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New comment by dshep in "Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)"

dshep — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 04:22:56 +0000

Nokia suffered from lack of direction from the top... They had both symbian and maemo, both officially blessed, but incompatible. Symbian was the past and maemo had promise, so what did management do... a hail mary bet on microsoft? It came out of nowhere and seemed desperate, I believe the market's reaction reflected this sadly.

New comment by dshep in "Alan Kay: A Conversation with CMU Faculty and Students (2007) [video]"

dshep — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 23:20:04 +0000

If you are talking about the Butler Lampson talk that Alan Kay mentions, I would also be interested if anyone has found this somewhere ...

New comment by dshep in "Stripe Press"

dshep — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:36:41 +0000

Sweet website, been meaning to pick up a copy of the Dream Machine...

New comment by dshep in "My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit"

dshep — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 23:20:11 +0000

Steve Yegge had a lot of similar stories about Amazon here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiqYKF0WzjQ

New comment by dshep in "Raspberry Pi 2.5 Gbps OMV NAS Performance"

dshep — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 19:08:08 +0000

https://www.amazon.com/Internal-Non-Raid-Adapter-Desktop-Sup...

Haven't tried it personally, but maybe it works? :)

New comment by dshep in "Raspberry Pi 2.5 Gbps OMV NAS Performance"

dshep — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 18:36:56 +0000

Pretty neat. I have been thinking about how I can build a tiny NAS, but I would like ECC so that rules out the pi, etc.

Best option I have found so far might be this ASRock 4x4-v2000 https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4-V2000M , it has an 8-core cpu and supports ECC. Would need to get a M.2 to 4x SATA adapter. The hard part seems to be figuring out how to buy the board itself...

New comment by dshep in "Jonathan Blow on the “Stack”"

dshep — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:41:33 +0000

It might not be a great analogy but its hilarious.

New comment by dshep in "Pixel Shaders in Windows Terminal"

dshep — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 02:08:58 +0000

I guess this is cool, but maybe they should focus on actually making Windows Terminal into a usable terminal emulator first. I've found so many bugs with it and it still doesn't even have a GUI for its settings.

New comment by dshep in "The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (1997)"

dshep — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 03:44:07 +0000

Seriously watch every Alan Kay (not the survivalist) video on youtube, you will not regret it. It's practically criminal that they have such low view counts.

New comment by dshep in "How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance"

dshep — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:44:28 +0000

Am I the only one that finds these BD robots kind of repulsive? They are so weird and alien and... unnatural.

New comment by dshep in "Ask HN: What is the most inspiring documentary film in your opinion?"

dshep — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 07:58:07 +0000

For 2020 its gotta be:

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

New comment by dshep in "Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)"

dshep — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 04:33:06 +0000

I was a cog at Nokia during the time the iPhone was released. So look forward to reading this and hope it sheds some light on Nokia's implosion. It felt like Nokia cut its own head off pretty needlessly. Nokia was still making better hardware in lots of ways (better call quality, better cameras). Symbian was pretty terrible though. It could do a lot but was hard to use. I always thought Nokia should have ditched Symbian and adopt Android, as it was pretty clear that had potential coming from Google, and they needed better hardware partners. I would like to see how what would have played out in an alternative reality...

New comment by dshep in "Ask HN: Brave Instead of Firefox?"

dshep — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 22:34:34 +0000

I replaced Chrome with Brave more than a year ago and I recommend it as basically a better version of Chrome. The script blocking feature is especially useful for nytimes, and other paywall sites. The one problem I have had was my computer crashed at one point and Brave completely lost my session (4 windows, probably ~100 tabs in total). So now using Firefox mostly, even though I like it less, with Brave as a 2nd browser.

New comment by dshep in "An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey"

dshep — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:41:47 +0000

Excellent video and nice write-up!

New comment by dshep in "Why Use ECC? (2015)"

dshep — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 04:32:06 +0000

i3-8100 cpus support ECC

New comment by dshep in "Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users"

dshep — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:24:53 +0000

Noscript is incredibly fussy and hard to use. Also it does not have the 'allow scripts [to run] once' ability afaict.

New comment by dshep in "Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users"

dshep — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:18:53 +0000

I've been using Brave most of this year and really like it.

The killer feature for me is that it lets you disable scripts for individual websites or 'Allow scripts once'. This basically makes most paywall news sites readable.

New comment by dshep in "Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?"

dshep — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 03:52:59 +0000

bazqux.com, highly recommend.

New comment by dshep in "On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1979)"

dshep — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 05:02:42 +0000

For better or worst, reading Dijkstra always reminds of these funny (I think) comments that Alan Kay made in 1997...

"Arrogance in Computer Science is measured in nano-Dijkstras" --Alan Kay

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KivesLMncs

New comment by dshep in "BEHEMOTH – Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine, Only Too Heavy"

dshep — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 21:24:20 +0000

I imagine a lot of people here might be too young to know about Steve K Roberts. He had an earlier bike called WINNEBIKO (II?). Imagine yourself as a kid in the 80s watching something like this on TV, it was super cool.

High-Tech Bike on Spectacular World of Guinness Records - 1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2G6DtfZFUU

Xerox PARC Winnebiko presentation by Steve Roberts - 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU6MXakwcjI

It's easy to overlook how inspiring this was without knowing about the context in which we lived back in the 80/90s. No one had cell phones, few people had computers, or had ever used a computer network, let alone the internet. I'm not sure I had even used a computer at the time, and I saw this guy on TV talking about being able to: write a book while riding his bike, talk to people all over the world via computer network, work remotely, it was poof mind blown. Like looking 15 years into the future.

Later on during University, after my first summer programming internship I read his book, "Computing Across America", which I highly recommend. For me at least, Steve was also kind of a lifestyle guru. Reading his book you realized you that you didn't have to be chained to a desk in an office, that technology would open up new lifestyles. It was a wake up moment where I tried to visualize my ideal life, and where the normal way of things was no longer interesting and something to avoid.

Steve Roberts has a youtube channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/c/microship/videos