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And while we're at it, why not add a backward compatible type declaration, like a string "use type a: int, s: string;" immediately following any declaration or declaration list?

I'm especially concerned about the loss of "var". The web (as in HTML + JS) has always been about backward "interpretability" (meaning, a new feature won't break existing…

Shouldn't the content providers strike back, in order to stop such things as a business? E.g., a class action against those vendors who pre-install said software. Determine the average share of t…

I wouldn't contest this (a pesos being a piece of eight or a Spanish dollar). I would muse, given a 1700 years history of currency symbols denoted by a letter with an extra stroke (or, in some ra…

Personally, I would think there's some kind of inheritance from the older Lira (later pound) sign "£". Remarkably, this one is also coming in two variants, both with a single and a (pro…

There are some alternative theories on this, too. The one I learned was the sign being derived from the Pillars of Hercules (two vertical bars) with a banner (the "S") wrapped around it, rea…

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See http://www.masswerk.at/minard for a translation of the map's original legend (mouseover). There wasn't just a single movement of the army, but several troops were detach…

Hmm, maybe use something like a fractal algorithm? At least Mondrian is about the disposition of weights and space as it may be found in natural grown structures, like trees ...

But there's a related problem with docker.com: The site is so afraid that you might miss any of its very important links that it misses any comprehensible organization of its content (at least on…

While many, if not all statements made there are true, the page seems to be adding the biggest mistake itself: The virtual tag-line is apparently, "How to make a flashing website, if you've …

For historical interest: Here's a description of the humble beginnings of gravity put onto a computer's screen (think of PDP-1 Spacewar! code, 1962): http://www.masswerk.at/s…

So you will block all algorithmically produced content (think of web art)? This is, what I would consider an inconsistency. Even the greatest original text services, think of "In the Beginning wa…

I think this involves a big misunderstanding of the web as a medium. You may produce non-free content using Open Software as a tool. E.g., I may write a book using LibreOffice and sell it (with copyri…

Impressive! Restores my believe in CSS animations.

It's a question of the "all together other topic": In the sense of a theme, it has much in common, but the PI puts its questions there, were the TLP would be on the ground of an establi…

In fact, Unger is mixing up various positions of Wittgenstein over several decades. Usually, Wittgenstein is treated as two authors, numbered Wittgenstein I (the author of the tractatus logico-philoso…

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See also http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/SpacewarOrigin.html (corrected and annotated version, including additional interviews and images). Some of my own analysis: http:/&…

Totally ok :-) I was always thinking of doing this with the original game via WebRTC DataChannels (that's also a reason for the emulation running the display asynchronously, so one could be drivi…

I finally managed to identify Martin Graetz's original hyperspace routine, featuring the "hyperspace Minskytron signature" (as described and depicted in "Origin of Spacewar").…

The next best thing (but without Steve Russell himself, sorry) can be found here: http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar (a JS-emulation of a PDP-1 running various versions of Spacewar! – th…

A display similar to the Type 30 CRT can be seen in action in this video of a Bell-Labs educational film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVu2BWLZqA ("The Incredible Machine"…