This is a surprising to me since, of Robinson's work, I've only read Aurora. One of the primary impressions it had on me was the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the futility of space exploration/colonization.
Perhaps I should muster the courage to try some of his other work.
I think it might be an interesting approach to run a kickstarter-style campaign for each major software release, and once the goal is reached, release the software with a normal open source license. Nothing would stop other developers from forking the software, but if the author was providing enough value, I believe people would contribute.
This is complete speculation, but perhaps an interesting idea. What if the recent turmoil in China's stock market is a direct result of the US retaliation for this incident? Clearly, the US wouldn't admit that, but they might want the implication to exist.
The original paper says that you can repeat the workout 2-3 times, time permitting, but does not state that it's required in order to get the benefits of the workout.
In fact, the NY Times article[1] from May 9, 2013 that introduced many to the workout says:
"Work by scientists at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and other institutions shows, for instance, that even a few minutes of training at an intensity approaching your maximum capacity produces molecular changes within muscles comparable to those of several hours of running or bike riding."
This also reminded me of the "Archangel" class ships described in Endymion by Dan Simmons. FTL travel on these ships instantly kills all passengers but then conveniently resurrects them once they reach the destination.
I won't dispute the utility and versatility of UNIX tools, but your comment that "nearly everything we use today is Unix" is wildly off the mark. According to the following article, it's estimated that Windows is installed on 36% of servers and 92% of desktop systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
Anyone have any insight as to how Go will avoid the garbage collection latency issues that arise in some situations with other GC languages, such as those that run on the JVM or CLR? I ask this in particular since Go is frequently mentioned as a C++ alternative.
However I was surprised to be made aware of the existence of a logician named Haskell Curry. The name struck me as the punchline to a joke only told and appreciated by the uber-nerds in the halls of elite university mathematics departments.