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and photogrammetry from crowd-sourced disparate still images was the biggest, flashiest "public" display of the technology: https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_phot…

typical implementations of apl (including dyalog) are interpreted, not compiled ahead of time.

prince, a high quality html renderer used for typesetting, is written in mercury: https://www.princexml.com/doc/acknowledgements/

all of game boy advance and nintendo ds hardware is exhaustively documented in a single text file: https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek.txt (but you can replace txt with htm for a fanci…

see this 2007 talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn... i remember this being available in google maps in 2008 or so. fun technology!

one could say calling a company "palantir" isn't too far off that.

previously (1982): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangjie_input_method#Early_dev... i think this is a dos port of it? http://www.cbflabs.com/down/show.php?id=62 seems to work for me…

maybe the chicks and norman get it, but i'm currently renting an apartment in france that has a bunch of these light switches installed all upside down, with "-" at the top: https:…

perhaps similar in scope to the hdl used in 'the elements of computing systems' aka nand2tetris.org ? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dPj4XNby9iuAs-47U9k3xtYy9hJ... honorary menti…

thank you! that is very informative.

for a much more in-depth description of its predecessor, see https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/CDC/cdc.6... i don't think there is a comparable book about the cray…

also of note: the "fifty years of interactive fiction" post series: https://if50.substack.com/archive?sort=top (much discussed on hn) or in book form: https://if50.textories.com/

see also: https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/

there is also "computer architecture: concepts and evolution" by blaauw and brooks which also uses apl throughout. https://search.worldcat.org/title/Computer-architecture-:-co...

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have been using linux ever since i got my first personal computer. our customers all run linux in production too, so it's very easy and natural to develop and test the software in …

great to see thunderbird joining evolution in supporting ews among free software email clients. evolution has been keeping me sane whenever i needed to use ews for years.

doesn't the same argument apply to ordinal dates? i see some people on hn also using longnow-style five-digit years, but i really can't see the point. did the crossing of the rhine…

> Making a brochure. You need a photo of a happy family. do you really? > you don't quite know what the panels need to look like. look at your competition, ask your users, think? >…

> as long as you remember what you've built yes! like any craft, this works only if you keep practising it. various implementations of k, written in this style (with iterative impr…

indeed. with how good and cheap/free decompilers have gotten over the years my preferred way to read abstraction-happy c++ and rust code is to compile it with optimisations and deb…

> Zoom works but doesn’t stick. perhaps try using a user agent that remembers your settings? e.g. firefox

or ghost in the shell

perhaps it's a trivial observation that people tend to conflate the programming language in the strict sense (syntax, semantics, compiler implementation etc.) with its standard and…