The Petrochemistry of Software

StefanL, 26.05.11, 10:41

Seven Layer Reference Model

Resourceful as ever mrs. motz pointed us to an interesting presentation a certain Mr. John Day recently held at the "future of networking" conference in Budapest. John D. Day (born 1947) might not be as well known as Vinton Cerf, Bob Kahn, Larry Roberts or even Jon Postel - really the most important of them all - but like all of...

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A Rich Neighbor

StefanL, 01.05.11, 20:43

Steve Jobs, reality distortion on a high level

When Steve Jobs found out about Windows, he went ballistic. "Get Gates down here immediately", he fumed to Mike Boich, Mac's original evangelist who was in charge of our relationships with third party developers. "He needs to explain this, and it better be good. I want him in this room by tomorrow afternoon, or else!" "And, to my surprise, I was invited...

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Back then, at Bell Labs, a Cherry few know

StefanL, 12.10.09, 23:39

Cherry: Yes, it is. Very high. And there was this flavor, other people probably talked about this, but it was group dynamics all going on up there. We were all up in the sixth floor. Although I think I worked mostly in my office and visited the sixth floor with questions, [inaudible] the sixth floor. But there was this attitude,...

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Only in Boston and the Valley: About Venture Capital

DogbertA, 06.09.09, 13:58

The Pilot is searching for the Japs.
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Only fellow Americans can be found.

From oral history with Don Valentine, VC supreme: RW: Well, do you - do you think that that as one of the successes of Silicon Valley, the availability of venture funds? DV: There is no question. It's very difficult. And over the years we've been visited by hundreds of people from every country in the world, almost all of the states in...

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2009 JVN medal goes to Susan L. Graham

StefanL, 19.08.09, 23:11

In a continuation of our policy on hinting to pre 2.0 computing professionals, today we have got Susan L. Graham. Mrs. Graham has received the 2009 IEEE John Von Neumann Medal. Past recipients of the Von Neumann medal include computing legends Donald Knuth, Doug Engelbart, and C. Gordon Bell. The medal was presented on 25 June 2009 at the...

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Joanna Hoffmann

StefanL, 20.12.07, 08:07

The Mac Design Team

Joanna Hofmann was a physicist and archeologist, before Jef Raskin hired her as the 5th person on the MacIntosh team in 1980 as the only marketing person in that early group.

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Smart Sophie Again

StefanL, 26.02.06, 09:11

In October 2001. after the University of North Carolina's Toolsmiths' Conference, held to honor of Fred "Mythical Man-Month" Brooks a certain Mark Smotherman asked famous computer architects which processor designs they admired. Our heroine Sophie Wilson, chief architect (with Steve Furber) of the mighty ARM and more recently of the Broadcom FirePath gave this short insightful and very instructive answer: Primarily the...

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Kimiko Ryokai & Justine Cassel

StefanL, 12.02.06, 11:42

ANTS-CD1: It's party time at Home Sweet Cube. This lady with friend and dog's name is Kimiko Ryokai. She does pretty cool projects at MIT. She's from Tokyo and went to study Linguistics and Psychology at SUNY in Albany, N.Y., USA. lngr had a link to the I/O Brush project (Kimo Ryokai, Stefan Marti, Hiroshi Ishii, Josh Monzon & Rob Figueiredo) a...

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Ich habe eh
einen Esseh über den Kulturpessimismus, der ja grundlegend mehr reaktionär als konservativ ist, in Arbeit. Wird aber noch dauern.

by StefanL (10.01.25, 23:50)

Jaaa!
Ich geb ja gerne zu, dass der Neid aus mir spricht. ;-)

by StefanL (10.01.25, 23:46)

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Aha soso ein Professor h.k. (honore kurza).

by tobi (10.01.25, 23:30)

I totally agree
mit der Meinung, dass das Hemisphärenmodell überholt ist. Die mediale Lust am Untergang hat eine rational kalkulierendes Element auf der einen Seite und massenpsychologische Element, dass....

