It's always fun when an old relic pops up in ye olde RSS reader. His feed would have been one of the originals I started following 25 years ago or so.
Dang we're getting old ey?
Not old. Experienced.
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#22Including all the mentally unwell people/trolls in the comments who have become obsessed with Bob's Minecraft server project that did not work out.
Their righteous indignation will valiantly carry forth forever! Let them never stop obsessing! "But it matters!" "It's really important!" "He's a liar, and boy our society is collapsing because of liars!". Urghh. They are in the comments here too, riding high white horses.
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#24I absolutely loved his "Triumph of the nerds" trilogy. It's my childhood!
Me too! I have a list of similar content here: https://github.com/superjamie/lazyweb/wiki/General-Tech-Ente... Haven't updated it in a long time but hope you find something nice.
Thank you for sharing this! Its always fun to realize when either friends or fellow nerds happen to share a MASSIVE intersection of entertainment.
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#25It's always fun when an old relic pops up in ye olde RSS reader. His feed would have been one of the originals I started following 25 years ago or so.
I’m not going to be able to find the reference in my head, but I thought there had been a couple Bob’s over the years.
The descent into IBM hiring/etc is when I sort of last stopped reading.
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#26It's always fun when an old relic pops up in ye olde RSS reader. His feed would have been one of the originals I started following 25 years ago or so.
I’m not going to be able to find the reference in my head, but I thought there had been a couple Bob’s over the years. The descent into IBM hiring/etc is when I sort of last stopped reading.
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#27Including all the mentally unwell people/trolls in the comments who have become obsessed with Bob's Minecraft server project that did not work out. Their righteous indignation will valiantly carry forth forever! Let them never stop obsessing! "But it matters!" "It's really important!" "He's a liar, and boy our society is collapsing because of liars!". Urghh. They are in the comments here too, riding high white horses…
Sure, it's interesting there are still people out there who want to put him in his place or whatever. I think most people understand that's why you don't lie about the things like I've just learned this guy has. Especially if you depend on your name for your livelihood. or in this case, it's a pseudonym?
Maybe they should get over it but IMO everyone should pick their battles carefully, and just because it looks like they aren't doesn't mean it's worth your time. It's Mr. Cringely's cross to bear.
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#28I wouldn't be here if I hadn't somehow obtained and read Accidental Empires as a kid. Still no empire of my own though :(
Recently I've been thinking about the nerds/hippie dichotomy from that book. Really missing the anti-authoritarian streak that was so formative in the early computer industry.
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For clarity, he has a master's degree, not a Ph.D. Via NYTime Nov. 16, 1998 article "Compressed Data; Stanford Gave Writer A Start, but Not a Ph.D." - "The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week that Mr. Stephens had not been a professor at Stanford University and had not earned a doctorate there, as he had claimed." "A university spokeswoman said that Mr. Stephens had worked as a teaching assistant and earned on…
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#30This reading like an em-dash enthusiast wrote it.