MrMan

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  1. Marking up text, printing, publishing, and distributing used to be their own world. A world with its own advances and efficiencies, but in 1920 one would probably not mistake it for "tech" of its day. That would…

  2. http://www.colorforth.com/cf.htm Chuck Moore characterizes modern software as "shameful." He writes "...an operating system is no longer necessary, if it ever was." Elsewhere on his site he claims: "There is no need to…

  3. How do we estimate the value of "owning" a new programming language? Treating the project of inventing and implementing a de novo programming language + IDE support + standard libraries as a startup, what might we…

  4. It's given that HN is a somewhat elite community of thought leaders and taste-makers. Any tumult one can create here has the potential to redound disproportionately to the benefit of the poster, if the poster is…

  5. Was F# viewed by MSFT as a cheap way to capture more developer mindshare, by accident, harvesting efforts by the research group? Or did they deliberately try to fill a niche they identified beforehand from marketing…

  6. I want to quit my job, but I am scared. I have enough money saved to possibly invest in other small companies or to pursue some kind of active investment strategy. I am a programmer, not a business person as such, and…