Trying to open this document for download I'm firmly (unusually firmly) warned off by my ISP. It really was a 'go ahead if you want to be scammed' sort of thing. Anybody have an opinion about this?
Many people, mathematicians and aspirants, would find "Mathematics made Difficult" by Carl E Linderholm (pub. 1972) entertaining and possibly instructive. PDFs are available to those without scruples.
I'm no climate change denier, but there is a complexity to the effects which NASA has identified (and recently updated) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer... In particular the Sahel, famously…
This was a Time Team Special in 2005 [Series 18, Episode 138], unfortunately named the "King of Bling". The location was given as Prittlewell, Essex [on the outskirts of Southend]. For non-Brits, Time Team has been a…
Smartphones of both flavours can load cheap or free apps that are quite effective enough to read barcodes and identify books. Librarything and its various catalogue tools can help with the metadata too. That said, the…
As DK puts it himself: "The main idea is to treat a program as a piece of literature, addressed to human beings rather than to a computer." I think code navigation would naturally fall out from this approach.
I haven't got time to read all this dissertation on an interesting topic at the moment, but I was surprised to find that the relevant work of the other great "Donald" (Knuth) is not mentioned. He called it 'literate…
Have to have a valid Gitbook account to access these works, which is a bit of a mission. I keep getting 401 despite careful, and seemingly error-free, sign-up process.
Uniquely, AFAIK, the Dynalist team make their Trello kanban available for us all to see. We can also subscribe to and vote for our wished-for developments.
As a writer of English I find a font without the letter Q to be distinctly lacking...
I remember reading that, even in the English countryside in the past, goitre was frequent among those who 'drank pond water' and thus missed out on any soluble naturally-occurring additives. And the cause was a mystery…
Beware also that Aspirin allergy is a thing and often accompanies a general allergy to NSAIDs such as Ibuprofen. In my own case the allergy results in a moving facial swelling (angioedema) which my family dubbed…
The text makes it clear that capacity of the drum was 16384 12 bit "words", 196608 bits in total. The use of core memory was a big advance at that time. Previously the drums had been the main memory for that generation…
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/Ms_fnd_in_a_Lbry.html
PC Outline (PCO) was very good in its day. I was using it under DOS in 1985 and some people are still using it today in a Windows DOS box. It gave me the opportunity to move over from a long-form prose approach to…
along the same lines is how Stalin's executioners billed the family of those they had shot for the ammunition used. Often this was the only way they found out their loved-one had been killed.
Undoubtedly the attention lavished on this Extension by HN has caused its server to stop? Seems to be nothing happening here, I will pass on.
Ah yes, 'falling short' on places such as the New Cross Woolworths, leading to deaths of 168 persons, and laying waste areas such as Peckham where the fall of ten or more V1s and V2s were packed into a few streets - the…
I think you'll find that the behaviour of the East German Authorities has more in common with the beliefs of Mr Trump than those of Mr Sanders, but either way that's a cheap shot not worthy of democratic debate and…
As a visitor here from one of the supercivilizations in question (and enjoying the sex, red wine and rock music, I must say) I feel I have to point out a couple of things that may have been missed. One is that many of…
This comment is being downvoted for no good reason? It is a pessimistic but valid slant on this discussion I'd say.
Downvote karma is also arbitrary. I've been on negative karma for some time following my negative comments about the HN-described behaviour of someone's beloved mentor - who forced his classes to buy his book. I think…
ANPR (automatic number-plate recognition) is universal in the UK and most of Europe. Motorway gantries and other devices monitor the motorway system and report the presence of any cars which are 'on the list'. They…
Samsung is a Korean company, not Chinese. I've heard that labour mobility in China still has a way to go, but Korea is probably actually running out of people to work in factories.
One of the virtues of Evernote is that you are not stuck in a hierarchy if you don't want to be. I find Clay Shirky's well-known criticisms of pervasive hierarchies to be quite persuasive. I'm looking for something that…
Trying to open this document for download I'm firmly (unusually firmly) warned off by my ISP. It really was a 'go ahead if you want to be scammed' sort of thing. Anybody have an opinion about this?
