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He called me into his office one day to play me a voicemail. It was Steve Jobs asking him what he could do to get MATLAB shipping on the Mac again. MathWorks had dropped the platfo…

Penny Anderson was in his office one day. They were trying to figure out which LAPACK numerical algorithm to use under the covers to power some MATLAB function. The different algor…

I was lucky to have the office across the hall from him at MathWorks around 2000. He was always interested in chatting with whomever came by and learning about what they were worki…

I think I recognize some of these as coming from a tiled background pack I used back in the 90s. Maybe associated with the Enlightenment Window Manager project?

Someone just needs to write “JSON5: The Good Parts” and an aggressive linter to enforce it.

Wonderful high-school-science-fair vibes from this title.

Direct link to source: https://twitter.com/dsnugentmalone/status/171535699852548549...

me: Facebook AI, please post a tender moment between me and my father when I was a boy. Include some photos. Facebook: I'd be happy to. Are there any more details you'd like to inc…

Me: Facebook AI, please post an entry about my vacation on Cape Cod and create a bunch of photos to go with it. Facebook: Great. I'd be happy to. Any more detail you'd like to add?…

These green squares helped John Resig for about 4 years: https://johnresig.com/blog/write-code-every-day/

The Daily has a good episode on how online sports betting moves into one state at a time: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/podcasts/the-daily/sports...

See also "Courtney Love does the math" (2000) for a similar analysis of the music industry: https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/

In email to customers: "Over the last 20 years, it’s been our privilege to protect our customers’ memories by hosting over 100 billion photos on our secure servers. We’re reaching …

Famously, upscaled Obama: https://twitter.com/Chicken3gg/status/1274314622447820801 I picture someone 20 years from now trying to find out what their parent really looked like when…

Famously, upscaled Obama: https://twitter.com/Chicken3gg/status/1274314622447820801 I'm with you, but I fear that horse is already out of the barn. I picture someone 20 years from …

Did I miss it or is there no photo of the new statue?

Dueling Carls (2010): https://youtu.be/t-7mQhSZRgM

jsMath, now MathJax, took all the wind out of MathML’s sails by rendering LaTeX equations in the client. I know that MathML is better in some ways, but the combination of downloadi…

I have a moment of morning when a podcast I love disappears behind a firewall, most recently Heavyweight. Then I remember there are tons of other great podcasts out there I’ve neve…

FYI: JWZ has long-since disavowed this attitude, and much else.

I recommend this podcast-miniseries "Hot Money: porn, power and profit" by the Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/762e4648-06d7-4abd-8d1e-ccefb74b3... It spends quite a bi…

How much of that $15M went into the sweet domain name, felt.com?

"So you convince yourself that you only need to implement 20% of the features, and you can still sell 80% as many copies. Unfortunately, it’s never the same 20%." https://www.joelo…