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Hot damn!
OK, next sprint, we redesign my jet-pack motors!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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ZetaVM, from the creator of the Higgs compiler for JavaScript, enables easy construction of interpreted and JITed dynamic languages. Because we always need new languages, right?
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Quote: "By freezing the core VM semantics and freezing submitted packages, we make it possible to write software that never breaks,"
So the VM doesn't get patched or upgraded for twenty years? Really?
I can imagine the conversation in 2037:
"Why are we running a Windows 10 VM? Support for that expired over a decade ago."
"Well, yes, put that way it does sounds a little bit scary but the thing is, some genius wrote some brilliant Javascript thing 20 years ago and we don't want to break it. It might be a bit insecure but hey, it runs like a slug with go-faster stripes and it's in a child-friendly language - or at least we think it is because the guy who set it up didn't have time to document it. What's not to like?"
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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The scope of Jigsaw is impressive, intending not only to modularise the monolithic Java runtime, but to also enforce strong encapsulation, so that Java code is forced to only access platform libraries via their public interfaces. Modular code may not simply reach into the internals of another module. "If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him."
Not sure why that quote appealed to me, but there you go.
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Young crayfish can get drunk — and they get drunk a lot faster when they’ve been hanging out with their friends, new research says. Next time you're stuck in a meeting, or having a bad day at work, remember that someone gets paid to get crayfish drunk.
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And apparently someone gets paid to write about it too.
Too bad they didn't figure out they're called crawfish though. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Also known as "Crawdads".
I always wondered where all the "Crawmums" were ("Crawmoms" in the US, I suppose).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: Also known as "Crawdads".
You are correct sir!
Jeremy Falcon
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And I'm known as a "dodad", because I just swim around aimlessly, achieving nothing useful.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's now feasible to secure smartphones using virtualization, a technology the NSA currently requires only on tablets and laptops. Because they already figured out how to crack it?
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Whatever direction Samaritan the NSA suggests, find another way.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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For the first time, physicists have used radio waves from a Wi-Fi transmitter to encode a 3D image of a real object in a hologram similar to the image of Princess Leia projected by R2D2 in the movie Star Wars. So they can see my tinfoil hat?
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Mobile applications that open ports on Android smartphones are opening those phones to remote hacking, claims a team of researchers from the University of Michigan. Nothing more embarrassing than walking around with open ports
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Researchers know that there is no cognitive load for navigating new spaces—the human visual system instantly determines the navigational possibilities. But given all the spatial information presented by a new environment, how does the brain know it can walk through the door to the bar, but that it cannot navigate through the painting? The part where one is a door, and the other isn't?
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I despair of "clever people" sometimes, I really do.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A new scientific review on the safety of caffeine says drinking up to four cups of coffee, or about 400 milligrams of caffeine, is pretty safe. That's per hour, right?
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It's 8:30 AM here.. and I'm working on my 3rd cup.
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I've seen some very stupid security stuff out there. Don't believe me? Here, hold my beer... It's not always the users' fault?
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What an absolute joy of a web-page!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Cloud-based services and infrastructure are boosting the financial performances of Microsoft and Google. In earnings calls this week, Google says it has developed 'deep enterprise' strengths and Microsoft says it's executing on digital transformations thanks to the cloud. "I saw two clouds at morning tinged by the rising sun, and in the dawn they floated on and mingled into one."
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Many people look for castles in clouds.
I look at them and estimate how much it will rain.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you've been expecting Microsoft to issue a press release formally announcing the end of its Windows phone business, you're probably hoping for a bit too much. But make no mistake: its phone hardware business is dead. RIP-dead. Send-flowers-dead. Worm-food-dead. That's just what they want their enemies to think!
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Great prices on Windows Phones! I picked one up a few months ago.  Just doin' my part! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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The data was exposed for at least six months -- likely longer. "I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error."
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