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I think they're overlooking a very big issue which is trying to do any sort of business logic in a markup language is terrible. HTML is good for presentation, trying to embed logic like retrying requests in it can lead to weird code. The reason people like Javascript is having a fully C-style language for things makes logic easier to read and maintain.

Yeah he's so close to getting the idea that the World Bank and the neoliberal monetary policy caused this inequality.

You start to see "idioms" in the code. Common ways of doing things. You learn that taking the first element of a reverse of a list is the last element, per se. Like any language, with experience it becomes very easy to read.

Yeah and if you no long use JIRA it's not useful. Whatever bug tracking software you use should allow for commits to be attached to bugs. But that should stay in the bug tracking software, not the VCS.

The crank is really interesting. It's such an off the wall choice for a user interface. It will be cool to see how developers take advantage of it.

The web was also a bit of a different place back then. I think there were people who were "power users" who used Firefox and Chrome and others who used IE because it was bundled with their browser.

I mean if you mean ARPAnet then yeah. The web was always a place for creative people to meet and talk about the eccentric stuff they were into.

I remember a few years back a common hackathon project was to use lex and yacc to make emoji languages. It was always cool to see what people do with that. Maybe there will be an APL or something with emoji.

The Interface is a newsletter, that's why it seems all over the place.

I sort of wonder if using a heat gun in the area they thought was broken would have worked better. Then it would have been more localized and easier to control temperature-wise.

Yeah it would be more apt to say the list is "open source, environmentally conscious software".

I think part of it was the tone set by Linus. He had an attitude that on the surface seemed to be perfectionism but was really just abusive. It's good that he stepped back and rethought how we dealt with people.

That's fair. It was mainly the constraints of the medium that lead to ideas such as rock operas. Now that the constraints of physical storage are lifted we've seen new concepts.