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by blihp 7y ago
While technically correct (i.e. Federal powers are limited), realistically they can, and do, use the power of the purse to get cooperation. 'Oh, you want Federal resources for this? We're going to need you to do your part by doi
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by blihp 7y ago
No, there's often a disconnect between paper and physical metals when there's economic volatility. The same thing happened in '08. The reality is that trading futures contracts (which generally settle in cash) isn't t
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by blihp 7y ago
My advice would be don't bite off so much at once where you'll risk getting discouraged. Part of the reason you may be feeling overwhelmed is that it sounds like you're combining three projects: learning a new programming la
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by blihp 7y ago
You'll have a better shot at new business grants/loans on the other side of this when they're looking to do stimulus. Right now, they're just trying to minimize the amount of implosions with existing businesses.
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by blihp 7y ago
Sure, the govt says it's effective immediately but the banks are saying something different... typical bureaucracy at work. It will take some time to sort it out. For a lot of (esp. small) companies it's going to be too little,
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by blihp 7y ago
I'd just assume it needs to be rescheduled into 2021. Should group gatherings resume before the end of the year, which seems unlikely, it seems a safe bet that turnout would be rather low just due to people not wanting to risk it. On
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by blihp 7y ago
I'm planning on stay at home lasting (here in the U.S.) until sometime between early June and late-July. I think once it is lifted (probably in stages) we'll have all sorts of restrictions on larger gatherings throughout at least
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by blihp 7y ago
Obviously it's impossible to say for certain. This was/is a relatively controlled economic crash landing. The decision was made to take the plane from 30,000 feet to the runway in record time. So everyone has bumps and bruises,
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by blihp 7y ago
First, figure out what you want for yourself. Are you even interested in a leadership position? If not, all working at it is likely to do is make you miserable. In that case, you'll probably need to adjust your compensation target d
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by blihp 7y ago
Not really. In the Windows world Visio pretty much owns the market. Sure, the retail price of Visio is higher but it's also typically built into corporate pricing schedules for Microsoft software (i.e. discounted and on the pre-appro
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by blihp 7y ago
It's also what made the company: they were originally developers of software targeting NeXT machines/OS. Their products are a better fit in the role of 'big fish in a small pond' of the NeXT and then Mac worlds. Also,
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by blihp 7y ago
Not nearly enough... that's the problem: the business models that produced products like that won't be around for much longer as the price gets closer and closer to 'free'. The economics of mobile are dismal for paid pr
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by blihp 7y ago
I'd bet that it wasn't. This looks like a company trying to sell their filament. The idea (FDM printing masks) seems like a bad one on so many levels.
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by blihp 7y ago
Now would be about the worst time to join 99% of startups. Unless you are financially set and looking for an adventure, stick it out at the safe gig.
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by blihp 7y ago
With the majority of companies not at all well positioned for work-from-home, I would bet that many business-oriented SaaS companies (that do something useful) are going to be picking up new customers. As a result, they'll probably be
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by blihp 7y ago
I think this is mainly a historical thing with Apple's product naming. Their 'pro' designation doesn't mean what it used to mean and so a lot of the denigration is probably more targeting Apple than their users.
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by blihp 7y ago
It's not nonsense, it's just different use cases. For office productivity applications, of course the majority of users will be just fine. For many technical people, 'real' work tends to mean heavy compute and/or
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by blihp 7y ago
Keep in mind that this is all subject to change on a daily basis. A serious recommendation: if you don't have it already, make sure you have at least some easy to prepare canned/dry food (i.e ramen/soup/veggies/cra
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by blihp 7y ago
A significant fraction of the economies of the world are being shut down, which is what needs to happen short term.[1] Interest rate cuts and liquidity injections won't do much of anything about the fact that, other than mostly small
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by blihp 7y ago
You can chemically analyze a piece of cake and know exactly what it's made of. You would still not know how to make one with that knowledge alone.
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by blihp 7y ago
No one needs to paint a picture of our institutions struggling to the world... we've been doing a fine job of that ourselves. Had a U.S. company made the same gesture to another country, our media would be covering it as humanitarian
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by blihp 7y ago
It wasn't a crisis, but it was a real problem that needed to be, and was, fixed in plenty of time. It didn't surprise anyone in the industry as it was well known throughout the 90's it was coming. The biggest problem was id
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by blihp 7y ago
Conferences, concerts, sporting events, expos etc. They're just trying to slow down the rate at which it spreads. All of these types events also typically involve some amount of travel (whether on the part of the organizers, entertai
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by blihp 7y ago
All of the above. Greater complexity/more features, people dedicated to finding vulnerabilities, more news coverage of vulnerabilities, more money to be made from exploiting vulnerabilities and general complacency from Intel. Given t
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by blihp 7y ago
Because it doesn't rely on both the user and developers to do some yet to be determined 'right thing' for the CPU to behave in a consistent manner. While you are correct that some people want absolute max performance per watt
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by blihp 7y ago
I suspect it's just simple math. In the same way that Windows deployments vastly outnumber mainframes, (large scale server) Linux deployments vastly outnumber Windows. FAANG (and want-to-be FAANG) companies have been hammering away a
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by blihp 7y ago
Sounds like you stuck with it longer than I did. I can only speak to the original MessagePad 100 since that was the only model I bought. I still have the Apple modem dongle lying around here somewhere which is what I was referring to. Wh
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by blihp 7y ago
Not out of the box and probably not for the first couple years at least and I don't think wireless (i.e. cellular... there was no wifi back then) ever. There was a serial modem dongle but that still required a land line. The closest t
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by blihp 7y ago
I agree with your take that mid-90's was probably peak UX. But I think that has more to do with that being about the time when companies stopped trying to strike a balance between accommodating both power users and casual users. Sinc
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by blihp 7y ago
While a completely open device is the ideal, to many there's nothing inherently wrong with making a few pragmatic compromises as long as they are well thought through. In the case of the radios, they appear to be well isolated from th

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