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I really like Terminus. I started using it last year and I'd be hard-pressed to switch to anything else.

Ah... but now the title has changed. It was along the lines of "Incredibly funny implementation of netcat in open source Apple code"

Yep. This "incredibly funny" implementation of netcat is... just like the original netcat.

>> It seemed deeply unlikely at one stage to imagine Google would flush Code down the toilet > If you know Google you know this isn't the case. Google are ruthless with cutting ide…

For what it's worth, Feynman was on Wolfram's dissertation committee http://thesis.library.caltech.edu/2597/

When I first saw it I thought "pico see". The "peacock" interpretation is funny and went unnoticed by me. Cheers!

I taught myself C as a young teenager (some time ago), only to much later learn languages with REPLs like Ruby, Scheme and Common Lisp. Using gdb in this way would have been an int…

I'm happy to see The Variational Principles of Mechanics (by the great Lanczos) on that list. It really is deep, and I think it does a fantastic job of explaining classical mechani…

"Acuman" "I am ACUMAN, ACUMAN am I. ACUMAN knows all, ACUMAN is god. Therefore; I AM GOD!!! Just kidding, ACUMAN stands for Artificial Chatting Utility Matching Algorithmic Nodes."…

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9375643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9367438

LoL's author has a collection of references at http://letoverlambda.com/references.lisp Many of the references are not for learning CL, but are interesting reads (such as Henry Bak…

> As in "we know that we can be in compliance, but we won't be wasting any resources on it until it's justified". It has nothing to do with the professionalism. It sounds like it h…

I think Griffiths' E&M book is great. It's very enjoyable and makes a fine book to use before going on to Jackson (although more supplements are often needed to make it through tha…

Didn't you read the book? Everyone poops.

Very cool! Nice descriptions and presentation (and the movie reference at the end is great). I look forward to going through this in finer detail.

Oh, that's interesting. Thanks. And I wasn't suggesting using unsigned 32-bit integers now, I was curious why they weren't used before (the number of views seems to be a nonnegativ…

"Apparently, they never planned for a video to exceed a 32-bit integer mark and their counter can’t handle past the number 2,147,483,647." Hmm... any reason not to have used unsign…