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The arrogance burns. It burns. Python 3.0 was derailed by arrogance that developers should commit to a one-way transition that would touch every function rather than accept that, i…

Short answer: go camp out at HackerDojo and talk to everyone you meet while you are here. Showing up in person was an odd move. Take the time to tour Stanford, the Computer History…

Strangly, this was the business model of cable companies for the longest time. They never turned a profit. When they expanded, they could use the increased income stream to go deep…

It started in 2012, which we all know as the real beginning of the Internet.

This is an old argument I've had for years: the address bar should show unicode characters in a distinctive manner, such as with a different background color. A bright red backgrou…

It's the slow move from the Operating System to the GPU code; most games find Windows as much a hinderance as a help. I wonder if MS will try to do something useful to woo game dev…

DragonBox. It's a game of match and eliminate symbols according to some basic rules, e.g., remove the same from each side. Usually around level 12 is when you realize the rules are…