post modern C tooling - draft 5
(tags: tools programming C)
‘My ties to England have loosened’: John le Carré on Britain, Boris and Brexit | Books | The Guardian “At 87, le Carré is publishing his 25th novel. He talks to John Banville about our ‘dismal statesmanship’ and what he learned from his time as a spy”
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Sick and tired: Online activists are silencing us, scientists say “Scientists researching treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome say they face online abuse and harassment. Some are leaving the field. It’s a ‘new normal,’ they say, and patients may lose out.”
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“The Linux of social media”-How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging | Ars Technica A brief history of LiveJournal. Those were the days.
(tags: livejournal blogging internet social-networks) Originally posted at Name and Nature. You can comment there. There are currently
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C++Now 2017: Niko Matsakis “Rust: Hack Without Fear!” - YouTube Rust for C++ people (of which I’m not actually one, but it might be interesting anyway).
(tags: rust language programming) You Are the Product John Lanchester reviews 3 books on Facebook and Google, and comes to the conclusion that Facebook does things because it can, without ( Read more... )

Maybe the Internet Isn’t Tearing Us Apart After All | WIRED People don’t actually just stick to sites which match their political views, and their Facebook acquaintances don’t always share their politics.
(tags: facebook society politics internet) Originally posted at Name and Nature. You can comment there. There are currently
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The Secrets Of Cornwall - Part 1 - Communications - YouTube Blokes drive around Cornwall looking at manhole covers and work out the landing points of undersea cables, and where the GCHQ intercept points disclosed by Snowden might be.
(tags: cornwall cables telecommunications gchq internet edward-snowden porthcurno) Originally posted at Name and ( Read more... )

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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ISIS and the Lonely Young American - The New York Times The NYT has a story about radical Muslims attempting to convert an American Christian and convince her to travel to join them in Syria, all done via the Internet, mainly Twitter and Skype.
(tags: isis islam internet twitter religion radicalisation) Start-up Costs: ‘Silicon Valley,’ ‘Halt and ( Read more... )

Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality Make investments in reducing latency rather than just comparing hours spent with value gained.
(tags: programming management latency speed) Programming Sucks “Websites that are glorified shopping carts with maybe three dynamic pages are maintained by teams of people around ( Read more... )

Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality Make investments in reducing latency rather than just comparing hours spent with value gained.
(tags: programming management latency speed) Programming Sucks “Websites that are glorified shopping carts with maybe three dynamic pages are maintained by teams of people around ( Read more... )