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This article discusses Intel Management Engine and a company offering laptops with it disabled: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/21/purism_cleanses_lap...

Simple lisps have very little, very regular syntax making them popular choices for "write your first interpreter" tutorials.

Is the motivation for commit-on-write to get a kind of persistent history for undo/redo? That is an interesting idea.

> What do you think would be a good set of criteria for what should count as a meaningful unit of work? I'd consider a meaningful unit of work to be a bug fixed, or feature impleme…

I save after every logical edit too - I think it's a good habit. You never get caught out by network/file-system failures, and can confidently reload from disk to a recent good sta…

Formerly functioning heavy-drinker. 4.5 years dry. Much happier.

Being 16-18 and studying for your A-levels can be a horrible time - it was for me. Relationships with your friends start to change as you grow up at different rates (I don't know w…

Nice, I get it. Here's mine tweaked - not so clever: https://gist.github.com/garethjwilliams/7210264

Yeah, you're stuck with counting up from 1, although you could tweak it to suppress the output prior to a starting point.

Addition and comparison will suffice: https://gist.github.com/garethjwilliams/7202128

I agree that one should not use language likely to offend others on the grounds of sex, sexuality, gender identification, race, religion, physical appearance etc. I don't really li…

There's some info on semantic differences here: http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/limitations.html - it doesn't bring up much, and the design goal is full language compatibility…

It's selectively adding C-like type declarations to Python code speed up the slow bits. C code is then generated and compiled into a Python extension module. This is similar to add…

Cython might also be worth considering. It lets you add static type declarations to Python and produces compiled code. You could avoid a big-bang rewrite, migrating the slower oper…

I liked Google Reader, but all those great posts queued up with no time to read them properly felt like neglected homework. It's a shame to lose it, but maybe for the best. I won't…

Thank you.

Making a language that good programmers would freely choose to use is a great design goal. In my first paid job I wrote loads of Cobol, even though I was already proficient in more…

I got the same, so I finally tried TOR anonymisation ( https://www.torproject.org/ ) - it worked a treat.

Great post. I stopped drinking for good 2 years ago, after 20 odd years of being drunk pretty much every night. For me, the enjoyment was gone, and only the habit remained, along w…

The best advice I could give is, whenever someone you manage brings you a problem, resist taking it away and solving it for them. Instead, give them some pointers on how they might…

I agree - this descended too quickly into a discussion of what the OP "deserved" or what his shares were worth when he left. His claim is based on ownership, which should be establ…

I'm not deaf, but I strongly dislike companies calling me. Why do they think I am using the web or email to contact them? SMS spam is a growing problem too, and hard to filter (at …

I use it most days, but spend little time there. It's just a nice way to share a few pictures with fairly computer illiterate friends/family, and engage in a bit of schoolboy bante…