Steven Sinofsky

@stevesi

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Steven Sinofsky
@stevesi
Sep 16
My friendly reminder, after Microsoft software caused billions in damage due to benign features being chained together (ILOVEYOU) and then a bunch of Windows Server ecomm apps went down over holidays (and more), Microsoft just said: "So now, when we face a choice between adding
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Steven Sinofsky
@stevesi
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Great day to answer this. If you exclude edln or WordStar then it was the Cornell Program Synthesizer which also happened to be among the very first IDEs (Smalltalk came first as did LISP editors). @davepl1968 resurrecting this machine as we speak.
Dave W Plummer
Sebastian Aaltonen
@SebAaltonen
6h
I started with Turbo Pascal 7.0. Such a nice IDE. No bloat. Started instantly. All of these new ones have so many issues.
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Steven Sinofsky
@stevesi
2h
Was anyone monitoring anything? "millions"?
Jeffrey Ladish
@JeffLadish
3h
We just discovered almost a million public URLs that OpenAI’s agents left behind when hacking Hugging Face, leaking credentials and attack details that could have allowed anyone who found them to compromise the company. 🧵
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Steven Sinofsky
@stevesi
4h
ME ME ME
Dave W Plummer
@davepl1968
6h
Anyone take Comp Sci at Cornell in the 80s? If so, I have your Terak systems under restoration! I've got a pair on the bench now - one working, one not - and hope to figure it out, though I'm a software guy and not a hardware guy! Wish me luck! The Teraks are powered by a DEC
Steven Sinofsky
@stevesi
4h
This one is very exciting for me!! Came via my CS100 professor who pioneered syntax directed editing (aka IDEs) before Turbo Pascal and then my own contribution to Visual C++ that led to Visual Studio to VSCode. Fall 1983 got this manual and an 8" floppy for my first programming
Dave W Plummer
@davepl1968
11h
Looks like my next project is here! Has anyone ever heard of the Terak? Seems to be a 1977 PDP-11/23 with a graphics framebuffer, perhaps the first of its kind...