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Ask HN: How do I protect myself if I open source some code?
2 points by W-Stool 3y ago|3 comments
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by W-Stool 3y ago
Hard to believe that at one time Williams was one of the dominant teams in F1. The first F1 car I ever saw at full-song was Alan Jones in the Williams FW07 @ Montreal. I simply could not believe what I was seeing (and hearing).
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by W-Stool 3y ago
Only after they got caught.
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by W-Stool 3y ago
When I was running a micro-ISV way back in the day I thought I had really made it when I could afford to advertise in Dr. Dobb's journal. The magazine was a really big deal many years ago, and I still miss those days.
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by W-Stool 3y ago
I'm sure just about everyone has seen "Blade Runner" by now - double points if you've seen the later version without Harrison Ford's narration. But you really need to see "12 Monkeys" if you haven't
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by W-Stool 3y ago
Thanks for writing a great summary of year #6 for your business. Question: where do your advertising dollars go and how do you measure their success? Good luck in year #7!
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by W-Stool 3y ago
I used to work at the University of Nevada, Reno - the institution cited here. The current president of the institution is a former Republican governor without a Ph.D (something nearly all university presidents have). The current VP of Fi
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by W-Stool 3y ago
Where did you find the Pi5 for purchase? I can't find one of these in the USA for purchase anywhere.
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by W-Stool 3y ago
Lordstown Assembly was never "torn down", and it would certainly take longer than a holiday weekend to do so. From the wiki: "Conversion van production at Lordstown ended when production of the Chevrolet van's successor
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by W-Stool 3y ago
I would also add the "Warehouse Sound" catalog from San Luis Obispo to the list - to this day I've never read such good ad copy. These guys could literally sell stereo systems to the deaf - the ad copy describing these syste
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by W-Stool 3y ago
"Boiler Room" is really an excellent film, and not widely seen. A great lesson on how some (but certainly not all) stock brokerages work.
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by W-Stool 3y ago
As I head into my mid-60s I can look back on a pretty good life. Regardless of whatever else I did, for me my all-time greatest achievement was getting on Car Talk and posing my question - a real-life problem I was having that they solved
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by W-Stool 3y ago
Purchasing and using a 132 column dot matrix printer just isn't feasible these days, hence my question.
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Ask HN: What are you using to print source code these days?
4 points by W-Stool 3y ago|7 comments
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by W-Stool 3y ago
"Grosse Pointe Blank" is one of my favorites because of Alan Arkin.
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by W-Stool 3y ago
If they do the 16c I will be first in line. A programmer's calculator indeed.
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by W-Stool 3y ago
Before there were personal computers if you were a geek you likely studied to get a ham radio license and built Heathkit amateur radios. This was me in the early 70s as a kid and it really helped propel me into a IT career later on when th
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by W-Stool 3y ago
For people doing embedded development using MSDOS (which plenty of people did back in the day) Borland C/C++ version 3.1 was the gold standard of IDE and compiler tools. Turbo Debugger using two displays (one was a monochrome display
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by W-Stool 4y ago
An amazing collection of gear from way back. All that stuff was current when I was starting my IT career. Question: the guy is into ham radio as well - a lot of us were into that before home computing was really possible. On top of the am
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by W-Stool 4y ago
I used this constantly back in the day - it was the Gold Standard. The real question is - whatever happened to Ralf Brown?
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by W-Stool 4y ago
By "Open Core" are they referring to "Open Source"?
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by W-Stool 4y ago
People that have not been exposed to legacy industries (banking, insurance, etc) would simply not believe how many of these large/huge companies run the majority of their business on an IBM mainframe running COBOL code. I've seen
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After Half a Century, ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ Still Reverberates(nytimes.com)
3 points by W-Stool 4y ago|0 comments
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by W-Stool 4y ago
Sears Craftsman, obviously.
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by W-Stool 4y ago
I've had some business in Los Angeles over the years - not much, but I got there off and on. Depending on the airport you're flying into, depending on the landing approach your plane takes, and depending on what side of the plane
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by W-Stool 4y ago
Good to know, thank you.
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by W-Stool 4y ago
There's a huge error in an otherwise good article about traveling by Amtrak on a long distance train: "Also, economy does not include meals in the dining car and gets you no access to the observation car." This is not true.
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by W-Stool 4y ago
This reminds me of why the US medical system will never be reformed in meaningful ways: there's too much money to be made with the status quo.
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by W-Stool 4y ago
George Smiley knew it well.
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by W-Stool 4y ago
You can suffer from both - arrogance and ignorance - and I think Musk truly does.

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