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C--on Woman of 24 found to have no cerebellum in her brain

Not really a computer but some distributed systems already work that way. I've read somewhere that Netflix (might have been Amazon?) is designed in such a way that it's capable of satisfying certain requirements even when services are down.

C--on Pipable functions in C++14

I feel they could have stopped with C++03. C++11 certainly introduced very few necessary features but this is just going too far. This is not solving any problems but in reality is causing new ones as introducing syntactical redundancies ultimately leads to everyone having their own preference, which in turn is a source for inconsistent and dirty code bases and bugs.

They should have taken a hint from all of those coding standards coming from companies such as Google, which basically constrain the programmer to a small subset of the language features.

C--on Win $10,000 by creating a race car bot in haskell, scala or clojure

It would be interesting to know if C++ support is on the table.

C--on Rex – palm-sized, single-board computer for DIY robots

Just asking to those with more knowledge than me. How is this any different to a RaspberryPi or a Beagle Bone Black?