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20th Anniversary of Mac OS X 10.0(en.wikipedia.org)
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by linguae 6y ago
A good paper describing functional programming and also talks about the differences between these two mindsets is "Conception, Evolution, and Application of Functional Programming Languages" by Paul Hudak (1989). You can find a c
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by linguae 6y ago
I just pulled these books off my shelf, and all three of them have exercises at the end of each chapter (though there is no answer guide, although some of the questions are actually research problems).
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by linguae 6y ago
There's a nice free OS textbook by Remzi and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau named Three Easy Pieces ( https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ ), which was recently featured on this site ( https://news.ycombina
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by linguae 6y ago
I actually seriously foresee a split occurring in the Linux community that will also affect users of other Unix-like operating systems. On one side you have modern Linux software projects like systemd and Wayland. These projects address d
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by linguae 6y ago
I don't own one, but I've heard great things about SwissMicros calculators ( https://www.swissmicros.com/products ) from users of HP calculators. The SwissMicros lineup is very similar to HP's 1980s calculator
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by linguae 6y ago
It might be incorrect for me to call this "free jazz," but since the early 2000s saxophonist Wayne Shorter has played with a band featuring bassist John Patitucci (who was in the Chick Corea Elektric Band), drummer Brian Blade, an
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by linguae 6y ago
Disclaimer: My favorite subgenres of jazz are fusion and post-bop. A wonderful, accessible jazz album that I highly recommend for newcomers is saxophonist Michael Brecker's 1987 self-titled album, which was his first album as a band le
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by linguae 6y ago
I am a huge fan of Chick Corea; he is my favorite jazz pianist. I was saddened to hear this news this afternoon. My very first jazz album outside of smooth jazz was “My Spanish Heart,” which was my introduction to jazz fusion. I then dis
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by linguae 6y ago
I'm not the original poster, but I'll share my opinion. As an undergrad I took two semesters of software engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (CSC 308 and 309), and as a grad student I was a TA for a year-long senior-level sof
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by linguae 6y ago
I spent a summer in Palmdale to do an internship with an aerospace company, and pre-COVID I used to go to SoCal a few times per year to visit friends and attend concerts. I wouldn’t want to commute from the Antelope Valley to Los Angeles e
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by linguae 6y ago
I concur. I grew up in Sacramento and I'm contemplating buying a place there (I'm currently in Santa Cruz County; I'd love to stay here forever, but it is too expensive for me to buy unless I live in the mountains) and worki
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by linguae 6y ago
I first encountered the term "provenance" in 2007 when I was working on an undergraduate research project at UC Santa Cruz in the area of metadata-based search for the Ceph distributed file system. I particularly remember reading
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by linguae 6y ago
I'm curious about the untapped potential of other parts of California. Now that the pandemic has made remote work a necessity, I'm wondering if regions of California outside Silicon Valley will benefit from remote tech workers ha
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by linguae 6y ago
On the other hand, roughly $50-100/night gets you a clean, though tiny, place to stay at a business hotel in the Tokyo metro area. (For those of you unfamiliar with Japan, a business hotel is a type of hotel that offers rooms primaril
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by linguae 6y ago
Yes, though there is still room in the Tokyo metro area for even more growth, both vertically and horizontally. Even though Japan's population is declining, Tokyo Prefecture and its neighboring prefectures were still growing pre-pande
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by linguae 6y ago
I'm a big fan of Jean-Louis Gassée and I wish there were more visionaries like him in the personal computing industry. He helped push the Mac further during his tenure at Apple, and his work at BeOS also pushed the state of the art of
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by linguae 6y ago
I also grew up with a TI-83, though in college I learned about HP calculators and RPN and ended up buying a HP-48S on eBay; those were the cheapest non-financial HP calculators I could find on eBay at the time. I love RPN, but I liked my T
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by linguae 6y ago
The changes started in the late 1990s. Some blame this exclusively on Carly Fiorina, but I want to hear from more people knowledgeable about the situation at HP during this time, since I heard from somewhere that the board was interested i
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by linguae 6y ago
I used The Art of Prolog, Second Edition by Leon Sterling and Ehud Shapiro ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-prolog-second-edition ), which is available for free using the "Open Access" link, and also Sma
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by linguae 6y ago
I am finishing up teaching an undergraduate-level course on programming language principles and paradigms. Here is what I recommend: 1. Study Scheme for an introduction to programming in a Lisp-like language. I used Structure and Interpre
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by linguae 6y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a former HPE employee who resides near Silicon Valley. I agree with you. In my opinion Silicon Valley is a great place for the following types of software engineers: 1. Those who work for FAANGs. 2. Those who work fo
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by linguae 6y ago
Exactly; Steve Jobs envisioned a closed architecture for the Mac. Thankfully for Mac users who wanted a more open experience, Apple released the Macintosh II in 1987, which was styled similarly to PCs and had six NuBus expansion slots. Fr
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by linguae 6y ago
My favorite magazine is Software Design ( https://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD ), a Japanese magazine that specializes in software engineering and IT topics. It reminds me of Dr. Dobbs' Journal. The articles are well-writ
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by linguae 6y ago
I agree with your assessment regarding NeXT. NeXT can be thought of as a pragmatic Smalltalk machine that was adapted to the needs of the higher-education market that NeXT originally courted up to the release of the NeXT cube. For example
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by linguae 6y ago
This is a fascinating and inspiring story! I'm also an African-American in tech working in Silicon Valley. I have a strong interest in systems, and I had the pleasure of interning for Google's cloud division twice: once to work
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by linguae 6y ago
I'd venture out and guess that Excel is probably the most widely used programming environment in the world. Excel macros are a type of programming language, and there are many businesses that rely on complex Excel spreadsheets as part
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by linguae 6y ago
Based on my understanding, the license change was "the straw that broke the camel's back." There were already murmurs of a fork due to disagreements among XFree86 developers, but the license change was the final push that le
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X11 is a window system. An X client is an application that uses the X protocol (e.g., Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice) while an X server is an implementation of the X protocol that handles the rendering. Note that an X server and an X client d
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by linguae 6y ago
Wow, this looks amazing! Despite my knowledge of the "interregnum" years of Apple, this is the first time I've heard of SK8. This is further proof that Apple was a fountain of interesting research in desktop computing back

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