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C++ Creator Wants To Solve 35-Year-Old Generic Programming Issues With Concepts
C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup is arguing that we can improve code by grounding generic programming in concepts — what’s required by a template’s arguments. An anonymous reader quotes Paul Krill’s report on a new paper by Stroustrup: In concepts, Stroustrup…
Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP?
Here’s a bright idea from dryriver Why don’t software makers look at the average income level in a given country — per capita GDP for example — and adjust their software prices in these countries accordingly? Most software makers in…
'IT Issue' Grounded All United Airlines Flights In The US
For two and a half hours — no take-offs. An anonymous reader quotes NBC News: All of United Airlines’ domestic flights were grounded Sunday night because of a computer outage, the Federal Aviation Administration said as scores of angry travelers…
Three States Propose DMCA-Countering 'Right To Repair' Laws
Automakers are using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to shut down tools used by car mechanics — but three states are trying to stop them. An anonymous reader quotes IFixIt.Org: in 2014, Ford sued Autel for making a tool that…
Slashdot's Interview With Swift Creator Chris Lattner
You asked, he answered! The creator of Apple’s Swift programming language (and a self-described “long-time reader/fan of Slashdot”) stopped by on his way to a new job at Tesla just to field questions from Slashdot readers. Read on for Chris’s…
The SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived
“Deadlines imposed by browser makers deprecating support for the weakened SHA-1 hashing algorithm have arrived,” writes Slashdot reader msm1267. “And while many websites and organizations have progressed in their migrations toward SHA-2 and other safer hashing algorithms, pain points and…
New Wyoming Bill Penalizes Utilities Using Renewable Energy
An anonymous reader quotes a Christian Science Monitor report on “a bill that would essentially ban large-scale renewable energy” in Wyoming. The new Wyoming bill would forbid utilities from using solar or wind sources for their electricity by 2019, according…
Knuth Previews New Math Section For 'The Art of Computer Programming'
In 1962, 24-year-old Donald Knuth began writing The Art of Computer Programming — and 55 years later, he’s still working on it. An anonymous reader quotes Knuth’s web site at Stanford: Volume 4B will begin with a special section called…
Free Software Foundation Shakes Up Its List of Priority Projects
alphadogg quotes Network World: The Free Software Foundation Tuesday announced a major rethinking of the software projects that it supports, putting top priority on a free mobile operating system, accessibility, and driver development, among other areas. The foundation has maintained…