- SQL Island –
- The Linguistic Evolution of ‘Like’ – The Atlantic –
- 20 Python libraries you aren’t using (but should) – O’Reilly Media –
History
Bookmarks for November 16th through November 17th
These are my links for November 16th through November 17th:
- Sharing Photographs | The Public Domain Review –
- Into the Looking Glass of the Data, Insights & Innovation Team at Mediavest –
- Learn SQL: 50+ of the Best Online Educational Resources to Learn SQL –
- Instagram – Sunshine and #snow @ University of Nevada, Reno
Bookmarks for October 6th
- When Roman “Barbarians” Met the Asian Enlightenment – Medium –
- Probably the Coolest SQL Feature: Window Functions – Java, SQL and jOOQ. –
- Designing a SaaS Database for Scale with Postgres | Hacker News –
- Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious | Aeon Ideas –
- Why I Write Plain JavaScript Modules –
Bookmarks for October 5th
- O’Reilly Offering Programming eBooks for Free (Direct Links Included) : learnprogramming –
- Learning Reinforcement Learning (with Code, Exercises and Solutions) – WildML –
- Scientists Trace Society’s Myths to Primordial Origins – Scientific American –
Bookmarks for October 5th
- Never accept a counter-offer – Vardan Torosyan’s Blog –
- Postgres full-text search is Good Enough (2015) | Hacker News –
- Ask HN: How do you get people to use your product when you suck at networking? | Hacker News –
- Excerpts from Digital Restoration, First Edition –
- Photos Restored Digitally by Ctein –
- Writing For Half-Life – Marc Laidlaw – PREFACE: Another file from the same disk with the Nihilanth sketches, this one, if it is to believed, written the day after we shipped Half-Life. I do believe it because the file’s creation date is indeed November 9, 1998, and I am not l33t enough to know how to fake that sort of thing. The title of this file was “CGDCTALK” but I don’t remember ever giving a talk anywhere until years later, after the success of HL2. It might have been published somewhere (perhaps near Geoff Keighley’s piece on The Last Hours of Half-Life), but if so it was probably edited, and there might be some value in the unedited braindump. If this was indeed written right as we shipped the game, then I would not be surprised if it conflicts with things I’ve said in decades since. But the guy writing this little article was there, and his memory is much better than the old guy writing this preface, so I’d be inclined to believe him over me.
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- The Half Life Saga Story Guide –
- GitHub – Gargron/mastodon: A GNU Social-compatible microblogging server –