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Interesting article -- my take on low-code has always been less about how much initial development time the application takes to code, and more about how it can ease the long term maintenance of an application. With AI tooling it is going to be easy for companies to spin up hundreds of internal applications, but how are they accounting for the maintenance and support of those applications?

Think about the low-code platform as a place to host applications where many (not all) of the operational burdens long term maintenance are shifted to the platform so that developers don't have to spend as much time doing things like library upgrades, switching to X new framework because old framework is deprecated, etc..

You just sparked a memory of FILE_ID.DIZ, a standard file included in zip archives during the BBS era.

Pretty sure the .DIZ stood for “Description In Zip”

My guess -- Microsoft wasn’t excited about the company structure - the for-profit portion subject to the non-profit mission. Microsoft/Altman structured the deal with OpenAI in a way that cements their access regardless of the non-profit’s wishes. Altman may not have shared those details with the board and they freaked out and fired him. They didn’t disclose to Microsoft ahead of time because they were part of the problem.

One thing I wish they had done with the much larger address space is make it easy for an individual to get their own block of IPv6 addresses. Letting enthusiasts experiment with their own address space seems like it would help with knowledge / adoption.

Emacs 29 is nigh 4 years ago

Any chance your configuration is online? Always interested to see how people are configuring emacs, and your typography stuff sounds interesting.

Making money by selling the product doesn't by itself give them an incentive to produce a better product.

Selling more product / continued subscriptions is the incentive.

I wonder what the appetite for extending the emacs "server" concept is. Treat it like an API and so that you can maintain core editor compatibility, but offer an easy way to implement UI layers that users might feel are more modern.

Could also lead to dedicated "org-mode" clients, etc.. that could leverage emacs under the hood via the API.

Pixie Pi 11 years ago

There doesn't seem to be a homebrew package for Pixie yet on OS X. I made a quick Brewfile (http://brew.sh) but was bitten by pixie needing to find its standard libraries in a specific location.

I should look again because the project looks like a way to use Clojure style syntax for quick one off scripts instead of making an uberjar.