ROS-1 still has quite a lot of functionality written in and accessible from lisp (c++ and python are the major languages nowadays). irobot was founded by alums of the MIT AGI lab, which used lisp extensively.
I suspect that's why lisp is in there at all! It's very likely python/cpp nowadays though.
Great article, I feel like the quality of Slate has declined significantly in these past few years, so much so that I incorrectly remembered reading this much earlier than 2019.
I wonder if the reason Stuxnet isn’t on there is because its impact is yet to be seen.
Interesting stuff. Did HSTS seem out of place to anyone else? Not that it's not important, but compared to the rest of them, it hardly seems like it "changed everything." And from the gut, I'd guess that CORS has done more than HSTS to reduce harm on the internet.
Like most bits of code in the article, they are more like a symbol that represents something that "changed everything" rather than code that actually matters.
HSTS is not that important in itself, but it represents the general transition to "all https". Before that, https existed, but it was only used in select cases, like for entering your credit card number, early browsers even had a warning when https was enabled. Nowadays, https is the expected default, browsers are starting the throw a fit when they see plain http, and many tech-savvy users will go "Seriously, http? We are in the 21th century you know". More generally, the need for encryption-by-default also represents how the web is tied to the real world now. People use it to deal with real money, sign contracts, and exchange secrets that have real life consequences if they fall into the wrong hands.
The author picked a bit of code to represent that, and he chose the HSTS header. Debatable, but I think it is a good choice.
The story about the Vancouver Stock Exchange's rounding error deleting half the value of the exchange over time and then being undone in a day leaves me with so many questions. Who gained and who lost from the fix? How did peoples' behavior change thereafter?
Quoting:
“A year after the index began, it was sitting at 725 and it should have been at
960.
As embarrassing as the whole affair has been for the VSE, things could have
been worse. Had the exchange introduced options based on the rise and fall of
the index – a feature of the Toronto Options Exchange planned for next January
– the VSE would have had to adjust wins and losses of investors.
As it was, the exchange only had to pay for three weeks of computer work and
the fees of consultants brought in from Toronto and California to put the index
back in order, Seasons said.
"forking" netbsd established competition in the "free" BSD space by OpenBSD and FreeBSD. The FreeBSD system in particular was the basis for thousands of commercial products.
This is an incredibly good article, like whole standard deviations above the average article quality on that site, for people who are wondering. It took a lot of research to track all those lines down and I'm glad someone took the time to do it.
It's disappointing that such an elaborate article omits that the "Like" was originated in FriendFeed which Facebook had bought. Upvoting was obviously a thing before FriendFeed too, but its specific form to signal the public with your opinion on a social feed had probably started with FriendFeed. Facebook had literally bought the Like button.
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Does anyone closer to the source here know if Roomba is still written in Lisp?
I suspect that's why lisp is in there at all! It's very likely python/cpp nowadays though.
I wonder if the reason Stuxnet isn’t on there is because its impact is yet to be seen.
HSTS is not that important in itself, but it represents the general transition to "all https". Before that, https existed, but it was only used in select cases, like for entering your credit card number, early browsers even had a warning when https was enabled. Nowadays, https is the expected default, browsers are starting the throw a fit when they see plain http, and many tech-savvy users will go "Seriously, http? We are in the 21th century you know". More generally, the need for encryption-by-default also represents how the web is tied to the real world now. People use it to deal with real money, sign contracts, and exchange secrets that have real life consequences if they fall into the wrong hands.
The author picked a bit of code to represent that, and he chose the HSTS header. Debatable, but I think it is a good choice.
Quoting: “A year after the index began, it was sitting at 725 and it should have been at 960. As embarrassing as the whole affair has been for the VSE, things could have been worse. Had the exchange introduced options based on the rise and fall of the index – a feature of the Toronto Options Exchange planned for next January – the VSE would have had to adjust wins and losses of investors. As it was, the exchange only had to pay for three weeks of computer work and the fees of consultants brought in from Toronto and California to put the index back in order, Seasons said.
"forking" netbsd established competition in the "free" BSD space by OpenBSD and FreeBSD. The FreeBSD system in particular was the basis for thousands of commercial products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root