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The 94th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, Graham argues that the "Killer App" phenomenon is in danger of extinction; Adrian enumerates some examples of "App Killers"; in our Vidéothèque section, we watch the moment Dan…
"His initial thesis (easily verifiable) is that people’s thinking evolves slower than technology. He goes to show how every big evolution in programming (from binary to assembler, from assembler to FORTRAN, and then from language to langua…
"Now the hub and the thermostat want to talk to each other, which the customer support agent demonstrates by turning my heating on and off remotely. End-to-end encryption has not made its way to the Internet of Shit yet, but it is nice to …
"Even more important, the book addresses platform regulation, a topic dear to this magazine:
> In general, the historical record doesn’t support the arguments of people who favor _no_ regulation of business. In fact, it’s difficult to iden…
"If George Boole is the 19th century’s artificial intelligence scientist, then his contemporary machine learning engineers were Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. The Difference Engine, which would be frequently cited as the first example o…
"When Apple introduced their new line of Power Mac G4 computers in 1999, they famously made much of their classification as a supercomputer under the export controls legislation in the United States at the time."
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"The disconnection between designers and users has let user interfaces to drift off to a space where only designers are satisfied by them. It is time to remember the users trying to find those buttons, trying to bend those spoons, and to t…
"So many different ideas to solve the same daunting problem. Keeping track of things in memory has been, historically, one of the most delicate problems developers have had to face, and every decade or so, a new solution appears on the hor…
"Around 1835, an English type founder named William Thorowgood christened “grotesque” the first sans-serif typeface ever, called “7-line Pica Grotesque”. For those who might not know what “sans-serif” means, open LibreOffice Write or Micro…
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