alt Hacker NewsThe developer, Dave Plummer, left Microsoft to develop and distribute malware and scams in the 90s. See previous thread at [1].
Nowadays he spreads misinformation disguised as war stories from his time at Microsoft.
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It's frustrating, because he does do some cool things. But I had to quit following him because of his constant yarning about how he grew up not rich and made millions from Microsoft, so young people now are stupid and lazy.
Dave Cutler was a guest in his garage and it was a great episode. That lands some gravity at least?
My how the overton window has moved. Some of violative conduct is standard practice now.
> When consumers prepared to purchase a product, additional services and products including a $9.95 back-up disc and $4.95 ‘optional extended service’ plan appeared on the check-out form. The form also listed “one free year of updates” – selected by default – but the company was then authorized to automatically charge a consumer’s credit card at the end of the year unless the buyer cancels the update plan.
Do you have any evidence of these (unsubstantiated) claims against him?
He also lied about his contributions to Start menu
What about his contributions to human civilization? ;)
He got a world record score on the Tempest arcade game [1], then developed an AI which beat his own record[2]. His biggest failure was, that after rebuilding TEMPEST from arcade machine ROMS, he added levels to the game but never made them public [3].
[1]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuSMCWu02hA
[2]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdbpoDjIvPk
[3]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjsVSEbXDOM