davidmurphy

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by davidmurphy 4mo ago
Thing is: I want macOS, not Windows.
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by davidmurphy 4mo ago
or, run your own Hotline server https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications
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by davidmurphy 4mo ago
What the Trump administration has done, and is doing, to people wildly obscene — and I think evil. Let's not mince words. My heart goes out to everyone impacted by all this.
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by davidmurphy 8mo ago
CHM employee here. Always great to see CHM on HN. Glad folks are excited about this -- as are we! There's so much cool stuff in the Collection.
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by davidmurphy 8mo ago
download the Whole Foods app. It solely exists to display the QR code on startup.
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by davidmurphy 8mo ago
I agree.
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by davidmurphy 10mo ago
nope, been there as an entrepreneur where you have NO available funds when the Squarespace renewal hits. It's a lot.
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by davidmurphy 1y ago
Love to see this.
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by davidmurphy 1y ago
love this
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by davidmurphy 1y ago
As a CHM staffer who produced the Lisa@40 and Mac@40 events, I'm so gratified to hear these were as meaningful to you as they were to me! :) So grateful to have you as a member. Don't miss our upcoming 1995 retrospective event fo
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by davidmurphy 1y ago
Speaking personally, I find this utterly deplorable.
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by davidmurphy 1y ago
whoa!!
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by davidmurphy 1y ago
It's an absolute shame Apple killed their car project
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by davidmurphy 1y ago
As a lifelong Mac geek (I work for the Computer History Museum, where I organized our Macintosh 40th Anniversary and Lisa 40th events), I just want to say love this :) The nolstalgia is real. Thanks for your hard work!
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by davidmurphy 1y ago
awesome. I shared this with colleagues at the Computer History Museum!!
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"Hands off working COBOL code" –protest sign in NYC(old.reddit.com)
50 points by davidmurphy 1y ago|8 comments
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by davidmurphy 1y ago
On a somewhat related note, check out the video of Tuesday's Computer History Museum x IEEE Spectrum event, "The Great Chatbot Debate: Do LLMs Really Understand?" Speakers: Sébastien Bubeck (OpenAI) and Emily M. Bender (Unive
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by davidmurphy 2y ago
Has anyone seen any indication the UK might be demanding similar backdoors in Signal? Is Signal likely to be compromised too?
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by davidmurphy 2y ago
so cool to hear how Hotline impacted you -- really cool.
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by davidmurphy 2y ago
So cool to load HN and see this. I was on Hotline's founding team in the 90s that joined with Adam Hinkley to promote and grow Hotline -- here's a press release I wrote for Hotline's appearance at Macworld Expo SF '98:
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by davidmurphy 2y ago
sweet! thanks for posting
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by davidmurphy 2y ago
Anyone who read "The Mac is not a typewriter" — a fantastic book of the early computer age — likely uses em dashes.
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by davidmurphy 2y ago
US didn't have it to my knowledge, so it was indeed a novelty when visiting Europe in the 90s to experience it.
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by davidmurphy 2y ago
outrageous. gov't should be massively funding at an absolutely epic scale
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by davidmurphy 2y ago
Workers should not return to the office. WFH or remote work should be permanent for all -- CEOs and low level staffers.
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by davidmurphy 2y ago
Time to email exec team https://www.elliott.org/company-contacts/hilton/
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by davidmurphy 2y ago
I'd like to see outdoor park / landscape designers actually think of shade issues when thinking of shade umbrellas, shade roof overheads, etc. I used to work outdoors somewhere where the "shade" providing roof and umbrel
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by davidmurphy 2y ago
I work at CHM, and we had a staff lunch today coincidentally. I raised a (non-alcoholic) toast in tribute to Gordon Bell with colleagues as we dined at my lunch table. Grateful for his legacy! Here he is speaking at a CHM event last year on
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by davidmurphy 2y ago
I'm a big believer in Reddit, but NOT its current CEO, Steve Huffman, who has shown some horrible leadership. (See: how he handled third party apps.) He has to go.
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by davidmurphy 2y ago
Physical security is what you need. Buy this strap for your door lock while you're inside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoWGgH1YBC0 https://www.redteamtools.com/super_grip_deadbolt_strap

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