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Back in the 80s and 90s people did not often distinguish between app platforms and operating systems, because back then there were no widely-used portable app platforms like Java o…

> Emacs Lisp is probably the worst language for "programming in the large". (After Javascript.) But unlike JavaScript (and Node.js), I don't know of anyone who uses Emacs out of th…

I think you can beat the lone developer if the original developers take the time to thoroughly explain their code, at minimum in the comments, where it is good to point to papers e…

> It's a bit like saying "if you have a paragraph in 'English' and it has no e's in it, it's probably not English." This is true. You should also be able to see the word "the" in s…

> If Jobs did not care a ot Smalltalk the why was Next based on Objective C which is basically Smalltalk grafted onto C. That is a good question, I don't really know (or maybe I am…

I still use Screen/TMux to run servers, or any process that I need to keep running for a long time and still maintain control over it's STDIN/STDOUT. But now that I use Emacs "shel…

Yes, and this really showed with applications like Hypercard where you could build apps making use of the operating system's widget toolkit. The old Mac OS was based on the Xerox S…

> lived NOT under capitalism What, for example, is "NOT capitalism?" You mean like communist countries? You seem to be making the old mistake of thinking communism and capitalism a…

Of course. But this is also now makes Tesla a supporter of governments that ban abortion and throttle the democratic voting process.

IETF already opened up this can of worms with their DRM schemes now part of the Web standard. China is just taking the next logical step here.

Others have mentioned the trend of making everything a SPA, which I agree is a huge part of the problem -- it is a cultural issue, not a technological one. Most apps only need to b…

> I can vividly recall the 2000s where practically every website would look and behave differently in different browsers. That was a time before the web became more standardized as…

My son is not old enough to read it yet, so I've been reading it to him, and it's the only thing he wants to read for bedtime story now. I read them fairly regularly even as a teen…