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Python won by perfecting two things: (1) syntax structure to be simple yet powerful, and (2) complete object/function standard library with module system.

Because it's clear from anybody who knows the details about it that crypto is the basis for the next-generation of the financial system.

Don't do this.

It's just a classic financial bubble. Once it pops then the fun will be over.

Commies

Switching to FreeBSD in 5, 4, 3...

I was able to do that, yes.

Your project is very cool. Could you help me fix my account though? I messed up two of the IDs: mfrager@github & mfrager@reddit. Will these be automatically purged from the keys.pu…

This is very cool but I screwed up 2 of my "sigchains" to Reddit and to GitHub by deleting the underlying messages (I didn't realize I wasn't supposed to) so now two of my identiti…

Very interesting... my inclination is that you’re probably right. Any tips on how to learn to use Prolog with pulling data from external sources?

SPARQL is not an API framework as much as it is a query language. Many powerful graph databases are queried via SPARQL.

Using VR makes me sick...

Perl. A language that is still ahead of its time. I have a system for building RPMs of CPAN modules and their dependencies automatically.

Ouch! This looks really bad. If/when Apple fixes this it may require all 3rd-party software that accesses the keychain to be updated. However that's not for sure. We will have to w…

The biggest technical hurdle for this type of database right now is index lookup. Since the nodes on the indexes are encrypted the client/server requires a round trip for every bin…

This is no longer necessary with MiniLock. See http://minilock.io/ and this article: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/minilock-simple-encryption/

Better in this case is purely a value judgement... The Perl language is very elegant and powerful, that's why most of the other languages were modeled on it. Perl is a language tha…

I hope Perl 6 has better runtime speed and memory efficiency because those are the only downsides of Perl 5. However I seriously doubt that will be the case. Perl 6 will most likel…

Same as my idea: http://ringmail.com

Because Oculus VR gamers don't have friends.

I see no reason to ditch Perl. I've been using Perl for years and I use it at my company with little problems. For our SaaS web application Perl is a perfect fit and allows us to c…

It's based on Linphone for iOS.