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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 s…

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 …

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".

LWN.net (mentioned elsewhere on the thread) is quite good for finding FOSS related content.

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…

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 de…

Cleartrip was indeed written in Common Lisp but moved to Java some years ago.

Surely, not SuSe. Novell didn't really handle that well.

A lot of Perl before Java came along.

IIRC I think the name is because they allow a lot of content that other hosts may shy away from.

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 br…

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 wi…

Not just one of the best Lisp books; but one of the best books on programming, period.

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…

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.

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 othe…

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 …

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 …

> close to 500 million in revenue yearly You mean 500 Billion.

And hats off to Patrick Volkerding who announced 1.0 and so many years later still going strong announcing 14.1.