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I wonder what would be wrong with a few Digital Ocean or Kimsufi VPS or microserver systems? If managing your own server daemons is too hard, I wonder what that person is doing in …

Focus on building your product and don't worry about complex infrastructure. Google manages your application, database, and storage servers so you don't have to. Very seductive of …

Vladimir Voevodsky is making an interesting step when he says that rewrite steps in math are clearly homeomorphisms. I would like to see some more formal examples of that. It sound…

Well, there must be something seriously wrong with healthcare funding if the workers need to protest at a seemingly unrelated office, that is, the one of Microsoft. What if they de…

I totally agree that witch doctors, commercialized superstition, and spiritual hypocrites plague the realm of religion. But then again, plaguing the field of software, we have Micr…

It very much looks like a situation in which the system has already been compromised and is running malicious programs that it shouldn't. These malicious programs could still face …

In NDN, all data is signed by data producers and verified by the consumers, and the data name provides essential context for security. Centralizing the concept of security in the n…

No. I will never respond at ZDNet itself. Ever.

Yes, this entire privacy scare is an opportunity to get rid of the advert-based business model and offer the opportunity to privacy-conscious users to get the same or a better serv…

Exactly. You have posted exactly what I wanted to post but you've bested me ;-) This is not a problem at all. This is an opportunity. That is what the non-profits at the Tor projec…

There is a reason why anybody who works in a job in which he faces the laws of nature, will prefer a very precise vocabulary and will shy away from using words that could not possi…

Given the fact that all corruption starts with the corruption of language, you will quickly have a good idea of what someone's job is. In programming, contradictory ambitions are p…

Well, my long-term experience is different. The time you've spent on old languages is never really lost. Every language that you learn and abandon, makes you understand the next on…