228: Never Forward a Port to Your Brain

March's Q&A features a wide array of questions that inspired discussions about such wide-ranging topics as our love of screensavers, a world without Gmail, Will's strong opinions on Ethernet termination standards, wearing shoes inside the house (or not), the lack of 9s in product naming, Proton-like cross-platform game support on MacOS, and a bunch more.

Make sure to watch Pirates of Silicon Valley for an upcoming episode we'll be recording in two or three weeks: https://archive.org/details/piratesofsiliconvalley_201908

The SGI Onyx $250,000 supercomputer video Brad mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3lUw9GUJA

And in case you're curious, the two Ethernet termination standards we talked about.

 

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