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Discovering the Lispworks IDE
Peculiar Self-References
Types Considered Harmful (2008) [pdf]
DNS Root Servers
Defusing an Elasticsearch Mapping Explosion with Slots
What Is the Story of C++ Programming History?
Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows
Plan: Recognize an opportunity and plan a change.
Do: Test the change. Carry out a small-scale study.
Check: Review the test, analyze the results, and identify what you’ve learned.
Act: Take action based on what you learned in the study step. If the change did not work, go through the cycle again with a different plan. If you were successful, incorporate what you learned from the test into wider changes. Use what you learned to plan new improvements, beginning the cycle again.
import attrs
Ask HN: Recommendations for meditation course/exercise with proven benefits?
Are there folks here who take meditation seriously? Do you recommend any specific meditation course/exercise? Preferably something that has proven benefits?There are many meditation courses available online but all of them make claims about their techniques, the efficacy of which we cannot verify independently from other sources. They could as well be placebo! I am looking for reliable...
It began with a simple goal of adding classes to C. The STL, inline functions, "true constants" were all nice stuff. C++11 introduced nice stuff like "auto", constexpr. But now the new features are increasing the complexity so much that it is becoming harder to learn the language. Is so much complexity worth? How can someone new to programming ever hope to learn this monstrosity?