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by jonsen 3y ago
I have bought a considerable number of books that I have only read partly, skimmed, or not at all. It really took off after reading about Umberto Eco's anti library philosophy; the most important books in your personal library are the
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by jonsen 3y ago
Also speaking slower gives the listener time to think about what you say.
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by jonsen 3y ago
Not even a single hit on bookfinder.com!
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by jonsen 3y ago
I don't think he can. As he says towards the end of the introduction: "One source of unease is that the fundamental distinctions are obscured, but not eliminated, in real programming languages."
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by jonsen 3y ago
Education, in the broadest sense, is what makes people think they want what they want.
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by jonsen 3y ago
One of my classmates in elementary school lived close to a closed factory. The backyard with lot of scrap was a wonderful adventurous playground. The city train station was further down the street and the trains passed just behind the fence
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by jonsen 3y ago
Second link of yours doesn't work for me. I have at least a few Post-it notes in every book. Some sitting there for thirty years or more. Never experienced any problem. Always used the real Post-it from 3M.
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by jonsen 3y ago
"Fictional narrative: Fictionality is most commonly cited as distinguishing novels from historiography. However this can be a problematic criterion. ... Several novels, for example Ông cố vấn written by Hữu Mai, were designed to be and
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by jonsen 3y ago
Could be an autobiography.
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by jonsen 3y ago
Thank you for the plus hint. Very nice. Worth the price.
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by jonsen 3y ago
> It's object pascal, dating to before there were any other object pascals. "The language was originally developed by Apple Computer": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Pascal
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by jonsen 3y ago
Both of 'l' and 'L' are acceptable as unit abbreviations for litre: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-SI_units_mentioned_in_th...
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by jonsen 3y ago
If there's will and ability to pay back.
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by jonsen 3y ago
"BNF was created by Naur," and "the guy who invented FORTRAN"
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by jonsen 4y ago
More water in seas does not mean that sea level will rise evenly everywhere. I've heard that the relocation of water masses will in fact make sea level lower somewhere. Also landmasses will rise and sink. Are there any serious calculat
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by jonsen 4y ago
> I built a 128KB memory board with bank selection logic then wrote a driver for the Flex OS (6809) to make that memory appear like a disk. Oy! I could have written exactly that. What a coincidence :-) I also wouldn't claim inventio
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by jonsen 4y ago
For some interpretation of "low".
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by jonsen 4y ago
"...first commercial telefax service between Paris and Lyon in 1865, some 11 years before the invention of the telephone": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#Wire_transmission
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by jonsen 4y ago
Bakelite, probably: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite#Collectible_status
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by jonsen 4y ago
Even moderators need some time off.
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by jonsen 4y ago
And THE THE thing thing is bad teaching. If you fail to establish a sound basis of the language used to convey meaning the outcome is doomed to be miserable.
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by jonsen 4y ago
> Reverse Polish Notation: The expression ( x − 2 ) ( x − 1 ) would be written instead × − x 2 − x 1 , or something like that. This is not reverse Polish notation. It's Polish notation; parentheses free prefix notation. The rever
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by jonsen 4y ago
What do you mean by "on their own"? I would bet that the first human uttering that sentence had several observations of cats in the dark in their training set.
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by jonsen 4y ago
Artificial Ingestion?
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by jonsen 4y ago
Thanks!
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by jonsen 4y ago
I'm pretty sure Algol (1958) had full structured programming.
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by jonsen 4y ago
Both switches should be turned 90 degrees and move horizontally.
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by jonsen 4y ago
The percentage of employed unproductive is way higher.
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by jonsen 4y ago
Many thinks traumas in adult life are linked to childhood addition.
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by jonsen 4y ago
There are no additional pulses. Only minute pulses. It's a motor driving the second hand. The motor starts by the minute pulse and stops itself when reaching the top.

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