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More old school : DEC VT330 terminal

We have come a long way. I still had to use systems like this in the early 90s. Interesting. Even today, if I asked an eng candidate to make this plot, many would have a very very hard time.

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Old School DEC terminal

  Old School DEC VT05 Terminal. Neat design.

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On Javascript Loaders, Memory Use, and History

As application code shifts more and more to the client, the old application patterns are starting to re-emerge. One of these old patterns is the need for modularity. I did some research on module loaders for Javascript. The current favorite … Continue reading

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Old Computer Chronicles Program on AI from 1984

Computer Chronicles > Artificial Intelligence How far we have come. This video has some shots of old symbolics machines and Dr. McCarthy answering really bad questions on Lisp and AI.

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DEC PDP-10

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dotfiles in git – finally did it

(Update 2012-03-02: see Eli’s other method in the comments) You would think that after using Unix for this long (over 20 years), I would have finally kept my ‘dotfiles’ in order. Not so. I just kept copying or re-writing them … Continue reading

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It has been a while, love this geek barista

tip to jwz, awesome Admiral Ackbar reference.

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Our Friends On Wall St.

Ayn Rand once wrote… “when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.”

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