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Basically, it's Bjarne Stroustrup reciting the history of C++, mentioning the principles on which the language stood both back then and now, and also the (technical and social) pro…

1. It is indeed disrespectful to consciously "taking up other people’s time" (the Chinese way) without their consent. 2. The real world works asynchronously. Either if you are a je…

"It starts out as fun, a game in pre-school, but then..." For some of us (like me a few other subjects that I remember) the conforming game was never fun. To force someone to wake …

Actually, nowadays a system of ground stations and high altitudes atmospheric floating balloons can be made to serve the very same purpose. The ground stations would serve for tria…

To have Python 2 and 3, and then CPython and PyPy and all kind of other similar flavors of the same thing is not really in line with `there should be only one obvious way to do it'…

The British Government had DMs, that's what they sold trying to keep their currency at fixed rate. You say they should have kept Deutschmarks to sell them later for what? For depre…

"The treasuries are denominated in dollars: If China decided to dump all the treasuries on the market at once (driving US interest rates through the roof, and the price of the T's …

As I see it, the western legal system which relies on written analytical laws appears indeed as an "alternative", but western judges do for example make use of judicial precedents …

Aside from the law of nature, I remarked the use of precedents as a co-basis for juridical mediation. Although this is something used all over the world outside Somalia (on a secon…

That ideology was just a tool to prop up a system of occupation. What really happened behind all that was an ongoing russification all over the Soviet Union, effects of which make …

Giving it all up was just the "equalizing" part. Being incriminated, prosecuted and sentenced for having employed in some way other people's work was the real face of the system.

The idea of Ukraine independent of Russia is new. It's pretty safe to say that the entire infrastructure in that country was built under Moscow's supervision. It was inconceivable …

At least for C++ native development, a development tool comparison with Visual Studio is just misplaced. Alex Ionescu, a ReactOS NT kernel developer, in one question at a Montreal …

It never stops to amaze me - what does have Europe that other places don't? ...anyway, I'm just glad and thankful to be born in Europe!

"Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer" That's a disappointing choice! Why not something more like LEON or OpenRISC?

Windows 98 is not NT.

«While not technically legal, Crimea really is mostly comprised of Russians and has had a special legal status for ages. A 97% vote does not surprise me.» What surprises me is that…

This sounds like a political dismissal of an inconvenient tool. Can this be just temporary? Like YouTube being "rehabilitated" after those local elections?

A bigger problem with Bitcoin now is its current transaction fee, which currently it prevents just the micro-payments. If Bitcoin will rise its value (just) 10 times, it will becom…

You touched a very important point of promoting VR to masses. People have indeed to be "instantly sold" to it, but trying it to a friend's house won't be enough in my view. Broad a…

For public shares there is only the stock market, but that isn't a kick-starter. It would be interesting to have an option in the stock market of just bidding money for stock and t…

"When has this ever worked in the real world?" Much of everything related to decentralized systems are just new and can not therefore be backed by previous working examples. "merch…