Programming, Events, and Bundlehunt
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Programming
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Hackaday ☛ Hackaday Links: May 5, 2024
It may be hard to believe, but BASIC turned 60 this week. Opinions about the computer language vary, of course, but one thing everyone can agree on is that Professors Kemeny and Kurtz really stretched things with the acronym: “Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code” is pretty tortured, after all. BASIC seems to be the one language it’s universally cool to hate, at least in its current incarnations like Visual Basic and VBA. But back in 1964, the idea that you could plunk someone down in front of a terminal, or more likely a teletype, and have them bang out a working “Hello, world!” program with just a few minutes of instruction was pretty revolutionary. Yeah, line numbers and GOTO statements encouraged spaghetti code and engrained bad programming habits, but at least it got people coding. And perhaps most importantly, it served as a “gateway drug” into the culture for a lot of us. Many of us would have chosen other paths in life had it not been for those dopamine hits provided by getting that first BASIC program working. So happy birthday BASIC!
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Rlang ☛ Estimating Shooting Performance Unlikeliness
Towards the end of each soccer season, we naturally start to look back at player stats, often looking to see who has performed worse compared to their past seasons.
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DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ Lazy Reading for 2024/05/05
What’s the history of Cinco de Mayo? (updated since last linked in 2016.) SNOBOL, ICEBOL, SPITBOL, et al. What is Computer Science? (via) Live performance of Blur’s Song 2 on a modular synth. A history / greatest hits of dedications and footnotes. (via) How I search in 2024.
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Events
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PostgreSQL ☛ Swiss PGDay 2024: Schedule Published
We are pleased to announce that the schedule for the Swiss PGDay 2024 has been released. The conference will take place on Thursday, 27 June and Friday, 28 June 2024 at the University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland, Campus Rapperswil (near Zurich).
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Berlin Goals sprint 2024
As you have probably heard, two weeks ago a bunch of KDE contributors gathered in Berlin to attend to a sprint to move forward on current KDE community Goals.
I attended the sprint and it was a pleasure to get together with fellow KDE contributors, and discuss our experiences, our plans and aspirations.
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WINE
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Bundlehunt 2024 Superstar Software Bundle
I'm thrilled to announce the launch of our latest bundle – the 2024 Superstar Software Bundle!
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