Perhaps the terminal is the UI of local cross-platform apps (with the web as the UI of remote cross-platform apps). This Typescript app (with native executables) has multiple visual countdown timers rendering in the terminal. Maybe this is why xterm colors were created, so we can start building our own useful visual tools. Thanks for having a look, would be happy to see new rendererers submitted :)

You must have missed the 2008 part, the same year we elected a president who was against gay marriage.

Honestly, I doubt Obama was ever really against gay marriage, he's just a politician who panders to whatever position he thought would get him the most votes.

In 2008, the "moderate" position was to support civil unions, while opposing full equality. So that's what Obama did. Now, in 2014, the needle has shifted. Gay marriage has become increasingly mainstream.

A worthless POS would lack to motivation to finish learning...

I'm very low on motivation, but my derivative, even if small, is positive yes.

But I got a college (a good public one) diploma, yet reading this I feel anything above Linux devops and FizzBuzz would be far from my reach, that's what I meant by worthless P...

yeah, I liked it!

Oh yeah, attacking the disbelievers for their blasphemy in the name of Science is a great idea.

Yes, that is how science works. Its called the scientific method.

1. Make up an untestable idea where you don't even know the sign of the result.

2. Shame others into accepting it.

3. Celebrate science.

So your recommendation is to... go forth and create a new programming language?

No, that would be too BASIC. It should be well designed first.

From his own quoted post: "I lived through 8 years of a non-reading president along with everyone else. I know that the brogrammers out there are constantly getting texts from their buddies to plan the weekend's broactivities..."

Thanks Professor, now I don't have to continue reading your post – ie, you're kind of a jerk.

Do you know which president I had in mind? I lived through quite a few 8 year terms, and yes, that includes Reagan.

If your response is "but everyone knows which president you were referring to," then surely it's fair game to refer to whoever that is since the facts are universally accepted? :-)

The comment thread is only just getting started and there are already two comments about why they didn't bother reading. The TL;DR generation has another skill - finding ways to rationalize why they didn't tax their brains with the effort of reading. Mostly they're of the format "I read x in the first few lines so it disqualified the rest of the article from further attention".

I think there's a new qualification for TL;DR - DFIAT - didn't fit in a tweet.

Dang, I been tricked! Seriously, though, it's not in our nature to take counsel from folks who act disrespectfully. The quip about a non-reading president and "brogrammers" fits that.

I love these videos! You could almost teach a class on graph theory and AI with enough of them, and they look great!

I enjoyed reading David's post and only have one issue: Oxford Comma? Seriously? That's ridiculous, unnecessary and unparsable.

You pause there in speaking, so you should put a comma there.

Unless I increased my speaking rate to prevent the awkward situation of requiring the comma... or perhaps there never was a pause there (eg "eats shoots...")

Oh cmon, this is minutes from the rest of the Apple buildings in the area, they aren't moving to a suburban campus, they are consolidating their suburban campuses.

I spent a bunch of time in "outlier" Apple buildings (Bubb 5, and something way out near Moffet Field after the Loma Prieta earthquake took out Apple's main engineering building). While being off campus is good for secrecy, it's terrible if you need to cooperate with other parts of the company.

You really need colocation to make things work. I expect two things out of this building:

First, it will improve a bunch of Apple's internal processes.

Second, they will run out of room sooner than they think, and I'd put money on them not even releasing leases on many outlier buildings.

I worked in the main Apple complex (R&D5 on Infinite Loop) and it seems like they're just doubling down on what worked well before. It was really nice in there to have a little private park interior space to lie on the grass or have parties and it was really practical to be able to park underneath (when there was space) and to be able to subdivide slices (at some level of granularity) to let members of different groups have a floor or a building to themselves. So this will be just like that but on a bigger scale and with more parkland to relax in and on, a more size-appropriate meeting space and not so much located in the middle of a vast sea of parking lot.

This will take a long time to build and move into, but once they do, I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually manage to buy out that "missing piece" and incorporate it into the plan. One step at a time...