Episode 37: Funky Languages

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User question: Should I move to silicon valley?


Intro Topic: How do startups work?

News

• View github pull requests directly from gmail (From Bence)
• https://github.com/blog/1891-view-issue-pull-request-buttons-for-gmail
• Rust 0.12.0 released
• https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-October/011267.html
• Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion
• http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_significance
• Github student developer pack
• https://education.github.com/pack

Book of the Show

• Jason: Impro for Storytellers: http://amzn.to/1sMohKv
• Patrick: The Android’s Dream (John Scalzi): http://amzn.to/1wHkOL0

Tool of the Show

• Jason: Open Broadcaster Software https://obsproject.com/
• Patrick: Plex https://plex.tv/

Funky Languages

• Whitespace
• Language entirely composed of tabs, spaces, and newlines
• All non-whitespace characters are ignored
• Can be embedded in text or code from whitespace-ignoring languages
• ArnoldC
• Most keywords & system function calls are replaced with Arnold Schwarzenegger movie quotes
• Code:
  IT'S SHOWTIME
  TALK TO THE HAND "hello world"
  YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED
• Velato
• Midi input
• Musical notes
• Hear your programs
• http://esolangs.org/wiki/velato
• Piet
• Input is a bitmap
• http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html

Listener Contribution: Rejection Sampling iPython notebook

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/rasbt/algorithms_in_ipython_notebooks/blob/master/ipython_nbs/statistics/rejection_sampling.ipynb

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