This is great news! I know the new Pebble has a small team and is focused on being a long term sustainable enterprise. This should help with that goal quite a bit.

I received my Pebble 2 Duo about a month ago, and it is awesome. Nice job and thank you! I feel 10 years younger :)

All I can say is I am very happy with my brand new Pebble. Thank you Eric and your team for providing new hardware. This is awesome! Thank you Rebble, for maintaining the legacy software.

Are they still open source? If so, why does it matter who updated them?

I think that’s the crux of the issue is rebble isn’t under any obligation distribute them open source, unless say the original app had a “copyleft” policy?

AFAIK the original apps were individually licensed by the creators... so Rebble would need to have permission before claiming anything for their own except in the case of explicit permissive licenses (like MIT). In some cases (copyleft licenses) Rebble would be required to make their maintenance also open source.

This whole topic is about politics and I am leery of steering even more in that direction, but based on recent polls, I’m not sure that the passengers currently do support the hijackers.

He was a grandmaster at age 13. In 2003.

I lived on an island in the middle of the Panama Canal for a few years, one of the hottest and most humid places imaginable. We had no AC. Everyone used a top sheet instead of a comforter or blanket, and had a ceiling fan going at night. It worked surprisingly well.

Ceiling fans are really underrated. Even if you have AC, you can probably save money/energy at night by running the AC at a higher temp with a ceiling fan.

I would have gone with 0

Yes, the headline is a little dishonest. It's a 486 year-old story not 3,000 years.

Welcome to the Internet.

Context is important when telling a story. I say the title is fair.

3000 years ago is about when the first recognizable letter A was drawn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Canaanite_alphabet

The amphora vessel design is neolithic, so you could add on another 10,000 years if you want to trace the roots of the @ symbol tenuously into pottery. There's such a thing as too much context.

But what if we add the role that harnessing fire had on the development of pottery and the amphora? That easily adds another 770000 years

If Warren Delano (the author of PyMol) were still with us, I think he would be amazed at where we are now with AlphaFold, and all the rest. At least what he hoped for, that software like this would be open source and peer-reviewable, has mostly held true.

I think it actually was an Apple innovation, at least for {hobbyist, home, personal} computers. I did some digging and wasn't able to find anything before the Apple II+ in 1979. Please do prove me wrong, though!

I found an old edition of Byte from 77 where they advertise a "Vector Graphic Vector 1+":

https://isaac.lsu.edu/byte/issues/197710_Byte_Magazine_Vol_0...

A quick search doesn't find me pictures, but I did find a "Vector 1++”:

https://vintagecomputer.ca/vector-graphic-vector-1/