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by rpeden 9y ago
Thanks so much for the tips! This is exactly why I did an Ask HN. I'm sure I could've searched around and found some data, but as you've pointed out, there are other things to consider. This thread helped me discover some of
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by rpeden 9y ago
Right, which is why I thought it was a fair point for the original poster of the message to bring up. And it seems like there are lots of people with an axe to grind on this topic. I'm just looking to learn more for myself, and I decid
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by rpeden 9y ago
There's a reply that's dead, but I'd like to address it. It asked: "We have 25 years or so invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?&quot
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by rpeden 9y ago
Thanks for the suggestions. And thanks for the heads up regarding coming to wrong incorrect conclusions. That's important and useful advice.
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Ask HN: What are some good sources of climate data to analyze?
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by rpeden 9y ago
I'm a fan of Bisqwit: https://www.youtube.com/user/Bisqwit Mostly because he does fun things that are outside of the kind of programming I usually do, so it helps me broaden my horizons a bit. One of my favourites
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by rpeden 9y ago
It could be something as simple as the class names of elements on the page. WP has some defaults that are recognizable. Also, most WP pages will be loading scripts from from the wp-includes directory. There are probably others I'm over
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by rpeden 9y ago
I haven't, but I'll definitely check those out. Thanks for the suggestions!
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by rpeden 9y ago
I started with that one - I liked Isaacson's writing when I read his Steve Jobs biography, so I decided to read his Franklin bio as well. I very much enjoyed it. Afterward, I read this one: https://www.amazon.com/First-
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by rpeden 9y ago
Only tangentially related, but David Hume and Benjamin Franklin were close friends. Franklin has always stuck me as a very modern thinker for his time, too. I'd long admired both Hume and Franklin, but didn't realize they were clo
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by rpeden 9y ago
"A Mind for Numbers" is basically the book version of this course (same author). I found it quite good, and I personally found it faster and easier to learn the concepts in book form than on Coursera.
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by rpeden 9y ago
The Dr. Sbaitso program that shipped with Sound Blaster cards in the 90s covered that angle decently. :)
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by rpeden 9y ago
I feel fortunate to have seen his talks and interviews early in my career. The downside is that exposure to both of those led me to write some software in both Smalltalk and Common Lisp...which is a downside because having worked with those
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by rpeden 9y ago
To me, software development seems as tribal as politics. People tend to like and agree with those in their own tribe, and tend to see criticism of their tribe's preferred ideology as an attack on their identity. There's a lot of p
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by rpeden 9y ago
You're not the only one to observe that computing tends to be fad-driven. I enjoy Alan Kay's take on it: In the last 25 years or so, we actually got something like a pop culture, similar to what happened when television came on t
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by rpeden 9y ago
I enjoy reading old copies of PC Magazine. In one indues of the magazine from January 1987[1], there's a great, in depth overview of QuickBasic 2 starting on page 285. It includes lots of examples and sample code. After this article, t
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by rpeden 9y ago
Thanks for the suggestions! I should've thought to check archive.org foot the books, as I've found lots of good old Turbo Pascal books there in the past.
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Ask HN: Where can I find classic MacOS programming books and tools?
2 points by rpeden 9y ago|3 comments
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by rpeden 9y ago
That's a really good question. I think the reality is that many large OSS projects are corporate sponsored, either directly or via companies paying developers to work in the project. In a case like MongoDB, if the company faced difficu
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by rpeden 9y ago
There's no reason a for profit company can't ship an open source project. :) MongoDB is an open source project, and the MongoDB company is a for profit corporation that ships the database and sells support and services related t
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by rpeden 9y ago
Submariners refer to their vessels as boats, though. So in that sense, the Royal Navy does have several rather large boats.
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by rpeden 9y ago
You'd probably enjoy Cmder[1]. Everything works really nicely, it supports multiple tabs, and you can download a version that includes most of the Unix commands you know and love. [1] http://cmder.net/
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by rpeden 9y ago
http://stories.rpeden.com It was never intended to make me any money - it's just a story aggregator I made to help me keep track of HN and my favourite subReddits all in one place. :)
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by rpeden 9y ago
If you're still willing to work on the game, then you're really still developing it! You're getting a lot of decent feedback here. Although there's lots of feedback that is more negative than necessary, too. Don't w
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by rpeden 9y ago
Apologies for the slow reply. I've used Lazarus when I've had small GUI apps I wanted to make. Other times, I'll just use Turbo Pascal in DOSBox when I'm just trying to have some fun and make simple little games.
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by rpeden 9y ago
I think a lot of people find developing applications using things like WPF and QT (and probably JavaFX, too) to be more enjoyable than the modern web stack. But those same people also probably worry when they see that a huge percentage of j
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by rpeden 9y ago
The language has evolved, but it still falls squarely in the imperative, OO camp. And besides, you mentioned than you'd prefer to stick with more functional languages. It's hard to prove someone's preference wrong. :) I mos
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by rpeden 9y ago
My mistake - I was watching the site in Chrome dev tools and forgot that the 'disable cache' box was checked.
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by rpeden 9y ago
I think BGI graphics will still work in DOSBox. I remember having a setup a couple of years ago where I shared a directory between Windows and DOSBox. I'd edit the code in Windows using Sublime Text, and then pop in to DOSBox to build&
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by rpeden 9y ago
Is Clascal the language you're thinking of?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clascal

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