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Our friend Zoz of Defcon fame has a talk about NSA spying that enumerates and gives details to some of the ways that the NSA can 'see' you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1q4Ir2J…

It's quite interesting how emotive a list of achievements could be. There's a certain poetry to it, no?

Do you think TCL has a future in embedded domains the same way that Lua does? It seems to me (not that I know anything) that a lot of folks are stuck on TCL as that thing they had …

I'm 1/4 Chinese.

I don't even play around with TCL anymore, but I've been writing Ruby for a few years, and it's been a good time. The syntax isn't dense enough to block out the constructs, I guess…

Must be nice to check out 34 customers at a time though, right? I kid. Fragmentation is a huge issue in the retail industry. I've heard of companies that have different payroll sta…

Async to the core in the 90s? Extremely expressive, rivaling Smalltalk? Small, understandable core with simple semantics? Teachable to newbies in hours rather than weeks? Yup, defi…

I will never purchase a chinese computer, or a computer with chinese semiconductors, or chinese software.

God, when I log on to HN in the morning and see that damned black bar I know it's going to hurt. But Marvin Minsky? My Tuesday wasn't ready for this. He has had such an impact on t…

Except that huge corporations use both Perl and Common Lisp on a daily basis. Craigslist, Google, etc. So you have some old perl scripts laying around, but they work well enough an…

This is pretty cool! Being able to use Dart easily and comfortable will go a long way I think. Especially with new things like the Flutter toolkit for mobile apps, it'll be nice to…