skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As it turns out, my uncle, Ralph Dosher, was the executive in charge of green-lighting the Speak-n-Spell. Before he died, I had the pleasure of talking with him about the Speak 'n Spell and TI LOGO as he was preparing a memoir of his 50+ years at GSI/TI.

According to my uncle's notes, this story is mostly true, but misses some of the nuances.

First, you have to remember that corporate culture in TI in the mid-70s was not at all like what is common in Sili Valley today. TI in the mid-70s was considerably more "locked down" than modern, small, nimble companies.

To say that management saw little value in it is not exactly correct. It's probably more fair to say they weren't ready to even think about new ideas. I would not be surprised to learn that TI at the time made year-long plans on January 2nd and didn't stop to think about new ideas until December 30th.

But there was definitely interest in educational devices among TI execs. I know my mother (an Educational Psychologist) frequently talked with my uncle (Exec in charge of Educational Initiatives) about such a project for several years before the release of the Speak-n-Spell after extended contact with Seymour Papert, Cynthia Solomon and Logo.

What is true is TI wasn't sure what product they should make and Breedlove, et al. did rather gobsmack TI management when it was presented to them. (The story I heard was the concept was nearly fully developed when presented.)

The problem was that their immediate management, who were busy building calculators, did not know how the SnS fit into the calculator line. The story my uncle recounted was there was a process in place to make sure good ideas made it to management; but it did take a while. Either Breedlove or Wiggens supposedly pulled a corporate social faux pas by trying to leap-frog over the established process.

To our modern silicon valley sensitivities, this would be an obvious thing to do: if you find you're blocked, you just go around the blockage. But TI in the mid-70s was still culturally staid.

Complicating matters further, the engineering team was in Lubbock and the execs they needed to talk to were in Dallas.

A better way of putting this is Breedlove, et al. were way ahead of their immediate management in Lubbock and it took a while for them to figure out who in Dallas they needed to talk to. Saying exec management didn't think it should be produced is a bit simplistic.
I find that If my work isn’t meaningful, it can really drain the life out of me (even more than truly demanding jobs).

I wonder if a couple generations ago people felt just as burnt out. It seems like this generation is the most burnt out but who knows. With everyone connected all the time, I doubt people are getting proper rest between work. If you’re answering emails over lunch, you’re still working and not resting your eyes/brain.

There is a movement[0][1] towards shorter workweeks which I’m really interested in and, shameless plug[2], I run a site on this topic as well. There is real movement right now towards a 4 day work week in Western society especially in the UK.

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How we found who was “poisoning” our memcached server
It's not clear now how "then just calculate the user's x" works?
It isn't just pirated games/getting fake carts, I've ordered things like a "genuine" GBA, GBC, and gotten fully counterfeit hardware instead of a used old device. Nearly a 100% counterfeit rate on certain lines of product (one example is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W39bZDu6zA)
I've seen many languages with mix and match syntax differences and feature sets that didn't bring anything significant to the table. Rust is not that. It has memory safety while having memory efficiency, high performance, good package management, easy interface with C FFI, and excellent support for parallelism. The list of things it gets "right" from my point of view dwarfs other languages-du-jour.

The biggest downside IMO is you have to get people past some conceptual hurdles before they can be productive with it. (e.g. the borrow checker) Despite how often you see it come up on HN, it doesn't have a powerful marketing force behind it. It also doesn't fit the trend of turning developers into commodities by being as easy as possible.
I'm reminded of Foucault's work, Surveiller et punir. He discusses this obfuscation of power, specifically that we are being conditioned by unseen entities in our daily lives in ways which are entirely unnatural. He contrasts the more modern (and arguably unnatural) levels of discipline imposed by surveillance (specifically with respect to panopticism) to those imposed by the fear of bodily harm that existed in the days of executioners.

When we held public executions, we could at least see who was wielding the power, by whom we were being conditioned, and what there was to fear. Yes, the body was being tortured, but the soul remained intact. In the surveillance age, we are subjugated by forces we cannot untangle, see, or fully understand. We discipline ourselves in fear of these unseen entities who may or may not be constantly watching; what they do with our information remaining a mystery
My pleasure! Enjoy it
Just do a fast/video QR code application.
You can upload through the screen, one QR code at a time.
I've done exactly this ~4 years ago when I briefly worked at a place that used Subversion, after an acquisition. I wanted to be able to dick around in my own branches, with proper diffing and tracking and all, without updating the server, which appeared to be impossible (more or less). There was a git-to-svn I could use but considering how easy it was to screw up other people's state in Subversion, it made me nervous. So I just worked in my own, local git then copied the files to SVN when ready to commit something worth sharing.
This a thousand times. Software engineering has been hijacked by a bunch of no talent assholes propped up by clueless vc.

