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The barrier to entry for online harassment is so much lower that I don't consider them comparable.

Huh? The conclusion was "the worst aspects of UNIX and C were intention design decisions that had nothing to do with what a good, systems language should look like and everything to do with limitations of an EDSAC, PDP-7, & PDP-11."

Unix may be fine by 1960s/1970s standards, but leaves a lot to be desired now, or probably since the 1980s. Unix has bad approaches to things like file locking (see VMS instead), the shells are a hot mess, and C causes a lot of problems. Even the Unix developers themselves went on to work on Plan 9.

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That's not my understanding at all! SGI had state of the art graphics (and other A/V hardware) at the beginning. At the end of the workstation market, commodity hardware got to the "good enough" level for a lot of people. A number of SGI engineers went to Nvidia.

It's not the same.

I don't think this is a slippery slope towards text modification.

Note that there are already problems with emoji being different across platforms. Here is a short article from the GroupLens people at the University of Minnesota: http://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-mi...

I'm not a huge fan of Apple's general "safe" content approach either despite being an Apple user, but to me this is a tiny and insignificant political statement relative to all the issues they have with the app store/iTunes content and Beats 1 censorship.

There is software and concepts around managing microservices that didn't exist before, and so on. Nothing can be new when you use such a vague way of comparing things. There were electric cars in the 1800s, why talk about Tesla?

Microservices aren't distributed objects http://martinfowler.com/articles/distributed-objects-microse...

James Blachowicz, professor emeritus of philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of science according to his Loyola page wrote "Of Two Minds: The Nature of Inquiry". I found 51 references to Popper searching the book on Amazon. I'm not a philosophy expert, but based on this article and wikipedia information about Popper and falsifiability, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest this guy actually knows what he's talking about and perhaps some of the commenters here aren't up to date on the science of philosophy issues he is addressing.

TP6 had 255 byte strings and you couldn't implement your own WriteLn. It seemed like it was still breaking free from academic pascal.

But why. I don't understand why you'd use Pascal today when you could use C++. I jumped over 25 years ago and never missed Pascal the language, only the Turbo Pascal development environment. Many languages later I still have never wanted to go back and write in any Pascal variant. It's a verbose, weak, and inexpressive language.

Just because you're in the C runtime, doesn't mean you're doing productive work. If it isn't the bytecode VM that is slow, then why is PyPy able to be much faster in many cases.

In my experience, Python is easily 10-20x slower than a compiled language when doing computational work where you can't just call into a big C function, just like you would expect to see from any interpreter. I won't generally use it for anything data intensive.

Nope, this was just another Internet lynch mob fed by innuendo from a youtuber.

They use abbreviations that can be ambiguous. Not really the same.

Okay, I was going off an old comment from Animats where he said "The Bravo file representation was plain text, followed by a control-Z as an EOF, followed by the formatting information. The compiler just stopped at the control-Z."

Maybe you're being sarcastic, but I think it's just a hack with the formatting appearing after the end of file marker that the compiler uses.

I still have Apple's Dylan book where it has Lisp-like syntax somewhere. The infix they came up with is ugly.

Dylan was supposed to be used for Apple's Newton handheld, but was too late and basically died in the 1990s. I'm no expert, but I recall it was basically a dumbed down Lisp with OO extensions and module support that was changed to a dumbed down Algol with OO extensions and module support.

Hitler wasn't elected and bringing up Hitler here evokes a scenario far more dire than leaving the EU. Your original point was bad and I regret wasting time on it.

Doesn't seem to be true: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-24/morgan-sta...

Yep, this is just like Hitler and the holocaust.

I use it on some dev servers I can't install software on as an alternative to vi. Otherwise I use emacs+tramp to edit files remotely. It's not a huge use case or most of my editing. Anything to avoid vi though.

Science isn't a problem or a solution, it's the search for the truth.

This isn't a company changing names.

Branding changes product names all the time. MacOS X was nonsensical. I'm glad they changed it.

Most of these arguments boil down to things that benefit the developers, but not the user.

CV seemed stalled out before deep learning, at least in the late 90s. By that I mean classifiers had hit performance limits and weren't improving, and so on. As a non researcher, I'm glad to see it moving again.

I've been using HTTPie a lot more recently. It really takes the tedium out of using curl and I can produce color coded output for people. However, I am still finding myself in situations where I can't figure out how to induce the correct request. In other words, the user friendliness of being able to do things like construct JSON from parameters is great until it isn't.

Is there anything similar for GUI users? The standalone application form of Postman is popular with some coworkers for general HTTP work as is Fiddler on Windows.

That's not a charitable interpretation of the headline. They are saying that HTTPie is more user friendly.