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I am surprised this article does not mention Polya, who studied and taught heuristics in mathematics. His little classic How To Solve It -- from 1945! -- makes recommendations that overlap a lot with the ones here. https://en.
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There is a recent (2021) Japanese movie of The Door Into Summer . Other than being set in Japan, it was pretty faithful to the book, as I remember it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13757540/
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The famous Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) does this, in the Scheme language. The whole book is online here, with the table of contents right at the front: https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037&#x2F
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In his book Class , Paul Fussel wrote that really rich people don't have dishwashers or many other mechanized conveniences: "Why put up with those noisy things when a silent servant can do everything they do?"
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Here are the Yardbirds with Page and Beck together in the classic 1966 film Blow Up . Beck smashes his guitar while Page looks on smiling and keeps playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJGEn4FDys
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Ask physical therapists. There is a whole subspecialty there about Gait and Balance. They would be familiar with devices and technology.
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Canes and walkers, obviously. And, if the user begins to fall, they can often stop the fall. It's hard to see how a less obtrusive wearable device could do that.
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You are very much appreciated, for your well-informed comments on this topic and many others on HN. Most HN readers don't reply to comments they appreciate, only the ones they disagree with. And many don't understand about upvo
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It is fun and instructive to identify the strategies other developers have used. I thought of a few more: combination - The World Wide Web is a combination of hypertext documents and the Internet, which had both been around for a long t
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> everything has been done. In computing and engineering, almost all "new" developments are actually variations or recombinations of things that have already been done. BUT it's not just computing! That is also true of
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> Never bored, and yet never really entertained or satisfied. "Nobody is bored, everything is boring." -- K-Punk
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A few classics cited in one comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29771594 Recommendations by many, 154 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692281
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"MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels for secure, high-performance network applications across a variety of cloud computing and mobile platforms. ... MirageOS uses the OCaml language, with libraries that pr
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A friend in the book business once told me that publishers like big thick programming books because they take up space on bookstore shelves and deny that space to rival books!
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CogNos was supposed to be a mostly Smalltalk OS - as I understand it, the C and assembler code is just for booting and catching interrupts. The device drivers, file system, and network stack are all in Smalltalk. In addition to the repo
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grugbrain.dev is wonderful. Also, it is an example of the simplicity it advocates: One file, simple HTML with a bit of simple CSS inline at the start of the file. That's all! Simple and effective.
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Previously, 2+ years ago, similar title and theme but a completely different article, 6 comments: Why Is the Modern World So Ugly? (theschooloflife.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23557284
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The book Arithmetic by Paul Lockart from 2017 is about number systems, calculation methods, and devices from several historical periods and cultures, including Egypt, Rome, China, Japan, India and Europe.
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This is the paper that introduced 'The Wheel of Reincarnation' to describe how the same ideas keep recurring in computer science.
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This side of Von Neumann is discussed in the dual biography, John Von Neumann and Norbert Weiner: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve Heims, published in 1982. The MIT Press page says it's now out of print
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Here is an advertising brochure for DG's first product, the Nova minicomputer, when it appeared in 1968. A weird mix of technical information and full-page close up photos of DG executives trying to look tough: http://archi
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This memoir about working at DG in the 70s was linked on HN yesterday: Data General History: The Fair Bastards http://www.teamfoster.com/billteamfostercom via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33793837
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Measurement by Paul Lockhart
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The standard answers for this are: Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, about the origins of the Internet. Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee, about the origins of the World Wide Web.
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Seconding Alan Downey's Think Python . The current online version is here: https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/ For code examples, I like Peter Norvig's pytudes: https://github.com&
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I used Berkeley's Franz LISP ...That was a compiler which generated .o files. ... But you didn't link the .o files; you had to load them into the development environment to run them. Compiling was just an optimization. That sou
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For the same reason as there are many algol-like languages. I remember in the 1980s someone remarked that C and Pascal were more similar than Maclisp and Interlisp.
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Some of the original Bell Labs Unix people have a very austere view of the Unix philosophy. In their view, it all started to go wrong -- Unix began to depart from the founding principles -- as early as 1978. In their view, Berkeley Unix do
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One of the original Unix creators, Doug McIlroy, credited with inventing pipes, wrote in [1]: "... I have always detested emacs and vi. With ^D, ^C, and ^\, Unix has more than enough mystery chords to learn. Emacs and vi raised that n
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https://www.halfbakery.com/editorial/help.html - "The halfbakery is a communal database of poorly thought-out ideas for inventions. ..."

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