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Displayed name	Dintiradan
Member number	6670
Title	Guardian
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Homepage	http://dintiradan.ermarian.net/
Registered	Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00

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Looking into the future in Blades of Avernum
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Wednesday, December 20 2006 11:33 Profile Homepage #21 You might see something from me. You probably won't. I still have to make one scenario, let alone a contest entrant. :P -------------------- The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. - Edsger Dijkstra [ Wednesday, December 20, 2006 11:35: Message edited by: Dintiradan ] Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Career Choices in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Tuesday, December 19 2006 10:14 Profile Homepage #6 I want to be a travelling salesman when I grow up. -------------------- ... the question of whether Machines Can Think ... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim. - Edsger Dijkstra Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Merry Christmas! (Statistics 2006-12) in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Monday, December 18 2006 10:26 Profile Homepage #23 Funny, I thought high mod post counts were due to the mods getting up in the middle of the night, spamming shamelessly, then deleting their posts. -------------------- There are many different styles of composition. I characterize them always as Mozart versus Beethoven. When Mozart began to write at that time he had the composition ready in his mind. He wrote the manuscript and it was 'aus einem Guss' (casted as one). And it was also written very beautiful. Beethoven was an indecisive and a tinkerer and wrote down before he had the composition ready and plastered parts over to change them. There was a certain place where he plastered over nine times and one did remove that carefully to see what happened and it turned out the last version was the same as the first one. - Edsger Dijkstra [ Monday, December 18, 2006 10:27: Message edited by: Dintiradan ] Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Happy Hanukah in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Saturday, December 16 2006 15:00 Profile Homepage #17 Sinterklaas kapoentje, gooi wat in mijn schoentje, gooi wat in mijn laarsje, dank u, Sinterklaasje. It looks really, really weird to see that in print. I can say the words just fine, but wouldn't be able to spell them for the life of me. That's what Google's for. -------------------- Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent. - Larry Wall Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
The Spiderweb Art Movement. in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Saturday, December 16 2006 14:49 Profile Homepage #99 Is this based on that backpacking trip you were talking about? If so, which one's you? :P Hmmm... maybe I should write a story about my high school backpacking trip. -------------------- The Wildlife class went Kananaskis in early June, no doubt to enjoy a trip that was fun-filled and not monkey-poop-filled. Then the pass got snowed in, and they turned around and headed back home. THE END. Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Happy Hanukah in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Saturday, December 16 2006 11:26 Profile Homepage #15 By Thralni: quote: I, being Dutch, still see a great part of the Christmas tradition as a rip off of Sinterklaas. Santaclaus... from the north pole? Yeah, sure. Right. Why get elves to do your work when you can get cheap Spanish labour? :P I celebrate both pakjesavond and Christmas, actually, although Christmas is celebrated for religious reasons and pakjesavond is celebrated as an excuse to eat as much pepernoten as possible. -------------------- Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time. - Larry Wall Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Happy Hanukah in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Friday, December 15 2006 21:17 Profile Homepage #4 Out of curiosity, is the 'official' spelling Hanukah or Chanukah? If the mass letter from my MP is any indication, it is now bad form to mention one of Christmas/Xmas, Hanukah/Chanukah, or Season's Greetings without mentioning the other two in the same sentence. -------------------- Actually, I can't see you because I would rather poke out my eyes with a burning stick than open them right now. But, hey, whatever. - Roy (OotS #26) Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
So this is goodbye in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Friday, December 15 2006 11:02 Profile Homepage #36 By Nemesis: quote: Seriously. Whenever I run a Google search, half of the stuff it comes up with has nothing to do with the keywords. Maybe Google doesn't like me? Have you made a recent sacrifice to the Google Gods? -------------------- It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. - Edsger W. Dijkstra Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
8000: Pseudoscience Postravaganza in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Friday, December 15 2006 10:42 Profile Homepage #69 Forget the Patents office. It's sad when Popular Science (or was it Mechanics?) publishes an ad for a perpetual motion device. -------------------- In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included. - Edsger W. Dijkstra Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Looking into the future in Blades of Avernum
