byuu comments on why the ROM format MAME uses makes life hard for other emulator authors #emulation
byuu comments further on ROM formats for #emulation
1.5 million, not 15 million, cameras #DDoS Brian Krebs’s web site. #security #censorship #human-rights
“Germans told to stockpile food and water for civil defense”. #Germany
RIT Capital Partners chairman Lord Jacob Rothschild comments on financial instability post-#Brexit. #economics
An HTML5/EPUB3 #ebook of #SICP, which is now licensed cc-by-sa!
article about expertise and giftedness and #education and whatnot
You Suck at #Excel, by Joel Spolsky: tip #video, from which I learned #Gnumeric tips including double-clicking on the bottom of a range to autofill down to the end of the current table (including by-example numeric sequences and date sequences), Paste Values (part of Paste Special in Gnumeric), Paste Special Add, Paste Special Transpose, F4 for point-and-click absolute cell references, & for string concatenation, ^` to toggle formula display, R1C1 mode (under Format → Sheet in Gnumeric), Format Cells Text to avoid numeric interpretation on input, conveniently naming cells and ranges, MATCH/INDEX/VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP,, ^$ and ^% to format as dollars or percent, ^; to insert today’s date, and Tools → Goal Seek (which I didn’t know about, but which can numerically solve equations). Also it looks like the ribbon interface, the updated autofilter interface, and Excel’s new tables feature are super convenient. Spolsky’s Excel style is a lot more mouse-driven than Shkreli’s, and he seems to be missing some basic stuff like TAB to move to the cell to the right and not trying to enter dates as formulas. A really great user demo of data-first, structure-later systems.
The note about Ivan Gabriel Cicchini having continued to contact his ex-girlfriend after she got a restraining order against him