pinewurst
Re:Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office
on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:31AM (#50244405)
Another veteran of that era. I think their cult-like behaviors and death marches are falsely remembered as glorious mission. I was in two recognizable startups in that era and, 35 years later, still have disturbing dreams about one of them. What I really, truly miss is lone wolf software development, God bless it!
Re:It's Time to Take Starlink Away from Elon Musk
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:58PM (#50199553)
While Krugman has never met anything he wouldn’t nationalize, it’s legitimate and traditional for national entities to enforce communications carrier controls in the national interest.
Re:Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS du...
on Monday October 12, 2026 @01:47AM (#50051829)
Re:Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:19PM (#49982120)
University of Arizona? I remember their antediluvian Cyber in 1984 and helping my roommates punch Fortran on cards. I at least got to use a VAX 11/750.
Re:Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:26PM (#49949281)
One can argue that CDC was obliviously dead by the early 70s.
Incompatible, increasingly archaic platforms, the best of those optimal for batch Fortran number crunching, counter to industry growth/interest. Organizational metastasis with a next gen platform (Cyber 180 as Star was stillborn - CISC from hell as 2nd system(s) syndrome) only at the end of the decade. Standards, coupled with profound organizational incompetence, ground it to dust. They made really good OEM disk drives for a while but sold the business off to fund their continuing failures.
There really needs to be a history that’s not an encomium to William Norris, Philosopher King of CDC.
Re:Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @04:50PM (#49947638)
The secret lives of men who read romance books
Tech elites launch college alternative, raises $42M
Re:The Interim Computer Museum
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:35PM (#49685796)
I believe it's the LCM items that either didn't sell or were not considered worthy of auction by Jody Allen and her droogs.
Re:Microsoft Surface Duo
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @08:49PM (#49636784)
(2020)
Is Russia's rival to Starlink failing?
Re:Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them
on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:47PM (#49484623)
(2018)
Re:Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the End
on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:33AM (#49459736)
(2025)
Re:Gaza children grew up flying kites,now Israel say they will be trea...
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @12:11PM (#49436428)
Re:Three tough truths about climate – Bill Gates
on Sunday August 23, 2026 @12:40PM (#49410224)
(2025)
Re:Z80–The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive
on Saturday August 22, 2026 @10:27AM (#49400105)
(on a 600 Mhz Teensy 4.1)
Successful first‑stage recovery of the Zhuque‑3 rocket
Re:Dario's wife tried to raise money from Epstein for a porn studio
on Thursday August 13, 2026 @10:57PM (#49294300)
Re:Come for Eniac, Stay for Univac and Skeduflo
on Thursday August 13, 2026 @01:26PM (#49289156)
That’s a really good book!
Re:The Bit Player: My Father with Steve Zissou
on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @10:15PM (#49281086)
His space books are very good.
Re:That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
on Monday August 03, 2026 @11:26PM (#49164085)
I’ve been through the Microsoft loop(s) several times over the years, and (to borrow from Tolstoy) each was unhappy in its own way. There were great people who would have been a pleasure to work with but always at least one joker in the deck. One just had to laugh because it was so obvious it wasn’t me.
I remember speeding through the loop for something closely analogous to my job at the time, only to be suddenly told by the hiring manager (who up to that time was a strong supporter) in a final interview that I wasn’t qualified. Not wanting to invest any more energy, I formally withdrew, only to get a call from him protesting why I’d do such a thing. Or being told to leave at the end of the day only to be called to drive back 20 miles immediately during dinner, and finding out later that was a mistake. Or being literally screamed at (spittle in my face!) that HPC was only MPI and nothing but MPI. Or being yelled at that Windows Server was exactly the same as an enterprise storage system like EMC/HP/Hitachi. The hits go on.
Re:Migrants swim from Morocco to Spanish enclave of Ceuta
on Thursday July 30, 2026 @11:03PM (#49118530)
They’re called “minefields”.
Re:IBM Acquiring HRL Laboratories
on Friday July 24, 2026 @10:12PM (#49043862)
Good experience for an IBM takeover then.
News Corp countersues Brave for allegedly 'scraping' articles for AI
Beyond Nerva Nuclear Propulsion for Humanity's Expanse into the Cosmos
Re:A Most Sinful Man
on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:41PM (#48896136)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter
Says a multiply offending sex offender and Russian sock puppet.
Anything he’s against, I have to be strenuously for.
Re:American Loneliness
on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:08PM (#48885336)
Re:'Ziplink Is Now Froggle': The Story Behind the Fake AI Ads That Wen...
on Sunday July 12, 2026 @03:01PM (#48883595)