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Friday, December 15 2006 10:35 Profile Homepage #8 By Dahak: quote: Short Story Contest. 3 scenarios total, each having no more than 4 outdoor and 10 towns. All scenarios must exist within the same universe/plot thread, but not be continuations of each other (no chapter 1/2/3). The idea is to tell a full story, but by using short stories. Allows for dimension. Neat. It'd be better if you remove the 'can't be continuations of each other' criteria, 'cause that's what I'm doing now. :P Come to think of it, with one outdoor section and four towns (and one VTE), I fit in the 1/10 category as well. All I have to do is get off my lazy rear end and return to designing after a couple months hiatus. Again. (That, and finals.) I disagree with the idea of a comedy/parody contest as well, for reasons already stated. The BoE/AScenDesMo idea is cool. I'll just stand over here, crossing my fingers, hoping that the month picked doesn't overlap Crunch Time. (By the way, I can't find what the rules for the Pearl contest was. Anyone care to elaborate/post a link?) EDIT: Ah, thanks. Here I was, looking on the Lyceum. -------------------- APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. - Edsger W. Dijkstra [ Friday, December 15, 2006 11:05: Message edited by: Dintiradan ] Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
astring for Windows in Blades of Avernum Editor
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Friday, December 15 2006 10:15 Profile Homepage #9 Sorry, I view my Freewebs as more of a file server than a website. I've updated the index page and placed a link to astring. Just click on the WWW icon above my post. It works for me, so I can't help you any further (I can download this link by either left-clicking or right-clicking->save as). If that doesn't work, I can't help you. In all likelihood, I will not make my site pretty until I have something useful to host (i.e. a scenario). -------------------- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. - Edsger W. Dijkstra [ Friday, December 15, 2006 10:16: Message edited by: Dintiradan ] Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
8000: Pseudoscience Postravaganza in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Thursday, December 14 2006 12:26 Profile Homepage #60 Alright. I can see that. It's just that the one source I've seen stating that was so weak I was sure it was pseudoscience. If I recall correctly, it went along the lines that a number of rocks were found with a certain mineral makeup, and one (or more, I can't remember) had what was thought to be a fossil (later debunked). Therefore, Mars had life at one point. -------------------- King Ralph is dead. Long live King Ed. Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
astring for Windows in Blades of Avernum Editor
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Thursday, December 14 2006 09:24 Profile Homepage #5 ... Figures, I didn't mention once what the bloody program does in the above posts. Sorry. Supposedly, someone (Khoth, I think) made a program for Macs that would extract all the strings out of your scripts and place them into a file. You could then run that file through a word processor to check for spelling mistakes, etc. Then, you can use the program to re-insert the strings back into the original scripts. My program does that, but for Windows instead of Macs (although it could be ported with ease by changing one line of the source code). -------------------- Wow, that is such a stupid idea, I feel dumber just hearing it. - Roy (OotS #26) Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
So this is goodbye in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Thursday, December 14 2006 09:14 Profile Homepage #29 But of course, my dear Nioca. We must give esteemed Arancaytar's goodbye thread the respect it deserves. -------------------- Bah! That stupid chimera didn't even eat one of them! That's what I get for hiring discount mercenaries. Three-for-one deal, my bony ass. - Xykon (OotS #23) Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
8000: Pseudoscience Postravaganza in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Thursday, December 14 2006 09:03 Profile Homepage #56 As much as it pains me to admit it, far too much of Creationist studies relies on pseudoscience. Speaking of Mars, I'd like to add a request: cover the people who claim that certain meteorites come from certain planets based on their mineral makeup. I'm still waiting for an explanation on how rocks on Mars were able to spontaneously achieve an escape velocity of five kilometres per second. -------------------- Here's hoping the next comic involves a frigid radioactive enema. Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
"Where the Rivers Meet" bug in Blades of Avernum
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Thursday, December 14 2006 08:31 Profile Homepage #1 Huh. I had the same problem in the first beta version, but I was under the impression that the problem was fixed in the second version. -------------------- Elan! Stop doing dramatic musical cues for the dead chimera! - Roy (OotS #21) Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
So this is goodbye in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Wednesday, December 13 2006 15:33 Profile Homepage #26 By Nikki: quote: excited squeak By Nemesis: quote: disturbed grunt rude armpit noise -------------------- What? Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
astring for Windows in Blades of Avernum Editor
