ats:
"This was inspired by my recent efforts to look at Chromium, but these are just some of the red flags I generally have observed over the years written down."
Good checklist, this.
I've added a few more in a comment...
ats:
"Stop de-evolving my generation's tech!"
Quite.
ats: "1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, Ashton Kutcher, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals creates Haskell, a pure, non-strict, functional language. Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?""
ats:
"``Here lies Europe, overwhelmed by Muslim immigrants and emptied of native-born Europeans.'' That is the obituary some pundits have been writing in recent years. But neither the immigrants nor the Europeans are playing their assigned roles."
Or how lies, damned lies and statistics apply to demographics around the world.
ats:
IEEE special on some interesting chips.
No Transputers, sadly...
ats: "The first 17 photos below were taken in 1989, the rest are from this year, as people remember the events, the ideals, and the fallout from that fateful day."
Includes a striking then-and-now comparison, and a different angle on a familiar image.