Before I decide to shoot up smack, I like to ask junkies what the whole heroin experience is like, what they use it for, and how it has affected their lives.
DDJ and Creative Computing were by far my favorite computer magazines that I looked forward to every month.
The DDJ editor Ray Valdez was kind enough to (without me even asking) grant me keep the copyright to the article about pie menus that I wrote for the Dec 1991 UI issue.
The Design and Implementation of Pie Menus:
They’re Fast, Easy, and Self-Revealing.
Originally published in Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Dec. 1991, cover story, user interface issue.
It's pointless to take anything longislandguido says seriously, since he actually does have Trump Derangement Syndrome as evidenced by his deranged lies on Trump's behalf.
This takes me back. It is just one of those artifacts of early 2000s that was associated with open source hacker culture. It truly felt magical at the time.
Instead of polluting PRs, Copilot will insert comments and logging and text fields and buttons with links to web sites with helpful product tips into your code and user interfaces.
I mean, this is a very obvious future step. I was imagining this too, although I stopped short at the 'ads in comments' stage, but who knows, they could easily go further.
Given the extent to which the copyright system has benefited corporations and publishing companies to the detriment of individual authors and the general public, I'm constantly surprised that it still has many apologists.
As we don't live in a world where the rich patronize the arts some sort of copyright system is the only way authors and artists are gonna make a living doing their thing. ...though I suppose proponents of Universal Basic Income (UBI) would disagree, but between the abolishment of copyright, the institution of UBI, or a 7 year old child being hit by 7 lightning strikes and 7 meteor impacts and surviving; the latter seems the most likely.
People imagine poor author having their thing stolen rather than poor author that corporate takes IP from by contract agreement (and if you don't do that, you don't get the job), then abuses for 70+ years
Dammit, it's been 28 years and they still haven't implemented my favorite C++ extension proposal, and its birthday is coming in a couple days -- it would be so much better now with all the emojis in unicode:
Nina Hagen - Smack Jack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIDnN34ZZaE
>Smack Ist Dreck, Stop It Oder Verreck!
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