Hiro
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- IT'S SIGGRAPH TECHNICAL PAPERS PREVIEW TRAILER TIME, BABY! … We open with Hiro hanging out with Squeaky, the Enforcer we met in Chapter 16 and was in charge of the security detail at the gig. In short …
- New clouds; Spreadsheets; Half-lives; Snow Crashing chapters 17 and 18 … the word cellular in the entire book (the others being two references to Hiro’s computer having a cellular network link and one reference to the Raft making …
- Absurdity, net-native journalism, Promising No Solutions, Talking and Snow Crashing, chapter 16 … Hiro and Sushi K have a very respectful conversation in Nipponese with each other about Hiro’s invitation to perform that starts out cordial but then starts to …
- Vestigial; Unions; Weird; and Snow Crashing - Chapter 15, part 2 … Lagos and Hiro are meeting because Juanita (the one who actually knows what’s going on, is the best developer Hiro’s ever met, and whom Hiro is …
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15 … Hiro’s stealing it from a wastebasket! Is it only a hop, skip and a jump to Hiro messing around with malware and outright breaking into the agent …
- The Sky Above The Port; Snow Crashing, chapter 14, part 3 … This whole time, Hiro’s in Vitaly’s van on the way to the gig; Y.T. knocks on the window to distract Hiro from his goggles (nowadays …
- The Return of Snow Crash - Snow Crashing: Chapter 14, part 2 … To catch us up, Hiro is working through a Hypercard stack with the Librarian, researching L. Bob Rife, an evangelist media mogul implicated in the Snow Crash drug …
- Little things; Snow Crashing Ch 14 part 1 … Lagos had already collected all the Babel/Infocalypse information in the offline hypercard Hiro received, and we got our first look at what a hypercard interface looks like …
- Cynical, me?; Snow Crashing Ch 13, part 3 … While the Librarian’s busy doing that, Hiro takes a look at Earth and just the resolution and clarity of it tells Hiro “that this piece of software …
- Snow Crash Ch13, Part 2; Everything Is Political … Hiro — or maybe Stephenson’s? — biases are on display here because Hiro thinks maybe he knew the person who coded the Librarian (“Maybe I know him. I know …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … The daemons were a direct result of Hiro having invented sword-fighting algorithms, and it’s implied that Hiro’s sword-fighting algorithms were also directly responsible for …
- Snow Crashing … No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing Aside from Hiro’s sword fight, the last thing that happened was Y.T. and Hiro’s escape from The …
- No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing … had busted herself out of The Clink with an assist from Hiro. Well, Hiro didn’t actually do that much - he helped Y.T. with a window (metaphorically …
- Snow Crashing … asks Hiro to help her bust out of The Clink, and lets him know that she's been in there for ten minutes. Turns out Hiro knows a …
- Snow Crashing … Because when Juanita gives Hiro the hypercard, “the world [Hiro’s metaverse experience] freezes and grows dim for a second. The Black Sun loses its smooth animation and …
- DNS Fan Fiction; 100-watt-hour-Trucks … Fortunately, my earlier contact Akira was able to recommend someone who I would only ever know by the pseudonym of "Hiro", a reference they assured me to an …
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now … Juanita warns Hiro off Snow Crash, and Hiro points out: of course, it's catnip to him. Three: Juanita has a Thing for Hiro, and at the very …
- Email; Snow Crashing (10); 2014 (4) … Juanita gives Hiro a hypercard. And "[as] Hiro pulls it from her hand, the hypercard changes from a jittery two-dimensional figment into a realistic, cream-coloured, finely …
- Belong; Snow Crashing (9); Humans As A Service … When Hiro heads over to Da5id's table, there's a line that's resonated with a whole bunch of people: "Softare development, like professional sports, has a …
- Continued Disruption; Snow Crashing (7); Edge of Tomorrow … The last one was back in episode 64[1], where we covered the hypercard stack given to Hiro by the Snow Crash pusher outside the Black Sun. Now …
- Computer Says No, Snow Crashing … photocopy dude who's slightly taller than everyone else in the crowd for a reason that doesn't stack up *manages to grab Hiro's attention*. Which is …
- Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television … So, assuming Hiro wasn't doing everything from the OS upwards and pulled in networking libraries rather than hand-rolling his own TCP/IP stack, Stephenson means Hiro …
- Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds … We get all of the adverts of course, one Hiro steps onto the Street, but we also hear about amusement parks, and they're places that you have …
- Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face … It makes me think that Stephenson and Hiro are trying to point something out about humans actually *liking* scarcity. 2.0 Computers, AMIRITE? Matt Jones made a quip …
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift … For all the talk we see later in the novel of hypermedia, one missed observation is that Hiro's business card only needs one pointer, one URL, for …