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Nokia suffered from lack of direction from the top... They had both symbian and maemo, both officially blessed, but incompatible. Symbian was the past and maemo had promise, so wha…

If you are talking about the Butler Lampson talk that Alan Kay mentions, I would also be interested if anyone has found this somewhere ...

Sweet website, been meaning to pick up a copy of the Dream Machine...

Steve Yegge had a lot of similar stories about Amazon here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiqYKF0WzjQ

https://www.amazon.com/Internal-Non-Raid-Adapter-Desktop-Sup... Haven't tried it personally, but maybe it works? :)

Pretty neat. I have been thinking about how I can build a tiny NAS, but I would like ECC so that rules out the pi, etc. Best option I have found so far might be this ASRock 4x4-v20…

It might not be a great analogy but its hilarious.

I guess this is cool, but maybe they should focus on actually making Windows Terminal into a usable terminal emulator first. I've found so many bugs with it and it still doesn't ev…

Seriously watch every Alan Kay (not the survivalist) video on youtube, you will not regret it. It's practically criminal that they have such low view counts.

Am I the only one that finds these BD robots kind of repulsive? They are so weird and alien and... unnatural.

For 2020 its gotta be: David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

I was a cog at Nokia during the time the iPhone was released. So look forward to reading this and hope it sheds some light on Nokia's implosion. It felt like Nokia cut its own head…

I replaced Chrome with Brave more than a year ago and I recommend it as basically a better version of Chrome. The script blocking feature is especially useful for nytimes, and othe…

Excellent video and nice write-up!

i3-8100 cpus support ECC

Noscript is incredibly fussy and hard to use. Also it does not have the 'allow scripts [to run] once' ability afaict.

I've been using Brave most of this year and really like it. The killer feature for me is that it lets you disable scripts for individual websites or 'Allow scripts once'. This basi…

bazqux.com, highly recommend.

For better or worst, reading Dijkstra always reminds of these funny (I think) comments that Alan Kay made in 1997... "Arrogance in Computer Science is measured in nano-Dijkstras" -…

I imagine a lot of people here might be too young to know about Steve K Roberts. He had an earlier bike called WINNEBIKO (II?). Imagine yourself as a kid in the 80s watching someth…

These discussions always remind me of this MMM blog about his experience being an Uber driver: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/11/22/mr-money-mustache... This is one of my fav…

I am a big fan of Lanier. I think he provides a very interesting perspective on social media and the future that I haven't found elsewhere. I really recommend watching this recent …

You would actually need to raise your original price 43% to cover Apple's 30%. And yeah I agree, I am surprised more Apps don't take this approach. But perhaps it is discouraged so…

Trying to paint this 17-year old kid as a criminal mastermind strikes me as rather gross. I can see it as a kid doing it to see if he could, and using an obviously meme-worthy fake…

I recently took my GF to the ER because she had been stung by a bee and was worried she was allergic. She was feeling dizzy but once we were in the ER she started feeling better. T…