One of the VisiCalc guys, CTO @AlphaSoftware, DBDemo, blogger, podcaster, iPad app: NoteTakerHD, president of Software Garden, Inc. (SGI) Also: @danb@qoto.org
Massachusetts, USA
Joined July 2007
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Sorry to hear this. The computer industry is so young that so many of its pioneering giants have still been with us. But that era is fading away. reuters.com/technology/adobe…
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Re: Apple Vision Pro pricing: Back in 1981, my father paid the equivalent of $10,000 in 2023 dollars for a loaded TRS-80 Model III. His employer did foot the bill. But it still reminded me of how pricey the earliest PCs were.
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The launch of ChatGPT Plugins is one of the most significant platform offerings ever. Embedding, distribution, utility.
And it reminds me of @DanB ‘s Cornucopia of the Commons essay where the act of using the database adds value to it. bricklin.com/cornucopia.htm
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Object to the pizza used here as an example. Pizza is probably the most balanced of fast feeds with fairly decent nutritional value.
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He discusses what he's learned from his blog, and two things stand out for me:
"Writing is one of the best forms of learning." So true. I never fully understand a topic until I've written about it.
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Spreadsheets for the rest of us. This is... pretty awesome:
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Lots of juicy bits in here as @jaygoldberg and I discuss architecture battles and how there is a shift (driven by intense competition) away from general-purpose silicon and to purpose-built silicon.
Check out @T_h_e_Circuit if you haven't already.
Episode 5: x86 vs. Arm vs. RISC-V, Shifting from General Purpose to Specific Purpose Silicon
With @jaygoldberg and @BenBajarin
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Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas……
Spotify:
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Overcast:
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Sold my first software internationally (i.e. outside of my home country of Iceland) through Idealab. Many 🙏
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If you know, you know just how hard this is with any other tool: grid.is/@hjalli/creating-a-l…
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Fun catching up with tech industry legend Gordon Bell. He just launched a new 10-year prize for climate modeling in partnership with @TheOfficialACM:
awards.acm.org/bell-climate#….
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I am still proud of the part we/Idealab played in the successful monetization of the Internet..
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But everything changed, when serial founder @Bill_Gross introduced cost-per-click ads in GoTo.com in 98. Gross rightfully once said he's "wildly proud of coming up with the paid-search model".
$GOOG copied it (AdWords) in 2002 and turned profitable right away.
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Demo and demo II were made favorite programs EVER in the DOS days. Simply brilliant.
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Im happy to support this tribute to Leonard Nimoy. Star Trek & Spock nurtured my interest in science & technology and inspired aspects of my startups: Wildfire, the first voice based personal assistant & Android (likely the OS for the tricorder in 2265). You can also contribute!
Breaking news! We just received confirmation that the Museum of Science in Boston, is getting a major contribution from the co-founder of Android to support the creation of the Leonard Nimoy Memorial Sculpture. Thank you for your generous donation! @richminer @nimoycopdfilm
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Congrats from Germany, Dan. I remember very nicely „Bricklin on Technology“ I read some years ago and that I‘m referencing all the time to my students
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I heard him say that! But there was more to it. Going to 8-bit bytes implied 32-bit words—what would the missing 4 bits do to floating point precision? It took a *lot* of measurement, simulation, and analysis to conclude that things would still work well.
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Sad news from @unccs — Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago.
