xxr · HackerTrans

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

When I read the title, I thought "morg" was one of those goofy tech words that I had missed but whose meaning was still pretty clear in context (like a portmanteau of "Microsoft" and "borged," the latter of which I've never heard as a verb but still works). I guess it's a goofy tech word now.

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Yeah, isn't this why we're told everything "moves so much slower at a bigco" than at a startup?

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Was going to say that I hope Joe doesn't end up going to prison for an unspeakable crime, but then I saw it was an acronym.

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

>they broke all the time

While I was reading the OP I kept thinking about how an accounting firm's entire ability to do business rested on the continued functioning of a parallel-port dongle. I just have to imagine that they had a box full of these.

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vor 6 Monatendiscuss

I imagine this is a temporary gig until the burbclaves build out their own armed security services and he moves on to high-speed pizza delivery.

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

> The founder of FedEx actually wrote a business pitch paper for an overnight shipping company. This paper was given a low grade by his professor. He went on to form this company, which become a success, despite this low grade.

Was the paper given a low grade because it was a bad idea or because Fred Smith wrote a bad paper? If his pitch didn’t work, did feedback from the professor help Smith sharpen his idea so he was in a better position to make FedEx a success?

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

“Initially, Ravel was to create a variation on the music of Isaac Albéniz, but copyright laws prevented him from doing so.” [your article]

“[Koji Kondo] had planned to use Maurice Ravel's Boléro as the title theme as it perfectly matched its speed, seeing as under Japanese copyright law, music is released into the public domain 50 years after the composer's death. However, Kondo was forced to change it in November 1985, late in the game's development, after learning that it had only been 47 years and 11 months after Ravel's death.”[1]

Funny how things rhyme.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_(video_gam...

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

A few years after this, a documentary was made about some of the men still living at the Sunshine (mentioned in the first paragraph): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0m2FaC8GUs

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vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Great assessment of Dave Barry

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vor 9 Monatendiscuss

> The most timeless thing here is Linux retaining its "highest hacker to user ratio".

More so than BSD? Or still more than just the OSs Carmack listed?

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