Embarcadero has a Delphi starter package for free. It will let you build on what you know from pascal.

After that try to think of something simple you would like to have, detail it out and start having fun.

Gary Kildall, the man who would be friends with Bill Gates. R.I.P. sir the world owes you much.

This is a good thing to remember

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

In Reddit's case petty and arbitrary rules policing is how the oligarchs exercise power. In the broader world well much the same just with stiffer consequences.

Where did the string functions go ?

They were delicious.

Their claim is that they would have to create a new fork of the OS with those features. Then, once it existed it would permanently compromise the security of every Iphone.

I would be doubtful if they didn't already have something similar. They just bypassed their "Security features" that were bricking Iphones when third parties repaired them. So what I see here is Apple fighting to protect a false sense of security they had been selling.

Just a note, that San Bernadino has no hardware security features, so this could well be much ado about nothing.

I actually worry more about the software companies. Many of them start out kind of sketchy and don't have far to go on their way to being complete scum

Wow usually they tell me they are network engineers.

It's always been that way. HR people have no clue about what it takes to create good software, so they hit checkboxes. I remember seeing a job posting in 97 listing required 5 years experience in Java. Neat trick seeing as Java came out in 95.

The paper doesn’t give a lot of the analyses I want to see, and doesn’t make its data public,

All you need to know about the paper. Should have been published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results.

It's a pretty good alternative if you don't want to part with the bucks for Delphi. If you have the money, Delphi's productivity can't be beat.

The sad thing and the problem is this has to be said. The people that don't like meritocracies usually are without merit and little more than wastes of protoplasm.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/

Eric S Raymond has much about this on his blog. It Isn't just Ruby. Django, PHP and Linux have all been targeted.

Well I was thinking GO looked interesting, not so much now.

You would have thought Google would have done better, after Mozilla refused the .bro extension for the new Brotli compression mime type.

Edit: Is GO open source ? If so fork and screw em over.

Have an upvote.

The only code i care about is run by CPUs. You'd have thought that political officers would have gone away with the Old Soviet Union.

That could be argued. The other side though is this subverse is most likely to have people who would be interested.

And, You can catch a documentary about him online till Nov 16 http://georgeboole.com/events/screenings/watch-online.html

That is one cool hack. Well done.