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What's the best way to learn the essentials of geometry (and other types of math) used in drawing/graphics programming - e.g. curves (like bezier curves), transformations, matrices, etc.?
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I am trying to make a small demo in Javascript,
I have a black border and a car the car travels randomly and a line is drawn of its trail. When the user click inside the area it creates an object (we'll call this the wall). If the car hits the wall then it goes back 3 paces and tries a different…
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I'm trying to self-learn the following topics on Linux (preferably Fedora):
Network programming (using sockets API), especially across proxies and firewalls
Proxies (of various kinds like transparent, http, socks...),
Firewalls (iptables) and 'basic' Linux security
SNAT, DNAT
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I read economics at university(nothing to see with linux, isn't it? :P).
I have some basic knowledge about booting process, Linux Kernel compiling from source and stuff like that.
But of course I have still much to learn sometimes some errors appears and "voila" I am lost.
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I read economics at university(nothing to see with linux, isn't it? :P).
I have some basic knowledge about booting process, Linux Kernel compiling from source and stuff like that.
But of course I have still much to learn sometimes some errors appears and "voila" I am lost.
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i have this huge function and i am wondering how to make it recursive. i have the base case which should never come true, so it should always go to else and keep calling itself with the variable t increases. any help would be great
thanks
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I'm trying to calculate the sunset / rise times using python based on the link provided below.
My results done through excel and python do not match the real values. Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong?
My Excel sheet can be found under .. http://transpotools.com/sun_time.xls
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Hi Guys,
I'm constructing a geolocation based application and I'm trying to figure out a way to make my application realise when a user is facing the direction of the given location (a particular long / lat co-ord). I've got the math figured, I just have the triangle to construct.
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I've heard many times that all programming is really a subset of math. Some suggest that OO, at its roots, is mathematically based. I don't get the connection. Aside from some obvious examples:
using induction to prove a recursive algorithm
formal correctness proofs
functional languages
lambda calculus
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