I am adding my entry to identicon third party implementations. I followed more or less Don’s algorithm, and, using the PIL, I have now a functioning identicon lib in Python. The results are not as good as the originals, but it should give you an idea. If you perfect it, I’ll welcome back changes.
Dot-Tunes 3.0 is out and Jeff has done an oustanding job. The new UI looks great – and the new web site too. The Flash player works on devices as odd as the Wii… I am proud to have worked as a code monkey on the internals of this nice piece of kit. Go to the web site, download it and give it a try!
Entendu dans un jeu télévisé à la con sur la 2:
Citez un métier issu des Compagnons du Tour de France.
Euh… Reporter?
J’vous jure…
Since I have been lapsing in my Erlang practice, I am playing with L-99: Ninety-Nine Lisp Problems, based on a Prolog problem list – which is fitting, since the first Erlang interpreter was written in Prolog…
I’ll post links to my solutions when I have enough – I have done P01 to P20, with the exception of P13. Feels good to get back in the groove…
Update
I posted some sample code in the comments, but here is a permanent link to the source code.
What I like in pat’s writings is that his view on things are always off-centre and interesting. He’s a fellow linguist, with the same curiosity and eagerness about languages as I think I have. And with this post on LOL, he provoked amusing, if slightly off-topic – as far as teh Internets is concerned.
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There’s something about this usage that seems “wordy” to me: for one thing, I find it difficult to avoid a comparison to Cantonese’s famous “tag” word, la
…which led me to dig into sino-XXX to see if I could find a funky sinogram equivalent… Cantonese doesn’t have final -L, but -T, direct from Middle Chinese, like Viêtnamese, so no love. [Sino-]Korean does have final -L, evolved from Middle Chinese -T, but there’s no [lol], the closest being [lal]: 剌 [clash, contradict] and 辣 [spicy].
So I went the Idu route, find a character that has the meaning of loud laughter, and found 3:
The first one is – in a “I really am off my rocker” way – a perfect candidate. 㘌’s Cantonese reading, kek, looks almost like a typo, and sounds like something having a derisive laugh, and it is based on 劇 kek6/ju4 – theatrical plays, drama, opera– and 口 hau2/kou3, the mouth, which is fitting… So there you go, LOL = 㘌.
㘌!