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It should be noted that in spite of the devastation of Tokyo in WW2, many parts of Tokyo retained the pre-war system of neighborhoods and streets, where streets might often not be …

Sadly my first exposure to programming was in FORTRAN on a mainframe (when I took a summer course at a college in 8th grade). I could not initially make heads or tails out of fortr…

One of the impediments to BBS'ing was the extraordinarily high cost of connection. Luckily I go early access to arpanet, uucp, and bitnet as a middle school and high school student…

Certainly accounting scandals are bad. I am sure there are shenanigans being done by quite a few Japanese companies. That said, activist investors, the root cause, are a plague. Ge…

hard drives, memory & other silicon, batteries, a wide range of consumer appliances, and industrial equipment.

We do need people out there willing to take risks in research. Many of his claims may not be correct, however some findings may be made or may stimulate productive directions. The …

Let's not forget that the JVM still does not have reasonable generics & value types. The .NET CLR introduced this in 2005, bettering the JVM. Java was in a sleepy slow release mode…

I've used C++ from its inception (when it was cfront C++ -> C translator) to modern C++, not to mention many other languages over the years. Totally agree with the author that C++ …

Nice to hear mention of RBK Dewar. He was well known in the programming languages field as a professor at NYU, but also was quite successful as an entrepreneur with his various com…

If we have a mix of human drivers and AI assisted drivers on the road, nothing short of AGI is going to be sufficient. Aspects of driving involve theory of mind - anticipating what…

Exactly right. Google is the largest advertising company on the planet, everything else is secondary to their profitability. Search became the means by which they deliver ads, so h…