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At the London C++ meetup last month, I participated on a panel where each panelist gave a short introductory presentation. My 7-minute intro (aka “lightning talk”) just got posted — you can view it here. The one-sentence blurb: “C++ is accelerating, and C++26 is built for what developers need now.”
Recommended Lying about Money (Book by Dan Davies) — This book on financial fraud is great (assuming you want to read about that). Found this from an article on “Bits about Money.” It’s more about institutional aspects than con men (although con men make plenty of appearances). Here’s a “Today I learned” style...
(This is my comment re CFTC call for comments on prediction markets.)
When I’m not talking, just walking (which is most of the time), I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void of stimulation beyond the immediate environment. My rules: No news, no social media, no podcasts, no music. No “teleporting,” you could say. The phone, the great teleportation...
In 1933, shortly after Hitler took power, Charlotte Beradt started having nightmares.
During the peak of mobile app madness, iOS and Android developers would often find themselves cornered by friends, relatives, and random people at parties. “I’ve got a great idea for an app…” More often than not, this dreaded sentence would be followed by a hard sell when the developer didn’t display adequate...
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