The title made me think of knitting needles with sensors that some home tied into a game but this textile printer is really cool. Imagine handing your classmate a custom-printed scarf during recess.
I don't think this "printed" in any recognizable sense of the term. From the picture, it was a non-electronic device which had one-directional communication with the console by mechanically pressing buttons on a standard controller. So presumably, you had to operate the thing by hand, and it would use the NES to give you feedback about what to do at each step.
Yeah I was wondering how it controlled the printer too, this makes more sense.
They could have had a hit if they added some more engagement for the user, make it like a game, you can get scores based on how good you followed the knitting instructions...
I use this setup on my laptop (mac specific). I have an ssh server listening on port 443 on a linux machine in the basement of some university somewhere.
.ssh/config
Host bouncebox
Port 443
/usr/local/bin/prox
#!/bin/bash
if [ $1 == 'off' ]; then
echo "Disabling Proxy..."
networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxystate "Wi-Fi" off
else
echo "Enabling Proxy on port 12345"
networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxy "Wi-Fi" localhost 12345
fi
It seems like he's using the term "third-hand" to refer to languages that merely undergo syntactic expansion in the process of translation to their target language. In the programming languages community, we often refer to this as a "desguaring" transformation, since when CoffeeScript is "compiled" to JS, the syntactic sugar is removed and replaced with JS that exactly replicates the semantics.
This is in contrast to Haskell, which undergoes a fair amount of static analysis and optimization before code generation ever happens. Also, GHC doesn't only output C, and doesn't even translate Haskell directly to C. Instead, Haskell is transformed into C-- code, and GHC can be made to target C to be compiled by GCC, as you say, or the LLVM intermediate representation, or, most commonly, machine code directly.
A JavaScript widget, browser plugin, or Photoshop filter to colorblindify, in various types, a webpage so that designers can check for usability would be useful.
EDIT: Actually, what would be more useful are colorblind OS X color profiles and an easy way to switch between them.
