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aRrgh: a newcomer's (angry) guide to R edit / delete
"R is a shockingly dreadful language for an exceptionally useful data analysis environment. The more you learn about the R language, the worse it will feel. The development environment suffers from literally decades of accretion of stupid hacks from a community containing, to a first-order approximation, zero software engineers."
to amusements language-design r statistics ... on 06 October 2015
OriginalTetrisHowto - Dyne.org Wiki edit / delete
How to run the Elektronika 60 version of Tetris -- i.e. the original version -- under simh. Turns out it'll work quite happily on RT-11 on any PDP-11...
to amusements emulation games pdp11 retrocomputing rt11 soviet tetris ... on 28 June 2015
Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective @ Things Of Interest edit / delete
"Because marriage is not just an irreflexive binary relation; it's a transitive, irreflexive, binary relation." A nice worked example of database design.
to amusements data-design database marriage relational sql ... on 28 June 2015
Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds — The Message — Medium edit / delete
"This computer ran a Unix-based operating system. It was located somewhere in Virginia. I went to bed. When I woke up 100 people were asking for accounts." An author discovers the social aspects of Unix systems; there are actually lots of shared machines like this around, quietly keeping groups of people happy. (bookmarks.offog.org is running on one...)
to amusements society unix web ... on 22 March 2015
Adrian the Rock - British Railway Signalling edit / delete
A very large collection of pictures of railway signals in the UK, including typical and unusual installations. I came here looking to find out what places were still using semaphore signals, and several hours later was still happily clicking away...
to amusements engineering railway retrotech signalling ... on 17 March 2015
FARM SHOW - Home edit / delete
A magazine for people who are both farmers and hackers.
to amusements farming hack mechanica ... on 17 March 2015
1337 3310 tool • Hackaday.io edit / delete
"I'm building a portable multitool in the shell of a Nokia 3310 phone." It would probably be fairly easy to add a phone to the list of features, using a modern GSM/3G module...
to amusements electronics nokia phone test-equipment ... on 16 March 2015
"At this point, I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format. PSD is not a good format. PSD is not even a bad format. Calling it such would be an insult to other bad formats, such as PCX or JPEG."
to amusements coding-style comment file-formats photoshop programming ... on 13 March 2015
Much along the lines of Warehouse 23...
to amusements fiction sf ... on 13 March 2015
Kvikkalkul home page edit / delete
"This Web site is devoted to Kvikkalkul, the secret programming language of the Swedish Navy. In October 1994, the language was described in a Usenet message by an anonymous programmer who used Kvikkalkul in 1957 to write submarine weapons guidance programs and an accounting program." Probably a joke -- but a good one.
to amusements language-design retrocomputing ... on 07 March 2015
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tasty by Adam Sampson.