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73ChargerFanon Segway inventor's next endeavor

"Women continue to make up seventy-five percent of all microcredit recipients worldwide." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcredit#Lending_to_women

Microcredit loans are for persons starting their own business. Selling drinking water sounds like a good match.

73ChargerFanon Youth expelled from Montreal college after finding security flaw

Company offers scholarship to Dawson student who exposed security flaws

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/01/21/mont...

73ChargerFanon Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests

https://github.com/pirtlj

pirtlj "I did not realizes that Linus' shit does not stink." torvalds "you are a moron"

Seems fair to me.

73ChargerFanon YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music

Don't comment until you read the post. This wasn't a DMCA takedown.

73ChargerFanon SICP taught in Python 3 - UC Berkeley online

Scheme wasn't shelved because it was a "fringe" language. In fact, Prof. Hilfinger the one who brought it to Berkeley in 1980, and that class 61A is the first course all CS majors take. Brian Harvey taught the class for ever, and published his own textbook "Simply Scheme."

MIT is doing something similar, with the support of the authors.

The same material is being taught, just in a different language.