homepage and about the /all/ problem where lainons just go to all and only post on those threads.

This thread >>4618 gave me an idea.

If we could have a homepage with posts mixing /all/ and /random/ we can have people see what is being talked about and also what other interesting threads their are An old thread is NOT a dead thread . and then /news/ will be dedicated to all news that has ever happened and for urgent matters we have site wide announcements.

I am willing to pay $25 in BTC to a lainon who works on a board where it goes 1 /all/ thread, 1 /random/ (/random/ not /r/) thread so on and so forth.

I'll pay $15 for it to be useable and then the next $10 for bug fixes, etc.

Having the homepage be this /all/ + /random/ page will also present exactly what the site is about to anyone who stumbles upon lainchan.

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Golang

What do you think about golang? I've started learnig it and it looks good to me so far.

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Stupid Questions

Going to kick off this S.Q. General with a request idea - (2 threads in 1 as I did not want to make one just for a request)

Being a retard I can't program at all... But I have a shwayyyy idea for a little programming project - some might find this an interesting challenge and I expect it is not a hugely hard program!

The idea goes like this:
(was something I did in a pseudo way for my degree show at art collage yrs ago - on 7 x 286 machines in very low res).

Make an application that draws every possible pixel combination on the screen (B+W only (for now) 640x480).

In the drawing of every pixel combination (which will take forever minus a day) there will be every bit of information ever - text, images, photos, diagrams, RAW PCM of every audio too!

Hence I called the work Silicone Monkey!

Any Takers?

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Ideas for not yet (well) implemented solutions

I am starting my Bachelor's project on IT stuffs in a small team (4 guys) soon and we wanted to have a little project going on the side.
We don't have an idea yet on what to do, so I wanted to ask you guys, what computer related problem/wish do you have that you have not yet found a good solution for?
Or do you have an idea on a program that needs to be improved on or that does not yet exist? We would want to open source it.

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How do you find out what you are trying to do actually is...

Certain things are easy to program, because the problem is well understood beforehand, or it's easy to split it up into parts that have little or nothing to do with each other, or maybe it's programming for fun and the final result is not that important.

But some times, ...there is a sense of need to completely design the system beforehand, to cover the edge cases without needing to redo half the program halfway in, because it needs to be able to do that thing as well, which changes everything. To get it right from the very start. Even if Murphy ensures the futility of that goal.



I tend to draw/write sketches that I never read, which is just as well, because they are never documented enough that they make sense, should I actually forget what I was thinking at the time.
A lot of the time it seems like I redraw the same sketches with few or no changes each time I think of the problem.



How do you do it?

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Descending Into the Lower Levels

I've been meaning to make this thread for quite a while now.

Let's discuss the programming languages that are further down the abstraction ladder than the heavily abstracted languages popular today.

Most importantly, let's discuss languages and programs written in them that don't require an operating system to function or even computation expressed as in my image.

So what do you like about them, Lain? The assembler languages, Forth, among other languages and all that, are all interesting and welcome discussion points.

What I prize most about all of this is how you gain a real understanding of what modern computation is from it all. So many people program who don't know how these things actually work. You can't be good at anything without an understanding of what that thing actually is. So many people also don't have any variety in what they mess around with.

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Programming Language categorization

Can someone help me sort these programming languages based on paradigms (functional, OO etc.) and main use (scripting, internet etc.) into sets?

Set A (at most 4 sets):
C C++ R C# ObjC Java Perl PHP Ruby Python JS CSS Scala Shell

Set B (at most 4 sets):
Haskell Clojure Erlang Lua VB Go Swift Arduino XSLT Coffeescript Matlab Groovy PowerShell

Set C (at most 6 sets):
SQL XML Delphi ColdFusion ASP F# Prolog Dart Fortran Truescript Tcl OCaml Processing Rust D Pupet Actionscript Tex EmacsLisp CommonLisp Scheme

Pic as in my home town

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Math for CompSci Guide

Has anyone attempted to do this guide from 8chan? https://8ch.net/prog/res/3034.html

It seems pretty tough, but apparently worthwhile.

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Daily Text Editor War

What are ya hacking with, /λ/?

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fuarrrk javascript.

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Calculators for programmers

HP-16C is the only HP calculator for programmers. However, some calculators, such as the HP-42S, has incorporated its functions.

The company SwissMicros (aka RPN-Calc) has released clones of the HP Voyager series.

My questions are:

Have any Lainon been hepled in their programming by using a HP-16C or any other HP calculator?

Has any other companies released calculators for programmers?

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Simple mobile application.

Give me some ideas, please.

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Why does so much software suck so much?