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Wednesday, December 13 2006 15:21 Profile Homepage #3 ... Yep, it's working now. Nevermind about the need for hosting. Yes, I know the code's ugly and sub-optimal. Once I'm over finals, I'll rewrite it so that file I/O is done character by character instead of line by line. Probably quicker, and then I'll be able to do things like convert between underscores and quotes. The only reason I did it line by line was because I had a similar project for school. Heh. Odd, I finish astring for Windows on a day that Khoth's active on the boards. EDIT: I don't know if it's AOL, SpidWeb, UBB, or Freewebs, but when I just click on the link I a second SpidWeb window. Right-clicking and saving the target seems to work. EDIT: A 'bug', of sorts. Only use astring on files that were created on a Windows machine. It only works on files that mark newlines as carriage returns and line feeds. When I tried astring on VoDT yesterday, I got a bunch of errors, since the lines in any file created on a Mac end only with a carriage return. There's absolutely nothing I can do about this until I rewrite the program to take in input character by character. -------------------- Ta da! [ Thursday, December 14, 2006 08:17: Message edited by: Dintiradan ] Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
astring for Windows in Blades of Avernum Editor
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Wednesday, December 13 2006 12:40 Profile Homepage #0 So I finally get around to rewritting my astring Perl script into C. It still needs a little work, so consider this a public beta. However, Freewebs refuses to let me upload the .zip. Says I can't upload .exe files until I've validated my e-mail, which I've done at least twice. It'd be great if someone could host it for me while I figure out how to get Freewebs to work (or more likely, study for finals, do finals, then find another free web-hosting service). If someone could give me an e-mail address to send to, that'll be great. EDIT: Nevermind on the need for hosting. See below. -------------------- Evan's Spiked Tentacles of Forced Intrusion!!! - Vaarsuvius (OotS #20) [ Wednesday, December 13, 2006 15:26: Message edited by: Dintiradan ] Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
So this is goodbye in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Monday, December 11 2006 10:48 Profile Homepage #8 I have a reliable source that indicates that Aran will never return. Indeed, he has decided to take this break after finishing a natural language parser. During the holidays, he will be passing through it not only every post he made that has been recorded on the PPP, but also his NaNoWriMo novels and the entire works of Lovecraft, Adams, and Pratchett. Due to be released early 2007, Arancaytar 2.0 will be virtually indistinguishable from the original. -------------------- I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. - Digital Typography (Donald Knuth) Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
Hoax? in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Monday, December 11 2006 10:38 Profile Homepage #22 I am a true believer, and therefore can see them. For some reason, though, I find it much harder when the image is on a screen instead of on a piece of paper. You know what's the real hoax? People claiming that UBB made the previous post in the thread invisible until after they made their own post. Don't believe them; they're just attempting to increase paranoia. -------------------- The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random. - Seminumerical Algorithms (Donald Knuth) Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
9 9 9 ? in General
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Monday, December 11 2006 10:31 Profile Homepage #18 You forgot the function.-------------------- Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
The Future of Blades of Avernum in Blades of Avernum Editor
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Monday, December 11 2006 10:20 Profile Homepage #41 By Kel: quote: The issue of a specification did come up once before (in a very unfortunate way), when people more knowledgeable about these subjects than I talked about it. Looks at page (November 1st, 2004): quote: Djur happens to be quite close to completing Pygmalion, ;) -------------------- Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer. - Sorting and Searching (Donald Knuth) Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
How about new BoA scenarios? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Monday, December 11 2006 10:15 Profile Homepage #3 By Kel: quote: After that, I'd like to spend some time re-writing the docs. Why, what's wrong with the docs? :P All LoD1 needs is around a week of hard work before I can fully alpha test it. However, I want to complete astring for Windows first (give me a few more days), and I've committed to Project Diki. Right now, Solaria! is nothing more than a notebook full of map sketches and plot outlines. Expect it to be released a week after Drakey announces the beta for RiB. -------------------- The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. - Attributed to Donald Knuth Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00
The Future of Blades of Avernum in Blades of Avernum Editor
Dintiradan Guardian Member # 6670	written Sunday, December 10 2006 10:44 Profile Homepage #34 So... basically what everyone wants is a BoA IDE. -------------------- I love the smell of bat guano in the morning. Smells like... victory. - Vaarsuvius (OotS #20) Posts: 1509 \| Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00

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