Human folly for 02016-11-13

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• Leading contender for Donald Trump s Chief of staff is RNC chairman Reince priebus (wsj.com):

  #Trump announces some transition team appointments, and Ken Blackwell cites the old Mussolini apologetic to defend Trump’s pick: “‘Bannon is going to be keeper of the image of Trump as a fighter against the status quo, and Reince is going to utilize his personal connections with the speaker and others, to make the trains run on time,’ said Ken Blackwell, a former Ohio state official and a member of the Trump transition team.” Also Bannon, who headed his campaign, is the publisher of Breitbart. #USA #politics

• Win16 apps in (transmissionzero.co.uk):

  A walkthrough of Win16 programming in #C (with WndProcs and whatnot).

• Lisp retro (norvig.com):

  #Norvig on what holds up well in PAIP and what doesn’t

• Can I still use PAIP to learn Cl today (reddit.com):

  Recommendations for books to learn #Lisp from.

• (boston.conman.org):

  Atari 2600 BASIC: BASIC in 128 bytes of RAM.

• Obamas immigration actions ruled unconstitutional (politico.com):

  Court blocks Obama’s attempt to provide a safe harbor for some undocumented #USA immigrants in 2014.

• Federal judges (gopwillnotgovern.com):

  how #USA might protect its judiciary from #Trump

• Syrian rebels are blasting assads regime forces with Hi tech robotic machine guns guided by PlayStation controllers (thesun.co.uk):

  Teleoperated machine-gun #weaponry in #Syria controlled via PlayStation controls. I wonder what kind of motors, controllers, and gearing they’re using.

• Trump s dystopia is coming but it will destroy itself (opendemocracy.net):

  Nafeez Ahmed says #Trump will destroy himself but gives no details on why or how

• Friendfinder (leakedsource.com):

  AdultFriendFinder’s #security got breached; 421 million accounts compromised