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That’s correct. The best example is that of cellophane tape which was a brand but it lost protection. Xerox very aggressive in the day and wrote lawyer letters to anyone who used X…

No one knew the market at the time. Clearly this was for large businesses and not a home computer. It targeted the same demographic as the Xerox Star which shipped before it and su…

All these years I thought The Dragon Book referred to the “Green” Dragon book (which was the text I used in my compiler class in the very early 80s) only to Just realize that when …

Mesa was my first language that I used out of Collage for the seven years that I worked on the Xerox Star document editor. The job where I learned more in 6 months than I did in 4 …

Being a physics researcher he built a time machine and in late 2001 went back in time to post it.

More likely late 82 or even 83 when you saw it.

The desktop metaphor absolutely was in the Xerox Star and that was copied by the Lisa team (and carried over to the Mac) after they viewed it when Star was first announce. That’s w…

I was there and it’s true. Another point that people forget was the Head/CEO of Palm (which was an independent subsidiary) at the time was Jon Rubinstein who was head of software a…

I was at Palm when launched working on the device end user software startup experience. The software I think was ready but the hardware was far inferior to the current iPad at the …

There is mortality and there is quality of life and someone who is fit will have a better quality of life even if they don’t necessarily live longer.

Yes, making UI’s is not a new problem but building on top of the DOM/HTML as the backbone is. I too am from the before times where I guess we built essentially our own frameworks t…

But you can Copyright the Name of a font. But yes long standing rule says you can copyright how letters & numbers look. Note that if you make a font that contains your own “artwork…

We used these for my first CS class at UCSB in 1979 running the UCSD P-System and they were great machines. It was frankly a much better system than the shared university IBM mainf…

In the mid 90s (1996?) So myself and 3 others worked for Intuit and we traveled, from Mountain View CA, to your tiny office near Harvard to look at acquiring the company. I believe…

NYT is worth paying for and is one of the few institutions doing real journalism these days. It would be said to see if go.

Never heard of the Xerox Palo computer and I worked at Xerox for much of the 80s. Xerox made a lot of different machines (mostly but not exclusive in the D-Machine family) but if t…

Yup similar rates to PG&E although most of PG&Es customers don’t live in Silicon Valley. Only Municipal power companies like in Sacramento, LA, Palo Alto & Santa Clara to name a fe…

In CA, in 2025, if you have PG&E it’s approx 55 cents/kwh at peak, non-peak rates are lower but the average ands up being close 50 cents. It’s close to the highest in the country.

No rates are high excluding the wildfires which has a separate surcharge to finance. But PGE having to provide power to wilderness areas in genera costs all PG&E customers to bear …

Perhaps it is ‘undocumented’ and is used as proof of someone copying the source code some portion of the source code. Another possibility is that is a special institution in the ch…

A little more complicated because in some settings drugs are covered by Medicare part B but generally not if administered yourself at home. Then yes it’s part D and the most out of…

That’s because Medicare only covers drugs for approved FDA usage. It’s covered for diabetes but not weight loss. In general this is good policy. It is possible to challenge for som…

Over 65, outside drugs delivered in a clinic, hospital or doctors office you don’t get drug coverage UNLESS you pay for it through Part D Medicare, have a Medicare Advantage pan (t…

Musk firing people at random was not an exaggeration. My friend was head of all software at Tesla for the original car and much of the Model S development. Musk would routinely fir…

As another aside to this story, when I was at Intuit Bill Campbell who was on the Apple Board and CEO/Board Member of Intuit in 1999 or 2000 arranged for my project (An entirely in…