This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.
Highly recommended things!
This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.
A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★
| package main; | |
| import( | |
| "fmt" | |
| ) | |
| type LinearFunction struct { | |
| a float64 | |
| b float64 | |
| } |
A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."
| 0815.ru | |
| 0wnd.net | |
| 0wnd.org | |
| 10minutemail.co.za | |
| 10minutemail.com | |
| 123-m.com | |
| 1fsdfdsfsdf.tk | |
| 1pad.de | |
| 20minutemail.com | |
| 21cn.com |
| 0-mail.com | |
| 0815.ru | |
| 0clickemail.com | |
| 0wnd.net | |
| 0wnd.org | |
| 10minutemail.com | |
| 20minutemail.com | |
| 2prong.com | |
| 30minutemail.com | |
| 3d-painting.com |
| CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.json_append(data json, insert_data json) | |
| RETURNS json | |
| IMMUTABLE | |
| LANGUAGE sql | |
| AS $$ | |
| SELECT ('{'||string_agg(to_json(key)||':'||value, ',')||'}')::json | |
| FROM ( | |
| SELECT * FROM json_each(data) | |
| UNION ALL | |
| SELECT * FROM json_each(insert_data) |
| -- Import CSV into table t_words | |
| COPY t_words FROM '/path/to/file.csv' DELIMITER ',' CSV; | |
| -- You can tell quote char with QUOTE | |
| -- and change delimiter with DELIMITER | |
| -- Import CSV into table t_words, | |
| -- telling what columns to use | |
| COPY t_words("name", "count", "def") FROM 'file.csv' DELIMITER ',' CSV; | |
| -- Export table to a CSV file |
| import email, getpass, imaplib, os | |
| detach_dir = '.' # directory where to save attachments (default: current) | |
| user = raw_input("Enter your GMail username:") | |
| pwd = getpass.getpass("Enter your password: ") | |
| # connecting to the gmail imap server | |
| m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com") | |
| m.login(user,pwd) | |
| m.select("cs2043") # here you a can choose a mail box like INBOX instead |
| package main | |
| import ( | |
| "errors" | |
| "log" | |
| "os" | |
| "github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery" | |
| "github.com/robertkrimen/otto" | |
| ) |
| WITH RECURSIVE | |
| x(i) AS ( VALUES (0) | |
| UNION ALL SELECT i + 1 | |
| FROM x | |
| WHERE i < 101), | |
| Z(Ix, Iy, Cx, Cy, X, Y, I) AS ( | |
| SELECT | |
| Ix, | |
| Iy, | |
| X :: FLOAT, |
