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"You know about death...that it's just a change, not an end." – The Log Lady

I worked on Cyc as a visiting student for a couple of summers; built some visualization tools to help people navigate around the complex graph. But I never was quite sold on the pr…

I don't like working on killing machines either. But we shouldn't forget that the internet and basically all of computation originated out of defense research. That might be good o…

Seriously, WTF? The whole point of Emacs is that it is a radically customizable platform, and if you don't like the behavior of some feature you can modify it yourself with a few l…

Location: San Francisco Remote: yes Willing to relocate: possible Technologies: Clojure, Java, SQL, Python, R, Dataviz, Typescript, Spark... Résumé/CV: https://hyperphor.com/mike-t…

I founded the original unix-haters list that the book is based off of. What I say these days: Unix went from the worst operating system around, to the best, without getting appreci…

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Nice resource, but it desperately needs an index or full-text search feature. I grew up on Whole Earth Catalog (and Ted Nelson's Computer Lib / Dream Machines, another great counte…

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That's a much better name actually.

Sad news. I had the honor of participating in a workshop he organized on Inconsistency Robustness in 2011, that was an interesting gathering. https://www.amazon.com/Inconsistency-R…

Logical Versus Analogical or Symbolic Versus Connectionist or Neat Versus Scruffy: https://ojs.aaai.org//index.php/aimagazine/article/view/894 (from 1991, and a response to the rev…

Don't think that's quite right, TOPS-20 was actually a fork of the Tenex code and so was pretty similar. Not sure what the relationship with TOPS-10 was.

Not really, I was more interested in hacking than coursework, so that's what I did. But I dropped back in some years later when the Media Lab started up, finished up my BS and got …

I may be the only one here old enough to have worked on Tenex... around 1978 or so, I dropped out of MIT and went to work at BBN and did some extensions to Tenex / TOPS-20, includi…

Really nice work, especially for someone pretty new to development!

http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/ Carl Sagan: Cannabis enables nonmusicians to know a little about what it is like to be a musician, and nonartists to grasp the joys of art. But I am…

Spurious comparisons to Nazis are a favorite tactic of his -- he famously compared Obama to Hitler because they both had enthusiastic crowds for their speeches. It's a mystery to m…

> One difference in philosophy of Lisp and Haskell is that the latter makes liberal use of many tiny functions that do one single task. This is known as composability, or the UNIX …

And to nuke the Van Allen belts -- that one actually went forward: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2010/07/01/128170775/a...

I still have one of those, a hand-me-down from my father...was my first real camera.

Should include some mention of Richard Gabriel's "Habitability and Piecemeal Growth", a really good essay on this topic from almost 30 years ago... https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files…