This sounds like the backstory for Alan Dean Foster's "Cyber Way". I enjoyed the novel, didn't realize how well rooted it was in actual history.
In case anyone else didn't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka
One domain that a little OO seems to map to without too much pain is GUI libraries. The first OO-flavoured API I ever used was Sunview, the early GUI I used on Sun-3 workstations with SunOS. It was a beautiful API; I…
OOP has always felt to me like it was inspired by writing GUI APIs; Sun's Suntools -> Sunview -> xview (if I'm remembering the names right) were early-mid 1980s C, and felt beautifully OO, and very clean to write GUI…
I find it tempting to try and shove this story into an origin tale for W.E.I.R.D. --- Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. But I guess the timing is off; this is within, not before, that.
I'd heard of it from Heinlein, but never thought it might be real.
I think you're responding to your interpretation of the title, rather than the article. They aren't proposing increasing asymptomatic disease, they're discussing trying to reduce damage done to individuals.
I have a clear memory that, at the time, cellphone carriers were adamant about strictly controlling how their networks were used. If anything but voice or SMS crossed their network, they wanted to be bribed to permit…
Are there any open source passkey implementations? My password manager of choice is open source, and cross-platform, and can export and later (or elsewhere) import an encrypted backup.
weirdly broken
My favourite exploration of the potential novel applications of room temperature superconductors is Larry Niven's Ringworld.
I need to read more new books; I've not been seeing the benefits of this.
I think this is more of a complaint that GUIs have prevented non-programmers from learning to do novel things with a computer; that's been the focus of GUIs since the Apple Lisa. I was working in a university comp…
When Google ditched Reader, they told me how to export my OPML, so I did, and vowed to never again depend on a cloud service for something I could do with a local client app. I've moved from one to another over the…
I wouldn't have thought of this before this issue came up, but I just searched for "software written in go", and sadly, there seems to be a lot of it. I wonder if all the folks outside of Google will remember to turn…
I use the similar (in concept) android app Web Alert https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.webalert which pops up notifications when a chosen part of a web page changes; I've configured it to watch for…
I'm studying Rust, though wouldn't claim I know it yet. I believe Rust is an effort to create a language in which you can write code that's as fast and portable as C; and yet, for which, the compiler can help you…
This sounds like the backstory for Alan Dean Foster's "Cyber Way". I enjoyed the novel, didn't realize how well rooted it was in actual history.
In case anyone else didn't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka
One domain that a little OO seems to map to without too much pain is GUI libraries. The first OO-flavoured API I ever used was Sunview, the early GUI I used on Sun-3 workstations with SunOS. It was a beautiful API; I…
OOP has always felt to me like it was inspired by writing GUI APIs; Sun's Suntools -> Sunview -> xview (if I'm remembering the names right) were early-mid 1980s C, and felt beautifully OO, and very clean to write GUI…
I find it tempting to try and shove this story into an origin tale for W.E.I.R.D. --- Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. But I guess the timing is off; this is within, not before, that.
I'd heard of it from Heinlein, but never thought it might be real.
I think you're responding to your interpretation of the title, rather than the article. They aren't proposing increasing asymptomatic disease, they're discussing trying to reduce damage done to individuals.
I have a clear memory that, at the time, cellphone carriers were adamant about strictly controlling how their networks were used. If anything but voice or SMS crossed their network, they wanted to be bribed to permit…
Are there any open source passkey implementations? My password manager of choice is open source, and cross-platform, and can export and later (or elsewhere) import an encrypted backup.
weirdly broken
My favourite exploration of the potential novel applications of room temperature superconductors is Larry Niven's Ringworld.
I need to read more new books; I've not been seeing the benefits of this.
I think this is more of a complaint that GUIs have prevented non-programmers from learning to do novel things with a computer; that's been the focus of GUIs since the Apple Lisa. I was working in a university comp…
When Google ditched Reader, they told me how to export my OPML, so I did, and vowed to never again depend on a cloud service for something I could do with a local client app. I've moved from one to another over the…
I wouldn't have thought of this before this issue came up, but I just searched for "software written in go", and sadly, there seems to be a lot of it. I wonder if all the folks outside of Google will remember to turn…
I use the similar (in concept) android app Web Alert https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.webalert which pops up notifications when a chosen part of a web page changes; I've configured it to watch for…
I'm studying Rust, though wouldn't claim I know it yet. I believe Rust is an effort to create a language in which you can write code that's as fast and portable as C; and yet, for which, the compiler can help you…