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) |
| { | |
| {I have|I've} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. {It's|It | |
| is} pretty worth enough for me. {In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as | |
| you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} | |
| useful than ever before.| | |
| I {couldn't|could not} {resist|refrain from} commenting. {Very well|Perfectly|Well|Exceptionally well} written!| | |
| {I will|I'll} {right away|immediately} {take hold of|grab|clutch|grasp|seize|snatch} | |
| your {rss|rss feed} as I {can not|can't} {in finding|find|to find} your {email|e-mail} subscription {link|hyperlink} or {newsletter|e-newsletter} service. Do {you have|you've} any? | |
| {Please|Kindly} {allow|permit|let} me {realize|recognize|understand|recognise|know} {so that|in order that} I {may just|may|could} subscribe. | |
| Thanks.| |
| -- 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 |
