mircea_popescu: 25k moar like a good bar

mircea_popescu: it is very easy to interface with a computer : it's pinned down in place, mechanical and stupider than you.

mircea_popescu: o look at that asciilifeform... not a whole lot of confidence.

mircea_popescu: "Symbolics signed long-term leases on big new offices and a new factory, anticipating growth that did not come, and were unable to sublease the properties due to office-space gluts, which drained a great deal of money."

mircea_popescu: "Meanwhile, back at Symbolics, there were huge internal management conflicts, leading to the resignation of much of top management, who were replaced by the board of directors with new CEO’s who did not do a good job" i dunno..

mircea_popescu: one should make a jobs vs noftsker case study

mircea_popescu: Also, a lot of Symbolics sales were based on the promise of rule-based expert systems, of which the early examples were written in Lisp. Rule-based expert systems are a fine thing, and are widely used today (but often not in Lisp). But they were tremendously over-hyped by certain academics and by their industry, resulting in a huge backlash around 1988. “Artificial Intelligence” fell out of favor; the “AI Winter

mircea_popescu: " We at Symbolics were slow to acknowledge this. We believed our own “dogma” even as it became less true. It was embedded in our corporate culture. If you disputed it, your co-workers felt that you “just didn’t get it” and weren’t a member of the clan, so to speak. This stifled objective analysis. (This is a very easy problem to fall into — don’t let it happen to you!)"

mircea_popescu: "We had great success amongst primary customers. I think we could have found a lot more of them if our marketing had been better. For example, did you know that Symbolics had a world-class software development environment for Fortran, C, Ada, and other popular languages, with amazing semantics-understanding in the editor, a powerful debugger, the ability for the languages to call each other, and so on? We put a lot of

mircea_popescu: "At the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, fifteen researchers shared a computer with a .001 GHz CPU and .002 GB of main memory."

mircea_popescu: we're perhaps approaching a strange "collapse of the roman empire" situation from an entirely different angle

mircea_popescu: nor do they have any sort of a clue as to how and why and what and so on

mircea_popescu: i mean even the notion of a blog is maybe 20 years old tops. that's within reasonable lifespan.

mircea_popescu: in a way it didn't in say 1994.

mircea_popescu: have gone through a long list of conservatorships and whatnot

mircea_popescu: i suspect the problem had a lot more to do with them being plagued by bob becks than anything intentional.

mircea_popescu: eventually it just became a toy for students to play with

mircea_popescu: sort-of like a large mining rig, except more useless.

mircea_popescu: and other than that, have an open and relaxed negotiation strategy. tell the acquirer's expert that you aren't interested in anything but a position with the authonomy you enjoyed previously, and they can let you know.

mircea_popescu: blow a few grand on hiring someone, it';s the right time to do it.

mircea_popescu: artifexd listen, you need to hire a tax attorney at this point.

mircea_popescu: sleeping with the acquirer's wife ? keeping your red stapler ? how to cook a veggie burger with a steak bun ?

mircea_popescu: artifexd you could help a lot by explaining what exactly are you trying to get advice for

mircea_popescu: off twitter : Her: “Will you try a veggie burger for lunch?” Me: “Sure, if the bun's made out of steak.”

mircea_popescu: it's a field in which a lot of experimental work still has to be poured before we really know

mircea_popescu: In the first two weeks, I was served legal papers a total of seven times and was in contact with the FBI every other day. (This was the period a prosecutor would later characterize as my "period of silence".)

mircea_popescu: dub nobody with a raid cares about ssd :D

mircea_popescu: mjr_ if you don't actually load an article you just get the main page which loads a random articler

mircea_popescu: there's a romanian version ?!

mircea_popescu: then a scuffle breaks out, it's like something out of bunuel

mircea_popescu: you'll have to come up with a new name and get rated by ppls.

mircea_popescu: pankkake you know, something isn't a fetish just because you like it. the definition of a fetish is something that can arouse a man when nothing else can.

mircea_popescu: "not a bug"

mircea_popescu: "<danielpbarron> > A lot of the issues were not made public, though they were fixed" le derp

mircea_popescu: and manul is actually a local word.

mircea_popescu: nedelya is week at any rate. sex is a neologism for the russkis, they didn't use to fuck before the missionaries came