bkil vs. programming

If you ever felt that Transport Tycoon or Railroad Tycoon made you do too much micromanagement, this is just the kind game for you. In trAInsported, your mission is to write an AI that optimizes traffic better than your opponents. Although, it makes me sad to see such an influential project being hosted via vaporware methods. Setting up any kind of free shared hosting and embedding the small dynamic scoreboard and match parts via an iframe would be trivial. Caching daily stats would also be a good idea. A simple solution would be to use github.io to host the site directly from the repository, which would be both durable and scalable. For the record, if anything happens to the project, here are some relevant pointers: Official (dynamic DNS) site and scoreboard  supposedly running on a Raspberry Pi Source code, documentation, wiki at  github Forum at  indiedb Introduction at  moddb History at  yellloh Summary at  love2d Featured on  indiega...

I've been hit by a nasty bug just as I'm planning to use Docs Templates. You will be greeted with the following error if you visit the Google Docs Template Gallery : "Sorry, an error has occurred. Please try your request again." It seems that they have been working on the issue for almost a month now: Google Product Forums › Google Docs › Templates A workaround for now is to visit a filtered view and then navigate using the types and categories on the left: Google Spreadsheets templates Neither the Docs, nor the Presentations type works for me, however any kind of document can be returned if you narrow by category instead and prune the type=... part from the resulting URL. You can also do the same trick with the search box.

The host of bkil.hu has decided to switch servers and inform me only afterwards with an e-mail that got into the spam folder for most people. You get what you pay for. That means my secondary private mail addresses gave bounce messages for about 60 hours, sorry about that. I only check them when I have time. By the way, I found out all about this issue when running ping. It's a great habit of mine to do that daily. Actually, I have a trivial script running in the background to endlessly send a ping packet to bkil.hu once in a few minutes to keep my wireless links active for dumb access points. Too bad I rarely check its output in detail. That just gave me an idea! ;-)

Note that checking multiple options is allowed in both polls. I forgot to post an entry about it, but one of my most die-hard readers has already noticed! Actually, I think the majority of my readers have already voted... XD The low readership is expected because of many issues with the articles, like the abstract, specialized, mostly time-invariant knowledge and language. I believe that to reach as far as possible, especially of such narrow-scope material, you need to write in a suitable language. Toki Pona and Lojban would have been my second choice... ;-D

I am considering to mirror a statically generated version of this blog on my homepage. The reason is that some countries and many employers have unconditional blocks on the whole blogspot domain. I also plan to relocate my previous "new" homepage to my "final" homepage in a week or so.

Site update in keywords: fixed some typos in site_back and about_me, minor alteration to horner.hs, updated links with hsh and sequent_prover, added a fizzbuzz, major update to si.erl (0.2). On another note, I came across a nice fellow recently who has some nifty things tagged 'Haskell', like: http://porg.es/blog/generating-x86-assembly-with-haskell http://porg.es/blog/simple-socket-programming-with-haskell While browsing the blog, I have also found these indirectly: http://software.complete.org/software/wiki/hsh Haskell, bash, integration, very handy http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/monadic-shell.html UNIX shell vs. Haskell Monadic IO (I've noticed that before too! :->) By the way, anyone for a tiny sequent calculus prover base? http://www.polyomino.f2s.com/david/haskell/gentzen.html sequent calculus prover in Haskell And last, but not least: :-D main = putStr$ unlines [ n_or_label n | n<-[1..100] ] where n_or_label n = if ""/=label n then label n els...

I have added a few more insightful quotes. The Debian Lenny instructions got a slightly modified package list. I fixed a few minor bugs in the text while at it (ampersand missing and the like). Also added some sound related instructions.

I have done minor refactoring on "summa.erl": abstracted seq/2 and reorganized maps into list comprehension. Added links related to the firearm debate. Fixed some small distro related ones.

I put some of my new drawings in the collection, so enjoy! As I use the SI measure converter regularly, I have enhanced it's interface with the common function "convert". For example si:convert( 40,psi, bar) converts 40 psis into bars, or si:convert( 15,mph, kph) converts from miles per hour into kilometers per hour. si:convert(mph,kph) gives the scalar factor (1.6). Complex measures also work as usual, so you can query si:convert( {u,314,[ft,ft,lb],[s,s]}, {u,1,[n,m],[]} ). A bicycle related post or two is in the works. They're almost ready to be more exact.

I still need to get used to blogging. I have added some new creations to my ASCII art section last week. I have also done some major refactoring of the quotes - I added some more while at it. I have updated or removed a few broken links from my archive. I try to finish updating them in a month (or a few?), but progress is slow. The ones below the asterisks are left. I know how frustrating broken links can be, so I handle this with top priority.