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What is called "Wasteful algorithms" is not bad programming but another way to present a good old programming practice: "premature optimization is the root of all evil".
I think the main rule is: "It is ok to violate rules as long as you know that you are violating a rule, you know why you are violating it and you know the problems you may face".
"if three or more lines extend from a single point to the edge of a circle, then the point is the center of the circle and the straight lines are the radii". Could someone reformulate this in english to give it some meaning ?
cpm is fully supported in Linux. (see http://linux.die.net/man/5/cpm). Even without cpm filesystem support, you just need to use dd to copy the disk, then launch an emulator for a cpm system. I have used turbo pascal on amstrad 6128 thanks to cpm. In linux world, reading a cpm disk is really a non issue.
When I was student (around 1992), I have worked remotely using vi and a text terminal (minitel) using 1200 bauds modem. I have also used export DISPLAY between locations separated by 500 km. It was far more usable than nowadays with ADSL. I think Microsoft has worked a lot to avoid that this kind of features arrives on Windows. I hope this will become mainstream quickly. But, damn! 25 years!
she has succeeded in changing the image of the society. It was hopelessly dying. Now, it is still not very healthy, but the reputation has improved a lot. Such a success in a society where shareholders are such dicks, I think she is really strong. If the stupid shareholders fire Marissa Meyer, I close my yahoo email account and I remove my bookmarks on yahoo.
hardware encryption are also a way to fight against open source. First, special drivers have to be develop to handle the features. Second, it suggest that the encryption is handled by the hardware and that there is no benefit in having the OS providing better encryption.
A cheap captor inside the body shall record many heath indicators (temperature, pression, heart, blood analysis). If anything starts to go wrong, we could have alerts and fix it before beeing really sick.