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Well, maybe the vegans more often ride a bicycle than the other group because they care more about the environment. EDIT: also have a look at the numbers: 65,000 people of which "nearly 2,000&quo…

Like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIZ2Ldrr5ok ?

Most of them will probably be in the museum. The modern piano has a much larger sound and dynamic range, not to mention the much better tuning stability.

That's funny. What instrument would you consider then not to be dull? You cannot compare a piano to e.g. a violin or a guitar. It's a completely different concept; you can e.g. play (theoret…

Well, some people disagree, as usual; not really an issue; if you need a theory and formal semantics, consult the standard work: https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Objects-Monographs-Comput…

> That really is amazing, and kind of disheartening as a person with a BSc in Cellular/Molecular biology It was an interdisciplinary PhD and it took me six years to complete, the first two ess…

5) e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3 ?

This is about molecular biology , which is only one of many branches of biology . The biggest books I ever bought were those on molecular biology and biochemistry. Huge and weighing several kilos. U…

The question was rhetoric. They have huge legal departments all over the world. Copyright, licensing and patent contract law are among the most important areas for these companies.

> You know how you know a company is Swiss? Here is the official commercial register entry of the Canton of Geneva. The company was founded in 1996: https://ge.ch/hrcintapp/ext…

Ok, obvously I have too little experience in picking locks; or maybe you have different locks than we in Switzerland.

The lock at your door is also assumed to effectively control who can open it, but as we know keys can be dupplicated. However, it is not possible to copy it without access to your original key and the…

Have a look at the paper. It's actually one of its conclusions that Simula had active objects even in 1961 and also in the OO version 1967, but for some reason this aspect didn't make it int…

There is no relation to the paper. Recommend that you first take a look at it.

The paper is from 2012, and it is not actually about research results, but a historical outline, even with a few errors. But still interesting to read.

Sure, better now than never. Let's hope it's not just a marketing campaign and that they are really serious about it.

> "Do not jump over or duck under this ribbon, or cut it!", that's, for the DMCA, enough - so you get into fun games where you claim that No. There must be an effective technolog…

> If MSFT advocates for content on that platform, it could be portrayed as a conflict of interest by the RIAA lawyers Well, that's what they are actually doing now; factually, it does not ma…

> since they have some of the most experienced lawyers there are when it comes to defending fair-use/free-as-in-freedom And why would one assume that Github or MS do not have such experts? T…

> which started at the Norwegian Computing Center in the Spring of 1961 The date is wrong; only Simula 67 qualifies as an "object-oriented" language (the term was not used then though).…

Right; but the motivation looks rather like the attempt to restore the good reputation after an obvious mistake; one might have expected Github to check the DMCA request a priori and reject it if unfo…

In what respect?

Yes, I've read it. That's why I came to my conclusion. Btw. nearly all of the facts in the referenced letter were expressed in HN discussions just a few hours after the takedown. From my poi…

I don't believe that Github actually needed the EFF's writing for this, or that they don't have the necessary technical expertise themselves. That is probably rather a protective assert…

This is called "making a virtue out of necessity". I don't believe that Github actually needed the EFF's writing for this, or that they don't have the necessary technical expe…

> Looks like they've removed the tests for RIAA member videos as the only change And even that was more likely to allow certain somewhat too loud organizations to save face, not out of legal n…

Right. Wirth developed Modula after his first PARC sabbatical, where he worked with the Alto and Mesa. Modula supported even nested modules. And Pascal didn't have modules at all.

By the end of the year 2021!

A great one which I used in the nineties was the Objectory software engineering tool by Ivar Jacobson and his team (later bought by Rational which unfortunately discontinued the tool in favour of Rose…

They had plenty of ex PARC developers in their team and even a ST80 license, so they could have done so no doubt. Obviously they considered ST80 not mature or efficient enough for their projects and i…