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   This post links to the preface for this book. Here is the link for the book's home page, which includes links to all the chapters as well as the preface: https://aesthetic-programming.net/
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   This page links to videos of some of the talks at International Research Conference on the History of Computing , Los Alamos, Jun 10-15 1976, Los Alamos. There is a 4-page written report on the conference from Apr 1977 here: https:/&
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   Previously, 92 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17852194 One comment there said, "This is a godsend. Probably the best introductory article on Lisp to date."
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   Yes! That would point to J.C.R. Licklider [1] and Robert Taylor [2] as two of the most influential scientists in computing. Their role was providing vision and getting people and labs funded. Licklider worked at MIT, BBN, and ARPA most p
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   Previously, 158 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23391380
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   I like The Mathematics of Logic by Richard Kaye. A rather unusual approach apparently intended for college math majors, maybe not for everybody. But I am not a math major and it appealed to me. https://web.mat.bham.ac.uk&#x2F
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   Will Wheaton was impressively good in the popular 1986 movie Stand By Me , also with River Phoenix and Kiefer Sutherland. I believe this was the role that made him famous, years before Star Trek . https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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   Yes! Atari Pong Circuit Analysis - Awesomely detailed, 106 pages. "Atari’s Arcade Pong PCB contained 66 IC’s. ... It was simply hard wired TTL logic and predates microprocessor and software controlled video games ... the game has als
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   There was also PyMite, for 8 bit microcontrollers with 64 KiB of program memory (flash) and 4 KiB of RAM. It supported a subset of the Python 2.5 syntax and could execute a subset of the Python 2.5 bytecodes. https://wiki.python.
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    Peter Deutsch finished this when he was 17 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Peter_Deutsch
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    Here is some interesting Forth software, including a Space Invaders game and an IP networking stack including IP, ARP, UDP, DNS and DHCP [1]. It runs on the J1 custom Forth CPU built on an FPGA [2]. The author says it was originally desig
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    Delicious, or del.icio.us, the bookmarking site [1], which popularized tagging as an information management technique. Very popular in the decade of the 2000s. Founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003, acquired by Yahoo in 2005. A leaked memo
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    Algorithmics by David Harel. Discussion from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29501589
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    Many many suggestions two years ago in this Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692281
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    It's deliberate - Gaddis did not like publicity and did not want to be a celebrity. Here is part of his reponse to winning the National Book Award for JR in 1975 [1]: "... I feel like part of the vanishing breed that thinks a
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    Another in memoriam https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/06/20/Erik-Nagg...
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    I picked this quote because it is actually a better than average represention and shows Naggum's thinking and writing at its best without the bitterness and meanness that often crept in. I saw this post of his as not so much a criticis
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    For those who may not be familiar with Erik's thinking and style, here is a sample post[1] from Erik on Paul Graham's Arc dialect of Lisp, which, I recall, still powers HN: I have briefly looked at Arc. It is yet another demonstr
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    I remember seeing this. It's an example of what I think of as a very British kind of humor: you assert some absurd proposition, present it absolutely gravely and seriously, and never crack a smile or let on that you are joking. There
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    Somewhere, Mark Fisher wrote, "Nobody is bored, everything is boring." I think he meant people are always busy fiddling with their phones or whatever, but the content they are consuming and producing is uniform and absent any surp
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    Charles Petzold's book Code .
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    This can't be right. You couldn't drop the course. Two years of physics in the freshman and sophomore years, taught from the Feynman Lectures, was a requirement for all Caltech undergrads, including those in humanities majors
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    There's the time a student was misled by an error in the Feynman Lectures and wrote to him about it. Here's the story and the recent HN thread about it. https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2020/feynman
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    These kits do include generating the video: https://gigatron.io/ "... low resolution video had come within reach of our design, without adding chips. This was possible by taking the unconventional step of bit-banging
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    Besides the content, this web page design itself is interesting, with dramatic use of color, empty space, and typography.
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    Yes. The author Edmund White writes [1], "... As a true American I do believe in identity politics, I believe that the personal can be political and I believe that, for better or for worse, my sexual identity is crucial to who I am.
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    MIT Open Courseware: Street-Fighting Mathematics "This course teaches the art of guessing results and solving problems without doing a proof or an exact calculation. ..." https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematic
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    Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by Michael J. Neufeld (2007) The Autobiography of Malcolm X (co-authored with Alex Haley, 1965)
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    by jonjacky 5y ago

    Seen here last week, exactly what you are asking for: Linux, Apache, PHP. No database, no Javascript, no framework, no AWS (or other cloud service). Part-time project by one person: Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month wi
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    (2012)