billwear

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by billwear 3y ago
I want to keep my website relatively simple -- no scrolling baloney and falling balloons -- but it's not there yet. Help me. I can take it.
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by billwear 3y ago
climate change is also affected by the amount of swamp we replace by concrete. here in the Louisiana wetlands, the amount of CO2 that the environment can "sink" is enormous, but the wetlands are shrinking every day for more refine
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by billwear 4y ago
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Neuromancer, of course.
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by billwear 4y ago
this. i had a small business through 2007 as a copywriter. subprime crisis killed the customers, but i was only incorporated locally, through my state. all it cost me was $25 to dissolve the corporation, a simple postcard. my only real
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Debate HN: Emacs vs. *Nix Philosphies(stormrider.io)
1 points by billwear 4y ago|1 comments
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by billwear 4y ago
here's a soft position, open for much debate; happy to learn things today.
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by billwear 4y ago
i can do it without looking it up, and i catch my own mistakes on the first go, usually. want to get there? use emacs for everything, write a lot , and use replace-regex for all search and replace actions. note that this took several year
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FOSS, doc, and respecting your elders(maas.io)
4 points by billwear 4y ago|0 comments
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by billwear 4y ago
i write about a product called MAAS, a bare-metal provisioning system. i have a houseful of NUCs of different vintages to provision, but sometimes i want to try odd configurations and/or create error conditions to build troubleshootin
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by billwear 4y ago
or better yet, https://diataxis.fr/ -- where there author of that system is now.
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I followed my passion; don't try this at home(stormrider.io)
1 points by billwear 4y ago|0 comments
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80s nostalgia: chatronyms and freaker numbers(stormrider.io)
3 points by billwear 4y ago|0 comments
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About Feeling Shitty(stormrider.io)
1 points by billwear 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: The meaning of life is a trick question
2 points by billwear 4y ago|5 comments
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by billwear 4y ago
Read the HP Way. Engineers can run a company, and do a damn good job of it. You just need an engineer or two who wants to spend time applying engineering to the business end of things. They are out there, and they are really good at what
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Web 2.0 sucks sharp pebbles and canal water through a dirty straw(stormrider.io)
48 points by billwear 4y ago|55 comments
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by billwear 5y ago
https://stormrider.io
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by billwear 5y ago
stop paying the lawyers, and this will stop happening.
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by billwear 5y ago
Mitnick's "Art of Deception" springs to mind. Sort of a combination cautionary tale, autobiography of what can go wrong, and workbook for techniques. And an indicator that the California DMV is still vulnerable, decades l
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Forget morals; do nice things instead(stormrider.io)
3 points by billwear 5y ago|0 comments
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A Deep Work Exoself(stormrider.io)
2 points by billwear 5y ago|0 comments
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by billwear 5y ago
yeah. coding is ubiquitous, and tests show it. dev is an art and a science, and tests can easily screen those out. but that's why dev is rare and valuable. and that's why dev will eventually find its place, without tests. meh.
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Coming Out of That Other Closet(stormrider.io)
1 points by billwear 5y ago|0 comments
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by billwear 5y ago
probably.
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by billwear 5y ago
A 0dB tone is a tuning tone. Most amplifiers are tuned to a particular frequency at 0dB, and with a good phone connection, you can even do this over the wire. It's problematic if there are too many hops between you and the source. F
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by billwear 5y ago
If you dig into Evan Doorbell's stuff, he explains this nicely. It has to do with where the intercept was caught (the particular CO / switch level / device).
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by billwear 5y ago
yeah, I love Evan's stuff, especially the recordings about George, the answering machine, and random answering machine outgoing messages from the 80's Atlanta area. fantastic!
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Still-active phreak numbers, all safe and free(stormrider.io)
256 points by billwear 5y ago|88 comments
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by billwear 5y ago
yes, yes, yes. the middle. if you can't keep a reader from taking a bathroom break until page 140, you can't write a novel.
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by billwear 5y ago
i think this is one reason that, at Canonical, you can't really get an idea past the starting gate unless you have a decent engineering spec to go with it. how will you build it? how does it actually meet user's needs (even if yo

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