How did your move from software to chip design of an graphics processor, that had an ARM added on to become the Pi, come about? Do you think more coders, especially those adept at assembler, should cross the bridge to Verilog and VHDL?

No, polls done after Brexit consistently show the prime reason for over 50% of those that voted Leave was sovereignty; for one's elected parliament to have control over its laws. Immigration rules was the prime reason for about 30%.

Hi whipslash, Great job you're doing. Obviously, all these small improvements will take time, but here's another for your list.

I receive the daily digest email, and then visit selected stories based on its content. Over the years this email format has been mucked with for the worse. Making it multipart/alternative with text/plain and text/html was OK, once all the bugs were fixed, but the text/plain's content is still poor. (I don't read the text/html so that could be as bad.) Poorly organised, information missing that would help when the headline doesn't give a clue as to the topic, etc. If you want detailed suggestions then I'm happy to correspond.

> given that it's possible under gmail to register very
> similar email addresses (with and without "." in them)

Have you succeeded in doing that? AFAIK foo.bar@gmail.com also receives email for foobar and f.o.o.b.a.r and always has done. I know this because I thought I should nab the dot-less version when initially registering with them and was puzzled that it had "already gone". Yes, it had, because I'd just registered the dot-full version.

Well said WRT USA. It amused me how Bush declared a "war on terrorism", then the IRA was mentioned and for a few days it was a "war on international terrorism" instead.

shopt -s nocasematch
for s in ${subs[@]}; do
    [[ $s != *bitcoin* ]] && post "$s"
done

It's an encrypted cloud-backup service rather than plain cloud-storage, but http://tarsnap.com/ makes the client's source available for your inspection.

I suspect what's being recalled is that, thanks to the keyboard entry model, the new line being entered, or the existing line being edited, was never in a de-tokenised state. The programmer did the work of the tokeniser by entering the bytecode in a context-sensitive fashion. The cursor was an inverted K when in keyword state, pressing P then entered the bytecode for PRINT. Given it came from the 1KiB ZX80 and ZX81, not needing the memory for the detokenised form of the current line was a big saving.

Also, it's ARMv6 which Ubuntu has supported for some time now, so I think that's another reason why other distros are getting a look-in, e.g. Debian and Fedora.

Wonder if Ubuntu are thinking maybe ARMv6 is worth supporting after all if millions of kids are going to get their hands on a Raspberry Pi?

Have each camera note time and number plate. Have known distances between cameras. Work out average speed the car must have travelled. If above limit then fine driver. No radar required.

Two spaces is definitely correct.It makes a visual distinction that the brain trains in on.An alternative to the horrible   trick, which fails when it falls at the end of a right-aligned line, is Unicode's wide range of spaces.
To be. Or not to be. That is the question.
To be.Or not to be.That is the question.
(It seems typical of Slashdot's decline that it fails to render ߓ correctly. Nerds would care about such things.)

The pthreads model is a pain to program with. Have a look at Russ Cox's summary of CSP-style multiprocessing. Google's Go uses it, as did Bell Labs' Alef, Limbo, etc.

Nice to see someone point out paedophiles like pre-pubescents. Wikipedia explains quite well the differences between pedophilia, hebephilia, and ephebophilia. It's a shame the media has corrupted the terms.

Whilst you're correct about the value of the "Old Ways", your old ways are new fangled to some of us. We've edited stuff "blind" over a serial link using ed(1), not vim. You can get a surprisingly long way using ... && echo too.

Any discussion of parallel programming would benefit from have read and understood the resources and history covered by Russ Cox at http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/