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by brudgers 1y ago
Exactly as easy as it is now? One could hope. But hope is not a plan and generally complex electronics become increasingly harder to run with obsolescence. And LTO has planned obsolesence (probably because the expectation is that most com
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by brudgers 1y ago
Your professional network is your best resource. The people who you have worked over, under, and beside you know your work so talk to them. Even if they probably are not hiring at the moment, maybe they have a lead. Even if they don’t, mayb
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by brudgers 1y ago
Write once is the only form of reliable backup. Once you start erasing data from an archive, you have introduced the most likely vector for losing data...human errors of judgement.
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by brudgers 1y ago
Sure, but how easy will it be to run those drives in 10 years? Mechanical issues, driver issues, etc. And already you have to be really committed to backing up to go down that rabbit hole. LTO is lots of different standards that evolved ove
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by brudgers 1y ago
There's nothing better for consumers because backing up is not a consumer behavior. Backing up is a business behavior and because it is a business behavior people pay other people to do it. Or to put it another way, the association of
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by brudgers 1y ago
When I got a floppy with Doom, I played it on a clone 386 and it ran well (and in fact better than on the PC's of other people I knew). Not so much because the standard for gaming in 1993 was relative to gaming in 1993 but because Doom
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by brudgers 1y ago
Usually, a mentor has to come from your professional network. Maintaining your professional network requires work. In your case, your past mentors are a place to start that work. It is important to demonstrate a maturity and attitude that m
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by brudgers 1y ago
0 = freezing “Frigid” would perhaps be less confusing “Freezing.”
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by brudgers 1y ago
Do you think this would have encouraged more users to learn BASIC programming? No. + Back then everyone knew computers could be programmed…whether or not they programmed. + Writing Basic was not why most people turned the computer on and
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by brudgers 1y ago
fully automated platform When someone is looking for a tool, curation is probably more useful. Sure, automation makes your job of maintaining the site easier. And it benefits people who "aggressively market" tools...and if you w
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by brudgers 1y ago
My intuition is that the first player to move has a more significant advantage than with conventional tic-tac-toe.
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by brudgers 1y ago
File under "Falsehoods developers believe about laptops." I am quite sure no developer out there uses a lowly 2019 laptop for their work. Most probably have 32-core top-of-the-line systems There are many many casual developers.
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by brudgers 1y ago
I could not help but think of a class of early internet scam websites offering to check if your credit card number was stolen. I'm sure that you aren't just collecting wallet seeds, but that's what it reminds me of.
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by brudgers 1y ago
Comments from a Show HN a few years ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29434388
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by brudgers 1y ago
Buy sell agreements are common.
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by brudgers 1y ago
seems like i'm losing another battle If you frame it as a battle, you are already losing. Because it is a battle where you are outgunned and out organized. And in a battle you go from being a former employee/founder to an exist
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by brudgers 1y ago
For most investment vehicles, $10k is not worth interacting with and investors with only $10k is unattractive because of the expectations such investors tend to have in aggregate. Good luck.
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by brudgers 1y ago
[phenomenological questions with today’s first mug of coffee] then sitting and waiting for it to finish. If it fails… I could not help but think that sounds like the old days of batch processing and even somewhat recent compilers. ¿Maybe
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Tim Hunkin takes a last look at his The Secret Life of the Home(youtube.com)
2 points by brudgers 1y ago|0 comments
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by brudgers 1y ago
On-call issues are staffing issues not tools issues. Inadequate staff is the only reason on-call exists. Sure, people might be mostly sitting around all night being paid and not being terribly busy. But if a company needs someone at night,
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All These Notes Don't Pay My Needs, Beethoven's Income(internet.beethoven.de)
12 points by brudgers 1y ago|1 comments
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by brudgers 1y ago
What’s a fair exit package in this situation? What is fair is to be open with your cofounder and investors. Should I just keep the vested equity? Should the other stockholders just dilute your holdings? Is a cash buyout common or appro
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by brudgers 1y ago
Is this a solved problem? Your experience was the motivation for StackOverflow. It's goal was to be better at surfacing information than forums and the Usenet.
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by brudgers 1y ago
I buy and sell older electronic musical instruments mostly from the long tail. It is a rationalization of my GAS, gives me an excuse to take things apart, provides the satisfactions of repair, creates an opportunity to learn new skills, and
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by brudgers 1y ago
from the fine article: according to the SD Physical Layer Specification, “Card Capacity means the sum of User Area Capacity and Protected Area Capacity” Which makes sense from a manufacturing perspective...what hardware is required to mak
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by brudgers 1y ago
Linkedin seems to have lost its charm in the last 1-2 years. For most people, the Linkedin experience starts with the excitement of possibility and the line-goes-up endorphin buzz of increasing connections. After a while, it becomes clear
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Orphan Trains(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by brudgers 1y ago|0 comments
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by brudgers 1y ago
I agree that it is a poor man's Lisp machine...and for all practical intent every other type of person's Lisp machine. I mean Lisp machines were still built on the Von Neumann architecture and were general purpose computers. The h
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by brudgers 1y ago
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by brudgers 1y ago
managing infrastructure services Immediately reminded me of this (which I am no where near clever enough to use): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljNabciEGg

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