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Danny Hillis was an MIT colleague of a friend of mine. Didn't know until now that Connection Machine had Darpa funding.

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 h…

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 (w…

Scratch was written by some of the same people behind popular versions of Logo used in the 80's

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.

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.

Actually, the entire incident can be seen as an effective educational exercise.

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.

you know, a billion here and a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.

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.

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.

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-base…

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 th…

Vegas location is a big clue. Read about Howard Hughes associates and casino finance history.

Be careful what you ask for. If companies need to be profitable to be considered successful, where will it end?

Elba?

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.

ref: Theranos

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 becau…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.