" It's so boring the kids are still complaining about people who have more money than them" That's not what they are complaining about; they are complaining about them rigging the system further in their favor to the…
I worked at SugarCRM for years. It's often easier than one suspects once you figured out what a customer pain points are and show them a less burdensome solve. Most businesses do not need the kitchen sink approach of…
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"Companies have shown us that IP going to AI providers is acceptable" This is where I'm expecting future collision; you can't both value IP for it's training value, and yet devalue it for the actual sources of IP…
This is....ridiculous. Does Meta also capture it's CEOs movements with such fidelity?
I still have my Sony Vaio from that period. Its on a shelf covered in stickers and signatures (e.g. Illiad, ESR, Commander Taco/Hemos, etc) as a kind of keepsake, since I suspect it wouldn't even boot up after so many…
"It's a delicious irony that E is now a super-lightweight system compared with the mainstream environments" Absolutely.
The amount of abuse I hurled at Carsten Haitzler (Raster) during our time at VA Linux (where he worked on E as well as other stuff) was a complete sitcom unto itself; at one point he debated making a "zeruch insult…
"A society unable to tolerate deviance from the norm, is a society that will fail to adapt to inevitable changes to the norm" I feel the same way about societies that continue to fail lessons of history and repeat the…
Nobody of a certain age. If you are over 35 you'll remember when they were known as a Chinese firm buying up all of the IBM Thinkpad business...
Hurd is long past ever being anything but a pet project of RMS and his familiars.
Xenix was worse, but only a little. Both it and HPUS were atrocities.
Good riddance. Of all the Unix variants I tried over the years, HP-UX was the second worst (that dishonor goes to Xenix). I remember giving a talk at Chico State University back in the dotcom era, and got a tour of the…
Network effects and an as-yet insufficient friction to leave en masse has kept LI in a semi-moated space. There have been competitors, but they are either niche (Zerply) or more regionally specific (Xing, with its focus…
Which college?
Vera-Augustin, the two founders.
"but I got the impression that their server line was just as important." They were far more important for the business.
They did. I actually worked on a few of those projects (e.g. Stampede Linux) One of these days I should blog about how we ended up hosting Python for years...
1. I have some serious biases against Penguin at the time (for...reasons) and frankly was never impressed with their product. 2. Without getting into a bunch of weird minutiae, we got big enough to be a threat to people…
Reddit was contemporary to Digg, it just survived 'better'
They didn't evolve into SF; SF was a project inside of VA that eventually became the flagship of what remained after the hardware and related services were excised. When they started (1998/99), Git wasn't a viable…
Some people can make a living doing something they enjoy. "Success" is not fame, and vice versa (they are wholly orthogonal to each other), and I remember reading an interview with a member of Canadian group Saga, who…
"I wonder why we cant mandate Optical Fibre as standard as well" Lobbying by big ISPs.
That language feels like it came from a fever dream of Alan Greenspan.
Many are not.
" It's so boring the kids are still complaining about people who have more money than them" That's not what they are complaining about; they are complaining about them rigging the system further in their favor to the…
I worked at SugarCRM for years. It's often easier than one suspects once you figured out what a customer pain points are and show them a less burdensome solve. Most businesses do not need the kitchen sink approach of…
[dead]
"Companies have shown us that IP going to AI providers is acceptable" This is where I'm expecting future collision; you can't both value IP for it's training value, and yet devalue it for the actual sources of IP…
This is....ridiculous. Does Meta also capture it's CEOs movements with such fidelity?
I still have my Sony Vaio from that period. Its on a shelf covered in stickers and signatures (e.g. Illiad, ESR, Commander Taco/Hemos, etc) as a kind of keepsake, since I suspect it wouldn't even boot up after so many…
"It's a delicious irony that E is now a super-lightweight system compared with the mainstream environments" Absolutely.
The amount of abuse I hurled at Carsten Haitzler (Raster) during our time at VA Linux (where he worked on E as well as other stuff) was a complete sitcom unto itself; at one point he debated making a "zeruch insult…
"A society unable to tolerate deviance from the norm, is a society that will fail to adapt to inevitable changes to the norm" I feel the same way about societies that continue to fail lessons of history and repeat the…
Nobody of a certain age. If you are over 35 you'll remember when they were known as a Chinese firm buying up all of the IBM Thinkpad business...
Hurd is long past ever being anything but a pet project of RMS and his familiars.
Xenix was worse, but only a little. Both it and HPUS were atrocities.
Good riddance. Of all the Unix variants I tried over the years, HP-UX was the second worst (that dishonor goes to Xenix). I remember giving a talk at Chico State University back in the dotcom era, and got a tour of the…
Network effects and an as-yet insufficient friction to leave en masse has kept LI in a semi-moated space. There have been competitors, but they are either niche (Zerply) or more regionally specific (Xing, with its focus…
Which college?
Vera-Augustin, the two founders.
"but I got the impression that their server line was just as important." They were far more important for the business.
They did. I actually worked on a few of those projects (e.g. Stampede Linux) One of these days I should blog about how we ended up hosting Python for years...
1. I have some serious biases against Penguin at the time (for...reasons) and frankly was never impressed with their product. 2. Without getting into a bunch of weird minutiae, we got big enough to be a threat to people…
Reddit was contemporary to Digg, it just survived 'better'
They didn't evolve into SF; SF was a project inside of VA that eventually became the flagship of what remained after the hardware and related services were excised. When they started (1998/99), Git wasn't a viable…
Some people can make a living doing something they enjoy. "Success" is not fame, and vice versa (they are wholly orthogonal to each other), and I remember reading an interview with a member of Canadian group Saga, who…
"I wonder why we cant mandate Optical Fibre as standard as well" Lobbying by big ISPs.
That language feels like it came from a fever dream of Alan Greenspan.
Many are not.