StephenFalken

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by StephenFalken 12y ago
Your point makes all sense and I totally agree with it. And it made me remember an old joke about programming languages of the future, through a fictional book cover: [1] [1] https://i.imgur.com/dPjtGVj.jpg
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
C was created for solving a very practical and specific problem: making the newly born UNIX operating system easily portable across different architectures. It was an impressive success on that challenge. That means most of the decisions De
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
One day we will eventually realize that we are indeed traveling through space on "Spaceship Earth".
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Darknet Sweep Casts Doubt on Tor(dissidentvoice.org)
1 points by StephenFalken 12y ago|0 comments
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
Interesting that you mentioned a trend towards decentralization and peer trust . Does it share some ideas with the now historical paper "Building Trust in Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Electronic Communities" [1] ? [1] http:/&
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CitizenFour (Laura Poitras, Oct 11, 2014)(filmlinc.com)
5 points by StephenFalken 12y ago|0 comments
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Kim Dotcom parts ways with Baboom: 'The music industry hates me'(theguardian.com)
3 points by StephenFalken 12y ago|0 comments
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The State of C (1988)(drdobbs.com)
21 points by StephenFalken 12y ago|7 comments
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
It's interesting to read what BBC thinks about that [1]. [1] http://torrentfreak.com/bbc-isps-should-assume-heavy-vpn-use...
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
Now that you mention Donald Knuth, I can't resist sharing a really interesting answer he gave recently to one question from a set of twenty, related to algorithm design and analysis [1]: 15. Robert Tarjan, Princeton : What do you see
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How Google Fired Scribe Creator (Brian Reid)(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by StephenFalken 12y ago|0 comments
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
There is this precious little gem on page 16, paragraph 31.: last <-- first; { cf. Matthew 19:30 } https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Religious_beliefs... http://www.webofstories.com/play&#x
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
The civilized platforms controlled by large companies who invested in developer tools are all gone, strangled by the Darwinian jungle of the web. It is hard for programmers who have only known the web to realize how incredibly awful it is
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
As a counterpoint, Alex Stepanov (the primary designer and implementer of the C++ Standard Template Library), had this crucial insight about the C programming language pervasiveness: Let's consider now why C is a great language. It is
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
Unfortunately. I still hope to see in my lifetime the day computer systems are powerful enough so that you introduce the full human genome and the system fully simulates the human being from the first cell on. I know it's a long long s
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
Thanks for sharing that interesting link. He has a good point and ends with a wise standing: However, this is a good time to re-iterate my standard disclaimers: Bitcoin is still a work in progress, and you should only risk time or money on
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One Bitcoin Group Now Controls 51% of Total Mining Power(extremetech.com)
2 points by StephenFalken 12y ago|2 comments
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The Rise and Fall of Netscape(guardianlv.com)
2 points by StephenFalken 12y ago|0 comments
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
Very interesting interview where he also said: > I would try out the language as it was being developed and make comments on it. It was part of the work atmosphere there. And you’d write something and then the next day it wouldn’t work b
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
It seems that FederBet will publish a detailed explanation about the meaning of that notation very soon on their website.
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
Here is a little bit more context to it [1]: Match fixing analysis: There are frequent concerns about the phenomenon. Match fixing threatens the credibility of the entire sports system. Attempts to rig games cause serious damage and above
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Match Fixing Analysis Across Europe (2013/2014) [pdf](federbet.com)
1 points by StephenFalken 12y ago|3 comments
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
The video of that rescued, repaired and running PDP-11/34 just created the coziest feeling inside my mind. There is something magical about those old Digital PDP machines that were so deeply related to the development of UNIX and C. It
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by StephenFalken 12y ago
Steve Reeding, one of the creators of IPv6, shares his crucial insight on how some networks adapt, survive, and impose themselves [1]: "I have a different take on that. Yes, a lot of people were dissing tunnels yesterday. I'm actu
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by StephenFalken 13y ago
Claudio Rocchini [1] has also made impressive contributions to the field of mathematical visualization. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rocchini
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Vint Cerf On How NSA Stood In The Way Of Early TCP/IP Security(youtube.com)
5 points by StephenFalken 13y ago|0 comments
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Tim Berners-Lee: The Web needs its freedom(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by StephenFalken 13y ago|0 comments
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Europa Mission Gets Boost From President’s New NASA Budget(wired.com)
1 points by StephenFalken 13y ago|0 comments
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by StephenFalken 13y ago
It would be interesting to discuss how Ukraine got into this kind of situation ([1] [2]) and what are the "natural" consequences of it. Somehow it feels we are not dealing with a single country anymore. [1] http://i.img
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by StephenFalken 13y ago
On the other extreme, there was the Unlimited Register Machine (URM) [1] specified on Nigel J. Cutland's book: Computability, An introduction to recursive function theory . [1] http://faculty.oxy.edu/rnaimi/home

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