krylon

Star Trek TNG was a very big influence on my younger self, so this news hits rather hard. Rest in Peace, Sir Stewart, you will be fondly remembered by the many people whose lives you have touched.

Gotta admit, that is probably my favorite Wikipedia article. It reads like a conversation between two stoned teenagers (which, admittedly, a lot of cosmology and quantum physics do, to non-physicists like myself).

"Cheap" and "Alpha" would have been hard to pull of simultaneously. But it would have been really cool.

Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - I also starting writing a Lisp interpreter in Python. I also called it Lispy. This time, the coincidence is less remarkable though, as the word play just sits there, begging to be played.

Just as I was thinking to myself that it might be fun to play around with Lisp again, this shows up in my news ticker. Coincidence?

The blue-footed booby deserves a place in the top 10, IMHO. But I see the competition is fierce.

Rest in peace, Mister Salus.

I remember running CoLinux back in my training days ~2005-2006. It seemed a bit like black magic to me at the time, but it worked quite well for my needs.

But CoLinux - IIRC - required the NT branch of Windows. I can only imagine the level of hackery it takes to make this happen on Windows 9x.

Part of me wants to weep at the sheer perversity, part of me wants to burst into manic laughter. It is indeed a world of endless wonders.

I had the same reaction.

The outcome is the same, yes. With incompetence, there is at least a glimmer of hope things will get rectified. But you are correct, trust is destroyed this way, and it doesn't look like Microsoft cares much.

True, however, that has been the case for quite a while. This particular incident doesn't change that, except for the VeraCrypt developer, who is in a crappy situation now (not just regarding VeraCrypt, he mentions he was using the certificate for his main job as well, so this sucks a lot for him).

As much as I like bashing Microsoft, never underestimate people's capacity for incompetence, especially where large organizations are involved. I don't see how they would gain anything from this move.

STRICT tables are something I appreciate very much, even though I cannot recall running into a problem that would have prevented by its presence in the before-time. But it's good to have all the same.

I don't think I've ever done much with SQLite's JSON functions, but I have on one or two occasions used a constraint to enforce a TEXT column contains valid JSON, which would have been very tedious to do otherwise.

Tell that to Raymond Chen! ;-D

The full title, "The cover of C++: The Programming Language raises questions not answered by the cover" was too long for HN, apparently.