RyJones

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by RyJones 11mo ago
One of my friends, Matt, owned Seattle's Metrix Create:Space. He had a pick and place and a problem: Qualcomm had nice chips, but he couldn't buy them on tape, and he couldn't get data sheets. The CEO of QCA? QCE? Don't
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by RyJones 11mo ago
OK. One OEM (I don't remember who, they make TVs and the like) took our BSP and just... sent it out. To millions of devices. Tens of millions of devices. However many TVs there are. We had just added a TURN implementation to AllJoyn an
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by RyJones 11mo ago
I used to explain Qualcomm as a navy of lawyers and a dinghy of developers. I spent SO MUCH TIME getting legal review to publish code. One of my favorite battles was someone out there in the wild took the Microsoft boilerplate MIDL (MIT 2.0
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by RyJones 11mo ago
I could tell you a long, boring story about that; however, it would be long, and boring.
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by RyJones 11mo ago
from your keyboard to GabeN's ears. I've spent a lot of dollars supporting my local startup; it was mostly wasted.
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by RyJones 11mo ago
As a multi-year sponsor for your work, our open-source community really appreciates the work.
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by RyJones 1y ago
I have been getting added to spam repos and orgs several times a day for weeks. it's annoying
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by RyJones 1y ago
me, 13 years ago, a contractor at Qualcomm: how will QCE compete against Arduino? the then-CEO in a rare f2f in Seattle: oh that's a toy me, today: God speed, you crazy diamonds; I'm glad you cashed out, you are doomed.
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by RyJones 1y ago
Japan is mostly Instagram, line, WhatsApp, telegram, in that order, for me. For business comms drop instagram and move WhatsApp to first. For Singapore it seems LinkedIn messages are the go to IM for business. Europe p2p: telegram number on
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by RyJones 1y ago
I had a lot of offers for wicker.com. In 98? 99? some guy asked what I wanted, and I said give me something interesting so I have a good story to tell. He offered a 1544 Dante, which I accepted. His gig was auctioning estates and his wife i
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by RyJones 1y ago
Yes, my recent (last 10 or so years) experiences have gone from being shocked at seeing full-size F250s in Amsterdam (!) to no more raised eyebrows. I've driven from Tallinn to Kyiv five times over the last year, and I've seen ple
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by RyJones 1y ago
I saw the post on DF and bought it through the App Store. Nice tool! I have about 4TB of small-ish SQLite DBs and this is great for cracking them open and looking around.
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by RyJones 1y ago
Yes. I have a lot of long, boring stories about exactly this.
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by RyJones 1y ago
If you want to see what Honda emits: https://gist.github.com/ryjones/73739f6a7e662b9ed9ba64d9141f...
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by RyJones 1y ago
116/117/118/119 were just like that: rotations and reflections of each other. So confusing!
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by RyJones 1y ago
Tell me you have never shot a rifle for score, without saying you haven't. You can be accurate, precise, or both. Said clock may be precise, but not accurate.
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by RyJones 1y ago
I hope this spreads to the EU; Warsaw security is so slow: everyone taking off belts and handing them through the metal detector, taking off shoes.
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by RyJones 1y ago
I used to listen every week. As I got older, the content got less interesting. I think Ira is a hoopty frood; however, Ira lost touch with "American Life" like 20 years ago.
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by RyJones 1y ago
You can also spot houses and cars with high dollar alarms and ir cameras. Under night vision they are very obvious. It’s like looking at a light show
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by RyJones 1y ago
I listened to Dr Demento on WMHD for so many formative years. A titan!
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by RyJones 1y ago
if you had a thread in MSMAIL, and cc: MSPAGER, anyone on the thread with a pager would get a page from the thread.
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by RyJones 1y ago
Yup, that’s me.
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by RyJones 1y ago
I re-wrote MSPAGER for Exchange. Hoo boy what a hack that was! A VB3 app running as a service, essentially. I don't know if you remember romeo and juliet; those were PCs pulled from pc-recycle by a co-worker to serve install images.
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by RyJones 1y ago
Probably. A lot of people really loved MSMAIL; not so much Exchange. I have more long, boring stories about projects there, but that’s for another day
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by RyJones 1y ago
I was on the team that migrated Microsoft from XNS to TCP/IP - it was way less involved, but similar lessons learned. Migrating from MSMAIL -> Exchange, though - that was rough
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by RyJones 1y ago
USGEO used it in the late 90s, as well as RAID
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by RyJones 1y ago
Neat. I found a pen pal via MRR - lost touch for 30 years, found him a couple years ago, exchanging post cards now. I digitized one of the VHS tapes we traded; presented for your enjoyment. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?l
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by RyJones 1y ago
The coolest low rider I ever saw was in Tokyo.
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by RyJones 1y ago
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I was a contractor for HHS for a year or so. When I started, there was a server farm built for a contract that was powered up and maintained; never used, it was broken up and sold for surplus. Just before I lef
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by RyJones 1y ago
One of my favorite time killers [0] on airplanes is no longer in the Apple App Store. It's still in Steam, but it looks like the developer let his website expire, and Apple culled his app. [0]: https://apps.apple.com/us

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