Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as a great tech documentary on Mozilla's open-sourcing and the hard work of Netscape engineers.
What it is
Code Rush is a 2000 PBS documentary following Netscape engineers during the year they open-sourced the browser as Mozilla. It shows the pressure and long hours of work in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com era.
Recommended by 5 HN commenters across 5 different months, 2011 to 2013.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec Isofarro · 2011-02 · on “And so I'm giving up the Mozilla project - Jamie Zawinski (1999)”
Excellent documentary on YouTube covering the year long open-sourcing of Mozilla, right up to the point of jwz leaving Netscape. [this video] (via codinghorror: [LINK] )
Strong rec redthrowaway · 2012-04 · on “The origins of the blink HTML element”
If you watch Code Rush, which I highly recommend, you'll see that they worked crazilly hard at Netscape back in the day: [this video]
Recommends toponium · 2011-03 · on “Jwz's Tent of Doom at Netscape in 1995”
Pretty cool free documentary titled Code Rush that films Netscape engineers during the Mozilla source code release. [this video]
Recommends jka · 2012-05 · on “Ask HN: What are your favorite films about startups?”
Although Netscape was already pretty large by the time, Code Rush is a great SV tech documentary about the initial release of Mozilla; it's also now under creative commons and is available on youtube: [this video]
Recommends coldtea · 2013-12 · on “Learn to code like it's 1996”
> It's a really interesting thought that this whole "learn to code" movement existed in some form seventeen years ago and somehow didn't take off when it seems like such an inevability right now. It seemed an inevetability back then too (and 10 years before that, with the first wave of the cheap PCs). Like now, it actually wasn't. > But I think it's one of those things we'll look back on like the 2010 iPad / 1993 Apple Newton and say "yeah coding trade schools were a cool idea back then, but the world just wasn't ready for it yet", and now that they've become 'cool' so to speak we're going to see that permanent explosion. Nope, it's just a fad now too, driven by the current bubble. It will s
Cites jjm · 2011-04 · on “Startups And Work/Life Balance”
I have a lot of experience in this area and also have the same family background as yourself. I touch on some of your topics in another 'work-life' thread here: [LINK] and [LINK] Having gone through EXACTLY what your trying, I can say it is very hard. How many startup attempts of mine failed because there 'wasn't' enough time in the day? I count 4. How many side projects failed because there 'wasn't' enough time in the day? 35% of them couldn't be completed. At one point I was only sleeping 2 hours a day for MONTHS. Hows that for compression, and stupidity... I learned the hard way. You pretty much have 4 good and immediate paths: 1.) Pure luck. Need I say more. OR 2.) Pay off your debt asap