Category Archives: English

Solving linker errors OpenThreads/Atomic on OSG projects on Mac OS X 10.6

I’ve just spent two days trying to figure out what was wrong with an OSG application I was not being able to build on Mac OS X 10.6. After importing all necessary OSG frameworks, I kept constantly getting linker errors … Continue reading

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Building OpenCV 2.0 on Mac OS X 10.6

I first tried it this way: $ cd OpenCV-2.0.0 $ mkdir build $ cd build $ cmake .. $ make But it failed. I got lots of errors when trying to link highgui to the Carbon libraries. The problem is … Continue reading

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Why Lua’s 0 (zero) as a true value makes sense

When I started to learn about Lua, I found it a little odd that the numeric 0 (zero) value is treated as a true boolean value by the interpreter, which was different from all other programming languages I had worked … Continue reading

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Creationism vs. Evolutionism

As a Christian, I’m just growing sick of that absolutely unfruitful discussion. I can’t stand listening to what theologians have to say, nor can I stand what atheists have to say. It’s all a huge load of garbage. Here are … Continue reading

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“Doppler effect” kitchen tiles

The tiles in my kitchen remind me of some Doppler effect illustrations I have seen:

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Understanding Bayes’ Theorem

Disclaimer: I am writing this because I finally understood how Bayes’ Theorem works. Therefore, this is much more a reference note to myself than anything else, but I am publishing the information here because I think it might be useful … Continue reading

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Ternary operator in Python

Here’s how you translate the following C code int max(int a, int b) { return (a > b ? a : b); } to Python: def max(a, b): return a if a > b else b The general syntax is: … Continue reading

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Using feof() and fread()

When reading single bytes from a file in C, one must pay attention to the correct usage of feof() and fread(). At first, the following piece of code seems to work correctly: const char *filename = "hello"; unsigned char byte; … Continue reading

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Don’t forget that virtual

I am not really a C++ programmer. I usually code in C, and I think all C++ I’ve ever written involved a couple of vectors and maybe one or two classes. So what I’m writing here is certainly old news … Continue reading

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SWI-Prolog Easter Egg

Found it by accident

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