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by icedata 2mo ago
Danny Hillis was an MIT colleague of a friend of mine. Didn't know until now that Connection Machine had Darpa funding.
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by icedata 2mo ago
I worked with Seymour Papert when he was chairman of Logo Computer Systems. Also the author (with Marvin Minsky) of Perceptrons, an early book on Neural Networks. Really ahead of his time.
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by icedata 2y ago
We never even tried email marketing at my current company. At my previous one we had a lot of issues (boss didn't believe that spamassassin would block our efforts, he was wrong (we weren't initially using an email marketing plat
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by icedata 2y ago
Scratch was written by some of the same people behind popular versions of Logo used in the 80's
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by icedata 3y ago
I went to Regus a few times several years ago when they had a promotion in Toronto. Even for free, it sucked. Bad atmosphere, claustrophobic, etc.
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by icedata 3y ago
At LCSI we had assemblers and debugging tools for 6502, x86 and others written in LMI Lisp, which we used to create several popular commercial versions of Logo.
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by icedata 4y ago
Actually, the entire incident can be seen as an effective educational exercise.
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by icedata 4y ago
Not PDP-8, but PDP-11, the time my former boss went to Algeria to fix one on his own and succeeded. That's all I know about it. You can make up stuff to fill in the blanks.
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by icedata 4y ago
you know, a billion here and a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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by icedata 4y ago
Having worked with Steve for a while, I can assure you that he believes he was ripped off. Only a judge can decide for sure.
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by icedata 4y ago
ditto. Using git takes the worry out of using it, gives you a granular restoration process. I've only needed it once in the last year, but it was worth it. I use plain emacs.
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by icedata 4y ago
We tried it the other way. I worked for a decade at Logo Computer Systems, where the principal designer of Scratch used to work. Eventually schools tired of teaching kids text-based coding.
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by icedata 4y ago
I completely agree. I live in Canada, and run a weekly Zoom call on startups etc. We have quite a few members from India, Latin America and elsewhere and I find it useful to get their perspectives. I even have callers from China (you nee
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by icedata 4y ago
Vegas location is a big clue. Read about Howard Hughes associates and casino finance history.
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by icedata 5y ago
Be careful what you ask for. If companies need to be profitable to be considered successful, where will it end?
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by icedata 5y ago
Elba?
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by icedata 5y ago
I just printed out the pdf version of the book. I found a shop that would bind it for me and print it double-sided.
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by icedata 5y ago
ref: Theranos
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by icedata 5y ago
I also use git to make backups of my org-mode files. I made a simple script in git bash for windows to commit changes to local repo and then push to a remote repo. I did this because I discovered that dropbox was no longer versioning my o
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by icedata 5y ago
I tried to use GTD for quite a while. I abandoned it in favor of Timeboxing, using Work Clean for the precise implementation. I used org-mode to put it to use, it's flexible enough even though GTD was a big influence on its design.
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by icedata 5y ago
Key point here is that the VA donated the land. In the 20's in Germany, many homes were built on land donated by various churches. Churches, groups like the VA and others own a lot of land, if they can be convinced to help out it wou
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by icedata 5y ago
I deployed the open-source version of Canvas for use at a summer course at a university in Beijing (it was done remotely). Just getting it installed was the hardest part. We hosted on Alibaba in Hong Kong (no web site license required ther
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by icedata 5y ago
Reminds me of Logo as well (I worked for the top producer of Logo implementations). Would be interesting to read some comment on its lineage from the designers.
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by icedata 5y ago
Digital Ocean isn't accessible in China. Lightsail and AWS are. GCP also works. We hosted in Japan and HK on Lightsail for production projects for use in mainland China. We did run into the performance cap, so eventually switched fr
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by icedata 5y ago
I use emacs and org-mode all day long, and never tweak it unless there's a really strong reason. My goal is to keep it as close to vanilla as possible.
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by icedata 5y ago
Hi Talaba, can you provide a little more detail about which Lisp libraries you use?
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by icedata 5y ago
Recently, in large parts of the Greater Toronto Area, it has not been legal to rent out rooms in your house. It was and is legal in the original city of Toronto and other municipalities that were later incorporated into the megacity. Ther
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by icedata 5y ago
Same thing happened to me with Digi-comp II, although I was the kid and I thought that I had screwed up the assembly. The model printed on the cover had wooden bars and looked a lot more reliable, but the production model was plastic and n
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by icedata 5y ago
We do our daily meetings audio-only and it's definitely less stressful. Less is more.
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by icedata 5y ago
Later Logo development took place at several firms, including LCSI in Montreal (I worked there for ten years). Later versions were cross-assembled on Lisp Machines, and later on on Apple IIGS with 4 MB of ram (custom lisp version).

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