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Watch the last part of this video where he describes his very last project, a card game to help teach coding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ihzA8v89U&t=1560s Does anyone rememb…

This is happening too often.

"When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that o…

Iridium has finished launching their Low Earth Orbit satellite system using SpaceX's Falcon 9 http://www.spacex.com/news/2018/05/22/iridium-6grace-fo-miss...

Yeah, the telemarketing people who clog up the phone lines and interrupt dinner times all over the planet won't see the benefit of this at all

Welcome to the 90's Microsoft. Glad you could make it. No one has used telnet for over 20 years. The fact that it took Redmond over 20 years to incorporte an SSH client proves to m…

What's so surprising about that? All cryptocurrencies are still very experimental. Nothing shocking about that.

What are the current crop of cryptocurrencies that are truly anonymous? The list I have so far is: Aeon, DASH, Komodo, Monero , NAV Coin, PIVX, Verge, Zcash, Zcoin, and ZenCash. An…

I remember RISC's back in the late 80's/early 90's. CISC's bullied them away and we've been stuck in Intel's quagmire every since. Anytime there's an attack on the status quo, the …

What scares me is not the success or failure of BitCoin. What I find troubling is the spirit of BitCoin is paving the way for the exact opposite result. The idealism is to produce …

Love this bit: "...we are happy that we chose Haskell, a wonderful language that enables large refactoring with ease, perhaps even turning what could be unthinkable architectural c…

Where is the actual text of the law? Link or it didn't happen.

Exactly my point.

The idea of any group of humans "saving the Earth" is neighbouring on hubris. It's fine for the plot line of a Hollywood movie, but pragmatically we can't even engage in civil disc…