Through the looking glass and what alice found thereLewis Carroll
Through the looking glass and what alice found there
by Lewis Carroll · first published 1871
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" - Lewis Carroll "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There" - Lewis Carroll "Dracula" - Bram Stoker "Frankenstein" - Mary Shelly "On Education" - Bertrand Russell "The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy" - Douglas Adams "Animal Farm" - George Orwell "1984"…
on “Ask HN: What are some good books?” ↗This is for older children, twelve and above I'd say, but I think the Alice books (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There) are great. Then they (and you) can read The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner, which opened up entirely new levels of the stories to me. For younger children, I'd say The Wind in the Willows.
on “What's your favorite children's book?” ↗…to do whatever you like. - 'Neil Gaiman on open source', Peter Hilton When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less. - Humpty Dumpty ("in a rather scornful tone"), 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There' (1871), Lewis Carroll A rose by any other name will end up as a cabbage. - Sam Gardiner A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. - Max Weinreich Words build bridges in to unexplored regions.…
on “Baby Bird from Time of Dinosaurs Found Fossilized in Amber” ↗Nope, wrong bit of slightly-surreal children's literature. Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There by C L Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll.
on “Mistral Large 4” ↗It's also the name of a game studio with a number of neat titles, some rock band, and perhaps most importantly, sequel to Alice in wonderland: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There All of which were probably referring to the same concept: viewing the other side of reality
on “Colossal Holograms” ↗…be saying 'we can call it pass-by-reference if we use a special definition of the term when speaking about Java.' "A word means what I want it to mean, nothing more, nothing less." - Humpty Dumpty, 'Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There'. There should be a variant of Occam's Razor specifically against unnecessary semantic splitting and proliferation.
on “Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit” ↗Instructions unclear, reread Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
on “Ain't It Funny How the Knight Moves?” ↗