detourdog

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by detourdog 4y ago
I had learned of Doug Engelbart doing my thesis in the early 90's and was struck dumb when I was able to actually watch it on YouTube. Rumor has it Stewart Brand was the A/V tech.
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by detourdog 4y ago
If you were asking me I think integrated circuits are going to get bigger. I find them too small and disposable right now. I'm trying to figure out how to get the most value of large circuits.
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by detourdog 4y ago
More interesting to me is Douglas Engebart's influence on Xerox https://dougengelbart.org
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by detourdog 4y ago
Current literacy theory believes there is an education gap formed between pre-school age children that hear a lot of words vs. those that don’t get to hear as many. https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/word-gap
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by detourdog 4y ago
Most of the money came from defense spending to create sophisticated weapons. They just followed the development of ideas that were successfully employed during WW 2. The USA’s isolation from the devastation of the war and capture of the op
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by detourdog 4y ago
Some religions try not to use the term g-d simply because it is to literal.
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by detourdog 4y ago
I’m so crazy I think Silicon Valley is more a Wall Street phenomenon then a technical one and that Intel gets way too much credit for the microprocessor.
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by detourdog 4y ago
Sun had a System adminstrator 1 class that lasted a week. I was lucky to be sent by an employer and it was fantastic and granular. Essentially the class was bring up a Solaris install in such a granular system the we started with Inodes or
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by detourdog 4y ago
Inspired me as an undergrad Industrial Design student in 1989ish that and The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T by Stewart Brand were the two most influential technology books for me at that time. Coincidentally enough it turns out m
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by detourdog 4y ago
The first sign of trouble to me was when google killed xmpp support. Prior to that everyone just logged into instant messaging on whatever device. Every decision since then has been pro-ad network technical competition.
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by detourdog 4y ago
I have been collecting inertial guidance systems since the early days of eBay. Autonetics was spun out of North American Aviation to focus on inertial guidance systems. I'm attracted to them as computing milestones. Autonetics solved t