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I used to always put the full-stop (period) inside the quotes because I was brought up using that rule, but in modern writing it's considered more a matter of stylistic choice, bec…

When I was a graduate dev I worked for a company whose primary product was a APL interpreter. So it was an interpreted language, but it may well be possible that it can be compiled…

Fair enough. It's a common mistake for people from an English background, too, but these days we have tools to eliminate typos like that.

Spelling.

They lost me at "independance".

Buy one now. After the Solar Flare Apocalypse, those of us rocking mechanical computers will be control the world!

I'd have thought a mask ROM would be incredibly easy to build. And the whole system would be nonvolatile anyway, so storage of mutable data would be straightforward. Ultimately the…

Yes, he's often described as an early Pop artist, but unlike the more famous Warhol & co., who used and embraced industrial processes, there's a definite "craftsy", home-made quali…

Thanks everyone for the corrections, obviously my understanding was flawed there!

I read some linked articles on this. It seems she did it simply to hide the evidence. Unbelievable, it's estimated she destroyed $1bn worth.

> it's more of a tiny ray tracer It's a ray caster, where the rays are sent out from the camera to intersect the map. With ray tracers, the rays are sent out from the light source,…

Wow, this reminds me of writing a very similar engine in the mid 90s after learning about ray-casting (and playing Doom of course). There was a very good book which covered the who…

+1 for nostalgia!

This is news to me. I didn't realise Dawkins' theory had been so thoroughly refuted. What's the evidence for this?

Seconded. I actually read "The Blind Watchmaker" first and that had just as big an impact on me. As someone else said, no going back after reading it. It also gave me the confidenc…

It's such a weird twist of irony that someone like Dawkins invented a term that has been so abused and deformed beyond all recognition. As expected, he hates what it's become; but …

My current address has no street name, just a house name and village name. Technically, there is a street name, but no-one uses it because it's the main street through the village.…

I always hesitate before posting travel updates on social media, and make sure it's only visible to friends. Probably paranoid, but it makes me feel better to not live with the add…

That is a very good point.

The timing of this is superb - I literally just ordered an IceStick FPGA with the intention of recreating an 8-bit gaming platform, and I was wondering if I could somehow start pla…

It seems Apple have been trying to occupy the moral high ground on privacy for quite a long time now. It's relatively easy for them to differentiate themselves from the other big t…

Indeed, since the days of the Gutenberg press. All new tech heralds the end of times.

The article specifically points out that Intel/AMD took on board all the lessons from RISC as they evolved the x86 series and now it's pretty much a RISC architecture too.

Yes, but they sit right on transatlantic fibre-optic trunk cables. Presumably leased lines? It's a totally different proposition to a public mobile internet.