Yes, really. In one or two tiny tweets and maybe a hashtag from someone there. It may not be a big event; but, "acronym #hashtag-describing-event" is a thing. And that would be "happens on twitter" in Twitter terms.
This rules. The other weekend I was feeling curious and started a little project to see what it takes to get up and running doing basic audio synthesis: https://github.com/nicolasmiller/bleeper. I got distracted with some other stuff, but the goal is to compile examples in as many languages/environments as possible.
Ditto. It conflicted annoyingly with what I already had playing. I managed to take in about four seconds of her vocal before realizing that it was unspeakably bland.
What sort of vocals do you like? Any examples? Just curious with regard to your qualitative opinion here. I happen to like this, but I won't judge. To each their own.
"A figure of little consequence in [his] own time..." I thought of Raymond himself. Who decided that this guy deserved to be one of the lucky few with canonical hacker initials?
The main reason people know his initials is because he was one of the more influential people behind the "Open Source" concept and branding, as a distinct thing from the Free Software movement. He also wrote some fairly well-known books. His fame has declined since then, but his membership in the Three Initials Club has remained intact.
Here endeth the history lesson. Incidentally, you could have googled this if you were interested in hearing an answer rather than signaling indignation and/or contempt.
I'm well aware of the history. I was ironically posing the question in a probably slightly mean-spirited attempt to poke fun at him for not having written any notable software. I suppose he deserves credit for the philosophical contributions. The whole initials thing is ultimately pretty stupid. Maybe I was trying to get at why it's even become a convention. Why there is so much ego in the field in general.
Really?