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mibrah | 10 years ago | on: The Programming Languages Beacon

He says Paypal is in C++. That used to be true 10 years ago, but is no longer true. Paypal's back end is written in Java.

Basically this is a table with cherry picked software projects where anything that isn't in ASM, C, C++, or Java is lumped into "Other". I don't know why anyone would create this useless page. It's in a style that honestly suggests "pre-internet" where all your knowledge came from curated sources. Nobody needs to curate this list.

mibrah | 10 years ago | on: What to do when your self-driving car decides to drive you to the police

This story is so dumb, the character "Jae" was right -- don't call a cab when you're carrying illegal things in your purse. The character in the story destroyed the Taxy by causing it to swerve off a bridge. If graffiti supplies gets you 1 year in prison in this version of the future, I'm sure the penalty for destroying a car in an attempt to evade the police is maybe just a little bit higher.

This is not really dystopian or futuristic so much as it is realistic - if you do illegal things, then engage in suspicious behavior that attracts the attention of the police, you get arrested. Big surprise.

I could easily write a short story about withdrawing $300 from an ATM, driving to my drug dealer's house, parking outside of his house, waiting there for 15 minutes, then he climbs inside my car and the police light us up. At that point I could A. Plead the 5th and hire a lawyer when I get out of jail or B. Slip past the police and slash their tires before running into the woods and making my way back to my place - how heroic - before just getting arrested on way worse charges as soon as the police can get to my house