Tag: technology

  • A Rosetta Stone for programming ecosystems

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    The Rosetta Stone is a stone slab dating to 196BC on which is written the same decree in three different ancient Egyptian languages, it was key to deciphering these languages in the modern era. It strikes me that learning a new programming language is not really an exercise in learning the syntax of a new…

  • Book review: Broad Band by Claire L. Evans

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    This review is of Broad Band by Claire L. Evans, subtitled The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. It is arranged thematically with each chapter focusing on a couple of women moving in time from the first chapter, about Ada Lovelace in the 19th century, through to the early years of the…