dragonquest

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by dragonquest 5y ago
I think Manning/NoStarch/Pragmatic generally have good quality books, but O'Reilly is not too far behind. They just publish a lot many books, so some are bound to be mediocre and some of them absolute gems.
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by dragonquest 6y ago
I agree with the Javascript suggestion, and if his primary interest is games - I recommend https://pragprog.com/titles/csjava2/3d-game-programming-for-... It's a great, structured way to get some hands on exp
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by dragonquest 6y ago
I really like the wiby.me version of this. It displays results only from early web style pages; a great throwback to an era where not everything was "corporate".
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by dragonquest 7y ago
LWN.net (mentioned elsewhere on the thread) is quite good for finding FOSS related content.
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by dragonquest 8y ago
I use Personal Knowbase, a small Shareware era program. It has minor annoyances but does what it says on the tin. It's fast, minimal and allows narrowing down to related notes in a jiffy. The makers update it slowly though. https:&#x2
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We Need to Resurrect Desktop Databases(apress.com)
2 points by dragonquest 8y ago|0 comments
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History of Gopher(prgmr.com)
2 points by dragonquest 8y ago|0 comments
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by dragonquest 8y ago
This is a massive achievement. Being able to run a modern browser and an Office Suite makes it a viable desktop alternative in the coming future. I'm happy to see variety in the desktop OS space once again!
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by dragonquest 9y ago
Cleartrip was indeed written in Common Lisp but moved to Java some years ago.
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Windows Phone dies today(theverge.com)
3 points by dragonquest 9y ago|0 comments
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by dragonquest 9y ago
Surely, not SuSe. Novell didn't really handle that well.
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by dragonquest 9y ago
A lot of Perl before Java came along.
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by dragonquest 10y ago
IIRC I think the name is because they allow a lot of content that other hosts may shy away from.
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by dragonquest 10y ago
Learning Lisp, more specifically Scheme. I became curious about it after reading ESR's "How to Become a Hacker". When homoiconicity and other Lisp goodies gradually permeated my brain, the computing world seemed different. I
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by dragonquest 10y ago
This is why you should always create something, even if you think it will never be accepted by a large audience. It is worth it for the journey itself. Reading this post made me wish I had spent more time with 'gcj'. Though in all
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by dragonquest 10y ago
Not just one of the best Lisp books; but one of the best books on programming, period.
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Show HN: My Free Ebook – A Primer on Design Patterns (Python and Java Sources)(leanpub.com)
6 points by dragonquest 10y ago|0 comments
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by dragonquest 11y ago
Let me take this opportunity to thank you for your fantastic editor. It is bloody fantastic and I'm not even an old Wordstar user who just has to use its keybindings. I truly think you have created an almost perfect, light console edit
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by dragonquest 11y ago
Isn't this what DBPedia's SPARQL endpoint was built for? Construct a query with predicate as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/abstract and you have your summary.
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by dragonquest 11y ago
This is fantastic news! Joe is a great editor, thank you Joe Allen. It has got just the right set of features to be a proper Unix editor that is good at editing and delegating other stuff to other utilities. I love the run shell in this buf
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by dragonquest 12y ago
Rather than a single resource, I would suggest reading the Wikipedia entries of the following: I(D)MS, Ingres, PickOS, Mumps, GT.M, dbm, Datacom and ADABAS. All of them have great historical value.
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by dragonquest 12y ago
I consider Guy Steele Jr. to be one of the greatest programmers of all time. And when he praises Stallman that way, you begin to grasp just how brilliant Stallman must be. Plus 10 hours of Steele and Stallman coding together, what a thing o
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by dragonquest 12y ago
> close to 500 million in revenue yearly You mean 500 Billion.
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Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS released(lists.ubuntu.com)
2 points by dragonquest 12y ago|0 comments
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by dragonquest 12y ago
And hats off to Patrick Volkerding who announced 1.0 and so many years later still going strong announcing 14.1.
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by dragonquest 12y ago
I would advise starting off with a good Java book and writing code in a text editor for a week or two before migrating to JDeveloper. It might seem masochistic, but the steep curve pays off later. As for the book, "Java: The Complete R
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Show HN: My free ebook – A Primer on SQL (2nd Edition)(leanpub.com)
6 points by dragonquest 13y ago|0 comments
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by dragonquest 13y ago
The overlooked bid in this case was by Vinay Deolalikar for $1000000 who simply said "I think I have done this." For background, Vinay was a researcher at HP Labs, Palo Alto who made a serious attempt at solving the problem (independently f
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2012: The year that netbooks died(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by dragonquest 14y ago|1 comments
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by dragonquest 14y ago
While I can't speak for other texts, UTP is my and probably the go-to book for learning Troff. I owe the typesetting of my ebook to it. Since it occupies that niche area, it is still quite relevant and useful today.

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