yarone

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Co-founder SteadyMD (acquired), Zumbox, and Academy123 (acquired).

In 1995 I built my first commercial software product, a shareware add-on for AOL v2.5

E-mail is my username @ yarone.com

Twitter: @yarone ICQ: 104006 :-)

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Comment · 3 months ago
I was so impressed with remove.bg in Dec 2018; awesome to see the progress in this area, so cool.
Comment · 7 months ago
I wonder if self-driving cars and massively improved safety will solve this.

5 kids in a car, held, seated, seatbelted, any-which-way. Like on a train.

Comment · 7 months ago
Ahh BBS's: where I learned the difference between a local call and a "local toll call" (parents were not happy)
Comment · 9 months ago
https://www.yarone.com/

Ancient and needs updating

Comment · 1 year ago
Me too! With Sendkeys and some Win32 API calls, I wrote an AOL add-on (available through Keyword: addons) called AoLOL!. It was my first software business.

Q: How do you identify the AOL window? A: Look for an app with titlebar = "America[space][space]Online"

Comment · 1 year ago
This is awesome, great work!
Comment · 1 year ago
Remember Accompany.com and Mercata and other group-buying websites from the 90's dotcom boom? Time for those again?
Comment · 1 year ago
Nielsen's "Usability Engineering" was my FIRST EVER Amazon.com purchase in June 1998.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ha, reminds me of XTREE GOLD, from the late 80's / early 90's. A time where the default file explorer was unbearable.
Comment · 1 year ago
I absolutely loved VB3 thru VB6!
Comment · 2 years ago
Roblox studio. My son is a sound designer for some of the top games there. He's also learning programming in Lua for Roblox platform.

It is a small community of mostly kids aged 15-25 as far as I can tell. It doesn't seem like any professional adult game developers are part of the community (I got an inside view when I took my son to RDC this year).

The top game developers are making millions of dollars per year (they're paid in Robux and converted to USD).

In short, thriving ecosystem with lots of kids having fun doing creative work including creating games, writing code, designing graphics, designing sound effects.

Comment · 2 years ago
And car driver.

When I heard about how Tesla was training it's AI - without describing objects but instead through direct observation - it reminded me of Heinlein's "Door Into Summer" (1956). Heinlein's character teaches a multipurpose robot how to do any tedious human task through direct observation.

Comment · 2 years ago
Also might be useful to some: in Google Cal, you can show a secondary time zone on left hand side. Mine shows PT and CT for example.
Comment · 2 years ago
Ha, back in 1995 I could HEAR in advance when my PC was going to crash. I could tell from the certain crunching / grinding sounds of the hard disk. I could hear it and think "Uh oh, here comes a crash..." And then blue screen of death.

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