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Re:Free Programing Books on Saturday October 18, 2025 @05:44PM (#45630578)
Code Complete by Steve McConnell is a very good one.

Edn. 1 is better than Edn. 2.

All, IMO.

You might not have yet read The Secret History of Silicon Valley by Steve Blank.

He also has a YouTube video on the same subject.

steveblank.com

Re:Is Odin Just a More Boring C? on Saturday October 11, 2025 @09:35PM (#45554347)
!!
Re:Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It? on Thursday October 09, 2025 @03:37PM (#45532111)
Hej! Nijce!
Re:Growing the Java Language on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @06:34AM (#45101212)
>Vertx on the other hand, which it is built on and which itself builds on Netty

What does the highlighted part above mean?

I know what Netty is, but did not understand that phrase above,

Re:Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale on Sunday August 17, 2025 @07:02AM (#44930700)
>Basically the three envelope situation.

https://kevinkruse.com/the-ceo-and-the-three-envelopes/

Re:OCaml as my primary language on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @07:08PM (#44894953)
I had the same doubt.

Here is my uneducated guess:

In math, after sum and product, comes exponent :)

So they may have used that third term in an analogous manner in the example.

Re:OCaml as my primary language on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @06:53PM (#44894835)
Is OCaml somewhat suitable for desktop GUI app programming?

I saw this in the OP:

>For example, creating a binding with the Tk library

and had also been thinking about this separately a few days ago, hence the question.

fred books, head of ibm 360 mainframe hw n os proj, wrote famous book - mythical man month.
Re:When the digital nomad dream turns sour on Friday July 04, 2025 @01:29AM (#44461386)
Thanks guys, all those who replied. Interesting answers.
thanks.

I don't know if you have checked out black gram, aka urad dal or urid dal. It is used with rice in the batter for idli and dosa in a 1:3 ratio.

high in protein.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigna_mungo

Totally agree.

Well said.

Man, you are on a mission, to enable manumission!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manumission

what weight of beans/lentils per can?
Re:When the digital nomad dream turns sour on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @06:55AM (#44432595)
Anyone here done it differently and better?
Re:Learn OCaml – Exercises on Saturday June 28, 2025 @05:23AM (#44403338)
I have been checking out the online books "OCaml from the very beginning" and "Real World OCaml".
Re:GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @06:35PM (#44371768)
Nice one :)

I too can sling a bit of Latin. ;)

Here is one phrase, in which one word, malus, is like an off-by-one error from your manus word, so to speak :) :

nemo malus nisi probetur

https://www.google.com/search?q=nemo+malus+nisi+probetur

From the AI overview (need to at least try that out a few times after all the talk about Google enshittification like by Cory Doctorow in this year's PyCon US keynote:

>Nemo malus nisi probetur" is a Latin legal maxim that translates to "No one is evil unless proven." It signifies that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. This principle is fundamental to legal systems that value fairness and due process, ensuring that accusations are substantiated before a person is considered culpable. Here's a breakdown of the phrase:

    Nemo: No one
    malus: Evil, bad, wicked
    nisi: Unless
    probetur: Is proven, is shown, is demonstrated 
The maxim essentially means that one should not be treated as inherently bad or guilty without sufficient evidence. This principle is closely related to the concept of "presumption of innocence" and is crucial for upholding justice and protecting individual rights.
>Manual” has a negative connotation. If I understand the article correctly, they mean “human coding remains key”.

A man is a human.

good one.

or even just add a comma at the right place:

"I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia, using machine learning"

Related: Check out the book Tending the Earth by Winin Pereira, on Other India Press.

https://www.google.com/search?q=tending+the+earth+winin+pere...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_India_Press

Re:The Maid Who Restored Charles II on Thursday May 29, 2025 @08:51PM (#44131768)
Related historical novels about England, full of intrigue, passion, crime, and adultery, what else do you expect, like of any (feudal) period anywhere in the world, but a somewhat light, fun read, now and then. Gotta get those jollies out, and this is one way. Catharsis, IOW :) :

Jean Plaidy / Eleanor Alice Burford

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Alice_Burford

Georgette Heyer novels are another series in the same category. Some good writing and depictions there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgette_Heyer

All fiction.

Re:Learning C3 on Thursday May 29, 2025 @07:06PM (#44131259)
thank you.
Re:Learning C3 on Thursday May 29, 2025 @03:20PM (#44129303)
How does C3 compared to C in runtime performance?
So I submitted HN posts about both of them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44112115

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44076220

Full speed ahead, and damn the naysayers, er, downvoters, er, torpedos! ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farragut

Re:Frege Is a Haskell for the JVM on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @09:45PM (#44112116)
From the site:

What is Frege?

Winner of the JavaOne Emerging Languages Bowl 2015, 2016, 2017

Frege is a Haskell for the JVM.

Like any Haskell, it is purely functional, enjoys a strong static type system with global type inference and non-strict - also known as lazy - evaluation.

Frege compiles to Java, runs on the JVM, and uses any Java library you want. It can be used inside any Java project.

yes

to mass-produce this app, using the Rust equivalent of Java's FactoryBuildingFactories.

Re:Please Fund More Science (2020) on Monday May 26, 2025 @09:18PM (#44103107)
You are perfectly right.

Just like you are weak, and essentially always incorrect, when you judge others, without substantiation of your statements - as you did above. So, you are no better than the person you replied to above.

And apart from your use of the word "essentially" being essentially redundant, and hence adding nothing of value to your statement, did you know about the word "wrong"? It can easily replace your use of the word "incorrect" (which fancy-pants people tend to use, when simpler equivalent ones exist, probably to impress others), for a saving of a whole four letters - per use! Gee!

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