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by 505 11y ago
In Crichton's The Andromeda Strain [1], we collect something from (sub?)orbit and it does not end well. [1] www.michaelcrichton.com/the-andromeda-strain/
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by 505 11y ago
I don't think I know enough about subversion or centralised git. Aegis was great for the first few years. For the main project, there was a perception that it was slow and unreliable. But a lot of us loved the transactional features
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by 505 11y ago
At one time I was part of a team of around 15 developers working on a PostScript engine, mostly written in C, and included hundreds of test scripts. It shipped on a number of multi-function printers. We started on it around 2002. Today w
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by 505 11y ago
Not exactly about the electron, but if you want good fiction about singularities and the like, find books by Greg Egan. /Incandescence/ is about a civilisation living near a black hole. When you read it, keep a paper and pencil
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by 505 11y ago
I didn't realise this book existed. My university was really into Pascal and Modula-2 and had a second or third year course called Compiler Construction. We used the Dragon book (which I really enjoyed), and recursive descent. I&#x2
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by 505 11y ago
Wow, I used the 1541 for backups in one job. I never timed it, but I'm not surprised at your report.
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by 505 11y ago
Great to see this again. The description at the time of the video hardware is important. My first computer, purchased around four years later, also had a 6502 and memory mapped video. Unlike the Apple, it did absolutely nothing to interl
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A call to update outdated copyright laws(choice.com.au)
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In Which I Nearly Invent Structured Programming (and more)(vitalmis.com)
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by 505 11y ago
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2721993 perhaps?
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by 505 11y ago
Don't give up, Jessie.
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by 505 13y ago
If you work for Google, and you have a neat idea for an online service, resist the temptation to do it within Google.