Category: Zeitgeist
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Suzanne Sadedin's answer on Quora
Just go read Suzanne Sadedin’s answer to “What do scientists think about the biological claims made in the anti-diversity document written by a Google employee in August 2017?” It says most of what you need to know.
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Firefox fights back
Source: Inside Mozilla: Firefox fights back
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Scripting News: July 5, 2017
Dave Winer says that he largely makes software for himself these days.
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Firefox Quantum
The Register (in its usual somewhat snarky style) has some good news about developments in Firefox [Project Quantum] is not a new web browser. Quantum is Mozilla’s project to build the next-generation web engine for Firefox users, building on the Gecko engine as a solid foundation. Quantum will leverage the fearless concurrency of Rust and…
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Grumpy: Python on Go
Google are making a Python to Go cross compiler The idea here is that Google have a lot of Python to run, but Python’s Virtual Machines (especially with the Global Interpreter Lock) aren’t all that good for high-performance parallelism. OTOH built Go! and the Go target machine for this. So they want to make a…
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TreeSheets
TreeSheets look like a pretty interesting combination of spreadsheet and hierarchical outliners / organizers.
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DIY 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Pocket Chip
OK. So someone has made a Pocket-style Raspberry Pi case. Very nice. Hope someone starts commercializing these as I think they’ll be very important for the RasPi ecosystem. mobipre2 shared on YouTube: Raspberry Pi – Pocket Chip Source: DIY 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Pocket Chip « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and…
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500 Lines or Less is Available Now
This looks good : 500 Lines or Less
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Startup CEO's: don't use functional programming languages.
He he! Anti-FP trolling is a thing.
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RIP Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88