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Trying to open this document for download I'm firmly (unusually firmly) warned off by my ISP. It really was a 'go ahead if you want to be scammed' sort of thing. Anybody have an opinion about this?

Many people, mathematicians and aspirants, would find "Mathematics made Difficult" by Carl E Linderholm (pub. 1972) entertaining and possibly instructive. PDFs are available to those without scruples.

A notorious philanderer, it is said, though I guess you may have to be nice to be one of those.

I'm no climate change denier, but there is a complexity to the effects which NASA has identified (and recently updated) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer... In particular the Sahel, famously arid and increasing in size a few decades ago, is now becoming more fertile again to the extent that people are moving back there.

This was a Time Team Special in 2005 [Series 18, Episode 138], unfortunately named the "King of Bling". The location was given as Prittlewell, Essex [on the outskirts of Southend]. For non-Brits, Time Team has been a very long-running series on British TV, popularising field archeology to a very wide audience. It took a 'quick hit' approach following-up local suggestions to do a single week's digging with good resources. It reported the week's progress in a single, compact and well-structured broadcast. Much loved, it is now in hiatus, if not gone forever. Why it was not mentioned in connection with this 'discovery' is hard to say...

Smartphones of both flavours can load cheap or free apps that are quite effective enough to read barcodes and identify books. Librarything and its various catalogue tools can help with the metadata too. That said, the advice to get specialist help is well-founded.

As DK puts it himself: "The main idea is to treat a program as a piece of literature, addressed to human beings rather than to a computer." I think code navigation would naturally fall out from this approach.

I haven't got time to read all this dissertation on an interesting topic at the moment, but I was surprised to find that the relevant work of the other great "Donald" (Knuth) is not mentioned. He called it 'literate programming'. Here's a reference: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html

I guess she means he left communism. A belief in history, almost as a god, is inherent in communism as I understand it. The changes they believe in are pre-ordained, they need only to join the stream.

In the Dark Universe novel by Daniel F Galouye, a section of humanity has hidden themselves for generations in lightless caverns below a poisoned Earth. They have become functionally blind, and find their way about by knocking stones together for echo location.

I'm with Buckminster on this: t-ewe-pl. I think it may be UK English 'dialect'.

Have to have a valid Gitbook account to access these works, which is a bit of a mission. I keep getting 401 despite careful, and seemingly error-free, sign-up process.

Uniquely, AFAIK, the Dynalist team make their Trello kanban available for us all to see. We can also subscribe to and vote for our wished-for developments.

As a writer of English I find a font without the letter Q to be distinctly lacking...

I remember reading that, even in the English countryside in the past, goitre was frequent among those who 'drank pond water' and thus missed out on any soluble naturally-occurring additives. And the cause was a mystery to everyone, of course.

Beware also that Aspirin allergy is a thing and often accompanies a general allergy to NSAIDs such as Ibuprofen. In my own case the allergy results in a moving facial swelling (angioedema) which my family dubbed 'Quasimodo Face' before we realised the cause. This effect lasted a day. I had it a few times before I worked it out. The allergy came on after a period of work stress and minor illness where I was taking Ibuprofen to get through the day.

Perhaps it was everywhere: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/bindoon-...

The text makes it clear that capacity of the drum was 16384 12 bit "words", 196608 bits in total. The use of core memory was a big advance at that time. Previously the drums had been the main memory for that generation of machines, with optimal placement of code on the drum being seen as a major programming skill.

PC Outline (PCO) was very good in its day. I was using it under DOS in 1985 and some people are still using it today in a Windows DOS box. It gave me the opportunity to move over from a long-form prose approach to 'writing things down' to something far more concise and well-structured. Nowadays the Outliner functionality space is very full of product but it seems that PCO itself led nowhere.

along the same lines is how Stalin's executioners billed the family of those they had shot for the ammunition used. Often this was the only way they found out their loved-one had been killed.

Undoubtedly the attention lavished on this Extension by HN has caused its server to stop? Seems to be nothing happening here, I will pass on.

For truly 'extensive bombing' the Germans would have required heavy bombers, which they did not possess. The Luftwaffe had been largely conceived of as a support to ground troops with no strategic role or capability. Also they wasted their efforts on civilian centres such as London before they had achieved air superiority by destroying the RAF, which they came very close to doing in the late summer of 1940.

Ah yes, 'falling short' on places such as the New Cross Woolworths, leading to deaths of 168 persons, and laying waste areas such as Peckham where the fall of ten or more V1s and V2s were packed into a few streets - the area is still partly undeveloped. These unassuming residential and commercial areas took the shots intended for the centre, a few miles North.

I think you'll find that the behaviour of the East German Authorities has more in common with the beliefs of Mr Trump than those of Mr Sanders, but either way that's a cheap shot not worthy of democratic debate and stretches the point in either case.

As a visitor here from one of the supercivilizations in question (and enjoying the sex, red wine and rock music, I must say) I feel I have to point out a couple of things that may have been missed. One is that many of you are spending a lot of time looking for 'dark matter' when clearly the shrouded Dyson spheres are fulfilling that role in their great abundance - talk of infra-red signatures and such-like is technical defeatism. Secondly if you find a way of getting at other dimensions in the multiverse, then you can find one soon enough that consists largely of energy and funnel some of it back to your own locale. Take your pick.

This comment is being downvoted for no good reason? It is a pessimistic but valid slant on this discussion I'd say.

Downvote karma is also arbitrary. I've been on negative karma for some time following my negative comments about the HN-described behaviour of someone's beloved mentor - who forced his classes to buy his book. I think this was a bad behaviour on the teacher's part but 'others' took offence. I sometimes feel the that a self-appointed in-group or coterie is being a bit arbitrary and authoritarian in its conduct of these HN matters.

I think he deserves to come back as an ant, so that would figure. Bad Karma should carry him a few steps down the food chain at least.

The world is divided between those who see this kind of behaviour as lovable eccentricity and others who regard it as sabotage and a special kind of nastiness. I am of the latter, and see this "character" as a bad person because of his book-trick.

I refer those interested in this topic to the INTERCAL character naming conventions, now hallowed by tradition and skirting the edge of madness. As a taster . is one-spot : is two-spot , is tail and ; is hybrid. # is mesh. <- is known as an 'angle worm' and is pronounced 'gets'. It goes on from there.