The code I posted this morning is nothing I'd ever show to a prospective employer. It is sparsely commented, convoluted, and nearly impossible to expand. All I actually wrote of it last night was the part to prune down the source tree, so that the best-rated categories weren't being spammed out by a bunch of one-hit wonders while leaving good bands ( Read more... )

Greasemonkey. GnuPG. Gmail. Does this sound like a winning combination to anyone else?

Would it be infringing or just a pun to call it eniGmail?

[edit] The more I think about it, the more it seems like 1) this would need to be an extension in its own right, and 2) it would be a project I would much rather someone else attempted.

I have an idea for a toy program. Essentially, it could automatically generate interesting grammatically correct sentences with interesting properties (such as minimal sentences containing every character; think "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"). All it needs for input are a BNF grammar for the language in which it is working and a ( Read more... )

Imagine a computer game. Imagine that it had wonderful gameplay, packed with features--say it's on the par with a big name game like The Sims 2 or Halflife 2. However, you had to interact with it via a text console in a manner reminiscent of the ancient Adventure and Zork games. Would you play it ( Read more... )