User talk:IanOsgood

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Your user page looks corrupted to me. Can you see it/edit it fine? --Short Circuit 00:13, 13 October 2007 (MDT)

N/m. Fixed the problem; The page cache got corrupted somehow. --Short Circuit 01:30, 13 October 2007 (MDT)
Thought I'd fixed it, anyway. I can make changes to this talk page, but I can't see them. Not sure what's going on yet. --Short Circuit 01:32, 13 October 2007 (MDT)
No idea: it all looks good to me. --IanOsgood 09:53, 13 October 2007 (MDT)

By the way, have you seen Help:Similar Sites? --Short Circuit 01:30, 13 October 2007 (MDT)

Yeah, it is already linked from my page, and I've added a few more links to it. :) --IanOsgood 09:53, 13 October 2007 (MDT)

User spam

The reason you're seeing user spam is because, in order to present captchas to all anonymous editors without also presenting captchas to all logged-in editors, I needed to remove the captchas for all logged-in users. What you're seeing are bots that have, up until now, been blocked by the URL captcha trigger. Since the logged-in users no longer get captchas when they post URLs, logged-in bots are posting their linkspam. When the username looks random like that, it's probably autogenerated; Don't feel bad about blocking for six months or more. And please set the option for automatically blocking subsequent login IPs. --Short Circuit 21:35, 17 October 2007 (MDT)

Yes, that option is checked by default. --IanOsgood 23:16, 17 October 2007 (MDT)
Great. The nice thing is, the more times the bots try to log in using a banned account, the more bad IPs get blocked. (I'm fairly sure most of the bad IPs are from Tor nodes.) --Short Circuit 23:20, 17 October 2007 (MDT)

Forth

A discussion was moved to Talk:Sieve of Eratosthenes.


Would you be interested in writing a Forth implementation of RCBF? Mwn3d is working on a Java version. I'm hoping someone writes a version in Lisp or Haskell. --Short Circuit 20:11, 26 November 2007 (MST)

RCBF (Haskell) version done. --Dirkt 09:41, 28 November 2007 (MST)
There are already plenty of brainfuck interpreters in the world. If I were to do one, I'd do it in JavaScript so folks could run in their browser. I've already done this for a number of other obscure languages.
If I did do BF for Forth, I would use meta-compilation, directly compiling BF into one big Forth definition. --IanOsgood 10:32, 27 November 2007 (MST)
Those Javascript language interpreters are simply awesome. Last week, I was reminiscing about a screensaver I once had that showed the execution of cellular automata, and wondered if something like that would be educational. I didn't think to do it in JavaScript, though. --Short Circuit 12:07, 27 November 2007 (MST)
OK, that was easier than I thought.--IanOsgood 11:46, 27 November 2007 (MST)

Code moved to RCBF (Forth).

That's pretty cool. Mind if it's copied over to RCBF (Forth)? I'd still be interested in that Javascript version; Having on-site or at least in-browser environments for languages is something I've been looking into. --Short Circuit 11:57, 27 November 2007 (MST)
Sure. It could use some testing, and a word :bf-file to get the BF source from a file. I'll let you know if I ever get the JavaScript interpreter written. --IanOsgood 12:25, 27 November 2007 (MST)
The JavaScript version is now here. --IanOsgood 11:22, 29 November 2007 (MST)

Thanks

Thanks for Sum and product of array. That's a lot of code in a lot of different languages! --Short Circuit 19:04, 3 December 2007 (MST)