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by kar1181 12y ago
The 2014 Edition featuring the story of IBM's system/360 development can be found here - http://www.computerhistory.org/core/media/pdf/core-2014.pdf
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Computer History Museum's 2015 Core Magazine(computerhistory.org)
2 points by kar1181 12y ago|1 comments
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by kar1181 12y ago
Awesome book, I actually bought a hardcopy for $150ish dollars a couple years ago because I wanted the tactile feel to go with the brilliant words. For electronic consumption there's an excellent project on github that was mentioned he
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by kar1181 13y ago
The thing about Abrash, is not only is he brilliant, when he writes about hugely complicated things, he does so in a way that makes the reader feel smarter too. That is an amazing gift to have.
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by kar1181 13y ago
https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book/releases
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by kar1181 13y ago
My book was second hand already so it is showing its age. I like it as a bit of an heirloom but the electronic copy is actually accessible. The original, you need a forklift to remove it from the shelf!
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by kar1181 13y ago
I don't think there's anything quite like Abrash's tome in breadth or all the other intangibles he eloquently wrote about (I mean the best optimizer is between your ears is worth a book in itself!) Bur for graphics programmin
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Markdown source for Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book(github.com)
112 points by kar1181 13y ago|30 comments
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by kar1181 13y ago
Hrmm which one to believe? 'We're not a terribly money-motivated group' http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/9887522 'I developed humor as a defense mechanism. Now I drive a fucking Mercedes.&#x2
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by kar1181 13y ago
This is brilliant, thanks for linking this up. Here is the famous Smalltalk issue Aug 1981. http://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
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by kar1181 13y ago
You know nothing John Snow.
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by kar1181 13y ago
Import doesn't work, but the notification system is very sweet and unexpected. Can't wait to try this out with all my feeds. So far none of the 'son of reader' offerings have really done it for me.
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by kar1181 13y ago
No.
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by kar1181 14y ago
This isn't really a new thing though, is it. There is the (in)famous example of Ron Jeffries trying to solve Sudoku through TDD (and failing miserably). http://xprogramming.com/articles/oksudoku/ Compare and contrast his impotent flailing