thesnowdog

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by thesnowdog 7mo ago
We didn't get MTV until the late '80s in Australia and it only ran for a few hours late at night and didn't move to a dedicated cable channel until cable really took off here in the mid '90s. There's nothing compara
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by thesnowdog 7mo ago
I recall sitting around all afternoon to tape Layla off the radio, during a repeat countdown, after hearing it the day before for the first time. The DJ cut in during the fade out with "Indeed..." and forty years later I still ca
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by thesnowdog 3y ago
That sounds like too many people; three or four usually works best in my experience.
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by thesnowdog 4y ago
I read The Awk Programming Language shortly after K&R and came away with the idea that I should consider reading whatever Kernighan (co)wrote. I don't think I got further than The Practice of Programming but that was three winners
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by thesnowdog 5y ago
You can't think of one single 'healthy' reason to invest years of effort in cultivating a social media presence?
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by thesnowdog 5y ago
I remember it quite fondly and even remember its predecessor Blue.
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by thesnowdog 5y ago
https://github.com/brownplt/pyret-lang/tree/master/tools/ema...
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by thesnowdog 6y ago
With a captive audience in Stockholm?
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by thesnowdog 8y ago
I've always been told the same thing but my experience pretty much matches yours. I can eat what I want as long as I keep up my daily 7km walk which takes me about an hour or so. I've always found walking easy but I've never
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by thesnowdog 9y ago
Thanks, now I've been chirping like Dale all day much to the irritation of my holiday companions.
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by thesnowdog 10y ago
"Fb is a shunk (flattened) pure functional programming language."
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by thesnowdog 10y ago
How to Design Programs: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
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by thesnowdog 10y ago
"You must think in Russian"
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by thesnowdog 17y ago
To be fair Conkeror, the FF extension, came first and while there's certainly been a two-way exchange of ideas since it's unlikely that Vimperator would exist without the pioneering work done on Conkeror.