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Re:Goldman-Backed Circle Buys Digital Exchange Poloniex on Monday February 26, 2018 @11:28AM (#16466470)
Banking institutions are slowly making crypto more and more legitimate. I hope this trend continues. Disclosure: I REALLY believe in Bitcoin.
It's not true. TensorFlow also supports 2.7 first.

Google will kill Python 3, and it might be a good thing

We know that there are issues with the Python echosystem at large [1]. Google is heavily invested in Python 2, and thus created Grumpy [2], which is a new Python 2 runtime, in Golang. A company like Google, stepping in, will inevitable lead to the sorting out of many of the issues [1], and introduce new developments for Python 2. The Golang backend of Python will enable the development of many...

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Re:Proposal: Go should have generics on Thursday April 14, 2016 @02:59AM (#11494778)
Go is designed by google, for google. Why should they make it to your liking? Why do you rely on google?
Re:What if we were all Uber drivers? on Sunday June 21, 2015 @01:52PM (#9754274)
While you are correct, Many of the points apply to mass transportation in general, and society might no have a choice due to environmental/growth/resource problems.
Re:What if we were all Uber drivers? on Saturday June 20, 2015 @10:28PM (#9751901)
Will we be picking people up on the way? like uber drivers? because that would be the real value.

What if we were all Uber drivers?

I just had an idea. What if there existed %50 of the cars that exist in US today, but they were freely available for everyone. What's the catch? You have to pick up people on the way to where you are going. There will be a cloud system that similar to Uber, where people input where they need to go. If they see a car standing, they can just start driving it. If there's someone who needs picking...

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Re:Introducing Xubuntu core on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @03:01AM (#9529956)
I love this for a development VM! I wanted this for a long time: an ubuntu-based linux that doesn't have the non-development application. Thank you for creating this!
Re:Bjarne Stroustrup – Managing Director, Technology on Thursday March 26, 2015 @01:47AM (#9268029)
OP here. My original title was "The Inventor of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup Works at Morgan Stanley", and after 20 minutes, it somehow changed "Bjarne Stroustrup – Managing Director, Technology". WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Re:Bjarne Stroustrup – Managing Director, Technology on Thursday March 26, 2015 @12:48AM (#9267868)
yes, since 2014. But this wasn't widely known
Re:Bjarne Stroustrup – Managing Director, Technology on Thursday March 26, 2015 @12:46AM (#9267863)
This is surprising to me. I can't exactly point to why...