The full title was "Algorithm: Recreational Programming".
I have only 4 issues of this quarterly magazine from the early 1990s. The rest seem nowhere to be found online, at least so far as my efforts. Each issue was a unique 'deep-dive' into topics only scratched by the articles in Scientific American's 'Mathematical Recreations' and, later, 'Computer Recreations'.
Does anyone else have issues? We need to group any extant copies together and digitize them for www.archive.org. Please contact me if you have any issues.
I contacted the University of Waterloo's CS department back in 2016, and they stated they had contacted Dr. Dewdney himself about it but I never heard back so I think it's up to us, the internet at large, to preserve this unique snapshot of the hobbyist/enthusiast computer scientist era.
But if the reload is triggered by a form submit to an iframe (thus staying on the page) with a timed call to window.reload(), the page resets to the top. Not so in Firefox.
Remember, Go is MIT-licensed. If things become too bound to Google, it can and will be forked. People thought it was the end of the world when multiple Java SDKs arose didn't they? (Not to say that didn't hurt Java, but the language survived).
Yes, yes it is. That will force open hardware specs, right-to-repair, limit damaging DRM, and encourage competitive software and hardware markets. And even multiple software stores, if that's what the market wants.
warehouse23.com/basement and its higher levels was a great timesink... SJgames put a minimal version back online recently, but it no longer allows new box submissions and seems to have lost a lot of the old content.
Our economy, educational system, heck our entire society is basically structured (ideally, from the ruling/moneyed class's perspective) to keep the great masses just happy enough not to revolt, keep the machines working, and no more. Many people literally cannot afford to make every life choice based only on their ethics.
At this point it should be considered unethical to have more than 1 child per household. I don't care if that's politically incorrect, it's basic math. The entire species needs to drop to below-replacement reproduction. No eugenics, genocide or war required, just stop acting like horndogs or get snipped for Pete's sake.
This is what is frustrating about the cryptographic community. People should not be discouraged to try new algos and techniques otherwise how is anyone new that isn't already 'in the club' to gain knowledge? Of course new developments need to be audited and peer-reviewed but this sort of immediate dismissal is not constructive.
I have only 4 issues of this quarterly magazine from the early 1990s. The rest seem nowhere to be found online, at least so far as my efforts. Each issue was a unique 'deep-dive' into topics only scratched by the articles in Scientific American's 'Mathematical Recreations' and, later, 'Computer Recreations'.
Does anyone else have issues? We need to group any extant copies together and digitize them for www.archive.org. Please contact me if you have any issues.
I contacted the University of Waterloo's CS department back in 2016, and they stated they had contacted Dr. Dewdney himself about it but I never heard back so I think it's up to us, the internet at large, to preserve this unique snapshot of the hobbyist/enthusiast computer scientist era.