dunsany

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dunsany··on Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck

It is an amazing museum. Highly encourage anyone passing through Stockholm to check it out.

dunsany··on The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?

Most of ours are internal-only because we don't need or want to release them to the public. Sometimes there isn't much of an UI - they're one-off vibe-coded apps for specialized functions within our organization meant for a small number of people. Beginning to think of the vibe-coded apps akin to spreadsheets with lots of macros.

dunsany··on Learn Prolog Now (2006)

Learn it now? I learned back in the 80s... and have since forgotten

dunsany··on Monodraw

Own it, love it... corporate standard is Lucidchart but prefer Monodraw.

dunsany··on Careless People

Have you heard the stories about Uber?

dunsany··on The US Secret Service mistook a cyberpunk RPG for a hacker's handbook

Yeah, anyone remember this book about it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Crackdown

dunsany··on What happens when your server is compromised and you get help from the FBI?

I wrote a paper on the NW Hospital case that involved FBI investigation http://www.planetheidi.com/Pompon-VB2010.pdf

dunsany··on Cult of the Dead Cow Publications

I remember seeing these guys at Defcon for the release of Back Orifice 2k. Full-on rockstars

dunsany··on Why I use non-American English voices in my text to speech

Yeah, the problem we found is that when we switched to non-American English, Siri expects us to be speaking it as well... and messes up what she understands.

dunsany··on Surprise Quiz Puzzle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox

dunsany··on Boxee Will Soon Be Open To All

Boxee? No Muffee?

dunsany··on Can You Build An Enterprise Only Web App?

Yup. Already did and made (and continue to make) millions on it. The Enterprise is a vertical and the app serves that vertical and that vertical has deep pockets.