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by mrandish 1y ago
> did you feel that most CEOs that you met along your journey were similar to you (passionate, technical founder) or something else (MBA fast-track to an executive role)? I doubt my (or anyone else's) personal experience of CEOs we&
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by mrandish 1y ago
I was there. Absolutely amazing show. The high-fidelity walk-through recreation of the 'secret back room' in Amiga Corp's 1984 CES booth with the original wire wrap board stacks running original Amiga demos like the legendary
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by mrandish 1y ago
> it’s a long shot to replace Nvidia with their own chip awhile ago It's also worth mentioning that having their own ambitious effort in secret development was a valuable BATNA (negotiating tactic) for long-term contracts with outsi
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by mrandish 1y ago
I was the CEO of a tech company I founded and operated for over five years, building it to a value of tens of millions of dollars and then successfully selling it to a valley giant. There was rarely a meeting where I felt like I was in the
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by mrandish 1y ago
I ran an A-Max mac emulator on my 030 accelerated Amiga 2000. It worked surprisingly well! > ultimately what saved them was Microsoft Indeed. At the time of MSFTs surprise investment of $150M in Apple (supposedly arranged in a single pho
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by mrandish 1y ago
I can't say definitively but based on my experience in 1991 with a 68K-based PowerBook 100 I doubt it. Even with a 1-bit monochrome display and no custom co-processors executing in parallel the battery life wasn't great. Also, mos
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by mrandish 1y ago
> the Amiga community did embrace PowerPC I think this may have been more of a Europe-centric thing. Here in the U.S. by the time the PPC Amiga options were launched in 2002 it had been over 8 years since Commodore went bankrupt and the
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yes, the Mac somehow surviving the 90s computer apocalypse is an interesting counterpoint but I think the Mac is an exceptional case. Apple started from a much stronger financial, installed base and brand position than Commodore, Atari et a
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by mrandish 1y ago
> An Hombre-based Amiga would have been interesting I wouldn't have bought an Hombre either because I doubt I would have seen it as really an Amiga. My regret is that the earlier AAA chip set was never completed and shipped because
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by mrandish 1y ago
For those in the bay area, the Amiga 040th anniversary is this weekend at the Computer History Museum (in conjunction with the Vintage Computer Festival West). Looks like quite a line-up of Amiga technical sessions, history and luminaries.
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by mrandish 1y ago
> what if Commodore hadn't failed? what if the Amiga were still a contender into the late 90s and beyond? As a hardcore Amiga user and developer from 1985 to 95, the platform was amazing for the time but having studied the history,
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by mrandish 1y ago
N=1 but I lost over 100 pounds in 8 months by changing to a keto diet with zero exercise (consciously going even more sedentary than I already was) and have kept it off for over eight years now. After I reached my ideal weight I restored ex
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by mrandish 1y ago
Append -ai to your query to omit AI results.
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by mrandish 1y ago
Sounds similar to the red light traffic camera revenue sharing scam. Free or discounted install and then revenue share. Both the supplier and location owner have every incentive to trigger false positives to make more money. In both cases t
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by mrandish 1y ago
It makes me crazy that police in the U.S. nowadays can get a search warrant permitting seizure of large amounts of valuable computer and networking gear along with digital devices certain to massively disrupt anyone's life - only from
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by mrandish 1y ago
I really hope these seemingly experienced entrepreneurs got the trademark sorted out and locked down before adopting it. Otherwise it may be an expensive lesson. IANAL but I do know trademarking a logotype is a kind of 'trade dress&#x2
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by mrandish 1y ago
Disruption is disruptive and can suck. But it's also not new. Some companies and people will do short-sighted things in response and pay the price. Other job types and roles will simply be disintermediated and those individuals will ne
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Maybe a team of 4 that does the work previously done by 10 Interestingly, I heard similar ratios were being discussed (or feared/lamented) in the mid-90s as computer-based non-linear video editing swept the post-production industr
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by mrandish 1y ago
Went to see the F1 movie a couple weeks ago in suburban Northern California on a local theater's "LieMax" screen (ie not one of the ~30 real IMAX 15-perf film theaters in the world but just a slightly larger mall theater scre
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Assuming genAI won't deliver and make that world disappear entirely, ofc. I get the concern and the reasoning behind it but having spent most my adult life and career in digital content creative tooling (2D, 3D and video), I belie
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by mrandish 1y ago
I was a huge fan of the Coco since it was my first computer in 1981 and I progressed from 4K in 1981 to 16K to 64K and from the Coco 1 to Coco 2 with full four slot expansion pack, internal video, modem, keyboard, RAM (256K!) and lowercase
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by mrandish 1y ago
I think the removal was originally about memory usage in Win 95 due to fitting the new OS into lower RAM systems. Then it was about battery usage. More recently the epidemic of feature and information removal from interfaces is primarily dr
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by mrandish 1y ago
> I still find some pages don't work 100% correctly in Firefox. Sometimes this is simply because the site preemptively throws an error on detecting Firefox because they don't want to QA another browser with a smaller market sha
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by mrandish 1y ago
Sure, a modern SBC repackaged in an all-in-one case can be a good option for most of the first group I mentioned. However, out of the box it doesn't boot to BASIC like an early 80s home computer so you'd need to configure a custom
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by mrandish 1y ago
I've been into 'retro computing' continuously since the 80s and there have been a variety of interesting retro focused machines like this launched over the last 15 years. They are mostly hobby projects but some have scaled up
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by mrandish 1y ago
Others already said it but since I'm the person you responded to, I'll reiterate that my suggestion was only about reordering the sequence of that sentence for better clarity, not about placing blame on individuals over process. W
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by mrandish 1y ago
Agreed about properly assigning the root cause to inadequate training but the sentence was unnecessarily complex in not making the first order cause clear until the end. I'd prefer stating up front that the first order cause was "
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Why are investors so stupid? Some are but many aren't. The reason so many investors are pushing on AI (or other buzz-trend du jour) is that history shows 'disruptive new technologies' tend to correlate with some startups
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by mrandish 1y ago
> imposes unfair burdens on developers (which include indie devs too) Any such law should include a carve-out so that indie devs and small startups aren't impacted because just the need maintain compliance paperwork can be a burden.
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by mrandish 1y ago
Per this site: https://home.treasury.gov/services/currency-and-coins > "U.S currency is produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and U.S. coins are produced by the U.S. Mint. Both organizations are bur

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