The OS Wars II: Testing the Programming Waters

I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language I’ve been doing software development for twenty-five years as a hobby, and the last nine commercially as …

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“Each Wore a Tiny Trench Coat”

You’ll have to skip down the page a little, but it’s worth the effort… fourteen “trained squirrels,” equipped with “espionage systems of foreign intelligence services,” were supposedly caught in Iran. Pull the other one, guys. I’m sure intelligence services would love to be able to do that kind of thing, but I really doubt the …

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