Archives week 24 of 2004
June 14, 2004 - June 20, 2004
The pernicious influence of puzzles (Almost an hour wasted on this so far...)
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Vindaloo.
Got an email today telling me about a TTC puzzle to try and find ~70 English words (no-abbreviations, proper names, contractions, etceteras) formed from just the letters in "TRANSIT". I've got 54 so far (stop reading if you want to try the puzzle yourself):
a, I,
an, it, is, at, in, as, nit,
tan, sit, ...
Eric3 wins the day (With just a few little nits)
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Snaking.
Eric's code editing is just about perfect; the default keyboard mapping is almost identical to PythonWin (AFAICR only comment/uncomment are different), it deals nicely with TrueType fonts (but it doesn't, for some reason provide bold versions for those fonts which don't have an explicit "bold" version, which is annoying, as my favourite editing font is ...
Eric3 wins the day (With just a few little nits)
Written by
on
in
Snaking.
Eric's code editing is just about perfect; the default keyboard mapping is almost identical to PythonWin (AFAICR only comment/uncomment are different), it deals nicely with TrueType fonts (but it doesn't, for some reason provide bold versions for those fonts which don't have an explicit "bold" version, which is annoying, as my favourite editing font is ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.