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   by merolish 8y ago

   It's available online for free from the publisher: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html (I wish I'd kept my Knight of the Lambda Calculus button. Even having had prior p
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   by merolish 8y ago

   Old school, but I've always enjoyed this gentle introduction: https://chortle.ccsu.edu/AssemblyTutorial/index.html
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   by merolish 9y ago

   Very much agreed on the ease of graphics and sound, and its influence on me as a student -- I wrote a version of Pong in about 250 lines back in the 90s. A single line of music was as simple as PLAY and a string language to specify duration
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   by merolish 9y ago

   I thought about this a lot when I got tired of living in NYC, and visited and talked to friends in a number of places. If you want smaller and cheaper than Seattle, I'd say Austin, the Twin Cities (where I just moved to, but it's
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   by merolish 9y ago

   I moved to Minneapolis last month after working as a software developer in NYC for twelve years. It still feels like I'm on vacation in comparison, with all this space and a reasonable cost of living. My main concern is career developm