laurentoget

that was my favorite part too - anybody can get a visa to move to the US - just wire yourself a couple years of US level salaries. easy.

saint augustine?

i had totally forgotten about smit - good times

i had a solaris workstation on my desk from 2000 to 2005 and we had an industrial fridge size IBM pseries running AIX to run big linear programming problems on. You could not run linux or BSD on those machines and you could not get close to the performance of those machines with intel CPUs. We also had an itanium HP box for a while, running Digital UNIX.

I am happy to see i am not the only one who remembers Oz and i wonder if there are any connection between those projects.

Functional logic programming was all the rage when i started my career 30 years or so ago, but besides some obscure use cases it did not have a lot of success - i wonder if this will be the killer app.

considering lafargue was born in 1842 in cuba on a coffee plantation and was of mixed race he probably had a pretty good idea of what slavery was.

"Problem is, a lot of CEOs in industry and the financial sector can’t tell a bra from a ket"

i do not know enough about quantum computing to judge whether this article is accurate or not, but it certainly is well written and entertaining

we are cousins!

If that is true, wouldn't that be a de facto monopoly which Apple could be sued for?

I am surprised he is getting away with publishing this in english only - there was a time were you had to have french versions of everything at french government institutions, and this definitely is coming from one of those.

Will there ever be more than a fringe of the population willing to be exposed to the mortality risks motorcyclists are exposed to? Last time i looked your chance of being killed is an order of magnitude higher on a motorcycle.

I went to FKK camps in croatia in the 80s when it was still yugoslavia - in my memory they were mostly for German/Dutch/Swiss tourists, were way more expensive than the state campsites, had much nicer amenities (toilets and showers maintained to german standard of cleanliness) and were much less crowded.