Author Archives: dru
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.
Old School DEC terminal
Old School DEC VT05 Terminal. Neat design.
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
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.
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
It has been a while, love this geek barista
tip to jwz, awesome Admiral Ackbar reference.
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.”