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   by leoc 11mo ago

   Right: I don't have direct experience, but from what I recall reading it was only over the Subversion era that it really became strikingly abnormal for a professional software team to use no VC software at all. When there was software
2. 242.▲
   by leoc 11mo ago

   (Meanwhile, apparently MS itself continued using SLM, the in-house source-control system which had been commercialised as MS Delta, internally until about 2000. https://wiki.c2.com/?MicrosoftDelta https://devblog
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   by leoc 11mo ago

   There is some evidence to support this idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_the_Cat .
4. 244.▲
   by leoc 11mo ago

   The naming of the ‘showturtle’ command may be a Logo reference https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/docs/html/usermanual_6.... . It’s highly likely that Carmack encountered Apple Logo on the Apple II at some
5. 245.▲
   by leoc 11mo ago

   Add to that the fact that you can now buy your way out of US antitrust enforcement by taking to the right guy.
6. 246.▲
   by leoc 11mo ago

   (This is not an original observation, to be clear: see eg. https://nickm.com/if/riddle_machines.html )
7. 247.▲
   by leoc 11mo ago

   From one perspective ADVENT is just SHRDLU turned inside out, after all. (Though of course from another perspective it's a fancier WUMPUS.) ('ADVENT' is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventu
8. 248.▲
   by leoc 11mo ago

   xv6 the MIT 'spiritual port' (so to speak) of Version 6 Unix probably deserves to be mentioned there as well, as while it's not actually a historic Bell Labs Unix it will better meet some people's needs. https:/&#x
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   by leoc 11mo ago

   I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the story in so many of Valve’s early games—Half-Life 1, Portal, Team Fortress 2—is about how corporate work environments are amusingly terrible.
10. 250.▲
    by leoc 11mo ago

    I haven't been following closely, but my impression is that the dependently-typed languages/theorem-provers have stolen some of Haskell's "most purely functional, most strongly typed" hype-thunder even though they&#
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    by leoc 11mo ago

    It isn't entirely true though. The original Erlang guys made Erlang: The Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIjfIjssLE and the sadly missed Joe Armstong made plenty of blog posts https://joearms.github
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    by leoc 11mo ago

    Reposting my now very old comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10502434 : > Herbert Stoyan's historical work on early Lisp http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2010/07&#x
13. 253.▲
    by leoc 11mo ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander An architect best known for being a design theorist: maybe a(n interesting) crank? In 1977 he wrote A Pattern Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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    by leoc 11mo ago

    Apparently ( https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-importance-of-Christopher-... ) one of the things that originally got computer scientists interested in Christopher Alexander was the original Whole Earth Catalog promoting h
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    by leoc 11mo ago

    There's C which complies with the MISRA C standards, and there's C which complies with the IOCCC C standards. (There may also be some overlap.)
16. 256.▲
    by leoc 11mo ago

    I’m sorry, I was just making a silly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Cod... joke.
17. 257.▲
    by leoc 11mo ago

    I believe it’s usually referred to as ‘OCC’. ;)
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    by leoc 11mo ago

    People in computing like Alan Kay and Ted Nelson were reading people like Postman and Marshall McLuhan and worrying about this kind of thing decades ago. Unfortunately, instead we've got to the point where the computer industry has cre
19. 259.▲
    by leoc 1y ago

    Was there ever any doubt?
20. 260.▲
    by leoc 1y ago

    KeithS alias ChibiAkumas alias Akuyou has been churning out games and assembly tutorials for years, and he’s covered a huge array of platforms: everything from the FM-7 to the SAM Coupé to the UKMC Soviet-bloc microcomputer PDP-11 clone.
21. 261.▲
    by leoc 1y ago

    A good effort, but not at the level of “Twitter Acquires Magic Pony” or the unmatchable “Salesforce Acquires Slack”.
22. 262.▲
    by leoc 1y ago

    So the Scott Aaronson Full Employment Conjecture remains unrefuted?
23. 263.▲
    by leoc 1y ago

    Also at the cost of a really stupendous amount of money.
24. 264.▲
    by leoc 1y ago

    Also the discussion for Apple “Memory Integrity Enforcement” announcement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186265 , which attracted CHERI people like jrtc27 .
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    by leoc 1y ago

    To be fair, there are probably quite a few useful startups hidden in the B2B world, especially given how much accepted startup strategy appears to have shifted to focusing on that segment.
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    by leoc 1y ago

    And the more expensive a doctor is, the more you save by cutting one/the larger the total wage bill for doctors is for a fixed number of doctors, making that bill a higher proportion of total expenses and a higher priority for cuts&#x2
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    by leoc 1y ago

    Isn't Ladybird (now) supposed to be moving to Swift, though? (I think that investment in Servo is also likely to be an excellent idea. Sponsoring Igalia's Servo work is an obvious starting place for any European institutions which
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    by leoc 1y ago

    I wouldn't describe it as such, but that's not what matters here. Andreas Kling has been out championing the anti-anti-Charlie-Kirk cause on Twitter, so it's a safe bet that the Lundukish grassroots anti-wokes see him as one
29. 269.▲
    by leoc 1y ago

    Also, there's always been a section of the desktop-Linux user community which is inclined to get very excited about about hypebeast window managers. Back in the day Slashdot was absolutely buzzing about Enlightenment https:/&#x2F
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    by leoc 1y ago

    I think it’s likely the politics, I’m afraid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45334359