The cost of forsaking C - Bradfield CS - Medium Why teach C to undergrads.
(tags: C programming education computers) The Unit of Caring - “I don’t think social justice is healthy.”… A reasonable summary of the problems with Internet SJ stuff.
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What We Can Learn from the Paris Attacks (Without Ignoring the Elephant in the Room) Yep, this is more or less what I think.
(tags: paris terrorism islam islamism religion politics) What is emotional labor? A term that once described jobs where being friendly and cheerful was seen as part of the job has apparently been co-opted to mean “someone ( Read more... )

Stewart Lee: The Imaginary Liberal Comedy Cabal will crush the Ukips into dust | Stage | The Guardian There is now a cabal.
(tags: ukip stewart-lee comedy humour funny politics cabal) The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-computing Emulation of old computers and grief over the death of a friend who used them. Via Mefi.
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BBC News - Leaked letter shows ISPs and government at war Dave wants a scheme were people uncheck a box to get pr0n described as "default on" filtering, allowing him to claim victory without the ISPs changing what they’re doing.
(tags: politics pornograpy porn censorship internet david-cameron) David Cameron’s crusade against images of child abuse ( Read more... )

Why The Daily Mail is Evil (at The @PodDelusion's 3rd birthday do) by Martin Robbins - YouTube Yes, it's doing the rounds, but it's still good.
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The SCP Foundation Descriptions of strange and horrifying objects being held by a secret organisation. If you liked Stross's Laundry stuff, you might like ( Read more... )

Git Immersion - Brought to you by EdgeCase Looks like a nice introduction to the "git" version control system. Must get round to understanding that one of these days.
(tags: programming version-control git development tutorial software tools)
I'm starting to think that the Left might actually be right - Telegraph In the Torygraph of all places.
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Dear Lazyweb,

I'm thinking of getting one those shiny smartphone things. Looking at the iPhone, Google Nexus 1 and HTC Desire.
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