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by tumba 12y ago
If you find yourself in the position of saying "Hey, I have some free time; what should I read?" I recommend focusing first on what you want to know or do, secondly on determining what book and articles are likely to contain usefu
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by tumba 12y ago
This brings back fond memories of Palm OS development. It wasn't the easiest platform to develop for, but as this document describes, user experience was emphasized and the thrill of making sophisticated tasks simple using constrained
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by tumba 12y ago
In fact, that was the way Moveable Type worked and was a dominant publishing tool before WordPress took off.
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by tumba 12y ago
> For the non-programmers among you, here's the executive summary of how to program: 1. Surf the Net for packages by other people that do what you need to get done. 2. Repeat step one until you've gathered everything you need.
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by tumba 12y ago
With cl-launch [1], Common Lisp has become a useable alternative for scripting. Improvements to ASDF have also helped (see ASDF 3, or Why Lisp is Now an Acceptable Scripting Language [2]). François-René Rideau gave a talk called "Using
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by tumba 12y ago
The promise of ERP that drove people from best-of-breed application portfolios to monolithic systems was primarily the efficiency of integration. That is, your payables, treasury, etc. would automatically post to the general ledger and util
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by tumba 12y ago
Can you provide a link for One-Get? I'm having trouble locating any sort of an announcement.
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by tumba 13y ago
To me, the idea that the essence of a program is the model of reality it embodies suggests principles for the use of comments, literate programming tools, and other methods of documentation. A prime goal of documentation ought to be to avoi
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by tumba 13y ago
I suspect it is actually a Portable Plus. I've got one and it has an 8088 processor along with the dual floppy drives shown in the picture.
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by tumba 13y ago
Windows 8 on the desktop, while presenting some intriguing evolutionary possibilities, seems like an unstable transitional form. I do not use touch or tablet platform and consequently, I have not seen any compelling reasons for upgrading my
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Windows 8.1 Update 1: More interface concessions(arstechnica.com)
27 points by tumba 13y ago|57 comments
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by tumba 13y ago
I have three broad workflows, depending on the type of material. (1) Insights and Ideas. The reason these are valuable to me is the thoughts they provoke in my head. I try to make most insights I come across "mine" by writing them
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by tumba 13y ago
I imagine much of his reputation goes back to his book Applied Cryptography [1] written back in the 1990s. [1] http://books.google.com/books?id=A6ZO2D6ayNwC&dq
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by tumba 13y ago
+1 for #3 (blue LEDs). A couple weeks ago I spent a half hour taking apart an air purifier in my bedroom and disconnecting the blue LED because it was so obnoxious.
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by tumba 13y ago
This is a common scenario for me. My contract generally includes the following provision. "Client shall have a perpetual, irrevocable, nontransferable license to use and copy the materials and deliverables created, discovered, invented, dev
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by tumba 13y ago
I try to stay focused by creating a personal syllabus for each subject I'm interested in. I add books to them, as well as objectives and questions I'd like to answer. Of particular value has been the habit of setting written products as my
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by tumba 14y ago
Most of those questions can be answered by reading articles online and running some scenarios in a spreadsheet. if you want to get deeper into the financial side, I recommend the book Handbook of Financing Growth: Strategies, Capital Struct
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by tumba 14y ago
http://as.reddit.com/r/CablePorn
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by tumba 16y ago
More recent scholarly work has been done by Mary Carruthers. I have found her books, "The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture" and "The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200", to be mor
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by tumba 16y ago
Perk Monks Tutorials http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials
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by tumba 16y ago
I tried this and was very impressed. However, I'm primarily an emacs user and switching back and forth is jarring. Can anyone recommend a similar Firefox add-on patterned after emacs?
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by tumba 16y ago
I agree and should have been more precise. Most algorithm and data structure texts fail to deal with the issues surrounding secondary-storage application, including optimizing disk accesses, buffering, etc.
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Ask YC: How to write a database
2 points by tumba 16y ago|7 comments
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by tumba 17y ago
I'm surprised nobody has referenced Donald Knuth's 1974 Turing Award speech, Computer Programming as an Art. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361612 Paul Graham even posted it in its entirety here: http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.ht
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by tumba 17y ago
I routinely get 40-45 MPG on the highway in my 2003 VW Jetta TDI with an automatic transmission while driving between 70-80 mph with the air conditioning running at max. I have never had a problem with diesel fuel quality or availability. M
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Original Proof for Little's Law (L=lW)(doc.ic.ac.uk)
1 points by tumba 17y ago|0 comments