We need to kick these jerks out.
if you can add RSS feed response that would be great
Cool. Maybe ai can spot some health issues.
Is it possible they see an end to this era of personal-data-valuation and are diversifying?
I have felt that every job has its irritations, but one should choose the kind of irritations with which one is most compatible.

When there's a miserable frustrating bug that comes and goes, it's not something I'm happy about (I, too, would prefer to get quickly to a working result), but it's something I'm used to dealing with and I'm willing and able to tackle. It doesn't keep me up at night. It doesn't make my stomach hurt.

On the other hand, a friend of mine is an excellent manager. Dealing with the kind of work inter-personal conflict that would cause me pain and sleepless nights is just a part of his job. He knows how to deal with it. He doesn't want it to happen, but fixing it is what he's good at.

And I've heard that even the best sales people are constantly dealing with rejection and failure to close a sale. It's just part of the job - if they've got a good enough batting average then they just don't beat themselves up about the one that got away.
How does it protect your data if your house burns down?
Even if he hadn’t conceived of Git, I can hardly see him going down in the history books as a “one hit wonder”. Maybe if he’d just conceived and programmed the early Linux kernels... but aside from Git, the work he’s put into architecting Linux and managing the enormous effort that goes into “managing the mainitainers” is simply breathtaking.

And I, for one, have not forgotten the rather impressive work he did at Transmeta.

And for the sake of not making this sound like hero worship, I still side with Tanenbaum when it comes to the monolithic kernel vs. micro-kernel debate...

EDIT: corrected nonsensical double mention of ‘microkernel’.
A man, a fan, a channel?
What does the part of planning that calculates velocity and time budgeting look like in this context?
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Because Monolpoly Good.

The states doesnt even pay lip service to free market these days. Another 2 billion worth of market assimilated to a monopoly.
That does sound awful. Here's what I do: block all ads.

I can't stop the data collection, but I can stop ads. If I ever see an ad, I stop what I'm doing and figure out how to remove that ad from my life forever.

So yeah, I'm fully tracked, and I have no privacy, but at least I'm not being influenced by the ads that come from processing all my data.

I also try to block as much data collection as possible, but I realize that's not fully in my control.
Also, if you're interested in the development of the SnS and the challenges the dev team had, check out this page as well: https://semiwiki.com/wally-rhines/7633-speak-n-spell/
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Welp... say "goodbye" to your biometric data.
Start reading. There is nothing more worthwhile than reading (especially classic literature). Find an author who interests you and read all of their books and move on from there :)
my one issue with Apple Watch is requiring an Apple iPhone to use it, if it could be instead used with an iPad or even one of their laptops/desktop I would have one and have bought them for a relative or too; mostly for the fall detection
>I said that a specific quote about how anybody can FIND some damning thing in what others have wrote/said to attack them with, is not the same as a quote about privacy

The act of FINDING anything one has said/written is privacy related.

>I -as a skilled manipulator- can take any random stuff wrote/said by even the most innocent man and it against them to make them appear guilty".

Good point. Let's put the quote in context. Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police is where this quote supposedly originated. They had a country-wide spy network to monitor what people said.

Data manipulation can't happen without data. Without the collection and storing of conversations, breaking into people's homes, intercepting mails/telephone/telegraph correspondence, no manipulation of the "words" could have happened.

The point is - A skilled manipulator won't find anything to hang me unless he's invading my privacy in the first place. (Assuming I don't give public speeches or write publicly)
Yeah. The notion of sprints doesn’t seem to be healthy at all. There’s always the next big thing on the horizon. No time to reflect on what you’re doing. Closely tracking velocity, knowing full well that it’s a futile exercise in controlling what’s happening.

>inb4 “you’re doing it wrong”
If so many people get it wrong, I see it a problem inherent to scrum, not its various implementations.
They didn't find life in a hopeless place
Tech CEOs are redefining the top job
Fitbit always refused to open detailed APIs and integrate with HealthKit to keep people using their stuff which is why I switched to an Apple Watch despite really liking my Charge HR. Looks like that was the right decision and HealthFit will probably never ever come into consideration
What don’t you like about git?
I really dig the way you guys present your portfolio as "case studies". I've often wondered how to do this myself since showing source is kind of useless and often conflicts with NDAs. I thought about videos and short blog posts but you guys really nailed it.
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That totally depends on the subreddit. r/politics? You're absolutely right. But the more focused subs offer a wealth of information about obscure topics. For example, check out this recent thread on r/machinelearning where people have an in-depth discussion about hype versus reality: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/donbz7/d_i...
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It's funny but I've recently been thinking of him as "The Git guy" rather than "The Linux Guy".

