JavaScript creator Brendan Eich has spoken out against the perception that JavaScript was an arbitrary or random success. In a comment at Hacker News Eich explains the historical context from which JavaScript emerged and how it was unlikely to have happened any other way. In comment at Lambda the Ultimate, Eich wrote: “History has reason […]
JavaScript creator Brendan Eich has spoken out against the perception that JavaScript was an arbitrary or random success. In a comment at Hacker News Eich explains the historical context from which JavaScript emerged and how it was unlikely to have happened any other way. In comment at Lambda the Ultimate, Eich wrote: “History has reason […]
Given the news that has already come out about Facebook, you’re probably thinking there is no way that anything else leaks out today. They’re probably on lockdown (real lockdown, not the crazed coding “lockdown”), right? Wrong. We’ve learned about the existence of yet another secret project within Facebook. And while it’s not quite as sexy as the new […]
Given the news that has already come out about Facebook, you’re probably thinking there is no way that anything else leaks out today. They’re probably on lockdown (real lockdown, not the crazed coding “lockdown”), right? Wrong. We’ve learned about the existence of yet another secret project within Facebook. And while it’s not quite as sexy as the new […]
When Facebook bought stealth startup Walletin back in November, nobody was quite sure what it meant. The tiny, secretive company had a high-profile boss in Cory Ondrejka, the former CTO of Second Life maker Linden Lab — but that was about all that we knew. But while it’s still unclear what Ondrejka and his co-founder […]
When Facebook bought stealth startup Walletin back in November, nobody was quite sure what it meant. The tiny, secretive company had a high-profile boss in Cory Ondrejka, the former CTO of Second Life maker Linden Lab — but that was about all that we knew. But while it’s still unclear what Ondrejka and his co-founder […]