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- Good Troll
It appears that simple astrological and extraterrestrial trolling is tremendously effective from this thread. Note my own inability to resist chiming in. It was as if I was compelled to respond. This guy might or might not be serious, I don't spend enough time on K5 anymore to know who's a troll and who's not. If he is, well done. Simple and just logically flawed enough to draw me into responding. One thing's for sure though: neither rmg nor Tex are trolls anymore (excluding dupes). What's the effective lifetime of a troll/crapflooder account, about a month? These two are like two old heads bantering back and forth - they're the new duxup/MrQ of K5 (and everybody knows now - don't say anything bad about MrQ).
Story Idea I might write a program demonstrating bezier curves and how they're generated, and then create an article around that. I want to learn about them, and having a purpose for doing so makes it much easier to do. The thing I'm not certain of, though, is whether K5 is the site I want to post it to or not. I'm really convinced that a site where the authors got paid could work, which brings me conveniently into my next point.
Meta Wankery Rusty, instead of this "friend of a friend" system, why not use the world's unique identifier? Require that a user register with a credit card number. This keeps kiddies out, makes unique bannination possible (or at least more likely) and would make it easy to accept payment from people if they decided to buy premium memberships or donate to authors. I would be very explicit in mentioning that no charges, now or ever, would be levied on the card without the user's express consent. I don't see why this system would be unworkable. Anybody want to tell me differently?
Cool Programming Metaphor This site gives a Python recipe for Future Threads. It's just a wrapper around a thread, but it makes threading mind-numbingly simple. To create and start a new thread running function "func", just do F = Future(func, arg1, arg2, ...) Then, when you need the result of the thread, instead of doing a join, you simply doresult = F() If the thread isn't done, the calling process will block, just like a join() statement. Nothing too fancy, but it's a nice way to think about it.
Cleavage It's the first real warm day outside around Philly, and I live on a college campus. As you know if you've had the pleasure of living on campus for the spring's first warm day, that means one thing and one thing only. Cleavage.
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