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Appel thinks it’s most important that children be born into families that want them. “My concern is for the potential gay child born into the bigoted family who mistreats that […]
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Appel thinks the most pressing ethical issue of our time is “the arbitrary distinction that people have more or fewer rights because they were born on one side of the […]
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Forcing people to make a doctor’s appointment in order to get medicine keeps some people from getting the care they need.
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In objecting to all of these phenomena, people say they’re concerned about the welfare of the individuals. But they’re really just interested in imposing their own social or religious values […]
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A person should have the right to end their own life, so long as they can prove that they are thinking rationally over a prolonged period of several days.
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The bioethicist believes that life should be divined by cognizance, by sentience, and by the ability to interact with the world. Infants who can’t do that should have their lives […]
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“Most people don’t use C++ anywhere near as well as it could be used.”
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Stroustrup shares some secrets about his work habits.
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Stroustrup talks about exciting trends in technology and about how the efficiency of C++ is helping save the environment.
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“Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.”
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The future of programming is a language with a unified set of guidelines for how to combine different programming paradigms.
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C should have been integrated as a subset of C++, says Stroustrup.
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In the late 1970s, Stroustrup applied the idea of “classes” to the C programming language to create a new language that allows for high level abstraction—but is efficient and close […]
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A conversation with the creator of C++.
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Many of the brain’s functions are designed to initiate a response to a detected imbalance. As our bodies strive to maintain homeostasis, our brains send signals that make us do […]
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Our main mode of control has to do with our degree of knowledge and our understanding of the world. As we change what we know about the world, we change […]
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We have brains because they optimize our bodies’ survival. Meanwhile, the body itself is the border in the translation service that will allow the outside world to come into the […]
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An emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body. Its purpose is to make life more survivable by taking care of a danger or taking […]
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While our own personal histories happen one event at a time, our brains make sense of our lives by stringing these events together in an structured way.