The world has gotten better in many ways, but I do miss the days of getting a physical magazine only once a month (or twice, or whatever): one didn’t have to think about the topic until it arrived, then one could read the whole thing, learn something and then go on until the next issue arrived. In a lot of ways this was an improvement from our amazing world of always-fresh, rarely-deep news, opinion, videos, movies, content.
Reading Dvorak’s column was a regular high point of my life when I was a boy. I remember how excited I was to get my hands on it, and how I’d curl up somewhere and read it. He’ll be missed. He is missed.
I bought his book "Dvorak Predicts" back in the day. His writing style was quirky and upbeat, and he'd often take both sides of an argument in different articles. That provided plenty of food for thought, along with some egregious errors. Saying "if DOS is dead, it's the liveliest corpse I've ever seen" in 1994 was ... well, comical at the time.
But we both agreed that OS/2 was amazing and ahead of its time.
Uh! I sure will miss his witty, always a little contrarian and hence interesting commentary. I did listen to podcasts he was on for a better part of last 15 years.
I picked a random episode from the No Agenda podcast (something socialism) and I couldn’t stand the first five minutes and stopped. Are all the episodes so vapid or is this a parody or what is this?
rau | 17 hours ago
The world has gotten better in many ways, but I do miss the days of getting a physical magazine only once a month (or twice, or whatever): one didn’t have to think about the topic until it arrived, then one could read the whole thing, learn something and then go on until the next issue arrived. In a lot of ways this was an improvement from our amazing world of always-fresh, rarely-deep news, opinion, videos, movies, content.
Reading Dvorak’s column was a regular high point of my life when I was a boy. I remember how excited I was to get my hands on it, and how I’d curl up somewhere and read it. He’ll be missed. He is missed.
malxau | 13 hours ago
I bought his book "Dvorak Predicts" back in the day. His writing style was quirky and upbeat, and he'd often take both sides of an argument in different articles. That provided plenty of food for thought, along with some egregious errors. Saying "if DOS is dead, it's the liveliest corpse I've ever seen" in 1994 was ... well, comical at the time.
But we both agreed that OS/2 was amazing and ahead of its time.
refaktor | 11 hours ago
Uh! I sure will miss his witty, always a little contrarian and hence interesting commentary. I did listen to podcasts he was on for a better part of last 15 years.
matts | 17 hours ago
RIP buzzkill
kghose | 3 hours ago
I picked a random episode from the No Agenda podcast (something socialism) and I couldn’t stand the first five minutes and stopped. Are all the episodes so vapid or is this a parody or what is this?
Lilian | 36 minutes ago