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by brianstorms 9y ago
Yep me too: first programming job was at PLATO at U of D in 1980.
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by brianstorms 9y ago
Hi there. Yep I'm here. Ask me anything.
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by brianstorms 9y ago
Funny how age is still not one of the items discussed at Google when it comes to discussions of diversity. Seems like it is so ingrained in the SV culture that it is just generally accepted that age is an instant disqualifier.
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by brianstorms 9y ago
This is an excerpt from my book THE FRIENDLY ORANGE GLOW which was just picked by WIRED as a Top Tech Book of 2017. https://www.wired.com/story/the-top-tech-books-of-2017-part-...
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Review: Plato’s ‘Friendly Orange Glow’(wsj.com)
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by brianstorms 9y ago
I devote an entire chapter to the origins of Mah-jongg on PLATO and how it became Shanghai on Mac and PC
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by brianstorms 9y ago
Some additional comments about the review versus what's actually in the book. Here is a short list of SOME of the stories told in the book: - The birth of e-learning / computer-based education - The creation of time-sharing (not a
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by brianstorms 9y ago
Some quick comments on this book review from the author of the book: 1. The vision didn't ultimately fail. It lives on in all sorts of ways today -- we just don't recognize it as having come from PLATO. 2. The review seems almost
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by brianstorms 9y ago
Y Combinator founders might find this new book interesting. Well, most Hacker News readers will probably find it interesting. If you are remotely curious about a very wide-ranging computer history that you will never heard about in Silicon
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The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System(friendlyorangeglow.com)
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by brianstorms 9y ago
From me directly :-) Nah, buy it wherever you want. It's all good. Hope you enjoy it.
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by brianstorms 9y ago
I'm the author of this book. Ask me anything.
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If Only I Got Invited to a Tech Conference I Wanted to Go To(medium.com)
1 points by brianstorms 9y ago|0 comments
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Ars Technica on the history of PLATO games(arstechnica.com)
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by brianstorms 10y ago
It will happen. Facebook is not forever. Nor is Google. Nor is Apple.
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by brianstorms 10y ago
What a pathetic example of clickbait. Zillow's zestimates are wildly inaccurate. My own home had a zestimate for 2.5x its value. When we sold it, we got an offer well above what it was worth, but about half the zestimate. We viewed the
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by brianstorms 10y ago
As a pre-autopilot S owner, I've been skeptical of autopilot since the day it was announced. I think folks put too much trust in it, and edge cases, as anyone who's developed software/hardware knows are the gremlins that are
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by brianstorms 10y ago
Facebook gets about 10 minutes of my time each day, thanks to heavily muting many friends' posts, FB Purity, and uBlock. Meanwhile, Tesla has 120 minutes of my time each day. I'm fine with that.
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Tesla Is Not the Next Apple, nor Was Apple Ever the Previous Tesla(brianstorms.com)
2 points by brianstorms 10y ago|0 comments
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Is there a web video autoplay blocker that works like ad blockers?
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Unclear on why this is a good thing. Dumbing down language helps whom, exactly? I guess if you want to hasten the Idiocracy this is your app.
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Still prefer Avatar, Moria, Krozair, Oubliette, DND, and pedit5, all developed years before Nethack. And all have graphics.
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by brianstorms 11y ago
"Goes nowhere"? I see 2 million new users. As I blogged about this recently ( http://brianstorms.com/2016/02/twitter-executives-are-like-l... ), Twitter execs fiddling with the product and the wall street
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Pretty sure "the friend" was Ann Winblad, who he was seeing at the time, and that this was a trip they took to the Outer Banks of NC. It's all been written about in more detail in past books and magazine articles. For more se
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by brianstorms 11y ago
If hope that SoundCloud can survive the transition from a brilliant service with innovative features (especially the user-annotated waveforms), to a "competitor" to the likes of Spotify or Pandora. I fear that the VC/investor
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Hmm. My takeaway from this article is that the author simply doesn't have a burning passion to change something in the world or build something that should be in the world, and so a startup has not come to mind. Which is the right cour
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Congestion isn't what worries me about self-driving cars. It's what police and governments will do once they're on the road. What are your rights as a passenger in a self-driving car? Does a govt official have the right to tr
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by brianstorms 11y ago
Just visited Jet for the first time. Not sure what the distinguishing factor is. I guess they hope they can execute well enough to get bought by Amazon, or if not them, Walmart or someone?
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by brianstorms 11y ago
After raising $125M at my last company, I'm going around talking about how I am bootstrapping this one, no doubt to raise attention and create interest and demand for the business -- it must, after all, be hot. Whatevah.
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by brianstorms 11y ago
My 2013 Model S has had its share of issues. My car is on its third drivetrain. Am I unhappy about it? Nope. Was it a hassle? A little. Was it a show-stopper? Nope. Did Tesla always take care of the issues to my satisfaction? Absolutely. Wo

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