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Here's an index of sorts. I couldn't find anything better. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?sort=date

I guess they wanted to keep working on their slides (at least for the moment) and not be forced to go debugging. Sadly, the hang was deterministic, so they didn't have another opti…

Aren't they basically saying opposite things? Perlis is saying "don't choose the right data structure, shoehorn your data into the most popular one". This advice might have made se…

My minuscule pet peeve is that having only one source where the number 5 is depicted with a triangle (all others show it as a separated segment, like the number 6 but shorter), tha…

Everything they have is downloadable. Go to their home page and follow the links.

Everybody carries a gun in Heinlein stories, so those terrorists will be quickly dealt with by armed citizens, thus confirming the superiority of Libertarianism.

For the record, if you want to avoid the creation of intermediate arrays, you can: lst.lazy.grep(Array).flat_map(&:itself).sum Not as clear, because the standard library doesn't ha…

Careful. Seeing how I was downvoted for asking, it looks people here don't want that information to spread.

It may be somewhat awkward; zipping collections to iterate over them in unison makes the first one (the sender) seem special, while it not necessarily is. And accumulating more tha…

Looping in Ruby is the opposite of awful. You only have to define an `#each` method in your class and include the `Enumerable` module, and you get a plethora of composable methods …

It's paywalled, please provide a workaround.

In the late 90's I had a girlfriend who worked for a shop that made web pages in COBOL. I thought those were COBOL's death throes, but apparently I was mistaken...

They provoked the strike on purpose by giving the workers an unacceptable contract. The aim was to wreck the union (they succeeded). They prepared in secret for two years for this.…

Also related: https://puzz.link/db/

Even if it didn't dedupe strings, mutable string literals means that it has to create a new string every time it encounters a literal in run time. If you have a literal string in a…

Strings are going to keep being mutable by default. Only strings created by string literals won't be.

>I do not understand how you can even begin coming to the conclusion of ... Obviously he's not serious, he's playing the part of the out of touch old man.

Related to "Last is first", old Spanish books sometimes put at the end of the page the first syllable of the next page. (It was quite disconcerting when I first saw it.)

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They say it right in the next sentence.

But fb2 files are marked up text, which is (relatively) trivial to index. The bulk of Anna's Archive's books are made of from scanned images.

I don't think in Red a function can decide whether to evaluate its arguments or not. It's more like a Logo: functions have fixed arity, so you don't need to delimite the call, and …

Not very reliable, this Phantom thing.

I've seen it. Sometimes a DSL is more readable than trying to shoehorn control flow into method calls (".then().catch()..."). Or see C#'s LINQ.