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There are a huge number of low-code tools out there—but is “low code” a meaningful term? Paul and Rich discuss the promise versus the reality of low code, what most businesses really need from software, and the other descriptors they’d use if tasked with a low-code rebrand.
Anita Joseph on Paul Ford's 38,000-word essay.
Paul Ford didn’t expect his article on coding to go big. But almost a year later, the Bloomberg issue dedicated to “What is code?” is still completely sold out. We dig into the major topics covered in that long and highly entertaining piece, like conferences, open source, and languages, and how Paul and the editors created a technical article that still managed to be accessible to coder and non-coders alike.
The fight for our right to strong encryption was already won back in the 1990s, thanks in large part to cryptographer Daniel J. Bernstein in three important court cases that confirmed that computer code is free speech and restrictions on prior restraint apply.
The Mother of All Demos: 90-Minutes That Revolutionized Computing
Happy 50th See up to the minute at Demo@50 Press Collection at DEI and #thedemoat50 on Twitter Plus Press Releases: SRI International and Logitech. What Would Doug Engelbart Do?” Ask Organizers of …
Dec 9th – 50 years to the day since Engelbart’s iconic demo – we came together to explore the past, present and future of his revolutionary work and what it might take to reach th…
The empires of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs careen toward an inevitable battle over proprietary software. Meanwhile, open source rebels have begun to gather.
"But there could be no question about the scholarly effort involved. It was taxing. Hope spent a lot of time doing what no poet should ever do: reading uninspired stuff because he had to. As a corollary, there was a lot of inspired stuff that he ignored. His reasons for ignoring it were not as good as he thought, or said he thought. It was true that most poets who wouldn’t write in forms couldn’t really write at all, but some of them could. In Australia, in the long run, the informal poets won out. Les Murray writes almost nothing in regular stanzas. A poet who does — Stephen Edgar is the most accomplished current example — faces the general opinion that an adopted discipline is a restriction on poetic invention, rather than a stimulus to it. Hope’s later achievement was strong enough to ward off that general opinion in his own case, but there should never have been a contest. He should have been powerful enough to settle the argument in his favour before it began. Why wasn’t he?"
Source of book: I own this. A gift from my in-laws. In case there was any doubt, I love Clive James. One of the first books I reviewed f...
When writing on the web or posting in online communities like Reddit and Discord, your posts can be formatted using the plaintext coding system called Markdown. Here are the basics.
Denmark's digital affairs ministry says it plans to switch to the open source LibreOffice software and away from Microsoft products as part of an effort to make the government more digitally independent.
Writing is important It’s a fact of any knowledge-working profession that when you reach a high level, you’re going to be doing a lot of writing. It’s one of the hallmarks of highly successful people. They keep journals, both professional and personal, creating their own knowledge base that they can draw from. These are habits that just make you more effective at life, full stop.