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Jolt Awards 2011 for best technical books(drdobbs.com)
1 points by dragonquest 15y ago|0 comments
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by dragonquest 15y ago
And what's more, a site which for the most part remained a one-man show taking on one of the most difficult to penetrate markets and actually suceeding in surviving, getting noticed and loved. If that's not an achievement, I don't know what
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by dragonquest 15y ago
If you don't mind sharing and I mean this respectfully, could you inform us which religion is this?
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by dragonquest 15y ago
The current theory goes that dying peacefully in sleep is possible. Elizabeth Simpson of the Virginian-Pilot explored this question further and a nice little article summarizing the excerpts from the AHCJ discussion can be found at: http:/
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by dragonquest 15y ago
Pegasus Mail ( http://www.pmail.com ) is still going strong, slowly trudging towards the 5.0 release. Though there were a few hiccups related to the financial viability a couple of years ago, development is still going on and the product is
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by dragonquest 15y ago
Ingres is underrated, I find it quite ok to work with.
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by dragonquest 15y ago
Congrats to Linode, 8 years that's a long time. Which makes me wonder, was Linode the earliest or one of the earliest VPS hosting provider? I'm guessing in 2002 it wasn't that mature a market or was there already a few big players hovering
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Classic Books Reviewed in The Atlantic(theatlantic.com)
45 points by dragonquest 15y ago|5 comments
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LispWire(lispwire.com)
5 points by dragonquest 15y ago|0 comments
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Moving to GNU Emacs(dreamincode.net)
2 points by dragonquest 15y ago|0 comments
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by dragonquest 15y ago
Its so pleasant to find such resources spreading throughout the community. Perl is one language which could've died easily given its undeserved write-only reputation, but its thriving and making some very cool new stuff while steadily negat
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by dragonquest 15y ago
Don't be. The Lisp family of languages is not as scary or difficult as some people make out of it. I personally found it less mind bending than Haskell (which is a different beast altogether). I'd suggest you to give Scheme a try, its more
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by dragonquest 15y ago
Scheme most definitely is a Lisp. While it is clear enough that Scheme is moving in a direction that is totally different to Common Lisp (which no one doubts is a Lisp), McCarthy's original idea of Lisp, i.e. List Processing and use of symb
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by dragonquest 16y ago
Over the years I've found the following CS books helpful, but only a minority in my day-to-day work. Your mileage may vary, as would the utility of these to you. Algorithms -> Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs by Wirth (worth its
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From Redmond with Love - IE team sends cake for FF4(fredericiana.com)
142 points by dragonquest 16y ago|73 comments
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by dragonquest 16y ago
Ummm, this is NYTimes we are talking about. Probably in the top newspapers of the world by popularity. Not becoming mainstream would have been a greater feat of imagination. :)
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Influential Programming Languages, Part 1: ALGOL(informit.com)
1 points by dragonquest 16y ago|0 comments
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by dragonquest 16y ago
BC version 3 now comes with Linux support in nice little deb, rpm and tarred packages.
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by dragonquest 16y ago
I wanted to include it but I have not read it :) It seems really interesting but is not available in my local bookstores and my current set of books (the one's I mentioned) keep me humming along. However judging from other people's reaction
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by dragonquest 16y ago
I would say this is from personal experience based on lurking on CLL and a couple of dumb questions I asked on #lisp once. I don't really mind the CL community, its just that the help starts once you've one (atleast, even the introductory o
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Starting with Lisp: A collection of beginner pointers(dreamincode.net)
63 points by dragonquest 16y ago|23 comments
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by dragonquest 16y ago
I'm a little uncomfortable about the wording of this sentence too. Perhaps if they were called traditional desktop apps, I would've been happier. I still like to run a lot more desktop apps and some things are just not there as a webapp, or
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by dragonquest 16y ago
Yup, that's the one I was talking about.
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by dragonquest 16y ago
I'm actually getting fond of these single-point-of-entry for learning type of sites for a language. Along with the Prolog one that I saw here yesterday, I think they really make picking up a non-mainstream language a whole lot easier. I rem
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by dragonquest 16y ago
I do realize it, however I was referring to a reasoning why antidaily's comment was downmodded. This was questioned by the OP (wooster) and I do probably realize that the reply to wooster should've been fitted at a better between wooster's
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by dragonquest 16y ago
It is probably because it is not really a good summary of the poster's experience. It also has a hint of being mildly disrespectful of the difficulties of really climbing to 20k feet by not acknowledging the experience in totality and merel
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by dragonquest 16y ago
Ah ok. Though I did not find it dreadful, please feel free to dup/kill it if you wish. Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with the site in any way and the last thing I wish to do is spam.
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The Greatest Computer Books of All Time(technologizer.com)
1 points by dragonquest 16y ago|4 comments
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by dragonquest 16y ago
Not porn. Its a static yellow HTML page with black text with the author talking about his experiments with Perl 6, Haskell and the similarities between them.
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Visual tour: 25 years of Windows(computerworld.com)
1 points by dragonquest 16y ago|0 comments

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