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Good job the doctor running my treatment stays up to date with modern techniques instead of bemoaning the age of her qualification. The degree should teach you the techniques to ma…

Apple seems to be taking another turn towards open source software. The spinning off of the cli build tools into an smaller package makes like easier for tools like homebrew and fi…

The issue with learning objective c is the lack of portability. Yes the language runs on everything via the use of gnustep, but on first appearances its is nextstep ported to moder…

No you have just demonstrated that a performance has monetary value. If you had gone to see them and they had only played covers your enjoyment would likely be similar.

Its a shame they dont sell the most useful C book of them all.

Works in DOSBOX

I could get any flights from wolframalpha in aberdeen. That is much cooler.

Its worse getting dropped into $USER_FRIENDLY_EDITOR_OF_THE_MOMENT. It's cool that the sys admin or the distro developer loves to use pico, nano, joe whatever, but I just want to m…

Thats brilliant. It reminds me of the size matters article I read a couple of years ago, the most difficult title to google too http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/te…

I really disagree with the use of bad guy in any of those laws. It biases the reader from the get go to only worry about the bad guy, you should worry about every user.

I cannot believe how addictive this is to watch. Really makes me feel like I am wasting my time though.

I now have a massively irrational desire to acquire one of these boards. I already own an arduino I barely touch, but the idea of having a unix at the center of a hack is very appe…

The quality of the badges on apps seems very low right now, it seems really grainy on mail.app (to be fair I havent seen a badge of anything else).

There were not any ads, so why have this article on two pages.

Publishers that I have learnt to avoid (overly verbose, code snippets instead of working programs. Addison Wesley Appress O'Reilly(cookbooks fare better)

Personally I cannot learn from a book where I am just given concepts and supposed to find a solution. I find reading other code to be a much better learning method. I have seen mos…

The first chapter of K&R is a tutorial introduction, it explains the entire workings of the C language for someone familiar to programming in a small number of pages(It misses poin…

I had my bike stolen in Scotland, the police spent an hour in my house trying to convince me I had just done something 'stupid' and tried to blame in on a theft. It took the bike b…

This article is just to drive page views. The website sells investment reports, it has a ticker across the page with fake recommendations.

Wow $20,000 is a lot of money. I really feel sorry for those i the states, when you consider I could enter a residence masters program in Sweden for nothing (coming from the EU) yo…

This is really cool and all, but it doesnt seem like it will be any more environmentally friendly than paper. Certainly more expensive.

They need to change their background, that scrolling effect really is not nice.