Just go read Suzanne Sadedin’s answer to “What do scientists think about the biological claims made in the anti-diversity document written by a Google employee in August 2017?” It says most of what you need to know.
Category Archives: Zeitgeist
Firefox fights back
Source: Inside Mozilla: Firefox fights back
Scripting News: July 5, 2017
Dave Winer says that he largely makes software for himself these days.
Firefox Quantum
The Register (in its usual somewhat snarky style) has some good news about developments in Firefox
Grumpy: Python on Go
Google are making a Python to Go cross compiler The idea here is that Google have a lot of Python to run, but Python’s Virtual Machines (especially with the Global Interpreter Lock) aren’t all that good for high-performance parallelism. OTOH built Go! and the Go target machine for this. So they want to make a …
TreeSheets
TreeSheets look like a pretty interesting combination of spreadsheet and hierarchical outliners / organizers.
DIY 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Pocket Chip
OK. So someone has made a Pocket-style Raspberry Pi case. Very nice. Hope someone starts commercializing these as I think they’ll be very important for the RasPi ecosystem. mobipre2 shared on YouTube: Raspberry Pi – Pocket Chip Source: DIY 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Pocket Chip « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and …
500 Lines or Less is Available Now
This looks good : 500 Lines or Less
Startup CEO's: don't use functional programming languages.
He he! Anti-FP trolling is a thing.
RIP Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88