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by sb 16y ago
I can personally recommend "Managing Gigabytes". It is very well written and contains a wealth of very valuable information--definitely worth its price!
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by sb 16y ago
I think his talent for language design is undisputed. But his talent for writing easily equals his talent in programming, e.g., I never came across any work of Wirth that was not well written and contained interesting insights. A couple of
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by sb 16y ago
Thanks for the correction!
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by sb 16y ago
Very nice presentation! In A* if you use a heuristic to select an edge (using a priority queue, i.e., your #3) it gives a best-first search. But it is is possible to just use a stack/queue an forget about the heuristic, then you get a nice
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by sb 16y ago
CLR is an extremely well written algorithms textbook, but I use it more as a reference than for self-study. My first algorithms book was Sedgewick's Algorithms (where all algorithms were presented in Pascal), which is a very good algorithms
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by sb 16y ago
Nicely observed, but I have two just for the records (again, I know): i.) this is a list of/for CS professors; RISC expands to Research Institute for Symbolic Computation which is a CS/Math department of Prof. Buchberger who discovered the
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by sb 16y ago
I have not thought about it, but wouldn't we lose the positional characteristic that base-10 offers if we switched to base-12?
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by sb 16y ago
Richard Hamming needs an editor -- that's a good one... PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming
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by sb 16y ago
Hi, just for the record, V8 differs in one very important aspect from the JVM: it includes no interpreter. It directly compiles methods to native code before their first execution, whereas the JVM includes a highly optimized interpreter for
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by sb 17y ago
a) an open source software repository of all programming languages/operating system software implementations. (Note: http://catb.org/retro/ is a good start, but there needs to be more) b) improving democracy by reasonable application of a
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by sb 17y ago
Thank you very much for the interesting link to Bertrand Russel's take on this issue. Some time ago, another very interesting piece of Betrand Russel was linked by another HN user, and I have to say that reading Mr. Russel's essays should b
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by sb 17y ago
I am using the TRAMP support instead from my desktop Emacs which runs all the time. TRAMP support within Emacs is very good, aside of the dired support all the vc commands work on the remote machines, too.
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by sb 17y ago
It certainly does not only seem to be unreasonable, but it actually is . Probably I did not even recognize a discussion here, because to me it was just a simple matter of preference and therefore did not want to get into a full-blown discu
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by sb 17y ago
I have read the changes in the available Preface PDF ([ 1 ]), and wondered about the authors using MacDraw Pro for creating illustrations. What does HN use? I used to create drawings using Visual Thought. Now for my technical TeX-documents
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by sb 17y ago
The domain of DBMS being English was meant for the implementation language of the DBMS, not any application of said DBMS. To the best of my knowledge, the first database management systems were created in English speaking countries and all
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by sb 17y ago
I am happy to assure you that I have no issue whatsoever, and I completely understand your argument--though I did not ever intend for it to get to quasi-religious dimensions. But for me this is a matter of taste and personal preference; not
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by sb 17y ago
See, there is a catch 22: If they had used English in the first place, they wouldn't run into these problems later on ;)
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by sb 17y ago
"Being able to program should not come with an automatic requirement to be fluent in English as well." It doesn't, and I merely said that I think it's good practice to do so. (For various reasons, e.g. a multi-national team, possible mainte
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by sb 17y ago
But what if you have multi-national staff, or at least expect to hire non-natives?
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by sb 17y ago
No specifics about an algorithm (it's a DBMS system, there would be plenty to look for ;) But the title does not include any algorithm-requirements for beautiful code. ad Language: Of course its only natural, albeit unprofessional. I would
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by sb 17y ago
hm, there were certainly many pieces of interesting code I have come across in the past (e.g., regular expression automata, details of compilers [simple but fast like in Niklaus Wirth's compiler construction book], details of interpreters [
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by sb 17y ago
There are a whole lot of "in-crowd" people there, but I generally miss real contributors to the area of programming languages. I particularly miss (in no particular order!) Alain Colmeraurer, John MacCarthy, Guy Steele, Alan Kay, Niklaus
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by sb 17y ago
I cannot believe that EWD is actually "ranked" number 18 between Larry Wall and John Resig.... btw, it is not a very good list for people interested in programming languages in general. EDIT: grammar corrections...
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by sb 17y ago
Since nobody mentioned it, there is a very interesting paper among what are know the "lambda papers": http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html What you are looking for is answered in "The Art of the Interpreter, the Modularity Complex (Pa
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by sb 17y ago
That's a nice one, albeit several simplifications are made in there (e.g. from a quick glance I could not find anything dealing with scopes [the prefixing with "_V_" for variables might probably hint at its non-existence]). Nevertheless, im
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by sb 17y ago
I have not read any of the other advice yet, but I think that's too ambitious for somebody who has just completed two fundamental, but introductory courses. I totally agree upon building stuff for teaching the ropes--but this is probably a
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by sb 17y ago
I am not sure where I read this, but AFAIR it's from "The practice of programming" from Pike and Kernighan ( 1 ). The suggestion circumventing this was to not use a space before the assignment, i.e.: "a= b;" instead of "a = b;" I have been
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by sb 17y ago
One thing that comes to mind regarding wisdom of the elders is certainly dealing with life itself. Of course there is a lot of factual information easily retrievable using the internet, but this is only one side of the coin. What about no
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by sb 17y ago
hi, just for the record: I know a lot of PHBs that do not even know Werner Vogels and would not even start contemplating hiring him seeing expected salary figures. One must never forget, that the common misconception that our business does
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by sb 17y ago
Thanks for the video, I will watch it. The interested readers might want to try the book "An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and its Applications" by Li and Vitanyi (the 3rd edition came out recently). It is comparatively expensive, b

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