When you appeal to the better nature of a specific group, you're doing something with good taste. Just barely ahead of the status quo, in sync but leaning forward. The key understandings are: …
Can This Man Spark a Renaissance for the Smalltalk Programming Language? - The New Stack
When it comes to programming languages, Smalltalk is about as old as it gets: It was first developed in 1969, with the first stable release coming out by 1980. But one man has taken it upon himself to lead this ancient computer language to new popularity — a retired software developer with over 30 years…
Registered Democrats (mostly young and/or racialised) who didn't vote cost Hillary the election / Boing Boing
Fivethirtyeight’s analysis of a Surveymonkey data-set shows that Hillary Clinton would have won the 2016 election if registered Democrats had turned out and voted in larger numbers — in…
Updated: Autonomous driving levels 0 to 5: Understanding the differences - TechRepublic
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration adopted the Society of Automotive Engineers' levels for automated driving systems, ranging from complete driver control to full autonomy.
If someone needs directions, don't give them a globe. It'll merely waste their time. But if someone needs to understand the way things are, don't give them a map. They don't nee…
I’m not a scholar, nor do I play one on TV, but when I search Google Scholar I find that I’m cited there a few times, most notably for a 1994 BYTE cover story, Componentware. The detail…
The future is a decentralized internet | TechCrunch
In a world with many blockchains and hundreds of tradable tokens built on top of them, entire industries are automated through software, venture capital and stock markets are circumvented, entrepreneurship is streamlined and networks gain sovereignty through their own digital currency. This is the next phase of the internet.
Amazon's Alexa moves in on Google's Android system | Reuters
Amazon.com Inc’s digital assistant appeared almost everywhere at the CES technology show this week in Las Vegas, even making an unexpected appearance on rival Google’s Android system.
4 open source alternatives to Trello that you can self-host | LinuxBSDos.com
4 open source Trello alternatives to self-host. Trello is a kanban software, a team collaboration or project management software. self-host alternatives