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Hills Cloud(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by tech-historian 5y ago|0 comments
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by tech-historian 5y ago
More perspective. Apple: founded in 1976 (46 years old) Microsoft: 1975 (47 years old) Google: 1998 (24 years old)
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by tech-historian 5y ago
I did. It was pretty superficial.
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by tech-historian 5y ago
Exactly. I don't have a horse in the race, but every time Bitcoin was down, it seemed to somehow emerge stronger later on.
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by tech-historian 5y ago
Related: http://twitter.com/internetofshit
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by tech-historian 5y ago
Great that this old tech is still being shared, examined, and executed. All our current tech has such a rich history that is most often ignored.
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by tech-historian 5y ago
Appreciate it, thank you!
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by tech-historian 5y ago
That's an interesting viewpoint, thanks for this. I hadn't thought of it that way but I guess I can understand that angle. To your point, the HTML title of the page is "36 Years of Microsoft Windows Control Panels Design Hist
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by tech-historian 5y ago
Great suggestion, thanks!
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by tech-historian 5y ago
Thank you for the kind words! It was fun putting together. All this old tech was precious and formative for so many of us.
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by tech-historian 5y ago
It's on my todo list - thanks for stopping by the website!
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by tech-historian 5y ago
Hey, my son and I run this site. Cool to see it here. Thanks for stopping by!
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by tech-historian 5y ago
His prediction is that a machine will pass the turing test in 2029. And yes, there's evidence of incredible machine learning discoveries all around us. You'd have to be willfully blind not to see those. AlphaZero in Go & Chess
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by tech-historian 5y ago
He was inventor of: the first CCD flat-bed scanner first omni-font optical character recognition the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind the first text-to-speech synthesizer the first music synthesizer capable of recreating
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by tech-historian 5y ago
I thought it was obvious. Clearly it was not. Ray Kurzweil is a futurist who has spent multiple decades researching this topic and has written multiple books on it. His bio speaks for itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by tech-historian 5y ago
It's clear you're not familiar with Kurzweil's work in AI (or his background in general). He's written multiple books on the topic over multiple decades, including the seminal "The Singularity is Near". He&#x27
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by tech-historian 5y ago
Who is the author Kevin Kelly and why does he think he has a greater hold on this issue than luminaries like Ray Kurzweil?
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by tech-historian 5y ago
This "recipe" reads more like an arXiv paper than a recipe and I love it. So much thought put in and so thorough.
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by tech-historian 5y ago
"It's just pizza, not some priceless work of art" Isn't that highly reductionist? People derive pleasure from immersion and mastery of all sorts of things. I'd argue that food can make you feel just as much, and pro
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by tech-historian 5y ago
Your assertion is silly. The headline is fine, and this qualifies as news. By your logic, if a US Senator quits, it wouldn't be news because it's only 1% of US Senators?
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by tech-historian 5y ago
I'm not sure why this is an interesting stat. I'd argue far more than 51% of global knowledge workers are working remote right now, and have been since the start of the pandemic.
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by tech-historian 5y ago
Those melodies were used to fight copyright, not profit from extortion. Different use case.
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New FTC Head Lina Khan: Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox (2017)(yalelawjournal.org)
2 points by tech-historian 5y ago|0 comments
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by tech-historian 5y ago
It's interesting to think about the incentives. Look at the press they're getting. It's at the top of HN and will be fodder on all major news outlets. It was probably an easy slam dunk case for the prosectors.
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by tech-historian 5y ago
She only committed some light treason.
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Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?(dailydot.com)
623 points by tech-historian 5y ago|595 comments
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by tech-historian 6y ago
It's amazing that: A) All utilities were functional during the move B) The building was open to business during the move C) It was initially moved by hand (before the rotation part) D) It was completed in 1 month Simply hurts my brain
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by tech-historian 6y ago
Full article: https://outline.com/2Nf8yA
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Amazon has 800 people working on a voice enabled home robot(businessinsider.com)
1 points by tech-historian 6y ago|1 comments
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by tech-historian 6y ago
Yes! And here's a 1999 Wayback Machine archive of the IE for Unix site on microsoft.com: http://web.archive.org/web/19991128115223/http://www.microso... "Internet Explorer 5 for UNIX offers the

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