"Bread" is a 1930 silent Ukrainian film banned in the USSR by Soviet censors.
It was rediscovered in the 70s and recently, my friend Luke Corradine, an award-winning composer, composed music for it.
This film was premiered in February at the Alborada Classica Music Festival in Granada, by whom it was commissioned. The piano at the premier was played by famed Australian pianist, Duncan Gifford.
Exploring Facebook and found an old Texas honky-tonk down the street from where I used to live when I was a boy, decades ago.
There are photos of the place, along with a number of regulars who are tagged. Wouldn't it be interesting if I memorized all of their faces? I could show up and start greeting them by name.
That being said, it's in the heart of Texas. I'd be shot.
Someone on Reddit was asking if there is any way of detecting something in an exoplanet atmosphere which would have no other explanation than life. I'm pretty happy with my answer.
You might be surprised that it even includes #Python code.
BitMover's closed-source product, BitKeeper, was used for source control for the #Linux kernel. Larry McVoy, CEO of BitMover, was upset because someone tried to figure out how the BitKeeper worked and he pulled the BitKeeper licenses from Linux developers.
Needing distributed source control, Linus Torvalds created #git in a couple of months.
BitMover is gone and BitKeeper is now open-source, gathering dust, in a git repository.
@ovid
Not even figure out how it worked, he figured out the protocol used to talk to the server, to enable him to write an open source client. And he did so by telnetting to the bitkeeper port and typing "help".
That someone was Andrew Tridgell of Samba fame.
Bitkeeper could have gotten a free open source client. Instead they got a free open source competitor (git) and couldn't compete with that.
I love stumbling across great comments in code. Today's example found in client code:
"If [condition X] occurs, this will result in an infinite recursion loop until the heat death of the universe, possibly taking down a server just before that."
@holgerschurig@luap@l13u7anant Though I recall a time at the BBC where they concluded an unmaintainable Perl monolith was too slow and spent years rewriting it in C++. They not only created a new, unmaintainable monolith, but it was also too slow. Turns out no one profiled the original software to find out the real reasons it was slow.