bitsavers

this was part of some research I did when i turned up the reference manual from mascor, ca. 1970, which is the missing link between IBM ACS and the ACS engineers that went to Amdahl.

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mascor

it was one of several large computer startups that failed in the 1970 recession

if you mean you couldn't find them on bitsavers, look under ibm/370/CICS

There are packages available that screen scrape 3270 streams and reformat them to export as html.

bitsavers hasn't auto-redirected in years, but it is random where the search engines will pull from a mirror.

Make documents and software available that no one else had. Some people like to fly under the Wikipedia self-promotion radar.

"The company wants to reinvent community-based repositories of information, such as Quora or Wikipedia, using a chatbot to generate the entries instead of humans. "

DO NOT WANT!

"His tenacity has led to superhuman-like accomplishments"

Was this written by ChatGPT? No human could possibly be that stupid.

The headline reads "Why employees FIRED by Sundar Pichai" Why the editing?

"some of the higher ups at Salesforce told me they were pretty ticked off about how the employees seemed to have declined in engagement and productivity. "

I wonder, could it be that people are at their emotional wits end over what has happened to their lives since 2019?

"I think companies need to fire deadweight "

I think companies, especially Google, should have thought about the implications of massive hiring associated with things like X, then shutting them down en mass creating a situation where you have staff playing musical chairs trying to find a place to land.

"it is a great excuse to lay off the low performers"

It is a great excuse to get rid anyone who disagreed with corporate changes or mangage to anger anyone in the management chain. Most big companies just put you on 'special' projects, then if you don't get the hint to leave, bundle you into the layoff pool.

EAS radio announcements go out in the Bay Area for flooding (at least they are supposed to) I know we were careful to do it for Santa Clara county at KFJC

"The use of the sound is prohibited to prevent people becoming desensitized to something you should only hear in the most dire circumstances."

and then the "protect the children" people created Amber Alerts, which have done exactly that

He is known as "Woz" not "the Woz".

Today, his wife manages autographs and there is a charge for them.

Controlled by Google

The actual source code is on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/asteroids-src

Having a dualopoly in the smartphone space is not helpful or healthy

Sure, blame those nasty communists any time things appear in HN left of what is best for Fortune and the WSJ.

It is long past time for people to consider that working for public companies might not be in their long-term personal best interest.

"Sir Christopher Hohn A British hedge fund manager knighted by the late Queen Elizabeth II says that Google and its parent company, headquartered in the Bay Area, should lay off more people after axing more than 12,000 people."

Title should read: "Upper class hedge fund manager thinks engineers make too much money, wants it for himself".

deep relationships

"Silicon Valley" was a documentary

"He pleaded with staffers to remain motivated"

I heard a few more details of how they had to create a department since they had never had a layoff before to make everyone's access disappear at the same time. People found out they were gone when their badges stopped working. No contact at all with management.

This was a collosal management failure direct from the top.

Expect experienced people to start to bail.

Bosses haven't seen any problems with laying off the workers that were under their thumbs for decades, replacing them with outsourcing half a world away. What changed?

Do any of these companies consider the institutional knowledge being lost when you lay off someone who has been with them 16 years?

Anyone stuck in the Hell that is a driven commute in Silicon Valley would disagree that it does anything to positively stimulate the brain.

I wouldn't argue that getting out is a good thing. Do it off drive-time peaks. Go to the park. Visit some small stores. The main thing I have noticed now after traffic has returned is it is clear that people are not paying attention to their driving. They are doing things like drifting around in lanes, making their intentions particularly difficult to guess, since no one uses turn signals here effectively.

The Moral Authority of ChatGPT https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07098

"STEM jobs pay more on average than non STEM jobs."

That is exactly what they want you to think. Be a good little drone for the VCs