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By: Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:06:04 +0000

Hi Dan,

Hope you’re doing well! My name is Miguel Palma and I am contacting you on the purpose of integrating your OldSF project into our Augmented Reality (AR) browser “junaio.”

I know the images are owned by the San Francisco Public Library, but was wondering if you could give insight on how you got access to the images for free? We’re interested in doing the same, then mapping it out using an AR browser.

Please let me know if you’re available to chat and trade notes. Would be great to hear from you.

Miguel Palma
miguel.palma@metaio.com

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:39:57 +0000

Hi there,

LOVE YOUR OLD SF org site. Can you email me so I can ask some questions about how difficult it would be to set up the same thing or something similar for our Belvedere Tiburon Historical society? Thanks alot. Alan

By: Chitranjan V

Chitranjan V — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:30:21 +0000

Hi,

Do you have catalogue of all functionalities or features or capabilities covered in libraries?
If so can you let me know where I can find it? and
if not, can you create one?

I found draggable and sortable tables functions which was nice and quite useful.

Thanks and regards
Chitranjan V

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:54:08 +0000

I just stumbled onto your Perl/Ruby/Python thing at http://danvk.org/josephus.html and noticed that you prefer to use tabs over spaces to indent, and dinged Python for not allowing that. You can un-ding Python; tabs are perfectly legal. The only thing you can’t do is mix tabs and spaces for indentation, which is nuts anyway.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:47:27 +0000

Hi Dan;

I’m very impressed with your high resolution Buddhabrot render as I have just completed my own as well. I wanted to ask you what three RGB iterations you used for the high res one so that I can try to reproduce something similar.

You can read more about mine at: http://www.richardrosenman.com/project/?cid=224

Again, great work!

Cheers,
-Richard

By: Dave Inman

Dave Inman — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:11:19 +0000

I liked your Ruby, Perl, Python examples of the Josephus problem.

I ran each myself under Scientific Linux 5 with n=100
for the number of soldiers. Neither Ruby 1.8.5 nor 1.9.1p243 died of stack ailments. Perl 5.8.8, too, ran fine. Python 2.4.3, however, died of stack ailments. With n=85 Python ran. All but Ruby 1.9.1p243 were 64-bit executables.

I suspect some time has passed since your own tests were made and things changed. Thought you might
like to know.

By: Spencer Bliven

Spencer Bliven — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:53:35 +0000

Yet another Track Parser comment:

I ran into the same problem with regular expressions as Stefan Nowak, and wrote a patch for your script that seems to fix it. This doesn’t seem the place to say more, but feel free to contact me if you’re still updating it.

Twitter: antidemagogue

By: Vitit Kantabutra

Vitit Kantabutra — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:16:09 +0000

Thanks for your post comparing Perl/Ruby/Python. I’ve run into the same problem with Ruby’s puts as you have. I tried to find documentation on puts that would explain this but haven’t found it so far. Here, however, is my best guess… Ruby is a strongly-typed language, and since it expects only strings to be concatenated with other strings, it doesn’t allow concatenating a String with a Person, or whatever non-String object you were trying to concatenate with a String. However, if you were to pass a Person object directly to puts, that may be OK. It is quite imaginable that puts first tests its argument by calling the “.class” method, then convert the object into a String if it isn’t already one. Just my guess though.

By: onetimejunk1

onetimejunk1 — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:58:02 +0000

I have feedback for your Track Parser 1.3.1 script I want to email you however your readme listed email address and other simple logical possibilities bounce – please email me back and I’ll resend my feedback.

By: saLOUt

saLOUt — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:49:14 +0000

Hi,

hope this isnt be misplaced here…

I tried the python and ruby code from http://danvk.org/josephus.html
with these results on my linux system with an up-to-date opensuse:

RUBY, n= 200 !!!, m = 3:
Winner:
Person #128, alive

PYTHON, same parameters:
…
File “python.py”, line 21, in kill
if self.alive == 0: return self.succ.kill(pos,nth,remaining)
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

Things changed… you can chose the new winner.

Greets saLOUt