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As a queer female go programmer with over 15 years of programming experience, I did not realize how much of a statistical outlier I am. Neat. (I have trouble adopting the mantle of minority, as a well-paid middle-aged white person).

I ported a Groovy/Grails app to Java/SpringMVC once.

My technical motivations were more about moving away from Hibernate. Arguably there were plenty of reasons for leaving it as it was, though -- if I had known enough to be able to solve certain data access complexities back then, Grails was in many ways a better fit for the problem. The experience in a (more-or-less) functional language wouldn't have hurt any either.

The business motivation was simple: Java/SpringMVC programmers are (or were then) far more plentiful, so adding/replacing tech resources was made much simpler.

IMHO it's a pretty fun book, great for a long train ride.

However it's a little problematic in places, with some weirdness with eugenics and the role of women's reproduction. Trying to be vague to prevent spoilers.

It sounds like Matrix is currently "facing a major funding crisis." (https://matrix.org/blog/2017/07/07/a-call-to-arms-supporting...)

Which makes me worried that this downstream project depends upon it.

/me raises a glass to the dearly departed N900

Another thing we can do is to continue to bring attention to projects like this one:

http://www.whiteboardmag.com/propelwind-wingsail-technology-...

I'm probably more in the "use technology to help, while I do what I can" rather than "technology will save us, so carry on" camp.

I'm curious to learn about the routing algorithms for this -- more precisely, how they differ from 1-d elevator scheduling routines.

IIRC the TRS-80 Model III had a similar single-line editor. Once my little fingers knew all the commands, it was pretty efficient.

Similarly, there is good evidence that the Ho Chunk (Native American, upper midwest) story of Red Horn has been preserved via oral tradition (aka "folk tales") for over 3000 years: http://www.ontarioarchaeology.on.ca/Resources/Publications/o...