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I don't think that Fortran was the first compiled language. Wikipedia says the first language to be compiled was Autocode for the Mark 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode

This was previously posted on another site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19032035

> The game was released for the for Coleco’s ADAM system which programmed on regular cassette tapes (C-Tapes) which you loaded into the ADAM system like you would put an audio cassette into a boom box.

Weird. This article was written for people who know about text adventures but not computer software distributed on cassettes. I figure if you know about one, you'd probably know about the other.

> At the time Google was the unsung hero defending our rights. Now Google won't let you subscribe to podcasts in their app unless you turn on location history storage, like those two things are actually mutually exclusive.

Okay, so you don't like how their podcast app works, but how does this violate your rights?

Can you find any of these articles published on BuzzFeed? The problem with this criticism is that it claims that all journalists have the same opinion on blue-collar-retraining issue.

This is reprinted from Quanta Magazine. Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19013993

This article was originally published on another site, and was already posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18995360

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19000166

You can get the same effect by using a “dummy” node. The dummy node has a next pointer, but no data, and the dummy node always exists at the front of the list. The list structure contains the dummy, instead of using a pointer to the front of the list.

    struct Node
    {
        struct Node* next;
    };

    struct DataNode
    {
        struct Node* next;
        struct Value value;
    };

    struct List
    {
        struct Node dummy;
        // You can also add length, etc.
    };

    // entry must be in list
    void remove_list_entry(struct List* list, struct Node* entry)
    {
        Node *prev = &list->dummy;

        while (prev->next != entry) {
            prev = prev->next;
            assert(prev != NULL);
        }
    
        prev->next = entry->next;
        free(entry);
    }

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18991101

I have a question about this survey. Were the participants told that the symbol is typically located on a dashboard, or was it shown without context?

Title should use “its”, not “it's”.

It didn't exist in 2012, when this article was written.

He gets so much wrong in that paragraph:

> Commodore created one of the first home computers (long before the IBM PC or Apple).

Commodore, Apple and Radio Shack all released home computers in 1977. Six months is hardly “long before”.

> But the Commodore PET wasn't compatible with the subsequent Commodore CBM computer.

He must mean the CBM-II, because the original Commodore CBM machines were just rebranded PETs.

Yes, you're right about precedence.

Interesting. In C, “&array[0]“ is the same thing as “(array + 0)”, but in my copy of the C11 draft standard, I can't find anything about adding zero to a null pointer.

Currency is also often tainted with bacteria.

I saw this once, but it was an episode of the TV show The Detour.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18489967

Title is misspelled. Right now, the title of the video is “'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens”. That is also a misspelling, because it's name is “ʻOumuamua”, starting with a ʻokina, the Hawaiian letter, not an apostrophe.

Last day of Linotype, not print, at the New York Times in 1978. Also, the actual title is “Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu”.

Probably not. The FAA says you can have any number of lithium ion batteries, if each one is 100 Wh or less.

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...

Previously discussed two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18469556

and eight months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16565616

and three years ago, when the article was published: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10141874

This is from 2106. Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12965589

A big reason banks are located in North Carolina is that they had laws that were friendly to large banks:

> But North Carolina was among the first states to allow banks to operate multiple branches within a state's borders.

https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/bank_notes/2012/0...

Already done:

“I-Cut-You-Choose” Cake-Cutting Protocol Inspires Solution to Gerrymandering

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/november/i-cu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17459008

I followed that link, and it seemed to give good results. I did it from the US, so maybe your region is different. Can you explain the problem? Maybe you should make a blog post, or a Twitter thread, or a paste at Pastebin, and then post a link to that.

There's a word for this type of article: “obituary”.

You mean “silicon”, not “silicone”. (Or maybe you do mean “silicone”?)