davatk

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by davatk 17y ago
This is offtopic, but I'd be curious to hear which five books you chose.
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by davatk 17y ago
> PLT-Shoes, anyone? How about Bootstrap? http://www.bootstrapworld.org/materials/
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New JDK 7 Feature: Support for Dynamically Typed Languages in the JVM(java.sun.com)
87 points by davatk 17y ago|15 comments
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Hashing Molecules(blog.sigfpe.com)
5 points by davatk 17y ago|1 comments
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by davatk 17y ago
It mainly deals with Scheme, but http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1086393 examines implementing continuations on VMs that don't support them.
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Konrad Zuse's "Plankalkül": The First High Level Language [pdf](delivery.acm.org)
4 points by davatk 17y ago|0 comments
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by davatk 18y ago
Support air to air combat?
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On the Importance of Recognizing and Using Maps in Clojure(groups.google.com)
3 points by davatk 18y ago|0 comments
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by davatk 18y ago
It's interesting to note that Google's Native Client has that same goal.
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by davatk 18y ago
I received this book as a gift, and it's certainly fascinating. But one thing the review fails to mention are the excellent pictures and diagrams. The book is printed on glossy paper, and the pictures are full color and high resolution.
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by davatk 18y ago
Interesting design, but that's all that's there. Does anyone know what this is actually about?
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Amazon’s Kindle 2 Will Debut Feb. 9(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
45 points by davatk 18y ago|36 comments
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GVR - Python: A Personal History (Part 1)(python-history.blogspot.com)
3 points by davatk 18y ago|0 comments
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by davatk 18y ago
Also see Larry Wall's fairly odd take on postmodern programming: http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
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by davatk 18y ago
Honestly, cheat sheets and the like have never been that useful for me. The only thing that seems to work is to figure out a project and dive in.
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by davatk 18y ago
I quite like Piet (as in Mondrian) http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html It's a language where programs are abstract pictures. Also http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/ is a nice site to see some implementations (though not Piet, sadl
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by davatk 18y ago
There's a book that this lecture is based on: http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ and, while not particularly challenging, it does provide a good overview of how computers are structured.
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Ola Bini: Expressive Power vs Performance(olabini.com)
3 points by davatk 18y ago|0 comments
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by davatk 18y ago
Nitpicking here, but wouldn't it be numeratus and numerata?
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by davatk 18y ago
HN does have an RSS feed at http://news.ycombinator.com/rss . As to filtering by upvotes: you might be able to figure something out with Pipes (although I'm not sure how).
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Firefox 3: Tweak the AwesomeBar's Suggestion Algorithm(lifehacker.com)
2 points by davatk 18y ago|0 comments
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by davatk 18y ago
There doesn't seem to be anything new in that respect. In general though, Aquamacs better supports native mac shortcuts like Apple-S, Apple-F, and so on.
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Python: Writing a Compiler and Interpreter in 160 lines of code(jroller.com)
23 points by davatk 18y ago|8 comments
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by davatk 18y ago
The problem with products like Photosynth and and Surface is that they don't really address the things Microsoft has problems with (like search). The Office/OS cash cow was really created during the 1990s. I just don't see Ballmer as doing
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by davatk 19y ago
Given the sheer number of things that Apple does, it's not exactly hard to say that at some point in the future, Apple will be disliked.