Many people, mathematicians and aspirants, would find "Mathematics made Difficult" by Carl E Linderholm (pub. 1972) entertaining and possibly instructive. PDFs are available to those without scruples.
I'm no climate change denier, but there is a complexity to the effects which NASA has identified (and recently updated) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer... In particular the Sahel, famously…
This was a Time Team Special in 2005 [Series 18, Episode 138], unfortunately named the "King of Bling". The location was given as Prittlewell, Essex [on the outskirts of Southend]. For non-Brits, Time Team has been a…
Smartphones of both flavours can load cheap or free apps that are quite effective enough to read barcodes and identify books. Librarything and its various catalogue tools can help with the metadata too. That said, the…
As DK puts it himself: "The main idea is to treat a program as a piece of literature, addressed to human beings rather than to a computer." I think code navigation would naturally fall out from this approach.
I haven't got time to read all this dissertation on an interesting topic at the moment, but I was surprised to find that the relevant work of the other great "Donald" (Knuth) is not mentioned. He called it 'literate…
Have to have a valid Gitbook account to access these works, which is a bit of a mission. I keep getting 401 despite careful, and seemingly error-free, sign-up process.
Uniquely, AFAIK, the Dynalist team make their Trello kanban available for us all to see. We can also subscribe to and vote for our wished-for developments.
As a writer of English I find a font without the letter Q to be distinctly lacking...
I remember reading that, even in the English countryside in the past, goitre was frequent among those who 'drank pond water' and thus missed out on any soluble naturally-occurring additives. And the cause was a mystery…
Beware also that Aspirin allergy is a thing and often accompanies a general allergy to NSAIDs such as Ibuprofen. In my own case the allergy results in a moving facial swelling (angioedema) which my family dubbed…
The text makes it clear that capacity of the drum was 16384 12 bit "words", 196608 bits in total. The use of core memory was a big advance at that time. Previously the drums had been the main memory for that generation…
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/Ms_fnd_in_a_Lbry.html
PC Outline (PCO) was very good in its day. I was using it under DOS in 1985 and some people are still using it today in a Windows DOS box. It gave me the opportunity to move over from a long-form prose approach to…
along the same lines is how Stalin's executioners billed the family of those they had shot for the ammunition used. Often this was the only way they found out their loved-one had been killed.
Undoubtedly the attention lavished on this Extension by HN has caused its server to stop? Seems to be nothing happening here, I will pass on.
Ah yes, 'falling short' on places such as the New Cross Woolworths, leading to deaths of 168 persons, and laying waste areas such as Peckham where the fall of ten or more V1s and V2s were packed into a few streets - the…
I think you'll find that the behaviour of the East German Authorities has more in common with the beliefs of Mr Trump than those of Mr Sanders, but either way that's a cheap shot not worthy of democratic debate and…
As a visitor here from one of the supercivilizations in question (and enjoying the sex, red wine and rock music, I must say) I feel I have to point out a couple of things that may have been missed. One is that many of…
This comment is being downvoted for no good reason? It is a pessimistic but valid slant on this discussion I'd say.
Downvote karma is also arbitrary. I've been on negative karma for some time following my negative comments about the HN-described behaviour of someone's beloved mentor - who forced his classes to buy his book. I think…
ANPR (automatic number-plate recognition) is universal in the UK and most of Europe. Motorway gantries and other devices monitor the motorway system and report the presence of any cars which are 'on the list'. They…
Samsung is a Korean company, not Chinese. I've heard that labour mobility in China still has a way to go, but Korea is probably actually running out of people to work in factories.
One of the virtues of Evernote is that you are not stuck in a hierarchy if you don't want to be. I find Clay Shirky's well-known criticisms of pervasive hierarchies to be quite persuasive. I'm looking for something that…