The presentation style is not up to today's standards (and the accidental [Dutch tilts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_angle) are disorienting), but I found this fascinating to contrast with development today. It's weird when a statement like, "In most problems, 20-50% of the problem preperati...
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The presentation style is not up to today's standards (and the accidental [Dutch tilts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_angle) are disorienting), but I found this fascinating to contrast with development today. It's weird when a statement like, "In most problems, 20-50% of the problem preperati...
A great opportunity to see some of the pioneers of personal computing talk about their work.
One of the keynotes from this year's Linux Conf AU ... alternative link http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2016/05_Friday/Costa_Hall/Keynote_4_Ms_Genevieve_Bell.webm
This caught my eye the other day. I don't think I'd ever head of or seen a binary be broadcast as audio over television before. The whole episode is pretty interesting if you like 80's British campiness but the broadcast is at 4:47 for those TL;DR folks. I'd love to capture the transmission and poke...