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I don't think it'd take two years to learn cobol, it should be less than that.

But it will take much more than that to learn the gnarly codebase in use in those shops...

And that is a skill that is certainly not transferable.

As an aside, the illustration strongly remind me of the classic illustrations in the Alice in Wonderland book (published in 1865).

I wonder if it is the same artist or if it was a shared style at the time.

Actually this setup uses Plack, a framework whose first version was released in 2009.

The author talk about this:

> ‘The year is an even circle’ is sufficient for 70 % of us. > But 28 % have entered free text.

And there is a further breakdown of the other answers like ellipse, line, square, etc.

So, at least in this survey, very few people view the year linearly, just 7%.

Myself, I visualize the year as an ellipse.

What would you choose today ?

Really?

Maybe it's location dependent...

I live in an European city, I have multiple butchers, bakeries and fruits and vegetables shops within walking distance.

My area is most certainly not an upscale area, quite the reverse in fact.

Lord of The Rings cames to mind.

It almost invented the Fantasy genre as we know it today.

It is still very much appreciated, but I've found that some people think it is boring.

I have loved that book, but I seem to remember that it was based of historical research that has since been revised.

Another good book that takes the side of Richard III is the historical novel "The Sunne in Splendour" by Sharon Kay Penman (1982).

That was Fred Brooks, in "The Mythical Man Month".

As relevant today as when it was first published, in 1975.

Can you elaborate on that?

I'd suggest the last edition of Modern Perl.

It is dated but it's free online:

http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/index.html

Uh, he was never a lawyer ... At the start he was a real estate developer.

His TV empire did start as small local TV channel for Milano 2, a residential neighbourhood he built in the "70.

I did a one thousand pieces puzzle of this painting this winter.

Suffice to say, it did take a while.

Seems like the old joke about XML:

"XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you're not using enough of it."

The onedrive app on Android has a "camera backup" functionality.

It saves images and videos from any folder to the onedrive cloud.

I've configured it, and then I sync the onedrive to a Synology Nas at home.

I've posted an excerpt from the start of the article at the start of this thread, you could check it.

As it is written, it clearly seems to give the responsibility of the delay in publication to the CIA.

The most charitable interpretation is "poor editing".

Wikipedia has a list of selected editions.

The first english edition was in 1963, the first american one in 1964.

It's not me that is fixated on the name, it is the article that goes out of its way to assign responsibility "specifically" to the CIA - it's right in the title and in the first paragraph!

And this produce what is objectively an historical howler right at the start. As the other commenter said, maybe it's just sloppy editing. But seems pretty click baity to me.

Something I do not understand ...

From the link:

> But its 1946 debut reflected a delay of more than a decade by the country’s real dictators, who disrupted the novel’s genesis and sent its author into exile. And in this act of suppression, Asturias’s censors and exilers were aided by the US, specifically the CIA.

From Wikipedia: the CIA was founded September 18, 1947.

How did the CIA "specifically" helped delay the publication of this book from 1936 to 1946 if it didn't even exist in that time frame ?

If it is like mine, it's an unordered set.

I remember reading that, because the editor was as you said better know for its technical manuals, a friend of Herbert joked that maybe they thought to publish an Ornithopter maintenance guide.

Best way that I've seen to explain is: Thunderbolt 4 is USB 4 with all the optional parts active.

The reference to the Unix epoch in that book always get me.

Wordperfect at least was born before Ms/DOS.

It was a viable competitor of Microsoft word in the Ms/DOS era, but did not manage the transition to the windows era.

I'd add Network Programming with Perl by Lincoln Stein.

Somewhat more specific, and many of the libraries used are dated. But it did provide you with a huge amount of information, from writing simple echo clients with raw sockets up to fully multi process HTTP deamons, in a very accessible way.

I have installed six in a big old house (with almost a meter deep interior walls !).

I manage them with an app on a tablet connected to the same LAN, I've disabled all cloud management. That said, they are almost configure and forget, after the initial install I've only had to upgrade the firmware when I visit the site.

Actually it is the economist review of the book, it is in the Culture section.