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So, I found this Programmer Competency Matrix:
http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/

How well do you do on it, /λ/?
It's more Industry centered, which makes it pretty worthwhile to check it out.
I think those might be the criterions a future employer might judge you by as well.

I've found that there've been a few categories, where I ended up being Level O, because I didn't pass Level 1, but the higher level criterions applied to me.
Kinda frustrating.

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Operating Systems / Kernel Development

So, I've been working on developing my own i686 kernel, and I thought I would see if anyone else has had a go at operating system development. If not, who is insane enough to want to try?

My main issue at the moment is getting interrupts, well, working. Fun stuff! I would like to see what the rest of /λ/ thinks.

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==Stupid / newbie question. (Bad english, sorry)==

Is there a way to automatically set an object variable as its instance name?

ex:

//Create instance
Pawn p1 = new Pawn("white");
System.out.println(p1.getName()); //Will print p1

-
Pawn is an abstract class of Pieces which has the var:
String name;
String color;

and Pawn's constructor atm is:
public Pawn(String color) {
super("", color);
}

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Microsoft seems to be steeping their game up! They now have a non-Visual Studio code writing application, and it'd available on Windows, Mac, and even Linux!
It's pretty nice, also free. Try it out!

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Language Design and Implementation

I failed to see a topic on this already, so I thought I would start one on programming language design and implementation. It seems the Compiler discussion atrophied so I thought I would add implementation into the mix.

== Resources ==

> LLVM Language Implementation Tutorial
http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/index.html

> Implementing Programming Languages
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/year/2012/course/DAT150/lectures/plt-book.pdf

> CPython internals: A ten-hour codewalk through the Python interpreter source code
http://pgbovine.net/cpython-internals.htm

> Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd ed)
https://mega.nz/#!sp8BUSRL!okEt_Eo3h7RtvfZm6bIcmRuZqMo0fiJky9MIye4Tz7U

> Essentials of Programming Languages (3rd ed)
https://mega.nz/#!Z8cEHDIS!L96la8aeeai2sZx7Nij4XPlxNUpaKGznKcxrNrIYpjI

> Modern Compiler Implementation in C
https://mega.nz/#!Y5tC1IhA!sesyVwxWBMG0TC1R9C6DuOqzWhUG4XmhIsOlGbPSHTQ

> Compiler Optimization and Code Generation
http://bears.ece.ucsb.edu/class/ece253/compiler_opt/c1.pdf

> Garbage Collection Algorithms
http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep521/07wi/prj/rick.pdf

More to come

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What habits should each coder have to make his programing as clean, effective, good as possible?
I'm just starting to learn programming, Python on 2.7, and want to develop good habits from the beginning instead of adopting them later and possibly having to get rid of bad habits.
any ideas?

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Feedback to CatChan

I released CatChan script which equipped a virtual board function.
Try and enjoy it. You can download it from BETA.
https://raw.github.com/Dogman8/CatChan/develop/CatChan.user.js
Any feedback is welcome.


Easiest way to use:
1. Click 'settings'.
2. Click 'load default', 'Click(I want to ... now)' and 'Click(...for lainchan)'.
3. Reload.
4. After 5 secs delay, it starts to scan entire site, generates virtual boards and show them. This takes 5-20 secs.
5. Click #XXX to on/off virtual boards. They are toggle buttons, so you can select multiple boards.
6. After 10 mins delay, auto updater will run and color tags if they have new posts. Favicon is also changed, and popup shows counts of unread replies to you, unread replies, threads which have unread replies, threads in the virtual board, boards to which these threads belong respectively.

How it works:
You can add tags to a thread when you post #XXXX in your comment. CatChan scans all posts in all thread in all boards, aggregate, and shows it in catalog. Tags are bumped and discarded in usual manner. Details are configurable.

Virtue of virtual board:
You can choose which thread belong to which board. And also threads can belong to multiple boards. You can make virtual boards at any time. This gives extreme flexibility to threads. Threads can move between boards at any time virtually.
Virtual boards function is a super-set of 'physical boards', which is used now. If you limit max num of tags to 1; threads can only inherit a tag which has the same name of physical board. In this limitation, virtual board system is equivalent to physical board system. Virtual board system is a search engine by user tags simply.

Note:
Other information are available in below, but they are obsolete.
https://8ch.net/scriptcdc/res/59.html
https://8ch.net/scriptcdc/res/61.html
https://8ch.net/scriptcdc/res/63.html
https://8ch.net/scriptcdc/res/58.html

Status:
Now the script needs to be debugged still, but basically it works.
Bug reports are also welcome.
Threads are sorted by 'Last reply' now even if you set it 'Bump order', because catalog doesn't give bumped time, so I had to scan to get them and I haven't implemented yet.

