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RIP Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (11 January 1934 – 5 March 2026), also known as C. A. R. Hoare, pioneering computer scientist.

His seminal contributions include -
Quicksort
Quickselect
Hoare logic
Null reference
Communicating sequential processes
Structured programming
ALGOL

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/hoare_4622167.cfm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare
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"i'm mad at firefox, so instead i'm going to give google incrementally more power over the web"

ok. consider: not doing that

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the very idea of Open Source was always a radical left leaning ideological stance.

You're GIVING AWAY labor to the tune of millions of dollars because of some notion that we'd all be better off together if we didn't have to re-write the same dang components over and over again.

Of course members of the Open Source community are going to get political. We always have been.

"This is hurting your cause!"
-- Person who is categorically opposed to the cause they think one is advocating for.

Unpopular opinion:

It sucks that most three-in-one instant #coffee tries to be "cappuccino style" with powder that foams up.

It makes the powder harder to dissolve, and it often has clumps.

Can’t believe they’re going to roll 2024 out to Production late on a Sunday, right before a public holiday, without testing it in Staging, and without fixing any of the bugs in 2023.
Ow. Going down the highway, a moth flew in the window and directly into my eye.

How does every update to the #YouTube app manage to make it worse?

Every time I switch back to the app, it appears fullscreen in landscape for about half a second, then right about when one would tap the play button to resume the video, the app flips back to portrait. I've hit the random buttons accidentally so many times now.

You'd think after seven years he'd be bored of telling me to cut my hair. But no, he still gets himself really angry about it.