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What are cookies? Just kidding. I always forget stuff like that. Thanks for the "Pro Tip"

I live in the Philippines. There is no public anything here, LOL

While I appreciate you sharing this article, my free reads on New York Times have long been used up, and I don't plan to buy a subscription. But I've been to a book "factory" at An…

Die-hard Hershey's fan here. Maybe I'm a pleb, but I am not a fan of "artisanal" anything (these guys put the "anal" in "artisanal"). I only eat maybe one bar a week. I probably ge…

Once you've understood the basics, get the Gradus Ad Parnassum by Johann Joseph Fux. A word to the wise is sufficient.

I know, right? This is kind of how I feel about org mode (in Emacs).

It never ceases to amaze me how computer programmers can take the simplest things and make them mind-numbingly complex. Oy ve (and yes, I'm a programmer)! But if it makes him happy…

Primitive Recursive Functions

Awesome book. Thanks. I've been needing to get back on my mathematics studies. This fits the bill perfectly.

Well, being a mathematician, and having written important texts on numerical analysis, numerical programming was probably foremost in Hamming's mind. Interestingly, he doesn't accu…

I apologize for the long quote, but I promise that if you read to the end, you will see that the discussion is germaine. "I want to point out again the difference between writing a…

An excellent book that needs to be read carefully by many college students, including engineers, scientists, political scientists, and business students.

A "kludge," if you will?

This definitely also applies to the realm of programming languages. Clear back in the 1990s, Richard Hamming said that we used to stand on the shoulders of giants, but today we sta…

Good choice. I HATE touch screens. Humans need tactile feedback.