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by RyJones 10y ago
Qualcomm just closed the Seattle and Bellevue offices over the last year, and Intel is doing the same.
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by RyJones 10y ago
you are correct, but Amazon cannot do that. The changes to Android are small but large enough that Amazon can't call Fire OS Android.
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by RyJones 10y ago
the short answer to your first question is yes. You can't get Google Play services (the store) without being Android, and there are some differences between FireOS and Android that support features of Kindle Fire but preclude the Kindl
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by RyJones 10y ago
When I was homeless, I lived in my car. I lived like a king compared to those actually sleeping rough. I frequently slept near/at the Burnside Project (PDX), and saw many far worse off. I had a water tight heated home that I moved when
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by RyJones 10y ago
I've spent the last two days at the Hyperledger Project [0] face to face [1], there was a lot of fintech representation. Disclosure: I'm employed by LF, working as staff at this event. [0] https://www.hyperledger.org&#x
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by RyJones 10y ago
We use it widely with projects we support at the Linux Foundation. It's great!
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by RyJones 10y ago
I used to take my CRKT M16-14 knife on the nerd bird SJC<->SEA round trip twice a week. Nobody cared. This was mid-90s until just before 9/11. I didn't try to hide it - just tossed it in the bin with my keys etc. https:&#x2
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by RyJones 11y ago
American Idol caused widespread rearchitecting of SMSGW/SMSC. Fun times; voting was a very distributed DoS.
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by RyJones 11y ago
thrived once on board, yes. It's the filter at the top of the funnel that's screwing them.
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by RyJones 11y ago
weather in summer in the Bay Area isn't very risky.
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by RyJones 11y ago
clearly, no.
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by RyJones 11y ago
I appreciated tipping when I could negotiate having my driver sit still for five minutes for an extra fiver while I picked up a print job last week.
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by RyJones 11y ago
I apologize, I missed your comment earlier. In my experience (before the tolls were in place on 520 to mess with things), the morning commute was heavy from Seattle->Microsoft exit. There was a lot less traffic going from Kirkland->Se
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by RyJones 11y ago
I worked at a now deceased photo-sharing startup, and the stats were so bad. Most photos never left the device, meaning people had all of these important life moments in only one place. Lose or break your iPhone? All of baby's first wh
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by RyJones 11y ago
I've been using Lyft quite a bit this year, and I've asked every driver if they drive for both (yes) and which they prefer (Lyft, because it pays better). Anecdata, I know.
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by RyJones 11y ago
If you're doing the counter commute, Kirkland->Seattle Business District in the morning, 520 is a great option. Most people have abandoned it due to the toll, but the only area where things get sticky is the merge from 405->520 w
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by RyJones 11y ago
They even shipped IE for Solaris in the 90s! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX
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by RyJones 11y ago
You can certify, and use the Bluetooth mark, based on assertion and documentation. Bluetooth SIG is also not very good about going after companies misusing the mark. This is why you can buy a million brands of $10 OBD-II dongles from Amazon
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by RyJones 11y ago
Apple, by comparison, is a black hole. I filed a bug in July 2014 [0] against xcodebuild that we still get bit by every once in a while. Never got a response. The repro is trivial. [0] http://blog.ryjones.org/2015/01&#x
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by RyJones 11y ago
I wonder if he worked with early UltraSPARC chips. There were tales of an interesting bug report from the NSA. It's been 20 years, so I probably have every detail wrong, but it was something like a missed implementation of a version of
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by RyJones 11y ago
NT had a fairly robust POSIX layer, too, for a while. Enough to get POSIX certified for the checkbox driven PHBs.
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by RyJones 11y ago
When I was a youngster, my dad, a house painter, said the future of painting was lead abatement. In the mid-80s when I started working for him, it was a small sliver of what we were doing. In the early 90s we started getting bid documents t
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by RyJones 11y ago
no NIMBYs on the bottom of the ocean.
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by RyJones 11y ago
We use Gerrit and Jenkins. Any patch gets hit with CI pre-merge.
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by RyJones 11y ago
one of my frustrations when working at Qualcomm was my inability to get data sheets released without an NDA. Hackerspaces don't want to sign NDAs.
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by RyJones 11y ago
Japan, as government policy, not that I recall. Certainly Japanese companies have harmed the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitori_Kumagai
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by RyJones 11y ago
Intelligence Squared does this. Interesting podcasts. US version: http://www.npr.org/series/6263392/intelligence-squared-u-s UK version: http://www.intelligencesquared.com/podcast/
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by RyJones 11y ago
That is an astoundingly low ARPU. I see Twitter predicts between $2.50 and $4 ARPU. I looked for but couldn't quickly find a recent Flickr revenue breakout. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-targets-ads-logged-
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by RyJones 11y ago
Are you familiar with the AIPP? I hadn't heard of it before I moved here. http://www.arts.wa.gov/public-art
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by RyJones 11y ago
The only one that I can remember was the email MITM "service".

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