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Love his writing style. Accessible yet detailed with fun historical tangents to set context.

I was hoping someone would reference that. One of my favorite Stross books, and a decade since reading it I frequently think back to it and worry about this mass of data we’re crea…

Wow, I had no recollection of that. My mistake.

Netscape never charged users. Perhaps you’re thinking of Opera. The reasons IE won over Netscape are many, but bundling with dominant OS and embracing/extending standards such that…

I backed that project, and I really like the scissors I received. Terribly sad to hear about the all-too-human real-life difficulties with the firm.

I think you summed it up quite nicely. I developed the original Mac port, I guess about 15 years ago now. I’m pretty conflicted as to what’s happened with Synergy recently, but not…