My code was sent to the north pole. All the segment faults. Invalid access. And stack overflows. And I was told that one day the vault would be moved to Pluto. An archive for humanity, carved on giant obelisks made of granite. There lies my code, silently rendering compiler error, and consuming extra threads, even it’s a static cast on the monument. Observed by all the stellar travellers carrying different types of editor themes. Please tell them I like Nord the most.
My contribution is a keyword transposition cipher written in pure js with no dependencies - I'm glad that's what made it in rather than some bloated dependency heavy unfinished project.
In fact, good luck to the developers from 2030 trying to set up their environment for code from 2020...
I tried to compile some legacy code for a few extant Symbian OS phones. The IDE and SDK are from 2011. It is a really hard task to get them running and you can forget about the emulator.
Most of our code from the middle of 90s until now works fine though. I guess it depends on the dependencies. I hate dependencies and always have, so we write code in such way that we abstract the barriers enough to not have too many issues over the decades.
We have some dependencies on old SDKs but we got them to run on modern Windows / Linux versions without emulation; never needed/used Symbian before so cannot speak to that.
It amuses me a little - the Ea-nāṣir tablet is pretty well known online but in the British Museum it's just in a case alongside a couple other tablets. If you didn't know what you were looking for you wouldn't notice it.
This site seems to use Apple's San Francisco Mono font in some places. Like for example in the ``Featured projects // 2020 Arctic Vault Program`` line. This font is only licensed to be used in/for Apple products. I'm on Ubuntu and do not have the font installed locally so they are clearly serving it remotely.
I wonder if it was some designer including it carelessly or if they legitimately found a way around the license.
Does anyone know how to access any of the repos listed in this vault? I’m after a particular one that was deleted earlier this year; has zero forks and does not show up in the way back machine.
What I find more interesting is the guide they wrote on how to make use of the vault itself, intended for people far in the future. I think it's also mostly marketing crap but there is some substance to it.
https://github.com/github/archive-program
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My code was sent to the north pole. All the segment faults. Invalid access. And stack overflows. And I was told that one day the vault would be moved to Pluto. An archive for humanity, carved on giant obelisks made of granite. There lies my code, silently rendering compiler error, and consuming extra threads, even it’s a static cast on the monument. Observed by all the stellar travellers carrying different types of editor themes. Please tell them I like Nord the most.
“If you don’t make it beautiful, it’s for sure doomed”: Arctic Code Vault - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32964947 - Sept 2022 (1 comment)
GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24099167 - Aug 2020 (95 comments)
GitHub buries 21 TB open-source code in Arctic vault for 1k years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23891540 - July 2020 (64 comments)
All 21 TB of code on GitHub was moved to cold storage at an actual Arctic vault - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23879959 - July 2020 (3 comments)
Arctic Code Vault Contributor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23871126 - July 2020 (71 comments)
The GitHub Arctic Code Vault - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860659 - July 2020 (89 comments)
Long Now Partners with GitHub on Long-Term Archive Program for Open Source Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21881964 - Dec 2019 (2 comments)
GitHub Arctic Code Vault - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21597527 - Nov 2019 (2 comments)
GitHub Archive Program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527667 - Nov 2019 (245 comments)
I tried to compile some legacy code for a few extant Symbian OS phones. The IDE and SDK are from 2011. It is a really hard task to get them running and you can forget about the emulator.
We have some dependencies on old SDKs but we got them to run on modern Windows / Linux versions without emulation; never needed/used Symbian before so cannot speak to that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81...
I wonder if it was some designer including it carelessly or if they legitimately found a way around the license.