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I knew of Emily Wilson and her credentials when I wrote my comment. For what it’s worth, I think there’s a case to be made that Gareth Hinds‘ adaptation of The Odyssey was just as …

When I read a critique that could roughly be summarized as "I could have done better" my response generally falls somewhere between "you should" and "I'd like to see you try". Not …

This is one of my all time favorite games. It and Shenzhen I/O do a wonderful job of capturing the essence of what makes programming fun and put them into a game. My biggest surpri…

This comment resonated with me in a way that few pieces of writing do. My only complaint is that it’s perhaps too short. I get the impression that you could turn this comment into …

Can anybody point me at any interviews of Fabrice? I've looked several times (including just now) and I can't find /anything/ - am I missing something obvious?

I helped set up the first meeting between a Microsoft executive and Thomas Preston-Werner. One of the moments that stood out to me was when Robert Youngjohns (the exec) asked Tom w…

I uninstalled it because I have no need for Claude Desktop and there’s no way to keep the 10+ GiB VM image off of my machine

Slate seems closer to shipping a ~$30k electric pickup: https://www.slate.auto

John C. Mallery of MIT

Tangentially related: Since you are at Texas Instruments, I wonder if you could find out what the status is of the intellectual property for the TI Explorer lisp machines. I know w…

It has no cosponsors and hasn’t been presented to a committee yet. It’s like calling a bowl of flour, water, and yeast a “new bread”

I think that’s why the document had some suggested pushback to meeting invites (e.g. “what’s the agenda so I can prepare”)

As somone who vigorously declines meetings, this gave me some extra criteria to use (estimated speaking time per attendee) What I found the most useful was the focus that was put o…

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I came here to see if AppHarbor was still running and was pleased to see this post :D

Interesting. Langley isn’t that far away

It’s weird, and a little unnerving, to have a line from Anathem by Neil Stephenson immediately come to mind: “Can you read? And by that I don’t just mean interpreting Logotype…” “N…

That’s my interpretation

Yes, this was a plot point in GATTACA

I found found this post to be very interesting and am grateful that you wrote it.

> The visual real-time image OCR stuff was an app they purchased (Magic Lens?) that I had previously used. Word Lens, by Quest Visual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_Visual

I've spent many delightful hours playing Zack's games and look forward to trying out this one.

I love this background information. I hope you’re backing up those MIDI files!

Sweet! Do you have anything written up yet?