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by jasim 4y ago
This is a history of dBase, not FoxPro. Wayne Ratliff, in the late 70s, built a revolutionary piece of tech: a high-level memory-managed language that regular people could use (from early 80s!) to build database-backed user interfaces. That
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Changing Views of Chiropractic and a Reappraisal of Nontraditional Health Care(rand.org)
1 points by jasim 4y ago|1 comments
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by jasim 4y ago
As a relative newcomer to Rust, I'm curious to hear about those early mistakes
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by jasim 4y ago
This is diffused cultural knowledge, but most of the ideas in React can be understood as: view = render(state). It re-renders everything all the time. But practical considerations force some optimizations. Everything else in React follows f
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More Precious Than Silver(arrdem.com)
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Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the Outside – Matthew Gaudet(mgaudet.ca)
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Evidence for Evolution in Your Own Backyard(statedclearly.com)
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Is Tennis or Badminton Harder?(badmintonsbest.com)
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Small pleasures of programming (2020)(terrycrowley.medium.com)
78 points by jasim 4y ago|15 comments
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by jasim 4y ago
lha, arj, pak, rar, pkzip. these were magic.
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by jasim 4y ago
The "How" was stripped by HN from the title. Edited and fixed it.
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Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016)(blog.zamzar.com)
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What Is an Oscillator in Music? [video](youtube.com)
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Building a renderer that supports basic features for a fancy UI(ryanfleury.substack.com)
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Mgattozzi/whorl: single file, std only, async Rust executor(github.com)
2 points by jasim 4y ago|1 comments
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by jasim 4y ago
The C source for Emacs buffer: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/buffer...
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by jasim 4y ago
Is there a tool that does what Karthik's software does, but with SGML?
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by jasim 4y ago
There have never been dinosaurs in my town. We've always maintained a big board in both local and regional languages that said "DINOSAURS KEEP OUT".
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That Ban(e) of Indian Music: Hearing Politics in the Harmonium [pdf](ocf.berkeley.edu)
34 points by jasim 4y ago|22 comments
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Creating Font Subsets(markoskon.com)
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by jasim 4y ago
The rule, for a YAML-based no-code tool, would be: "Any sufficiently complicated descriptive-declarative programming language contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of a Turing-complete programming la
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Nine Steps to Delivering Defect-Free Software (1997)(web.archive.org)
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Chrome C++ Lock and ConditionVariable(chromium.org)
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Rust and the Machine(medium.com)
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A Practical Analysis of Rust’s Concurrency Story(arxiv.org)
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WebGPU – All of the cores, none of the canvas(surma.dev)
393 points by jasim 5y ago|134 comments
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Rules of Card Games: I Doubt It (1998)(pagat.com)
90 points by jasim 5y ago|44 comments
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Microsoft's browser-based dev toolbox: How 'Monaco' came to be (2013)(web.archive.org)
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by jasim 5y ago
Jason Gregory's Game Engine Programming is the book for anyone looking to build transferable knowledge about computing while somehow being around games. Of course making a game and a game engine are two different ballgames, but what a
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Ninja – The Performance of Open Source Software(aosabook.org)
3 points by jasim 5y ago|0 comments

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