DissidentX from Bram Cohen – a “censorship resistance tool”.
Microsoft is offering Visual C++ Refactoring – you can rename variables, for example. It’s more of a tech demo than anything else, at least at the moment.
Bitcoin mining currently uses $15 million a day in electricity – maybe. Can Bitcoin reach $98,500 per coin? Or is the fair price of a Bitcoin actually zero?
GCC poison? Maybe. Still pissed at Microsoft trying to deprecate strcpy etc, so misguided.
David Lowery thinks Silicon Valley is destroying creativity? Sigh. Or lol. I can’t decide which. So misguided.
Guy Kawasaki says you must enchant your customers. I probably agree.
First class functions in C. Although, it’s really more of a stunt.
Mac OS 10.9 has had incredible adoption rates (upwards of 50% of Macs are now running 10.9), but Windows 8 feels like a flop; it’s still not at 10% adoption rate, and Windows 7 adoption rate is now outpacing Windows 8.
Applebee’s and Chili’s rolling out iPads – is this going to replace waiters?
Shanghai-China is #1 on the Pisa 2012 results (which is Math, Reading and Science). The US is #36. Below Russia. Below France, Italy and Spain. Sigh.
Is there a link between wormholes and quantum entanglement? That’s pretty cool.
How does the NSA break SSL? Tricks.