I donate to them every year b/c I fully agree they’re doing a thankless critical job very well.

Finally signed up for 10$/month donation. Thanks for the inspiration!

Thank you for the inspiration! I just made my first donation.

I have a recurring donation, there is so much cool stuff in the archive. It really is the library of the internet, and I love it.

That was due largely to the designers of the language, Bertrand Meyer and his wife, creating the tools. The tools, the seminars, and the books were primary income streams.

Interesting, I wasn't aware of that, although it certainly felt like academic-grade code, which someone once described to me as "thrown together by a caffeine-crazed grad student at 3am and run on at least one test case". It's a real pity because there were some really good ideas in there, but the required tooling would have been just too much for just two people to assemble out of whole cloth.

Do you mean they created the tools to be unusable, so that they would get training contracts :D ?

The #1 vendor of phones in the world by unit sales is “dead in the water” b/c of a new $2K entrant?

It's interesting that unit sales as a metric was there from the beginning of this kind of discussions (which company is more successful) - and is still in use.

It had not hurt Apple to not have the most unit sold in the past while taking most of the money.

I imagine that the $2000 Samsung Phone has a healthy margin and makes money insofar it's not great for them that apple enters this segment of the market.

But of course you are right: Samsung is of course not dead in the water. But it's obvious that it already lost in regard to mindshare (exemplified by the number of comments here).

This movie is getting lots of publicity without a single review saying anything about the actual contents.

plenty of reviews with varying praise

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/you_can_see_everything/revi...

"A triumphant, riveting, and continually shape-shifting piece of creative non-fiction with curiosity and a playful sense of uncomfortable humor that will be no surprise to anyone familiar with Fielder’s work, it’s the kind of documentary that is persistently inquisitive and skeptical: both about its alarmingly wide-eyed subject who often refuses to blink, and the process of documentary filmmaking itself."

"You Can See Everything reaches for accuracy in its portrayal of a much talked-about figure. It ends up asking, with plenty of humor but no small amount of wisdom, what “accuracy” would even look like in the first place."

There is one; you have not earned it yet.

I'm fairly certain only comments can be downvoted, regardless of karma.

There is no downvote button for submissions. Are you lying?

You’ll get more traction, by stating way up top what AT is and who should care about it.

Do you know of something better than the first link in TFA?

You shouldn't have to click away from a blog post to understand what the blog post is about. It should start with a clear self-contained introduction.

atproto.com contains a succinct discription:

> Atproto is a big-world open social protocol. Users publish JSON records into repositories. The changestreams of those records then sync across the network to drive applications.

Still a bit abstract, but OK. Personally I would include that AT protocol stands for Authenticated Transfer Protocol and that it is the protocol powering Bluesky.

Reminds me of Andre Malraux’s remark that an unfortunate aspect of death is that it makes a life look like a journey to a known destination.

If learning algorithms in C is a traumatic experience, then you and I have very different definitions of trauma.

Right, if you are not using dictionary definitions of words we define words differently. Though I should have clarified that I meant "Failing to learn linked lists, sort algorithms, memory allocation, etc, ..."

It's great to have it all spec'd out. However, I think specs like this suffer the same fate as war plans: they get modified quickly as soon as implementation begins. Nonetheless, it's good to have a clear idea of where you're headed. I just wouldn't call it "Final."

Making up events in your personal history is not plagiarism.

No, but it's also not professional misconduct. I don't think Arday's work merited the position he held, but at the same time, you can't really fire a professor of sociology because you find out that they've run fewer charity marathons than claimed. So the plagiarism was the main issue relevant to his academic position.