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by tumba 10y ago
I highly recommend Joe Celko's book, SQL Programming Style. [1] He does deal with formatting, but offers a comprehensive usage standard that goes beyond readability to discussing thorny issues like the taxonomy of words like "type
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by tumba 10y ago
You might enjoy The UNIX-HATERS Handbook [1], published in 1994. It offers a still-relevant critical perspective on the UNIX paradigm, birthed in a context that had been exposed to alternatives. [1] http://web.mit.edu/~simso
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by tumba 10y ago
Only a few PS/2 -> USB adapters are fully functional according to the PS/2 specification. I use an adapter from Sanoxy [1] with my Model M and it works superbly. I have read of other Model M enthusiasts using the same one. [1]
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by tumba 10y ago
I was thrilled by my purchase of an original Palm Pilot during my last year of high school and delighted in filling its Notes application with a wealth of data which would now be in my "palm." I would go on to develop a few applic
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by tumba 10y ago
This is a presentation by Ahmon Dancy, a software engineer with Franz. The talk was originally prepared for the 8th European Lisp Symposium, April 20-21, 2015; this recording was a presentation to the Bay Area Lisp and Scheme Meetup. He dis
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by tumba 10y ago
Can you make any recommendations on textbooks that would be useful for a non-specialist who wants to survey how "basic genetics work" and understand the current state of knowledge? I am not looking for popular treatments, but some
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by tumba 10y ago
If you enjoyed this, may I also recommend Feynman's Lectures on Computation. [1] It consists of transactions of a lecture series that begins with computer architecture and theory of computation and considers interesting subjects like t
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by tumba 10y ago
I suggest C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software by David Hanson.[1] It focuses on helpful engineering practices for reliably and efficiently implementing algorithms in C. I also second the recommendatio
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by tumba 10y ago
No, but if you are serious about a PDF workflow for reference and annotation, the Sony DPTS1 is an excellent single-purpose device. http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-DPTS1/
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by tumba 11y ago
See extensive discussion on the Washington Post article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11270529
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by tumba 11y ago
> You know, I haven’t flown commercial in a while. But my understanding is that it’s not great fun going through security. But we make the concession. It’s a big intrusion on our privacy, but we recognize it as important. I cannot agree
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by tumba 11y ago
I suspect a data breach or exploit of cloud storage or other service providers is more likely for most consumers than an attack on their device following theft or loss. For both privacy and protection against criminals, cloud storage must b
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by tumba 11y ago
It is fallacious to believe that because publicly available technology is being effectively used by terrorists and criminals, removing legal access to this technology will make terrorists and criminals ineffective. Indeed, it may merely cre
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by tumba 11y ago
There is also the mistaken belief that effective restriction of free thought is is possible through political/legal means. That strategy was ineffective against communism and remains ineffective today.
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by tumba 11y ago
Off topic, but to create an immediately effective KDS root key, just set the effective time ten hours in the past. You can validate propagation by looking for the 4004 event in the KDS event log. This is probably not a good idea in producti
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by tumba 11y ago
Any recommendations or examples of "good communications grade" handsets?
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by tumba 11y ago
> ... their dashboards are (likely to be) gorgeous and > vastly improved over the mostly superfluous dials and > gauges car manufacturers think we need to see (when was > the last time you had to check your RPMs or
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by tumba 11y ago
I have no desire to get into a personal argument, but I would like to point out that one contribution he has made for me that have not seen elsewhere is that he has chosen to use Emacs as a text-processing scripting environment in preferenc
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by tumba 11y ago
Programming occurs in a wide variety of contexts, and different tools and workflows are optimal in different contexts. In the same way that I find interactive programming in Common Lisp optimal for exploratory work in a complicated or uncer
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by tumba 11y ago
I think there are two ways in which children may constructively be taught computing. The first is algorithmic problem solving, which is often better taught using logic puzzles and games rather than programming trivial if-then statements. An
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by tumba 11y ago
I have been a happy Fastmail customer for a year now. I prefer their webmail interface to any software other than mutt because of its excellent keyboard shortcuts. CalDAV access to my calendar has been very stable and CardDAV access to cont
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by tumba 11y ago
Link to discussion of Part 1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9540955
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by tumba 11y ago
I have found adopting time/energy contexts to be helpful. I believe the original blog post is http://simplicitybliss.com/blog/a-fresh-take-on-contexts .
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by tumba 11y ago
Thank you for PerlGuts Illustrated! http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RURBAN/illguts-0.49/index.htm...
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by tumba 11y ago
You should probably have your own lawyer draft something for me, but here's some of my own standard language. Basically, it grants the client an unlimited license while maintaining all intellectual property rights. It also acknowledges
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by tumba 11y ago
At least in the commercial world, the current legacy of Pascal is really in the C# community. See Anders Hejlsberg [1]. He was the author of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of Delphi before becoming the architect of C#. There is a lot
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by tumba 11y ago
This has been a consistent direction from Microsoft for some time. When Microsoft talks about private cloud or hybrid cloud, they refer to a design approach in which infrastructure and applications are separated. Even today, using the lates
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by tumba 11y ago
Your healthcare record does not exist as an entity anywhere; it is an amalgam of all the records different physicians and medical service providers have on you. It is not uncommon to need to gather all these records if, for example, you go
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by tumba 11y ago
Knuth's Turing Award speech "Computer Programming as Art" [1] is relevant. It is useful to apply the scientific paradigm when appropriate, but it is also true that there is an aesthetic dimension to computer programming and t
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by tumba 11y ago
There is a long tradition of this sort of payment. [1] I have run across it in industrial settings, particularly where the industry or its management were strongly influenced by Taylorism. [2] However, if quality standards aren't easil

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