It truly is the godfather of modern cringe comedy - today's landscape of comedies centered around fundamentally unlikable characters in uncomfortable situations is something I think wouldn't exist without Larry Sanders. RIP
People subscribe to Go lists because they want to discuss technical aspects of a programming language. For other topics, there are other venues.
Yes, and for highlighting off-topic subjects, there is the simple moderator acronym "OT". A rigid rule book and enforcement policy has nothing to do with free speech. It's all about trying to balance the inequalities in the tech sector. Unfortunately, a rule book is not going to solve that problem. The cynic in me just thinks this a conference "feel-good" announcement planned as a result of Googlers feeling bad about the fact that they are a 83% male workforce.
If the real problem is going to be solved, it's got to be about encouraging and educating people from all genders and races to code. That starts much earlier than any engagement in online communities. If the output of schools and colleges of trained coders was balanced, all the horror stories of harassment and abuse would soon become history as the workforce also becomes balanced, in my opinion.
I strongly dislike the idea of self-appointed judiciaries. Mistakes happen. The nuances of behaviour of people with mental health issues is likely to get caught up in these rule books. That's why we have courts, to help deal with difficult cases. Vigilantes may well refer to the code of conduct for justification for statements of intent like this:
.. by being a careful GUI clone of the existing successful product, Lotus 1-2-3. Right down to being largely formula-compatible and having the same hotkeys. That's why F2 is "edit current cell".
The plastic which held them in place was always broken on the school computers :-)
In all seriousness though, I personally owe a great debt to Sophie Wilson et al for building computers and software that made it very easy to start programming the second after turning a computer on; A BASIC interpreter and an Assembler available instantly from ROM. I had endless hours of fun building parallax scrolling star fields by poking directly to video RAM and slowly rendering 3d scenes in Render Bender. It was just a shame that the computers were so expensive.
I spent about a year of savings on my 'beeb' and it was the best money I ever spent. All tricked out it cost as much as a very decent second hand car, a very large amount of money for me back then, I very much recall that I bought the drive enclosure long before I could afford the drives (I basically bought the whole thing piece-by-piece as money became available). Because I couldn't afford the drives I hacked my Sony cassette deck to function as a sort of poor-mans disk drive by connecting the buttons to the user port and the end-of-tape detector to an input pin so I could tell roughly where the head was on the tape. Really slow, especially during on-tape sorting but it worked.
A friend of mine who had rich parents got his + 2 HD drives for his birthday, I had to take the long way around but eventually got there.
Without that machine I'm pretty sure my career would have started 5 years later.
Read "Flash Boys" for a better insight into how much difference variable latency between exchanges and clients makes to the profitability of fast execution of trades.
Patterson's _Dark Pools_ which tells the story of Island and the ECNs and the advent of automated trading. Patterson is more ambivalent about HFT than Kovacs, and does a good job of explaining the Core Wars phenomenon of modern trading from '98 to the mid-'00s.
Has the fork author discussed with Mikio the implications of forking and the need for a commercial license for proprietary applications?
It's a shame that development stopped on Kyoto Cabinet and Tycoon. I personally learned a lot about efficiently using on disk storage from the source code.
I've tried to reach him a few months ago, mainly to know if he was intending to publish a new release with (at the very least) the fix for the missing "unistd.h" include breaking compilation (which is a one-liner), but got no answers back.
The original code is licensed under the GPLv3 and (of course) this fork doesn't change that in any way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead_Park#Influence