by StefanL (10.01.25, 20:15)

Woher kommt diese Lust am Untergang?
Friedrich Sieburg kommentierte »die Tendenz der Medien, unentwegt den Weltuntergang durch einen Atomkrieg vorauszusagen als weinerliche, kaum zu ertragende Geschwätzigkeit. Sie sei auch deswegen absurd,....

by tobi (10.01.25, 19:18)

Read the books,
watched the series for a while. Got distracted then. Did NOT buy the T-Shirt. Interesting problem. Thanks! Slice, slice, very slice. Thank you for not killing....

by StefanL (06.01.25, 11:39)

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Slice, slice, very nice.

by tobi (05.01.25, 23:31)

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😻

by tobi (18.12.24, 12:27)

We could just barely
keep the censor's office and the press team of the president-elect from intervention but here are our apologies and our thanks for these valuable hints....

by MaryW (17.12.24, 23:37)

...
The (correct) first name of Mr. Zelenskyj is the Ukrainian Володи́мир, not (of all things) the Russian Влади́мир 😿 Second name is Oleksandrovych. Ложка дьогтю у бочці....

by tobi (16.12.24, 19:15)

Du hast recht,
Universal-Genies brauchen wir echt keine mehr. Ich wollte eh nur sagen: Things are going to slide, slide in all directions. Won't be nothing, won't be nothing you....

by MaryW (31.10.24, 23:13)

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Hm. Ich glaub, da gibt es schon noch einige Kandidat*innen. Mir fällt spontan Lisz Hirn ein. Ich fürchte nur, die schaffen es nicht mehr, so....

by tobi (03.10.24, 19:21)

Das sind
wirklich die allerletzten, diese Streberschweine. Aber sonst auch.

by StefanL (18.09.24, 08:42)

Es gibt sogar
Verbrecher, die das ganze WE zusätzlich durcharbeiten, um Pegelkarten zu bauen. Das sind dann die allerletzten.

by gHack (17.09.24, 18:56)

Geändert
Inzwischen hat Herr Fidler den Fehler erkannt und korrigiert sowie sich inzwischen bei den LeserInnen entschuldigt. Nur damit das nicht untergeht. Wir haben hier in der....

by StefanL (21.02.22, 09:17)

There has been evidence
that the important and successful ideas in MSFT - like licensing the Unix source code in the 70ies and learning from it and licensing QDOS....

by StefanL (02.01.22, 11:18)

Now
I think I maybe know what you meant. It is the present we know best and the future we invent. And history is mostly used....

by StefanL (02.01.22, 09:51)

???
Hey, it's just a phrase wishing to convey that you're always smarter after the event than before it.

by StefanL (28.12.21, 07:35)

Addendum
Oracle is now mentioned in the English Wikipedia article on teletext and even has its own article here. Electra has one too.

by MaryW (22.12.21, 07:11)

We have grossly erred
At least in point 5. We thought, people would have come to the conclusion that permanently listening to directive voices as an adult is so....

by MaryW (21.12.21, 07:42)

Did not want to spell the names out
Ingrid Thurnher should have been easy, as she is pictured in the article. Harald F. is an insider joke, the only media journalist in Austria,....

by StefanL (19.12.21, 08:45)

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with four letters it becomes easier though i am not sure with hafi… anyhoo, inms guessing acronyms or whatever this is. *it’s not my steckenpferd

by tobi (24.11.21, 20:49)

Should be
pretty easy to guess from the context and image who HaFi and InTu are. Besides, thx for the hint to the open bold-tag.

by MaryW (22.10.21, 01:16)

Low hanging fruit
1 comment, lower geht es mathematisch schon aber psychosomatisch nicht.

by MaryW (15.10.21, 19:51)

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da ist wohl ein <b> offen geblieben… und wer oder was sind HF und IT?

by tobi (25.09.21, 10:50)