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www.youtube.com 1y ago

"why the lucky stiff" disappeared 15 years ago today. Here's the last talk [video]

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techcrunch.com 6y ago

Richard Stallman Resigns from MIT Csail and the Free Software Foundation

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medium.com 7y ago

Make School Summer Academy Cancelled After Seven Years

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en.wikipedia.org 7y ago

Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

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www.i-programmer.info 8y ago

DHH Releases Stimulus JavaScript Framework

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stimulusjs.org 8y ago

Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have

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tech-blog.capital-match.com 8y ago

Anatomy of a Haskell-Based Application, Revisited

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medium.com 8y ago

Reset, Rebase Workflow

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www.washingtonpost.com 8y ago

Elon Musk says next spaceship could take you from N.Y. to London in 29 minutes

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uxdesign.cc 8y ago

The worst volume control UI in the world

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google.org 8y ago

Google Crisis Map: Hurricane Irma

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lesseverything.com 8y ago

Steven Bristol of LessConf has died

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www.golfdigest.com 8y ago

Kyle Miller overcomes cerebral palsy to play in a pro event

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engineering.mit.edu 8y ago

Ask an Engineer

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m.signalvnoise.com 9y ago

The Company Isn't a Family

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uk.businessinsider.com 9y ago

What it looks like to work at Basecamp

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www.mercurynews.com 9y ago

SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster

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www.reddit.com 9y ago

Ryan Bates is getting married. Anything you'd like to share at the reception?

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www.nngroup.com 9y ago

Stop Shaming Your Users for Micro Conversions

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www.telegraph.co.uk 9y ago

British Military Interested in 'Iron Man' Flying Suit

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www.huffingtonpost.ca 9y ago

Shaw Internet, Cable and Home Phone Outage Across Canada

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makezine.com 9y ago

Making an Impressive Working Robotic Arm from Cardboard

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www.orlandosentinel.com 9y ago

Jason Seifer has Died

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www.theverge.com 9y ago

Jeff Bezos looks a little too happy piloting a giant mechanical robot

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www.cnn.com 9y ago

Intel Report: Putin directly ordered effort to influence election

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www.popularmechanics.com 9y ago

Russia's New ICBM Could “Wipe Out Texas”

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www.cnn.com 9y ago

Russia unveils 'Satan 2' missile, could wipe out France or Texas

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research.microsoft.com 9y ago

A History of Haskell: Being Lazy with Class (2007) [pdf]

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ipv6wallofshame.com 9y ago

IPv6 Wall of Shame

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news.nationalpost.com 9y ago

How Snowden Escaped

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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 remember him? He had a huge impact on my life back in 2006 when I was trying to learn Ruby to use Ruby on Rails.

The

Thanks Jonathan for all the foxes, and thanks to whoever is maintaining his legacy: https://whytheluckystiff.net/

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 me that they really aren't as security conscious as they claim to be.

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.

Any others?

Edit: Added Aeon

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 established players feign concern and beat back the attack then return to the way things were (remember Negroponte's $100 laptop and the netbook response?)

No idea how this will pan out.

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 a system for faster, cheaper, and censorship-resistant way to transact. BitCoin is actually becoming unusable for that. It's slower than Etherium, the fees continue to climb when measured against the US Dollar, and the privacy issues are not being addressed.

Sadly, no one will pay any attention to this while the price continues to climb. Only when the price crashes will folks come to their senses, just like when MintPal was hacked which destroyed VeriCoin and when The DAO collapsed with people voting to roll back and fork.

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 changes in other languages into pure tedium."

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 discourse anymore. Tampering with systems like plate tectonic without the ability to even predict the effects of oil shale fracking means we still have a lot to learn.

If the concern of the Earth being wiped out is legitimate, then focus instead on colonizing Space. The end result is the same: preserving human civilization.

Ask an Engineer 9 years ago

With so much bad information out there, I wonder how reliable the answers are from MIT whose reputation seems a lot more credible than Quora or Stack Exchange.

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I welcome the up voting of these sorts of things. It's great to see projects with new eyes, and be reminded that not everyone has the same historical experiences that I've had.

The remark:

At an Uber staff meeting earlier in the day, Arianna Huffington, another Uber board member, said one woman on a board often leads to more women joining a board. Mr. Bonderman responded “that it’s much more likely to be more talking.”

Seems ironic that Arianna's own site posted this:

Biological Evidence May Support Idea That Women Talk More Than Men, Study Says http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/women-talk-more-tha...

Is it not possible to say anything anymore without someone being offended?