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billfruit

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    Comment #46584415

    How are you approaching the development of your single file html apps, is there any examples publicly available, sounds very interesting.

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    Comment #46562186

    Are there any recent books that cover this topic of design in the abstract.

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    Comment #46539557

    Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence" by Ivan Bratko, is a reasonable text book on Prolog.

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    Comment #46226596

    This calculation does not apply to modern ,"inktank" printers, which are replenished by buying ink bottles and pouring the liquid ink into the reservoir in the printer. They print …

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    Comment #46078847

    I have a completely opposite perspective to you on this. I find the peanuts very poignantly captures the frailities of the human condition in a humorous manner.

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    Comment #45983377

    Both Billy Bud and Bartleby are very focused on the human drama. If you are more interested in the sea rather, I'd suggest Typee and its follow up Omoo.

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    Comment #45938294

    It doesn't seem to be that widely known, any reason why?

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    Comment #45938217

    Do you mean John Betjeman?

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    Comment #45934441

    "The Book of Unix Games" by Janice Winsor is the book. Seems hard to find now.

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    Comment #45865955

    There use to be a set of games which were available for SunOS and may be Solaris, including a flight simulator with wired frame graphics, and Sun even had released a book about the…

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    Comment #45846026

    I feel much of the knowledge and experience in the industry is simply lost because it isn't widely documented and studied. There needs to be detailed histories of major software de…

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    Comment #45844958

    I feel that the last added book in one's list seem to have more influence on the recommendations, which results in a rather similar type of recommendations.

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    Comment #45656830

    But many features, even obscure ones are packaged by default in modern emacs, including I think a pdf viewer.

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    Comment #45653942

    Once we get a modern IDE like PyCharm or Intellij Idea, the auto complete is essentially built in, without needing to deal with installing LSP servers, clients, and their dependenc…

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    Comment #45653702

    While I still use emacs, I find that that despite the "batteries included" narrative about emacs, the things which are not included are causes of major frustration. Such essential …

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    Comment #45645951

    From the article : "Czech conservation authorities praised the beavers for their unexpected yet effective environmental work. Bohumil Fišer, head of the Brdy Protected Landscape Ar…

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    Comment #45640417

    Is it possible we see the diagram as an svg? I am seeing it only as embedded in the pdf, and really difficult to read .

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    Comment #45486951

    As some not into modern c++, how would you get all functionality? Is there any guide or documentation yout could point to?. It is fascinating if all that could be done with just th…

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    Comment #45238434

    What about library support/APIs if you want to embedd gis functionality in other applications? Does QGIS provide widgets etc?

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    Comment #44995275

    Can in it do interactive 3d diagrams.

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    Comment #44948312

    Does not ranked matchmaking make for more competitive matches, a bit like if you play ranked in lichess it matches with someone of your own level, and you have a real chance of imp…

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    Comment #44876066

    I think using org mode is way overkill. If someone wants to do pros tastination dressed up as emacs-gardening, it may be a good option. The best todo app ideally should be a smartp…

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    Comment #44802658

    Can it do interactive 3d plots?

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    Comment #44572400

    Daniel Mendelsohn's new translation of Odyssey came out in April this year. He claims to have taken a more litteral approach following on the footsteps of Lattimore. Did anyone her…

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