The link seems to point to "No Dignity Speedrun Any%" instead of anything related to Dave Cutler?.. EDIT: The link is correct now.
how far did you get into No Dignity Speedrun Any% before realizing something was off
Dave Cutler on Windows [video]
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Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]
#142The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…
About 3 days ago, I watched a single 10 second Short on a Soufflé from my recommendations page and since then half my recommendations are soufflé videos. This is not a joke, and “half” is pretty accurate. I’m pretty sure something is broken or YouTube added an LLM to the recommendations engine.
The new YouTube CEO has taken things in a dramatically worse direction.
Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]
#143I keep meaning to try ask Bill Gates this question whenever he does one of his Reddit AMAs: Bill, what are you most proud of out of the following two: 1. Getting Cutler to come over from DEC and spearhead NT. 2. Committing to backwards compatibility early on, that ensured old apps Just Worked on new versions of Windows. I don’t think Microsoft would look like it currently does without either of those two historical p…
Cutler credits Steve Ballmer as the reason he joined Microsoft in the linked video.
Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]
#144The interviewer, Dave Plummer, is also is also an amazingly interesting person in his own right. I particularly enjoyed his retro-coding videos, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY The videos are really interesting and his background muzak and RGB lighting puts me in a Christmas mood. He generally put Microsoft in a completely different light than I'm us…
Dave's Garage is a channel with genuinely interesting content and is very knowledgeable about all things Microsoft/Windows.
However (I hate to be this guy) take everything he says about non Microsoft/Windows stuff with a huge grain of salt. Especially after this comment he made [1]:
>"No, Windows is a closed-source operating system loved by millions. Linux is an open-source operating system which includes a binary blob from Linus Torvalds built into EVERY release that ONLY he has the source code for. Pick your poison. They're both closed, one just has the illusion of transparency."
I thought this was fake but you can check the link as the comment is not deleted yet.
Again I reiterate, Dave's garage has very interesting content, but take everything out of his expertise with some scepticism.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqWjq2SdzpI&lc=UgwFYyE8lw0hQ...
Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]
#145Near the tail end of WinNT 3.1 development, I read an article (possibly from Usenet) about someone creating a screensaver that showed a bluescreen. I had never created a screensaver before. I could reliably cause my WinNT dev box to bluescreen due to a bug in an internal Microsoft network driver. So I read the docs for writing a Windows screensaver. After writing down the values shown for my bluescreen, I cobbled tog…
Was the BSOD screensaver from sysinternals by Mark Russinovich?
I had installed the same and couple of my colleagues sitting around me had done the same.
Our CTO (Robotics simulation software) was visiting and had an early morning meeting. He saw this on all screens and had a minor panic attack fearing a virus outbreak or software bug.
Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]
#146I was hoping to get some insight into the roots of NT. At the time my understanding was that it resulted from the split between IBM and MSFT and that MSFT was already developing NT based on their derivative of OS/2. That was IIRC before Dave Cutler went to MSFT.
Later on that (OS/2 -> NT) seems to have been scrubbed from history and NT is now derived from VMS. I'm curious where the truth lies.
It was well documented at the time that early NT error messages occasionally identified themselves as OS/2.
I'm over an hour in and not sure how close I'm getting to that. At about 1:09:00 Cutler states that they "developed NT on OS/2" but I think he meant their toolchain was hosted on OS/2 (and they couldn't wait to get off of it.)
Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]
#147I keep meaning to try ask Bill Gates this question whenever he does one of his Reddit AMAs: Bill, what are you most proud of out of the following two: 1. Getting Cutler to come over from DEC and spearhead NT. 2. Committing to backwards compatibility early on, that ensured old apps Just Worked on new versions of Windows. I don’t think Microsoft would look like it currently does without either of those two historical p…
Cutler credits Steve Ballmer as the reason he joined Microsoft in the linked video.
Oh, absolutely. I more meant from the "CEO of Microsoft" perspective; I guess I could ask Ballmer the same thing if he did an AMA.
Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]
#148Near the tail end of WinNT 3.1 development, I read an article (possibly from Usenet) about someone creating a screensaver that showed a bluescreen. I had never created a screensaver before. I could reliably cause my WinNT dev box to bluescreen due to a bug in an internal Microsoft network driver. So I read the docs for writing a Windows screensaver. After writing down the values shown for my bluescreen, I cobbled tog…
Was the BSOD screensaver from sysinternals by Mark Russinovich? I had installed the same and couple of my colleagues sitting around me had done the same. Our CTO (Robotics simulation software) was visiting and had an early morning meeting. He saw this on all screens and had a minor panic attack fearing a virus outbreak or software bug.
A much younger version of myself put that screensaver on my workstation at work.
A week or so later, one the IT folks passes me at lunch -- "Hey, your computer is on the fritz, it keeps rebooting and going to a blue screen ..." :)
Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]
#149I haven't watched this video yet but I'm looking forward to it, having read Showstopper[1] quite a few years back. One thing that stuck out to me when I was still in my early 20s thinking I needed to work all the time was the mention that Dave would always take holidays on time, every time without any debate. While I may not love Microsoft, it was probably my first real exposure of a highly competent and qualified pe…
And really, it primarily benefits business owners who live by a different motto (making money work for you). Each employee who “puts the nose to the grindstone”/“puts their back in to it” generates more profit for the company but doesn’t need to be paid more. Then when their health deteriorates enough that they can’t do the work they can be replaced.
Apologies for the roughness of this late-night reply. I feel like people here know this intuitively already anyway.
Re: Dave Cutler on Windows [video]
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ads are awful on purpose, so people buy Premium. Then, once users pay for Premium, they can do the same as cable TV and _still_ sell ads. Easy 2x revenue.
Premium does not have ads. I know because I don’t see them. Sponsorships do not count because they’re placed by the creators themselves.
> Sponsorships do not count
If the ad makes it to my eyeballs, it counts.