"So by violating the first rule of clean code — which is one of its central tenants"

The word is TENET. Tenants rent stuff.

Cool article. I didn't like this game, but I was always impressed by the smooth scrolling when the screen bounced in response to Bluto jumping around. It gave the game a "big-budget" or arcade-quality feel, which frequently distinguished arcade games from home adaptations. This despite my having an Atari 800, whose hardware provided silky-smooth fine scrolling and sprites.

The glow of multicolor game characters on a CRT just brings back the excitement of arcades. I wonder if anything has that kind of entertainment value for kids today.

AT&T has to be among the worst. These jagoffs would send me no fewer then three texts at all hours of the day or night to simply tell me there was nothing with my account. No exaggeration: They would badger me repeatedly to say that my bill auto-pay had succeeded... and then that I could save $5 by signing up for auto-pay... and some other inexcusable nonsense.

I logged every call I made to them, during many of which they swore they'd stop it. Eventually they started claiming that they couldn't. I had to block AT&T's number on my phone.

How execrably stupid do they have to be to send "everything's fine" texts over and over and over instead of, at the very most, sending an E-MAIL?

Or moaning noises, akin to the treat airline passengers famously enjoyed last year over planes' PAs.

The graph titled "Comparison between Colossal-AI and current major open source projects in the same period" has no label on the Y axis, which shows quantities in thousands. WTH?

Y axis are Github stars. They sort of mention it in the preceding paragraph.

Thanks for the reply.

supporting uninstallation ≠ locking down

Supporting uninstallation by restricting applications to a sandbox that can be cleaned up == locking down

Yep.

I said PAYWALLED, which was true, and there was no alternate link.

Why UP-vote inaccessible content, and then go apeshit when someone points it out?

Hacker News is degraded by this infantile, hypocritical behavior. Why perpetuate, let alone PROMOTE it?

Downvote the inaccessible CONTENT, not the remark about it. DUH.

That doesn't make sense.

Not necessarily. Tons of audio-connector cables stopped working overnight when Apple pettily disabled them. One end of the cable was Lightning, and the other two ends were USB A and a 1/8" stereo audio plug.

I see. Well I can't imagine that it would be fine to require an MFi chip in USB-C cables. Because that destroys the whole point of using USB-C cables indeed.

If the rumor is true, I would bet that it's more about bringing MFi to USB-C devices. Which is totally compatible with USB-C.

It's about two things for Apple:

1. Wringing extra revenue out of every possible angle 2. Preventing developers from doing anything unforeseen; a longtime Apple mania

That's because all those third-party vendors probably went out of business or abandoned Apple. I had lots of Y adapters to work around the problem Apple created but never solved: There was no way to charge the phone AND use an asinine headphone-jack dongle. The answer was a simple cable, with no power source.

Overnight, they all stopped working because Apple wasn't getting its fee from those manufacturers.