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Another good article expressing a similar opinion which some might not have seen http://blog.codinghorror.com/your-code-oop-or-poo/

As someone who has also played around with d3 to create hand cranked charts, which you can see here http://bitcointicker.co/bitstamp/ ..... (it can be quite tedious) I fully apprec…

https://github.com/btccointicker/website-live-connection-map Makes use of D3 and nodejs/socket.io Live demo - http://bitcointicker.co/map/ Alternative showing live bitcoin transact…

Last page starts here: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commits/mast... Fascinating!

If this is indeed the way it does play out, and what you have said all sounds very plausible, it's going to raise all sorts of difficult questions for future generations. Who will …

I'm not sure it's just about computational power. Currently we mainly deal with digital computers that process information in a very discrete way. This is a nice article with regar…

Indeed, it's perhaps one of the most fundamental questions in life, at least in my view. I only wish I could somehow peer into the distant future to see how things pan out. It's li…

Eventually I'm pretty sure this will be an important question. Hundreds, or thousands of years into the future. It will matter one day. Will these artificial life forms have the sa…

These seem plausible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_consciousness#Aspec... Awareness, memory, leaning, anticipation and subjective experience. Empathy is a good example,…

Personally, I'm not sure, which is one of the reasons I posed the question. But I seem to be being down voted for even raising it...

So you don't believe there is any distinction between being "alive" and running software? Providing of course the software is complex enough to display human traits such as thought…

This is a good place as any to ask this. Do hackernews readers think that computers will eventually have a "mind" and "consciousness" ? Or will it just be simulated? As described i…

8 hours sleep seems like bliss to me. Even if I actually get to bed giving me enough time to have 8 hours sleep, I usually have trouble drifting off and then when I do, I'll wake a…

Surprised to see Permutation City in that list. Given that the book is written in 1994, Gregg displays admirable prescience about how computing would develop. Honestly you would th…

You can use chef and docker together, if you really want to. Containers do provide some benefits as others have mentioned in this thread ( Packaging, avoiding conflicts, maybe even…

This is a nice article which describes how it is used in detail and the general workflow: http://dustinrcollins.com/chef-integration-testing-with-serv... If you use it in a pipelin…

Personally the best use case for docker I have at the moment is for the testing of chef cookbooks with the Chef Test Kitchen Docker driver - https://github.com/portertech/kitchen-d…

My recommendations... For automated cluster building - https://ambari.apache.org/ For analysing your data, dynamically building queries and sharing this with other people in your c…

I love C. Perhaps this is because it's the first language I was taught. It fascinated me. It was complex, it allowed you to do dangerous things, but once it clicks, its like an epi…

Never knew invade-a-load was mainly a feature of UK games.. It mostly appeared in games sold in the United Kingdom, as, by the time it was written, the Commodore market in the Unit…