The first HTTP 1.1 implementation, CL-HTTP was written in ANSI Common Lisp.
> Clients never were reasonnable in their demands, nor did most of the site owner have good and simple tastes and care about efficiency, nor did half of the internet care about user experience first above everything else.
My web browser today uses more memory than my computer had in 1996. The web isn't efficient today at all.
I can't say for sure, but the ending quote from the article
“I have to share the credit,” Bradley joked. “I may have
invented it, but I think Bill made it famous.”
seems to support the theory that he reinvented it independently. I'd be interested to know who at MIT picked the key combination Ctrl-Meta-Ctrl-Meta-Rubout for the Lisp Machines.
> I think something like this (flying a UAV, since CBP doesn't actually fly drones) should require a search warrant, but this is a totally reasonable use of resources IMHO.
The Supreme Court decided in 1986 that aerial surveillance of a person's backyard did not require a warrant. Then again, the search was conducted by a human only using his "naked eye". See California v. Ciraolo.
Yeah, the edit time limit is often pretty annoying... [Comment before going to bed and didn't notice that typo that completely changes the meaning until the next morning? Too bad! >< ]
I guess there are reasons for it, but it'd be cool if HN, say, increased the edit time limit by 1 minute per 1 point of karma over 500 or something ...
> Clients never were reasonnable in their demands, nor did most of the site owner have good and simple tastes and care about efficiency, nor did half of the internet care about user experience first above everything else.
My web browser today uses more memory than my computer had in 1996. The web isn't efficient today at all.