Compatibility:
It works well in lainchan and 4chan.
It works but too slow in 8chan.
I haven't debugged in Krautchan.

Tags for example:
#CatChan, #virtualBoard

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how much of an undertaking would it be to make an program a open source infinit alternative?

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Let's design a lisp

Alright lain let's design a lisp. Why? well for fun. Besides, we all dislike *some* aspect of whatever lisp we are using so, why not get together and try to agree on a lisp with which most people can be happy?
Who knows, if everything goes well we might even implement and make it lain's official lisp dialect.

What features would make the perfect lisp?
lisp-1 or lisp-2? (I'll vote for 1)
typed? lazy?
object system?
hygienic macros enforced?
continuations?
what else?

I'd too suggest that there be some facility to "glue" programs from other dialects for true portability. Though I can't think of a good way to do it now.
Any ideas?

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Gopher Holes

So I recently learned that the Gohpernet is still a thing. I thought this faded out of existence when I was a kid.
How do you access these sites? Do you install old Netscape or something?
How would one go about making a gopher website? Could you host it from a basic (non-VPS) hosting site?

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Your favorite programming IRC channels

Title says it all. What are your favorite programming IRC channels,lainons?

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So, I find that I suck quite badly at math, especially when it comes to computing and things like combinatorics and set theory (in general any math). other than Khan Academy, anyone have a good way to beef up these skills? I was thinking project euler, but even challenge one kinda gave me an anxiety attack. Thanks in advance.

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Lua

Hello guys.

Let's discuss this beautiful scripting language right here.

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Greetings to the User

Here's a challenge I find more interesting than the fizzbuzz seen so often: Greetings to the User

You are to write a program that does the following:
Print "What is your name? "
Read input from the user.
Print "Greetings, %s." where %s is the aforementioned input.

Try to make it as small as possible for more fun. Let's see who can write the shortest solutions in the different languages.

Forth (65 chars):

." What is your name? "pad dup 9 accept ." Greetings, "type ." ."

Common Lisp (65 chars):

(princ"What is your name? ")(format t"Greetings, ~a."(read-line))

Emacs Lisp (58 chars):

(format"Greetings, %s."(read-buffer"What is your name? "))

I consider this to be a better metric for judging languages than the simple hello world. It certainly shows more characteristics of the language.
I wonder what variety we'll see here.

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Papers Thread

Let's share some good papers!

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Graphics Programming

Graphics general didn't fare so well on /g/. Lets see how it goes here.

Thread for
- OpenGL
- DirectX
- Mantle
- Vulcan

and the practice and learning thereof!

Some resources for getting started:

- https://open.gl/
- http://www.tomdalling.com/blog/modern-opengl/
- http://antongerdelan.net/opengl/
- http://ogldev.atspace.co.uk/
- http://opengl.datenwolf.net/gltut/html/index.html

Got any graphics projects going lains? Any tips for newcomers? Need help? Let's hear it!

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Reverse Engineering: Because Programming Shouldn't Always be Forward

I've started learning about reverse engineering, and I thought it would be a interesting to create a thread about it.

Currently I'm reading Grey Hat Python, which is pretty neat. It teaches you how debuggers work, and works you though creating your own.

Also, to any mods reading. I don't know what the proper board for this would be (I think /cyb/ works). So feel free to move this if you want.

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Your scripts

Why don't we have a scripting language showcase thread?

What did you write today, lainons? (And why?)

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freelance programming

what are some good websites for freelance programming?
any lainon has any experience?
how do i start?

R: 8 / I: 0

Storing data in pi

I've been reading about this and I found it very interesting, thoughts?
Also encryption/compression methods based in irrational numbers.

Related:
>https://github.com/philipl/pifs
>http://www.angio.net/pi/how.html
>https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/867302/using-decimals-of-pi-to-store-data
>https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/42464/are-there-any-compression-algorithms-based-on-pi

R: 18 / I: 1

bugfix

O great /Lambda/ will you please find it in your hearts to fix the newest bug on our board software?

https://github.com/lainchan/lainchan/issues/40

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Is it allowed to change the counter variable within a for loop in ANSI C?

Example:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
int i,a;
for (i=1;i<5;++i){
scanf("%d", &a);
if (a%2==0)
printf("value is correct: 2%d\n",a);
else {
printf("try again\n");
i--;
}
}

    return 0;
}

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bibeo bame brobramming

Does anyone have any good reasources on game engine programming? I find it a fun topic to mess around with.

Also, game programming general since the last one died.

R: 17 / I: 1
who /elixir/ here?

R: 0 / I: 0

stickies gonna stick

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