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by a13x 19y ago
Peer-reviewed academic books and papers can be inaccurate and/or biased in some way. (Hopefully ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-review#Criticisms_of_peer_... ) less so than Wikipedia.) That doesn't mean they should be 'banned', only t
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How not to treat sensitive data(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Genetically modified 'supermouse'.(news.independent.co.uk)
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Toxic iPhone(environment.independent.co.uk)
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by a13x 19y ago
Madonna is changing her business model too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7047969.stm
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by a13x 19y ago
Why do people (sci-fi writers and scientists alike) generally seem to assume that extra-terrestrial life would be Earth-like life in Earth-like conditions?
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Inquiry into health risks of wi-fi in classrooms(telegraph.co.uk)
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by a13x 19y ago
I found this http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/cclass.html a useful, lighter, accompaniment to K&R when first learning C. Good luck. C is a great language for, er, implementing higher-level languages in ;-.
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by a13x 19y ago
Domain specific graphical programming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max/Msp ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data
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by a13x 19y ago
Acorn BBC Micro and Sinclair Spectrum. BASIC. Various Usbourne books. I wrote a text editor on my Spectrum in BASIC. It was too slow at keeping up with your typing, so I figured out enough about Z80 assembly to write a little routine to spe
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by a13x 19y ago
28, Last year of undergrad Philosophy and Maths