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Russians who hacked Eglin Air Force Base have indeed invaded Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1dz470/most_red...

The UK doesn't have much to export in terms of natural resources (excepting Ireland), or hard-to-move industry. That leaves services, which can go away easily. So the situation was…

Indeed. Or more people than you realise implicitly support the idea of censure with only vague restraint, and are just nerding out on the details. In the end it will likely not mat…

I'll keep amalgamating viewpoints and ideas, as I don't see the usefulness of the distinction so far. As you say, for the renaissance, the change in viewpoints were caused by the c…

People who like thinking seem to overestimate the power of ideas in shaping the world. My interpretation is that it's probably the typical arrogance of the intellectual letting its…

You may simply not be a good dev. What then? I live in a market where finding a job quickly makes it another shitty job, and only after amply signaling your submissiveness (ah, Eur…

And yet, the programmer may have a responsibility to bring a salary back to his family. People will call him a criminal for obeying his boss, but they usually will not come and hel…

What about Ahrefs? Also, some people must be using Ocaml's cousin F#, or Jon Harrop would not have a job. Edit: oh, finance . Right.

I do not see Python as the natural choice for a first language. I've even had adult colleagues squint when I tried to explain decorators, or objects and all the self/static/class/m…

I would very much like to know that too. I think Alan Kay said something about the middle management at Xerox being excellent people, too, so I would be tempted to think this is th…

Your view would be fair if it was openly stated to the smart kids in their young age. Knowing that they're on their own, whatever they end up doing would be an informed choice and …

Given the low cost of long-term storage, if you have any auditing requirement, it's worth it to store lots of logs.

It sounded fine the first time I heard it, but I don't buy the "it wasn't free and Linux was available" argument any more. If more Linux users had read the papers like you, and don…

Your stated reasons aren't valid. I think they ported Mozilla until 2002 (Russ Cox, maybe?). There was also a compat layer: APE. As a counter to your argument: a system that has li…

Didn't Plan 9 eventually get some mechanisms to facilitate interactions between such local-only networks around the world? 9grid and such. In any case, Plan 9 is still ahead on qui…

For a one-man project, sure. Otherwise, the grand-parent is right. To achieve anything hard you'll need a team of engineers. That single good manager is going to be the one that at…

No a fan of Microsoft systems, but they have GS-API/Kerberos and AD FS 3. Unix users will want SSH key management, but apart from that, Microsoft made efforts to help people spread…

Better than that, you can "mutate" if you're not invalidating information about the variable. Oz (not incidentally, developed by Prolog people) lets you add constraints to a variab…

For what it's worth, you story seems to be the common one for gifted kids. Maybe with less setting things on fire usually. Although resenting your intelligence seems to be doing th…

Each level in the game gave you clear directions, an entertaining backstory, and taught you the concepts necessary to think about the problem. All three things turn what would be a…

You don't need to train them (us), we will seek it naturally. Happiness depends on it, and most people want to be happy.

Interesting! Are there any source listings anywhere? Do they have particular programming tools or methods that help them deal with the complexity? If it's all assembly, I'm surpris…

I'm one of the lucky people who have to wait. The airport personnel tells us it's the system that prints out weather information that's out. Not sure why one would want to attack t…

When it comes to programs, and unless you're doing research, you should fear what you don't understand. If I have to maintain a program you put into production without understandin…

I don't know. I really like the moments where Alan Kay appears out of nowhere, tells where your idea squanders the potential of computers, points to 60's-80's prior art that did it…