The Multinet would permeate society, Lick wrote, thus achieving the old MIT dream of an information utility, as updated for the decentralized network age: “many people work at home, interacting with c…

AK You have to be a different kind of person to love C++. It is a really interesting example of how a well-meant idea went wrong, because [C++ creator] Bjarne Stroustrup was not trying to do what he h…

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/30508z/google_opensources_bazel_correct_reproducible/…

Users wanted to be infantilized, to return to a pre-linguistic condition in the using of computers – Eben Moglen…

There are grave economic reasons making any progress unlikely while undisciplined programmers generate huge amount of capital. It’s analogous to the programmer whose terrible spaghetti code gives him…

It's interesting to see what music the baby sleeps to. Various successes so far include the Coraline soundtrack and the Ride of the Valkyries (!)…

When I eventually pull myself away from the programming equivalent of navel gazing, I find myself in a familiar, but unappealing, situation: I have a functioning, but incomplete system, and I need to…

From a practical point of view, I suspect that many functions would claim to raise so many different exceptions that the user would be overwhelmed http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/how_can_c_progr…

Ironically, rent control is exactly why there is so little housing available in SF. Iirc, only 30% of the voting population owns property. So how is it that the rest of us (70%) don’t vote to build mo…

The press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. … There is obviously a cultural gap. The act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same social stigma a…