daantje's comments

On: Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas

[daantje]

The is also "A tour of C++" from the same author, which might be a good start. Take care.

[abzug → daantje]

From what I gathered, it's a book geared towards programmers new to C++.

On: Lightnings captured at 7.207 frames-per-second

[daantje]

Well, it is not only German -- Wikipedia has a nice map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark

On: Vim ported to iOS

[daantje]

An upcoming version, that fixes font rendering problems, is mentioned here:

http://groups.google.com/group/issh/msg/f16d119aa00d3570

On: A Spellchecker Used To Be A Major Feat of Software...

[daantje]

Yes, and "Programming Pearls" has a nice chapter (13.8) on how doug mcilroy fit the spell dict into less than 64k ( http://code.google.com/p/unix-spell/).

That site also has a paper on the development of spell (http://unix-spell.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/McIlroy_spell_198...).