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davidmurphy

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About davidmurphy

Tech Events @ Computer History History Museum, TechFire.

Previously co-founded Hotline Communications Ltd. (client-server software used by Apple, Avid, & millions of individuals worldwide in the late 1990s)

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48372858

    Thing is: I want macOS, not Windows.

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    Comment #48283811

    or, run your own Hotline server https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications

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    Comment #48251804

    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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    Comment #46801304

    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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    Comment #46801174

    download the Whole Foods app. It solely exists to display the QR code on startup.

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    Comment #46133195

    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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    Comment #44904307

    Love to see this.

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    Comment #44496611

    love this

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    Comment #44383209

    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. Do…

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    Comment #44184381

    Speaking personally, I find this utterly deplorable.

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    Comment #43957765

    It's an absolute shame Apple killed their car project

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    Comment #43921225

    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 nolstalg…

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    Comment #43911122

    awesome. I shared this with colleagues at the Computer History Museum!!

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    Comment #43497097

    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: Sébasti…

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    Comment #43041333

    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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    Comment #42981880

    so cool to hear how Hotline impacted you -- really cool.

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    Comment #42981699

    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…

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    Comment #42419997

    sweet! thanks for posting

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    Comment #42335014

    Anyone who read "The Mac is not a typewriter" — a fantastic book of the early computer age — likely uses em dashes.