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by cameroncf 1y ago
Early 80's, when I was 6 or 7, my best friend had a pinball machine in his basement. The front door "hatch" to it was unlocked and we spend countless hours poking the insides with a long screwdriver to trigger various compone
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by cameroncf 3y ago
It's been covered for at least the last 5 years by many reputable news orgs. That HN link (you looked at the link right?) includes several refs, and a Google search dozens more.
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by cameroncf 3y ago
Isn't this just confirming a seemingly widely held opinion that the safety culture started to break down after 1997 after the merger with McDonnell Douglas? See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26417095
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by cameroncf 3y ago
First thing that comes to my mind reading this article is that they are just saving it all up to build the Nauvoo from the show "The Expanse".
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by cameroncf 3y ago
I feel this article 100%. Too many people think that remote work means "working from home" or that co-working means "working from WeWork". There are tons of different variations that let you get out and be around other p
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by cameroncf 3y ago
The biggest problem with Amplify is not any of it's underlying technologies. These are all great services. DynamoDB is one of the best things in the entire AWS service portfolio. The biggest problem with Amplify is that it hides comple
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by cameroncf 4y ago
> I think this article might bury the lede a bit: When you read that quote carefully it doesn't say that Amazon employees get paid less. It's saying MAX pay at Walmart is $25/hr and MIN pay at Amazon is $18 an hour. Apples
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by cameroncf 5y ago
This is for when the departmental budget has a little cash left at the end of the fiscal year and they need to spend it.
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by cameroncf 6y ago
I found out while sitting in a hotel lobby at Abode's MAX conference in LA. Watching the news ripple through the tech crowd attending was something.
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by cameroncf 7y ago
If OP has only one customer they do not work for themselves, they work for that customer and have a job - regardless of what they like to tell themselves.
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by cameroncf 7y ago
I wasn't in the valley at the time but was part of a startup that lost our angel funding before it happened because the angel's funds were overcommitted already in failing startups. My view has always been that during the dot com
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by cameroncf 7y ago
> PSA: porting an existing application one-to-one to serverless almost never goes as expected. Came here to post this and agree 100%. Moving to Serverless requires evaluating the entire stack, including the server side language choice, a
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by cameroncf 10y ago
There is a long tradition in the US (World?) of blaming everything on "the younger generation". Don't you fret millenials, soon they will move on to whoever's next and you will be forgotten. In the meantime, try not to b
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by cameroncf 10y ago
The Open Source version of CF ( http://lucee.org/ ) is better than the Adobe-owned version at this point (IMHO). I started with CF back in 1996 as well. So cool to see JJ still working on this stuff!
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by cameroncf 10y ago
The list of sources used for "corroborating" information is interesting. It includes sources like tigerwoods.com
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by cameroncf 11y ago
Salihin Kondoker's brief, husband of one of the San Bernardino victims, is in there. Worth a quick read.
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by cameroncf 11y ago
How I fell out of the funnel: Preview > Click Video > Flash Warning > Close Browser Tab Maybe one day I'll be back.
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by cameroncf 11y ago
Everyone who lives downstream of a water treatment plant is already drinking (diluted) recycled wastewater. Most of the liquid water on the planet has already passed through a human body countless times. It's all recycled. This is not
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by cameroncf 11y ago
Atlanta is far better now than it was in the 90s. You may be remembering the 90s "Olympics Version" of intown Atlanta that most people from the Atlanta Suburbs saw. I have been here since the 70s and it's striking to see how
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by cameroncf 11y ago
Many (most?) west coast cities are land locked against ocean, mountains, bays, military posts (San Diego), and other land features. This restricts growth and magnifies shortages of real estate. Miami has some confinements along it's bo
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by cameroncf 14y ago
This article has incomplete information and is about 10 years out of date.