Plasma Thrusters For Small Satellite Systems Hit Hyper Drive https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/08/31/0147243/plasma-thrusters-for-small-satellite-systems-hit-hyper-drive?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #communications
@kezzbracey@linuxrocks.online @nergal then prepare for the rise of GNU/HURD Or ther are always a bunch of BSDs in the wings
Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-Aged https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/08/31/0156213/founders-of-successful-tech-companies-are-mostly-middle-aged?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #business
Google Contractors In Pittsburgh Are Unionizing With a Steel Workers Union https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/08/31/023223/google-contractors-in-pittsburgh-are-unionizing-with-a-steel-workers-union?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #google
@nergal what would you prefer to call it?
Google to Pay More Than $150 Million in YouTube Privacy Case https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/08/30/213235/google-to-pay-more-than-150-million-in-youtube-privacy-case?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #youtube
@ivesen @pea @xj9 consider Emacs editor and elisp as a starting point. The scratch buffer is the perfect lisp interpreter for getting simple syntax concepts down. Then decide what kind of lisp you need to learn. Common Lisp, Guile, even clojure is fun especially if you are already invested in the jvm anyway.
@Absinthe Jaffa Oranges, baaaaaaybeeeee
@Surasanji and the orange board must have something involved in the commercials. Lots of orange juice. Is that from Carmel maybe?
@Surasanji but are they tourism buddies or something? Weren't they controversy answers to the capitol question?
@chris @greyor@social.privacytools.io check out Rosetta code, also take a peek at Project Euler
Twitter's Jack Dorsey Has Own Account Hacked https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/08/30/2035255/twitters-jack-dorsey-has-own-account-hacked?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #twitter
@Surasanji Now to translate :)
@Surasanji So what is the meaning of "Tel Aviv / Jerusalem" we keep getting hit with tourism commercials (Lots of pretty girls drinking orange juice in minidresses. Is it a political thing to say "Tel Aviv / Jerusalem" or are they sister cities or something?
@freemo you're welcome. That is a real fun site, quite the rabbit hole, you can click around and see them all in all kinds of languages, kind of a modern rosetta stone :)
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