This document is a mess. The title "The History of Programming Languages" does not correspond at all to the content.
No mention of machine language or assembly; no mention of functional or declarative style languages like Prolog, SQL, SetL; no mention of major languages like PL/1, Basic, Ada, Algol; no mention of a compiler or interpreter; one line on Lisp, banishing it to 1959; no mention of any theoretical underpinnings like Turing machines, Lambda calculus, computability.
I couldn't understand why anyone would put so much effort into making it look pretty and so little into making it communicate until I got to the end and learned it is just an advertisement for a security auditing program. They are really only concerned with current popular programming languages because that is what their prospective customers are using.
"Encoding used to be an art form." It's gone downhill but there are still people keeping a high standard. YIFY is known for releasing high quality 720p h.264 Blu Ray movie rips that fit on one CD (700MB), and 1080p rips that are 1GB. Their stuff looks good, better than cable HDTV or Netflix to my eye.
That has to be one of the most useless articles I've ever read. So, yeah, if you take a metaphor for a generalization about anticipation, you can "debunk" it by ignoring that it's a metaphor and quibbling over minor issues of pedantry. But that article does nothing to share any actual useful information, so far as I can tell.
"You'd have to be a real idiot to skate to where the puck used to be"*
No, he is not anything like this letter in real life. He is happy to have wide ranging conversations without reference to his own history or accomplishments. I suppose that in the letter he was trying to establish credibility and rapport with the Spotify guys. It certainly worked out well for both of them in the end.
"You have fewer rights with ebooks than you do with real books." You may have fewer legal rights but you have more options and control, as long as the ebooks are pirated! Pirated books can be obtained anonymously, copied freely, and they cannot be revoked. Just as with software and DVDs, the pirated version is actually better than the for-pay version.
Wow, that is sad. My knowledge of literature and poetry is spotty at best but I certainly picked up on the reference without a moment's thought. The ability to make literary references in a few words is a basic aspect of literacy. I suppose their brains are probably crowded with internet memes and celebrity facts and have no space for this sort of more beautiful trivia. Something I love about geeks is that their big brains tend to retain more references like this, so when they talk and listen they can use the whole language, including classic literature.
