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As a student of the Java programming language I have come to develop a deep level of appreciation and admiration for the geniuses who developed the fundamental concepts underlying object-oriented programming. The two most important people in this regard are the creators of the first object-oriented computer programming language called Simula: Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen…

Just looking at this interactive map at cbsnews.com and its clear that Donald Trump didn’t just win, he won huge in many counties in California. I’m looking at the county-by-county results and the margins are in the range of 65+% percent for Trump and 30-% for Clinton. That is a landslide. It’s clear that the…

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One thing that has become clear is the problem of the increasing dominance of “identity politics” (as long as it is not white identity) over agendas which many commentators are rightly raising deep concerns over. We are a much greater country than that, and the way that the public was so deeply played and manipulated…

Cinnamon 3.2 looks to be coming down the pike soon. Hopefully there will be an Ubuntu PPA to provide it. Really looking forward to vertical panels! A lot of people felt kind of deserted when Gnome took its turn along its present path. Cinnamon is where most people seem to think – myself included –…

I bailed on Windows. I kept the partitions and have been dual booting to Linux exclusively, but the longer I’m using Linux the more repulsive the idea of ever going back to Windows is. For anyone who still uses Windows, the process of trying to maintain your freedom is now rather grueling: infoworld.com: Microsoft previews…

For many days now as I’ve said the rosary I’ve been thinking about the fact that one side would lose the election. I put myself in the place of others and wanted to feel what they would feel. I prayed every day about this because I know its not a pleasant nor easy thing to…

Here’s a really cool news segment at NHK about the use of eyeglass computers for insurance claim investigators and adjusters. Obviously there are potentially a zillion really cool uses of eyeglass computers. Note too that the images conveyed by the eyeglass computers are not even VR, just regular 2D images. At the end of the…