Sunday, June 17
Daily News Stuff 17 June 2018
Art by the talented @xiao_woo
- Firefox is working to build a better news feed than Facebook. Possibly using lightly concussed hedgehogs.
- THT is a new language combines the elegant syntax of JavaScript with the robust semantics of PHP. Or possibly vice-versa. For people you really, really hate.
- Bird, the scooter-littering startup, has a valuation of $1 billion. Buy gold*
- Microsoft is not rewriting Office in JavaScript.
Nor Skype, though given the present state of Skype that might be an improvement. As would the aforementioned hedgehogs.
- The Economist reports on an exciting technological breakthrough that would allow buildings to be constructed out of plant-based matter.
- If Niue ever gets too crowded be prepared to change your links to mee.bv.
Computer of the week is the Sharp X68000.
* Don't buy gold.
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So, if THT is the "good parts" version of PHP, doesn't that basically eliminate everything but the whitespace? I'm pretty sure that's the only part that hasn't been hacked.
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Posted by: J Greely at Sunday, June 17 2018 11:49 PM (tgyIO)
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Yes.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, June 18 2018 01:29 AM (PiXy!)
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I got a bit of a chuckle looking at the sub-headline to the FireFox article: "Pocket CEO Nate Weiner on how local data processing is the future of personalized recommendations"
Back when the hype of moving to the cloud was new, I remember a lot of the old timers saying it was just part of a larger cycle of moving between local and mainframe processing and would move back in time. This is the first hint I've seen of that holding true, I suspect it won't be the last.
Posted by: StargazerA5 at Monday, June 18 2018 02:03 AM (FuETf)
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"Centralize everything that's decentralized and decentralize everything that's centralized and you'll look like a management genius."
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, June 18 2018 02:43 AM (PiXy!)
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