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by genjipress 7y ago
"Kokoro" by Soseki Natsume. (What is inside you matters above all things) "The Accidental Tourist" by Anne Tyler. (There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in) "Dom Casmurro" by Machado de
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by genjipress 7y ago
Currently building (not finished yet, hence no GitHub link, but it's coming) a personal wiki along the lines of TiddlyWiki, but written in Python rather than JS.
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by genjipress 7y ago
Article link appears to be no good, so try: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/toshiba-says-it-bu...
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by genjipress 7y ago
Should be labeled "[2008]"
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by genjipress 7y ago
Letters To A Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
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by genjipress 8y ago
"Silence" by John Cage. Before it, I thought of Zen as an abstraction; after reading it, I saw how it could be (and ought to be) a way of life.
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by genjipress 8y ago
Sorry, but this site is illegible on mobile.
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by genjipress 8y ago
I'd be curious to see if any of the work done here could be applied back to the main CPython project. I doubt it could happen immediately -- at least, not with the way GC is currently implemented -- but PyPy has been a source of innova
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by genjipress 8y ago
LLVM. I've been learning by creating a toy programming language and compiler, implemented in Python with the llvmlite library. https://github.com/syegulalp/Akilang There's a couple of included demos like Conw
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by genjipress 8y ago
Shoah.
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by genjipress 8y ago
Also worth seeing is another doco made about him years earlier, 'Listen Up: The Lives Of Quincy Jones.'
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by genjipress 8y ago
'Shoah', by Claude Lanzmann, who passed away earlier this year after a career of excellent documentary filmmaking. Review by Roger Ebert when it was first released: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-mov
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by genjipress 8y ago
Humpty Dumpty was pushed. (EDIT: Can't claim credit for this one. It was the top prizewinner in an OMNI Magazine contest for joke conspiracy theories.)
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by genjipress 8y ago
An animated film, "Mind Game", now finally available in an edition that won't cost an arm and a leg, is a high-ranking favorite of mine by any measure. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452039/ The idea
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by genjipress 8y ago
Upvoted for NYRB. They're like the Criterion Collection of litfic at this point -- they find good stuff that's been out of print for too long, reissue it, bring it back to an audience that deserves to know about it. They recently
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by genjipress 8y ago
His "Kokoro" is my second-favorite novel of all time.
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by genjipress 8y ago
Agreed. There are multiple translations of de Assis's major works into English, and they are remarkably dissimilar, so that is a hint right there as to how the translation process is itself an art form. (My tastes guide me to the earli
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by genjipress 8y ago
"Epitaph Of A Small Winner" and "Dom Casmurro" by Machado de Assis. He's written a great many other books besides those, but they're the best of the bunch. In Brazil he's a national hero, but while much of
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by genjipress 8y ago
"The Revolving Boy", by Gertrude Friedberg.
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by genjipress 8y ago
"Things I Regret About Java," By Roald Dahl, author of "Charlie And The Class Factory"
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by genjipress 8y ago
I built my own WordPress-like item (albeit with static publishing) in Python: https://github.com/syegulalp/mercury I haven't been working on it much lately, though, as it reached the point of my own personal itch
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by genjipress 9y ago
Motion seconded. I read it first when I was barely ten, and even though I barely understood a word of it, I made a vow to myself to keep coming back to it until I did. I've been coming back to it constantly ever since, and I think I fi
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by genjipress 9y ago
Silence, John Cage Man Against Myth, Barrows Dunham The Elements Of Style, Strunk & White (4th ed.) Telling Writing, Macrorie The Zen Teaching Of Huang Po The Pocket Pema Chödrön Why I Write, George Orwell Others come and go from time t
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by genjipress 9y ago
This reminds me of http://www.multicians.org/andre.html
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by genjipress 9y ago
Not programming related, just wonderful. REFLECTIONS AFTER 25 YEARS AT THE MOVIES http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/reflections-after-2...
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by genjipress 9y ago
Zen priest Brad Warner talks about this quite a lot in his books and on his blog: http://hardcorezen.info/bad-buddhism-part-a-million/586 (one example) So I wouldn't say "no one" talks about it. It'
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by genjipress 10y ago
What seems most important about WebAssembly is that it is essentially a universal language runtime. It's not that what it brings to the web is unimportant, just that it seems like we're also getting a way to do truly cross-platfor
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by genjipress 10y ago
WordStar was where I started back in the DOS days. Then WordPerfect, and now Microsoft Word, where I've remained for upwards of 20 years. That said, I don't do organization for writing projects in Word itself -- for that, I'm
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by genjipress 10y ago
Here's a trick that I found works for such things: Watch what you can, then the next night, rewind about 5-10 minutes and continue from THAT point, not from exactly where you left off. It helps refresh the feeling of continuity, IMO.
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by genjipress 10y ago
Side note, this was issued previously on DVD, although now that's out of print. It's since been reissued on DVD with an accompanying book: https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Ra-Space-Place-Limited/dp/0986115...

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