Wolfram is a notorious misogynist. I recall hearing complaints how badly his staff was treated. From finding socks to finding pencils, this story is yet one of many highly highly distorted one.
Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
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#62The implicit sharing of his sleep schedule through his email times over the past 25 years makes me feel better about myself.
https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/data/uploads/2012/03/outgoin...
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#63Funny, I do this with my digital trash can: When I was consulting at Bell Labs in the early 1980s I saw that a friend of mine had two garbage cans in his office. When I asked him why, he explained that one was for genuine garbage and the other was a buffer into which he would throw documents that he thought he’d probably never want again. He’d let the buffer garbage can fill up, and once it was full, he’d throw away…
People do that with their deleted items in outlook.
helpdesk empties deleted items
Hey! I keep stuff in there!
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#64What’s HN’s opinion of Stephen Wolfram? Is he legit? Is the tome A New Kind of Science worth reading?
NKoS is definitely worth reading especially if you have "boolean" in your username. And it's mostly pictures anyway.
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#65Funny, I do this with my digital trash can: When I was consulting at Bell Labs in the early 1980s I saw that a friend of mine had two garbage cans in his office. When I asked him why, he explained that one was for genuine garbage and the other was a buffer into which he would throw documents that he thought he’d probably never want again. He’d let the buffer garbage can fill up, and once it was full, he’d throw away…
I do this but don't throw the documents away. Instead I put the "buffer" into longer term storage (read: jammed into a box in my shed that can at least be searched even if it takes ages). It turns out that, for me, there are quite a lot of things you suddenly need a year or more later that felt unimportant at the time.. insurance documents, warranties, car related documents that are useful when selling the car, docum…
I started following this same system, and after realizing how much sense it made, and how similar this system is to typical digital data storage system design, I concluded I should always design physical storage systems using the same mindset as data storage.
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#66Through the article I found he livestreams many of his meetings on Twitch! This is particularly candid moment I happen to find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGjvFyRk_4I&feature=youtu.be... edit: I wasn't aware of the negative opinions regarding his ego, but from listening to this meeting I can say they aren't unsubstantiated!
you know what's insane about that video? the CEO of a 100 (200?) person software company is writing docs. but then again i'm not surprised that wolfram is a micromanager.
And I quote...
> Usually we (which quite often actually means me) will write documentation for a function before the function is implemented.
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#67That envelope idea based on need (Hotel, Conference, Car, etC), that's a pretty slick idea.
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#68Through the article I found he livestreams many of his meetings on Twitch! This is particularly candid moment I happen to find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGjvFyRk_4I&feature=youtu.be... edit: I wasn't aware of the negative opinions regarding his ego, but from listening to this meeting I can say they aren't unsubstantiated!
you know what's insane about that video? the CEO of a 100 (200?) person software company is writing docs. but then again i'm not surprised that wolfram is a micromanager.
The article says 800. I can't imagine what it would be like, to be part of a machine of 800 people basically set up to cater to the whims of one overlord.
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#69The implicit sharing of his sleep schedule through his email times over the past 25 years makes me feel better about myself. https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/data/uploads/2012/03/outgoin...
What happened in 2002?
EDIT: oh, NKS. https://www.google.com/search?q=when+was+wolfram+nks+release...
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#70The implicit sharing of his sleep schedule through his email times over the past 25 years makes me feel better about myself. https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/data/uploads/2012/03/outgoin...
What happened in 2002? EDIT: oh, NKS. https://www.google.com/search?q=when+was+wolfram+nks+release...
The article says
>The big empty spaces are when I’m asleep, and, yes, as I’ve changed projects—e.g. finishing A New Kind of Science in 2002—my sleep habits have changed; I’m also now trying an experiment of going to sleep earlier