How do people think? Co-inventor of Self, which influenced JavaScript. Also sped up Java, Python. Animation for screens. Reality? How to be useful now?

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David Ungar retweeted
Joking aside, there is no one alive who writes about the classics with such simplicity and depth as @SpencerKlavan. Reading him on the Greeks is like reading Sowell on Economics. Clarity that puts the pseudo-scientific jargon of academia to shame. This piece is a joy.
“Aratus’s most brilliant insight was that the world, like a poem, is inexhaustibly layered with hidden meaning.” Read “A phenomenal poet,” by Spencer A. Klavan.@SpencerKlavan newcriterion.com/article/a-p…
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Truly amazing New Horizon footage of Pluto.
Pluto's mighty ice mountains, deep frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze backlit by a distant sun, as seen by the the NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
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38. Idiocy Saturation: Online, people who don't think before they post are able to post more often than people who do. As a result, the average social media post is stupider than the average social media user. Worth remembering whenever Twitter dumbassery drives you to despair.
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Something magical happened in Xcode 13 beta 2, where when I do a recompile of my 2,217 source files (stacked in 16 frameworks and an app) it now will compile only like 6 files.
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The speedup for my app is incredible. Here’s the stack of Swift frameworks that make up Dwelling — you can imagine the speed difference this change has made.
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Could a presentation about APL possibly be relevant to anybody? Yes it could. Language designers, live programming enthusiasts, anyone interested it how we write and understand programs Controversial - enlightening ht/ @jonathoda xitter.cf/mfeathers/status/96998…
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Want to learn how to develop server applications in Swift? @senderPath #buymybook #swiftlang #kitura #ibmcloud
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