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David Weiss
Personal blog · davidweiss.blogspot.combusinessculture
David Weiss's personal blog at davidweiss.blogspot.com covers business and culture. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006)”. The last post was in 2008, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal blog for a 2006 post touring Microsoft's Building 3, including photos of the 1990s and early 2000s soda fridges. A second comment, on a startup-history thread, does not discuss the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-18
What Hacker News says?
Blog post with a pic of typical MS soda pop fridges in the 90s/early 2000s - https://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/04/tour-of-microsofts-m...
Comment linking /2006/04/tour-of-microsofts-mac-lab.html
on “Matterport walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3”Submitted A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006) as a story · 207 points
HN discussionIn this context, the beginning would be designing, building and debugging (getting to work) a "serious" digital circuit or piece of software. Woz's analog work, e.g. the critical switching power supply for the Apple, is a bit beyond that. I'm not sure how to define the threshold for a digital circuit in those days (that's not my field, for one thing, and the Lisp Machine ones I was vaguely familiar with are huge in…
Comment linking /2006/10/woz-at-microsoft.html
on “Ask HN: Start-up success as a non-technical?”Submitted Finishers Wanted (on the importance of finishing) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Product-Driven Platforms vs Platform-Driven Platforms as a story · 1 points
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