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by chl 11y ago
The list of people who implemented (Quasi-)APLs contains some further illustrious names: - Ken Thompson (APL\11): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.apl/u9sl6g... - Dan Bricklin (Multics APL):
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101 Ways to Save Apple (2007)(archive.wired.com)
2 points by chl 11y ago|1 comments
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Starting Soon: Interactive Computer Graphics with WebGL(coursera.org)
1 points by chl 11y ago|0 comments
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Oscilloscope Music(youtube.com)
2 points by chl 11y ago|0 comments
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Evaluating graph computation systems(blog.commoncrawl.org)
4 points by chl 12y ago|0 comments
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First Photo From Space (2006)(airspacemag.com)
7 points by chl 12y ago|2 comments
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by chl 12y ago
Another great tool to get long(er)-form articles onto a Kindle: http://fivefilters.org/kindle-it/
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Read scientific papers on your Kindle(chjdev.com)
5 points by chl 12y ago|4 comments
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An IRC client in PicoLisp(picolisp.com)
17 points by chl 12y ago|2 comments
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How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire(brookeallen.com)
599 points by chl 12y ago|328 comments
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Plan 9 on the QEMU Advent Calendar(qemu-advent-calendar.org)
2 points by chl 12y ago|0 comments
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Early Digital Research CP/M Source Code(computerhistory.org)
41 points by chl 12y ago|11 comments
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by chl 12y ago
"The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology" by Horace Freeland Judson; a masterpiece originally published in 1979 and based on ~10 years of research, interviews w/ more than 100 scientists &c. http:
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Explaining the code of Spacewar!, part 1: The "Expensive Planetarium"(masswerk.at)
4 points by chl 12y ago|0 comments
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by chl 13y ago
All in all, Eric Lander's 7.00x (Introduction to Biology) probably was the best of all the courses I completed in 2013. Lander is a fantastic lecturer -- it wasn't uncommon that his lectures (or shall I say performances) ended in
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Ask HN: What were some good MOOCs you participated in in 2013?
5 points by chl 13y ago|11 comments
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by chl 13y ago
Two excellent technology history books I read in 2013 are _Dream Machine_ by M. Mitchell Waldrop and _Computing in the Middle Ages_ by Severo Ornstein. _Dream Machine_ in particular tied together many strands that I had previously explored
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Run Windows 1.01 in your browser(jsmachines.net)
323 points by chl 13y ago|85 comments
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Potion 0.1 released(github.com)
75 points by chl 13y ago|2 comments
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Augmented reality display of air traffic for amateur drones(lemondronor.com)
4 points by chl 13y ago|0 comments
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Petition to keep Google Reader running reaches 100000 signatures(change.org)
2 points by chl 14y ago|0 comments
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Big Data beyond MapReduce: Google's Big Data papers(blog.mikiobraun.de)
4 points by chl 14y ago|0 comments
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by chl 14y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write it all up! Brought back some fond memories, and I hadn't heard about Renoise before ...
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by chl 14y ago
Ericsson indeed is a notable omission: "Measured in software revenues, Ericsson is the world’s fifth largest software company." http://www.ericsson.com/thecompany/investors/financial_repor... (Further examples would be highly appreciated.
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by chl 14y ago
Even worse: By revenue of the companies on Truffle's Top 100 list, apparently. I have no idea how tail-heavy the landscape of European software companies is. BTW, could you supply some examples of the "fantastic software" from Europe you gr
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One-third of Europe's software industry is SAP(zdnet.com)
90 points by chl 14y ago|58 comments
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by chl 14y ago
You can pre-fill the card, too: http://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/?q=hello+hn!+dont+forget+you... !
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Do you want to be programming at 50?(pindancing.blogspot.com)
79 points by chl 14y ago|108 comments
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The APL Progamming Language Source Code(computerhistory.org)
9 points by chl 14y ago|0 comments
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What Google Images would have looked like in the 80s(masswerk.at)
15 points by chl 14y ago|3 comments

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