billev2k

Yes. But environmental and anti-obsolence considerations might lead us to require good documentation of hardware. Then those who care would have what they need to write their own drivers. (Well, those who care and have the chops.)

Stealing?

Morons.

Contrast is your friend. Or at least mine.

Please: Not "a few notches". All the way. Black. That is if you actually care if people read your posts.

I personally think that "peak computing" was around 2005. Maybe 2006.

Like Boeing. And look how well that's worked out.

The Android Developer Blog called it "an ID check at the airport which confirms a traveler's identity but is separate from the security screening of their bags."

From the mouths of rubes, I guess. The ID check at the airport has zero to do with safety or security and everything to do with the airlines' business model (no secondary market for tickets), enforced by government.

I'd prefer a greater difference between ( ) and { }, and between : and ;

But that's for using it as my daily driver, which doesn't seem to be the actual motivation.

I had to laugh out loud: "In practice, you'll encounter other constraints well before these theoretical limits, such as S3 provider limits, performance considerations with billions of objects, or simply running out of money."

Speaking of a beautiful turn of phrase: "...more piles of electronic parts in my cupboard of broken dreams."

:)

REJ-exs

MFA is often painful for me, and I've been a dev since we were called "programmers".

By all means, get up early if that fits your internal clock! But please, let's keep the clocks as close to the sun (ie, clock noon at solar noon) as practical.

That, and the effects of allowing "new feature demos" at WWDC. The various groups MUST come up with something that demos well. "See how easily I can...", and now the slightest breath does something dramatic, and usually wrong.

tl;dr: AI and capitalism are both cancers, existing for no reason other than to further propagate themselves; hegemonistic. And Thiel is a cancer-causing agent.

I agree re capitalism. And Thiel. AI is TBD, but not looking so great.

I was a sophomore EE student when these came out. There were debates about whether to allow calculators in the classroom, somewhat irrelevant to me, since the price was out of reach anyway. Then the ME department made a deal to order in bulk, answering the debate, and making the marvelous machine somewhat affordable. I begged my father, and he fronted me the $271.40 (the HP-45 had just come out, so the 35 came down in price). Glorious days!

Though it doesn't matter how fervently you believe. The universe doesn't care.

Crazy usage of "+". Using "+" as a synonym for "var" seems pretty pointless. Suffix "+" to mean stack allocated (vs not yet allocated?), unless it's an array, in which case "+" means objects not pointers. Or so it seems.

And allowing the minus sign as an identifier character is just asking for errors.

Some nice ideas (member functions!). Love to see the next evolution.

I'm pretty leery of making the "access key" and "secret key" so public (like typing them into a web page, or setting them in environment variables). Of course it adds significant friction to set up an IAM identity for every user, and "low friction" is one of the key requirements here.