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by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago
Books like these approach $100 new. That's a lot of money for someone in high school.
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by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago
Great source for cheap, DRM free e-books: https://www.humblebundle.com/books (Particularly from O'Reilly, No Starch, Manning, ... )
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by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago
¿por qué no los dos? I buy lots of used books, and also access e-books (sometimes the same books). Mostly I enjoy e-books for use with text-to-speech. If I'm reading a book, I usually am only reading that book and don't need thous
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by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago
That's why it's great that SFPL purchases such a wide variety of books. You can't ILL something if nobody has it. When I was a teen I got my local library to acquire copies of a number of tech classics: SICP, K&R, Stevens
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by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago
Yes. I've found criteria for new books at public libraries to be very limiting. They usually will only acquire newly published books (published within a year or so). But they do get a discount from the publisher, perhaps 30%. Basically
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by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago
People, ask your local library to join LINK+ and to purchase great books! Ask how to submit 'Purchase Requests'. LINK+ is open to libraries (public and private) in California and Neighboring States.
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by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago
https://csul.iii.com/screens/members.html Alameda County Library Alameda Free Library Alliant International University - San Francisco Alliant International University - Fresno Alliant Intern
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LINK+ Union Catalog(linkencore.iii.com)
1 points by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago|3 comments
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by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago
LINK+ is a union catalog of contributed holdings from participating libraries in California. Patrons from member libraries request an item not available in their own library and it is delivered to them for check-out. LINK+ is available to
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O'Reilly for Public Libraries [video](youtube.com)
1 points by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago|1 comments
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by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago
The O’Reilly for Public Libraries Complete subscription includes more than 43,000 books and 30,000 hours of video in areas such as information technology and software; business; digital media; professional and personal development; and des
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by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago
San Francisco Public Library [0] is the best resource for readers in California. Of all the libraries in the state, I've found they are the most likely to acquire new titles, and often they are the only holder if the subject is particu
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by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago
Agreed. I grew up having a lot of books around, mostly non-fiction, mostly from library book sales, garage sales, and used bookstores. There is a magnetic pull to a large well sorted bookcase. Pair it with a comfortable chair free of distra
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by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago
Play from: 'Webamp' is mandatory.
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by so-cal-schemer 6mo ago
Great examples, those. Here's another: https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp/blob/main/sectorlisp.S Given this, you might write less asm.
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by so-cal-schemer 7mo ago
See also: Parinfer: Simpler Lisp Editing (shaunlebron.github.io) 168 points by harperlee on Jan 20, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 32 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42766205
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Arno's Engram Keyboard Layouts(github.com)
16 points by so-cal-schemer 7mo ago|18 comments
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by so-cal-schemer 7mo ago
"Engram is a family of keyboard layouts optimized for comfortable and efficient touch typing in different languages created by Arno Klein. You can use the open-source software to create new key layouts optimized for different language
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by so-cal-schemer 7mo ago
A civilized language deserves a civilized layout[1]: [{ 1| 2= 3~ 4+ 5< 6> 7^ 8& 9% 0* ]} /\ bB yY oO uU '( ") dD nN gG vV qQ #$ @` hH iI aA eE ,; .: tT rR sS cC zZ kK jJ xX w
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by so-cal-schemer 7mo ago
Nor an Asus C101: RK3399 6-core ARM v8, Mali-T864 GPU, 1.9lb aluminum body, 10" IPS multitouch display, USB-C, compact chicklet-style keyboard -- or since it's a 2-in-1, flip it around and use your own portable ergo/ortholine
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by so-cal-schemer 8mo ago
I dislike the short windows for editing / deletion. I could have just agreed and left it at that.
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by so-cal-schemer 8mo ago
Good points. There is a trade-off. Outside hotspots, readability / maintainability should take precedence.
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by so-cal-schemer 8mo ago
Here's a better gauge for code density: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... How source-code size is measured We start with the source-code markup you can see, remove comments, remove d
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by so-cal-schemer 8mo ago
Note last December was the 50th Anniversary of the first Scheme paper. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY AI Memo No. 349 December 1975
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Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus (1975)(research.scheme.org)
3 points by so-cal-schemer 8mo ago|1 comments
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by so-cal-schemer 8mo ago
SCHEME AN INTERPRETER FOR EXTENDED LAMBDA CALCULUS by Gerald Jay Sussman and Guy Lewis Steele Jr. Abstract: Inspired by ACTORS [Greif and Hewitt] [Smith and Hewitt], we have implemented an interpreter for a LISP-like language, SCHEME, base
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The Lambda Papers(research.scheme.org)
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by so-cal-schemer 8mo ago
Papers by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman published as AI Memos by the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory between December 1975 and March 1979. As noted in Early standards, the tone of these papers is relatively informal and their typese
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by so-cal-schemer 8mo ago
A section of SICP that doesn't get enough attention imo: 2.5 Systems with Generic Operations https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/2_002e5.xhtml
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by so-cal-schemer 8mo ago
Succinctness is Power https://paulgraham.com/power.html

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