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They also have Mastering Dyalog APL by Bernard Legrand as a free PDF download. I've just starting reading it, seems to be a very gentle introduction to APL: http://www.dyalog.com/m…

The inline threaded comments look like an awesome feature, would be amazing to have an inline widget like that in Code Mirror. Submitting tiny local patches this way might be usefu…

For those who haven't seen one of the "tire swing" cartoons mentioned in the article: http://www.projectcartoon.com/create/ and some historical versions: http://www.businessballs.c…

Not being a native speaker I had to google for it but it seems the correct usage is "hear, hear"[1]. (Just pointing it out in case other people are in a similar situation as me). […

I'm pretty much at the other end of the spectrum. For the time being I would probably discontinue my contribution if one of the developers I am tipping decides to do something I do…

I really love that idea. I think a lot of students which are bored by school (and/or feel left behind) would regain their natural curiosity in such an environment. I think the tech…

I'm dreaming of a curriculum where students start to program their own computer algebra system in 9th grade (or earlier), say, using Python or Clojure. Starting by teaching it to s…

I've taken an introduction to statistics course with social science students and based on that experience, I can relate to what you are saying, 100%. However, I think there is a br…

I had totally forgotten about this :-( Searching a little I found this interesting document addressing some of the problems which I have put on my reading list: "The Science of Thi…

(largely agreement here, can't say much about Knuth, though) The essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/progbot.html ? I think a lot of everyday reuse (by factoring commonly used code) h…

I like your explanation of this feature. I guess it rarely works for me because I open dozens of tabs when I start and some of them inevitably become stale if I do something else i…

I don't really know where they get their data and the overall picture might well be right but e.g. the rent index within Germany is quite dubious: In their list, Frankfurt and Colo…

Good point. Maybe that's the reason why it's not found by search, too. I think claiming the app's name was "Timer" when in fact it is called "Timer :"[1] is dubious. Ok, maybe the …

Good luck to you! I find it very encouraging to hear from cases like yours, hoping to enter the app store later this year as well. Have you experimented with in-app purchases? (E.g…

I love the artwork :) A way to sign up to get informed by e-mail when shipment outside the US becomes available would be awesome.

I'm just reading the book Flow-Based Programming (2nd Edition) by Paul Morrison[1]. I would say the main idea is to shift focus from control-flow to how data ("information packets"…

The instruction set page linked in the article mentions: To move a double quadword to or from memory locations that are known to be aligned on 16-byte boundaries, use the MOVDQA in…

A mapping of a 3 dimensional space to a 2 dimensional space will bring some points (colors) too close together, this happens with the missing color cones. So now the driver tries t…

I don't think it's as easy as you make it sound. The hypothetical driver would need to map everythink produced for "standard" trichromatic vision "down" to dichromatic vision in a …

A nice addition to my slime/Emacs environment (which is really a rediscovery for me after almost 10 years in IDEs like Eclipse) was iimage[1]. It converts image file name in the RE…

A small free tool for OS X I found useful is Sim Daltonism[1] Sim Daltonism is a color blindness simulator for Mac OS X. It filters in real-time the area around the mouse pointer a…

My road to lisp has not been without bumps but after initially being inspired by pg's essays and reading the highly motivating Practical Common Lisp [1], quicklisp has greatly lowe…