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In 1972, Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, and Adele Goldberg at Xerox PARC created a revolutionary new programming language called Smalltalk. It's going to get popular, aaaaaaaany day now
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I had the misfortune to be a support engineer for a Smalltalk product. The main problem was that none of our team knew the language, so were trying to learn it at the same time as identifying or fixing faults. It was later replaced by a C++ version.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's going to get popular, aaaaaaaany day now
It was relatively popular for a while and IBM was behind it. Then Java happened...
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Ah, that explains why an investor had suggested we move to SmallTalk (mid-90s?). I thought he was just being a hippy-dippy, but it was because he used to work for IBM (pre-Java).
TTFN - Kent
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A sample of the data included crime reports going back to 1995. "Even if you're a one-in-a-million kind of guy, there's still 1,000 of you"
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A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth on Monday and is headed toward the moon, the latest step in NASA’s plan to land astronauts on the lunar surface again. It's trying to get away! After it!
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The worst possible device for watching YouTube or any video content. "All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead."
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Except for the green I remember all TV looking like this.
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The best code will run for decades, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. Think twice, code once?
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Backus led the team that developed the Fortran programming language in 1957, still touted today as “the first high-level programming language” on web pages at IBM. Nailing 95 punch cards to the computer?
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Autocode was the first high-level language.
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Yeah, but IBM couldn’t claim that one.
TTFN - Kent
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In this blog post we will make a small excourse to new features which might come in the close or distant feature of the C# language. "The future's not ours to see"
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Example 1:
Quote:
</div>var timer = new DispatcherTimer
{
Interval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5);
};
timer.Tick += (s, e) => { ... };
The proposal exactly wants to tackle that behavior:
var timer = new DispatcherTimer
{
Interval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5);
timer.Tick += (s, e) => { ... };
};
looks like something I'd try to write and then swear at the compiler when it errored. Fixing these things are the best sort of enhancements.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Notably, the army's verified Twitter account began displaying fake NFTs and bogus crypto giveaway schemes. Or they're trying a new way to pay for their tanks
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Software companies need to do better root cause analysis of the security bugs they patch. And the other half is code pushed on Friday afternoon
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Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit organization that provides support and legal services for open source software projects, has called on the open source community to ditch GitHub after quitting the code-hosting and collaboration platform itself. "We will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural..."
I kept reading the organization's name, and wondered why does the San Francisco Conservancy worry about this?
Welcome to the latest round of, "Beware Micro$oft"
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Are they for software that is unencumbered by honorous licenses?
Or are they a phony front for non-Microsoft corporate interests?
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Certainly #1, maybe #2 as well
TTFN - Kent
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I think it's pretty clear from the paragraph quoted below:
Quote: Software Freedom Conservancy is financially backed by a number of big-name companies, such as Google, Red Hat and Mozilla, and its members span more than 40 projects, including Git (which GitHub relies heavily on), Selenium and Godot.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It will be interesting to see how this plays out. There are certainly some valid concerns about Copilot. On the other hand, GitHub has improved considerably since MSFT acquired it.
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Quote: It’s also worth noting that Microsoft’s old foe Amazon recently debuted its own incarnation of Copilot called CodeWhisperer, which rolled out in preview last week. And it’s clear from its launch that Amazon is trying to address some of the copyright concerns that have arisen from Copilot — for example, if CodeWhisperer generates a code suggestion that is similar to an existing snippet found in its training data, it will highlight the license associated with that original function. It’s then up to the developer whether they use that code or not.
Another recent article on co-pilot claimed that this sort of traceability was beyond what current generation AI could do. So did Amazon make a low-key announcement of a breakthrough, or did the other article writer not know what they were talking about?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Like smart glasses, the idea is to put helpful AR graphics in front of your eyes to help accomplish daily tasks. "Fill my eyes with that double vision"
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Or "She blinded me with science!"
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Dang, but that is so much better. I hate it when I’m reminded at how much all of y’all out-class me. 
I’m tempted to update the blurb for the mailing. 
TTFN - Kent
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