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by ssvt 7mo ago
Maybe I’m slow (alright, I know I am) but it seems to me that HN has jumped the shark with it’s apparent shift to “all AI, all the time” making me lose interest. Yes, I won’t let the door hit me in the ass on the way out…
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by ssvt 1y ago
I would add that after reading The Machine Stops you should read Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons" from 1951. Talk about prescient! It reads like a meld of Idiocracy and the current U.S. administration. From the Wikipedia ent
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by ssvt 2y ago
Agreed! Built my first e-commerce site with Homesite and Coldfusion in 1996.
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by ssvt 2y ago
Nice story. If you haven't read the Rabbit series I heartily recommend it along with all of Updike's works. And it makes me a little sad that I check the comments here and see I'm the first leading me to believe that John Up
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by ssvt 6y ago
Good on you for posting here and please follow all the advice about seeking professional help. It may take time but it will help. You will get through to the other side. In my case, due to a buyout, I lost me job over two years ago and felt
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by ssvt 6y ago
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson (relatively new) and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.
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by ssvt 6y ago
Global Network Navigator: https://www.oreilly.com/gnn/ O'Reilly at the time was my go-to for anything tech. Loved the look of their books. I was a CompuServe moderator at the time - pre-AOL even, and ran a small B
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by ssvt 8y ago
1984
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by ssvt 8y ago
I used to be a CompuServe forum manager 25 years ago and got started with dialup BBS using Qmodem at 2400bps. Sent mail via FidoNet and loved it. Got my first internet access when IBM offered accounts to the general public. Our small office