Right, what I meant is that only using essential cookies should be the default web development practice. Instead the default these days seems to be websites that are positively larded with third-party scripts, analytics tools, and other crap.
This reminds me a lot of multi agent systems in computer science. A very exciting concept which is aiming to provide a framework for distributed artificial intelligence:
Love it. Finally somebody questions the status quo of the economy class. I wonder how this new design competes in terms of price and weight? In the end I doubt that airlines are willing to pay more for economy.
I love it how they decided to spend the money fighting the patent trolls. I started reading the article because the title reminded me of Richard in the Silicon Valley TV series. Happy to read that in the real world the patent trolls got busted!! :)
This is incredible, thanks for sharing. I had the exact same thoughts the author is describing in the beginning - how hard can it be? It turns out super hard. And one shouldn't forget that it is one of the few input methods to our computers. With voice not working properly and drawing on the mouse pad / touchscreen being too slow I would argue it is still the number one input method. So the expectations towards UX are extremely high and there should be no faults. I admire anybody who works on some kind of text input mechanisms from this day on.
To me, today's internet was born with the invention of HTTP by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
It's still an interesting article and a great achievement, but a big piece has still been missing. One can definitely credit them for providing the base though.
I was student just before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September. I remember using a lot gopher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) ). There was some hype around IRC. Mosaic has arrived a bit latter. At that time everyone was discussing network applications. We were playing sun mazewar, xrisk and other connected games (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Go_server). We were using xarchie to find software. I was using xhtalk to chat with remote friends. Chess games between two remote players (single threaded X application managing two displays), remote administration were common student projects.
IMHO, if Tim Berners-Lee had not invented HTTP, someone else would have build something else to improve over gopher.
That’s the World Wide Web, a different thing from the Internet. There’s plenty of non-HTTP-based usage on the modern Internet, from SSH, to FTP, to chat & videconferencing, websockets, WebRTC, online gaming...
Back in the pre-web days, we used to get software via ftp, usually as source code tar balls, from any of several well-known archive sites. One I remember was labrea.stanford.edu. Yes, it was a tar pit...
Standing on the shoulders of giants and all. The internet is a success big enough to handle multiple "inventors." Also, no small feat was accomplished by those that put a computer in every home or so (for their own profit of course). Without them, no need to connect
No, you are showing your ignorance. The World Wide Web is one of many things that can run on the Internet. The World Wide Web is not the Internet, just one aspect. What you are saying would be like claiming that TV was not TV until MTV appeared.
"Google dropped out last October without submitting a formal bid, saying the military work conflicted with its corporate principles, which preclude the use of artificial intelligence in weaponry."
What do we make of the remaining bidders? aws.. the employees would be fired if they revolted. Microsoft the employees didn't care to revolt.
The fact that google employees could revolt and change a big decision says something.
Tons of stories on why google is evil and microsoft and amazon are the toast of the town. I would rather have google in that position vs amazon/microsoft/oracle because there is a soul and heart at the core of google. The core of Microsoft is different same with Amazon.
come on... do you really think that's the reason google didn't go after a 10B contract? does google not like money or prefer to avoid working with the US government?? because I think they do...
