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String theorist Edward Witten says consciousness “will remain a mystery”
Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub
on Sunday August 21, 2016 @01:41AM (#12329573)
Or you can run the Windows Subsystem for Linux and have real apt-get or yum!
Twitter says it shuttered 235k accounts linked to terrorism in 6 months
Re:The stuff we need is getting more expensive, other stuff is getting...
on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:22PM (#12322177)
It looks like the things that are increasing the most in cost have government programs to give people money to pay for them. Maybe that's the problem! The free market has made TVs and even cars cheaper and better than ever.
Report: Battery concerns will keep LTE out of the next Apple Watch
Re:Twitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Over Extremism
on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:03PM (#12317538)
I'm a pure functional programmer. I hope I don't get kicked off of twitter for my intolerance of Scheme, Lisp, or F#.
Re:PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
on Thursday August 18, 2016 @11:53AM (#12313461)
People laugh at me when I tell them I switched "back" to Windows after decades of Unix and Mac programming. But it's a really good, productive platform. Microsoft really seems to be heading in the right direction now.
I hope .NET starts taking off on other platforms, too, because it really is a much better system than Brand "J".
Using Single Ions to generate high-resolution images
Re:How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools
on Thursday August 18, 2016 @09:38AM (#12312362)
I did this back in 1990. Using Emacs and TeX/Metafont. And so did many, many other people.