I am not sure that those threads are entirely legal.

company with an in-house compiler of a functional language, w/ no chanche to have a breakpoint or know whats what in the disassembly, generates ~800 lines of assembly for the simpelest things. turns out that someone did not read the specs and used xorps in a funny, heisenberg-ish way.

i saw this happening at a demoparty, the person sitting next to me:

hekps out a friend with some coding problems; discovers a file containing a class called "superHoegen" with the function members "SuperHoegen1" ..."SuperHoegen12" took a while to realize that this was the martix class of the renderer and sth like ".SuperHoegen5()" would invert the matrix.

also there where no bugs in the superhoegen class, just funny naming :)

well, you sir, are the first. except maybe those lamers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ultrasound

:)

The title in the submission is inaccurate & not actually the title of the article. The missing bit:

> that works in the air, using off-the-shelf components (< $100).

Isn't java famous for backwards compatibility?

raises an interesting question: what is Basecamp?

Yes, there's always people doing things differently, with different targets, and amazing results. I don't think it matters when it comes to the 'for real' factor of the practice though.

I could say that I've been doing daily animations for the past 1580 days, and that's definitely real in my book. Your call.

completely different take on generative art, did you look at any of the examples in the interview or read it? It's not a contest around tech, its a conversation around tools and using them to express yourself

well, the way I see it Apple does a better/less cutthroat job than spotify.

it shows that at the fringes nobody in the audience correctly predicts what will happen...

anyways, here's the abductee-programming-language-conundrum:

consider Language X: there is a nuclear power plant, and you or loved ones live within 10 miles. it is your responsibility to select the language for implementing the emergency shutdown procedures. would you use language X?

I'd select a redundant mechanical device.

Or chemical. My first thought was: scram rods hanging off a "rope" made from an alloy specifically selected to melt at the right temperature. And/or a similar arrangement involving wax, as I think waxes have longer history of being used as thermal breakers.

For something like that I would be more concerned about the tests than the language. In other words, I'd trust my own code not at all, in any language.

I posit there is a difference between the safety of millions of people and the functionality of my stupid website.

If X is formally verifiable and conducive to writing testable, contractual code then yes.

Sounds like a job for Ada