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by athenot 5y ago
On a side-note, thank you very much for creating and releasing Imba! It's a joy to write apps with it and I can put things out so much faster. https://imba.io
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by athenot 5y ago
It ran on V.23, which was 1200 bits/s down and 75 bits/s up, but could be reversed in case one wanted to upload / type stuff. Once modems were widespread, it was a lot better to use Minitel emulators on a computer, as one cou
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by athenot 5y ago
A happy medium can still be had by including all the typesetting niceties in the same file, or maybe one extra included file. Still amazingly fast.
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Same here. The best part is that I spend zero brain cycles in thinking where to file a note before I write it; pretty much every note is in a generic Notes folder. I have one exception: any 1:1 meeting with a person gets its own note and th
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by athenot 5y ago
For those curious about how to code this in ICD-10: W20.8XXA Morbidity from strike by thrown, projected or falling inanimate object, initial encounter. And probably associated with this place of encounter: Y92.83
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by athenot 5y ago
Imba is one I'm really enjoying at the moment. It's like all the warts of javascript, css and jsx were removed and turned into a very fun environment. https://imba.io or discussed a few times here on HN
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by athenot 5y ago
My Nissan LEAFs were no joke. Sure they didn't have a fancy 17" LCD display, but they were good cars in their own right. I leased 2 of them.
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by athenot 5y ago
Then you can "Enhance". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk Joking aside, this does illustrate the "magical" properties of technology to the layperson. As a corollary, failure modes end up quite
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by athenot 5y ago
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
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by athenot 5y ago
If anyone else finds themselves in this position, don't ever entertain fixed-price bids unless you're absolutely desperate for work. Instead, insist on an hourly rate (at approximately 1.5x - 2.5x market value). You're essent
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by athenot 5y ago
Twitter is a great source of information; when there's a tornado warning I keep a close eye on #gawx (substitute first 2 letters for your own state). That ends up producing a feed of info from meteorologists and amateur spotters with a
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by athenot 5y ago
A decade ago, Firefox supported ECMAScript for XML which had a lot of similarities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML
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by athenot 5y ago
> and to skip the 18 minutes of advertising per hour of TV And now Instagram shows 1 ad every 3 posts/stories, which is getting closer to the ratio on TV.
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by athenot 5y ago
Ah yes the weather is specific to the South East. But I don't recall seeing ads for local businesses nor articles about local affairs.
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by athenot 5y ago
I receive the NYT on my doorstep on weekends and my copies say "Printed in Georgia". The content does not vary, though.
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by athenot 5y ago
Yes. For cars, the risk is low, and there are mitigations such as insurance that can alleviate the pain. What I'm thinking is that if a car's backdoor becomes a mental concept for the general public, it might help popularize the c
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by athenot 5y ago
Even though there may be a legitimate use-case from a car serviceability standpoint, this does serve to illustrate the wider problem of creating backdoors in systems: they always end up getting abused and into the wrong hands.
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by athenot 5y ago
They own duck.com and it redirects to their site. They should just adopt "duck.com" as their main brand, which will inevitably get shortened to "Duck" in everyday conversation. Then we can turn it into a verb. "Go D
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by athenot 5y ago
My dad lived through the seatbelt mandates. People came up will all sorts of justifications why seatbelts were bad, more dangerous, choked them, gave them aches, etc. simply because they didn't want to wear them.
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by athenot 5y ago
At this point, Instagram decided it wants to be a TV and just show me what it wants me to see, not my carefully curated feed. I'm letting my account die.
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by athenot 5y ago
At this point, there are many alternative gTLDs that can be used for personal sites, and quite a few are super cheap. Maybe the squatters will catch up and eventually buy them all up but for now there's a decent availability.
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by athenot 5y ago
This is one reason why I don't like 4k monitors. The pixel density is just awkward. If I use 1 point = 1 pixel, then the UI is way too small. If I run at 1:2, the UI is too big and the screen is effectively a "retina 1080p".
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by athenot 5y ago
Similar trick with "no sugar added" in juices, but you can take grape or apple juice, evaporate a lot of the water till it forms a syrup, then add that syrup to juices and still be able to sell the result as "100% pure fruit
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by athenot 5y ago
This is similar to claims that cameras are obsoleted by smart phones. It's only true insofar as the timeline being examined starts at the peak of the consumer camera frenzy. But well before a large chunk of consumers had point-and-sh
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by athenot 5y ago
> Several years ago I switched careers from sales, marketing and consulting[1] The author's bio on his GitHub profile explains it: he's approaching development with a mindset of sales and marketing. It's also followed by h
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by athenot 5y ago
I switched from AZERTY to QWERTY and can type French nearly as fast. On the Mac, doing Éé, Èè, Îî, Ôô, Öü, Ïï, etc is not noticeably slower.
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by athenot 5y ago
> That's $2983 per month. Gross. More like $2200 after tax. Healthcare for a family of 4 averaged to $1777/month in 2020[1]. The higher up the income ladder, the more the employer pays that. On the low-end, the employer doesn&#
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by athenot 5y ago
The trees and greenery make for a beautiful render, but I'm reminded of this article from 2013, "Can we please stop drawing trees on top of skyscrapers?" https://www.archdaily.com/346374/can-we-please-sto
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by athenot 5y ago
> They made their livelihood to persuade kings to follow their advices and make profit (in money, fame and land) from it. Early consultants?
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by athenot 5y ago
I'm all for content marketing but this article is sprinkled with sales-pitches and calls to action for OP's own stuff he sells. I feel like one needs to have ADD in order to make it to the end of it.

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