I honestly think that Git has the potential to be relevant a lot longer than Linux.
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I believe that european bureacracy can be successful in building aws/azure rival from the ground up. They better support european cloud providers through some industry association, grants, or establish a university based partnership project
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Has this mostly been a Trump thing? Or was it going this direction before him?

I was going to comment about Trump and Brexit showing us how quickly things can change in a democracy. But I'm too ignorant to know if that's a fair analysis of the situation.
Is this Thomson merging with Reuters to take on Bloomberg? Everything you describe here sounds like it.
I mean, isn't the fact that there were virtually no women in academia back in the time a convincing enough proof in itself that there was, indeed, discrimination?
I have a rule of thumb. From a stress rating of 0-10, your days should ideally be 8 stress or 0.

Growth = stress + rest

The more elite people can take on a lot more stress. 0 doesn't necessarily mean watching Netflix; for me that's more stressful than playing with spreadsheets or commenting on HN.

What most people do is stick around 3-5 stress level (the comfort zone) or constantly at 6 (trying my best). It's a recipe for mediocrity as you never push yourself hard enough to improve.

If you've had a slow day at work, then push yourself. If you're not sure what to do, pick up a book. Something like this is nice to start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087418

You can practice typing faster. Learn keyboard shortcuts; they're probably the biggest leverage I have in programming now. Learn speed reading or how to get to 90% comprehension. These are all fun things to do, yet enough to tire you out.

But don't do this every night. Find things that actually replenish you, not some mindless semi-productive activity. I personally love playing with my kids, watching superhero movies, reading web fiction or TV tropes, or idle games that involve wikis and spreadsheets. You find your thing.

I good judge is how I feel in the morning. If I'm physically or mentally sore, I need to focus on rest that day. If I can naturally wake before 6, it's a day to push myself.
I'm a man and I have a condition that is poorly understood by the medical community. The lack of respect is glaringly obvious when I interact with nurses and doctors. I have discussed this phenomenon with hundreds of men and woman, so I do not think it's gender/sex based discrimination.
> It depends on the industry but there's too many people who are de facto actually at work every waking moment

If "at work every waking moment" means "needs to be able to respond to emergencies", then this is actually the norm for everyone in the world until very recently. Anyone who doesn't have an employer is "at work every waking moment" by this definition. Peasants, housewives, aristocrats...

Given the nearly 100% rate of this for all of history, it seems weird to argue that the current -- much lower -- rate is too high.
It's funny that some managers give the deadline first and then direct the developers to do Scrum to figure out how to do it in that timeline.
That's fascinating, thanks for sharing!
typo, should be read: I don't believe
> If the GPL has been proven to be more suitable for business, why is the use of GNU GPL licenses declining in favor of permissive licenses?

It isn't, at least not exactly. It's declining in favor of a combined permissive/commercial license model. And it's only doing that for products that are meant to be software components.

The typical model there is that you use a permissive license for your core product as a way of getting a foot in the door. Apache 2.0 is permissive enough that most businesses aren't going to be afraid that integrating your component poses any real strategic risk. GPL, on the other hand, is more worrisome - even if you're currently a SAAS product, a critical dependency on GPLv2 components could become problematic if you ever want to ship an on-prem product, and might also become a sticking point if you're trying to sell the company.

But it's really just a foot in the door. The free bits are typically enough to keep people happy just long enough to take a proper dependency on your product, but not sufficient to cover someone's long-term needs. Maybe it's not up to snuff on compliance. Or the physical management of the system is kind of a hassle. Something like that. That stuff, you supply as commercial components.
And was probably said about Fortran and C. Our tools are getting better. I can only hope Rust becomes so widely used that I can recommend big companies use it since they'll have a trillion developer hiring pool.
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Haber and Bosch would like to have a word with you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process#Cause_of_populat...
Not really. Developers are just held accountable or feel accountable for their own forced guesstymates. It was better when managers were guessing becouse they also have the means to change scope.
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> Google itself doesn't handle program shutdown at all.

Not SIGTERM per se, but Google Cloud certainly offers graceful shutdown rather than pulling the plug, to minimize harmful effects.

https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/enabling-connec...