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World's best introduction to sed - good coders code, great coders reuse

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This is the world's best introduction to sed. It explains the four spaces of sed, various sed command line arguments, sed addresses, sed ranges, basic sed commands, and command grouping.

Twenty Terrible Reasons for Lecturing by Graham Gibbs - eBook | Oxford Brookes University Online Shop

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A number of reasons commonly given for lecturing and claims commonly made for the efficiency of lecturers are examined for their basis in empirical evidence and common sense. Most of these claims are found to be somewhat weak. It appears that lecturing takes place rather more often than can be reasonably justified. The real reasons for the popularity of lecturing amongst lecturers are then examined. Of the twenty reasons for lecturing examined here, the first nine have little substan...

Taking PHP Seriously

slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously-cf7a60065329
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you? Most programmers who have…

The anthropologist in my pocket: Robbie Blinkoff at TEDxChesterRiver - YouTube

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Robbie Blinkoff is an anthropologist and professor who's been asking himself whether technology is the advancement that will propel us from "stone tools to axes" — in the evolution of anthropology, perhaps even transforming the humanities. His quest has led him to develop a new app, the Pocket Anthropologist. Find out what Margaret Mead would have done with an iPhone in this engaging presentation.

Lojban

mw.lojban.org/papri/Lojban
Lojban (pronounced [ˈloʒban]) is an experiment in human language – a constructed language based on formal logic.