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by codemac 5y ago
* Getting Things Done by David Allen This book taught me so much about how to manage my life, and taught me how to review my own systems. * SICP, On Lisp, and Let over Lambda It's hard to pick one exactly, because really it's abou
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by codemac 5y ago
; is also a great prompt, without directory machine name or anything. I just copy paste my session, and rerun most commands.
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by codemac 5y ago
PERSONAL RANT YOU DON'T NEED TO READ, BUT I NEED TO WRITE: I will add something to your son's point: being independent from my family was more important to me than saving money, especially if their loans are only 4 years away from
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by codemac 5y ago
Then do them first? The truly prolific creative people I know do that work at non-traditional times if they have a full time job. Practicing music late at night, painting at 6am, etc. Even scheduling their creative work during low points in
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by codemac 5y ago
https://www.robertreeveslaw.com/blog/children-support-parent... The interesting part is how they're not applied. There are federal statutes that are more specific - and only two states have used these laws within
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by codemac 5y ago
What futon? I found the same effect just by giving up spring beds. I now sleep on latex, but did the foam thing for a while (T&N used to have an 8" bed I loved).
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by codemac 5y ago
There are also my favorite, which go over the ear canal rather than inside: Mack's Pillow Soft Silicone Earplugs
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by codemac 5y ago
They totally care about their data though.
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by codemac 5y ago
Huh? So now handcuffs with no gold? This is much worse for start up employees - as grants each year allow for even more dilution, management hand wringing, and changed expectations. Do founders stock get magically taken away when they suck
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by codemac 5y ago
Of course the best teams ended up like this - it means there were many many different explicit negotiations that didn't need to happen. I think the harder problem to solve is mediocre teams, and mediocre management - all well meaning
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by codemac 5y ago
$14/hour * 40 hours/week * 50 weeks is $28k/year. $20/hour * 40 hours/week * 50 weeks is $40k/year. This is life changing amounts different. Considering a living wage is considered $14/hour for Idaho[0] fo
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by codemac 5y ago
Best font + terminal combinations to try this with?
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by codemac 5y ago
Considering Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome 3, it seems to be significant evidence of Gnome 3's influence. And Plasma was first released in 2014, 3 years after Gnome 3. Gnome 3 had a HUGE affect on desktop environments, due to Gnome 2&#x27
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by codemac 5y ago
Re employment: The standard move for these companies was to basically auto-file a lawsuit if you were over a certain title threshold, and below they didn't do much. All the execs I knew would take a one year "vacation" and ma
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by codemac 5y ago
The point being that in NC, at the time they were allowed to write non-compete clauses that functioned as any software written in a 500 mile radius was considered competing. I worked on enterprise data storage operating systems, and I wan
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by codemac 5y ago
But without the limiting anti compete clauses like California does, it's basically toothless. At least in NC I was informed by lawyers I hired that my employer wouldn't let me moonlight in a 500 mile radius, as while they wouldn&#
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by codemac 5y ago
Not true at all - stories ala Snapchat were not invented by users. Twitter was (but no longer) awesome by allowing folks to consume plain text with socially agreed upon meaning rather than features of the client. It's my feeling that i
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by codemac 5y ago
One of the terrible parts of these kind of "modular" laptops is all about the size of the different modules. If you built a laptop even 10 years ago with modular parts, the ratios would be all out of whack compared to modern lapto
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by codemac 5y ago
It's simple, Costco actually buys the inventory, and resells it. There are more advanced kinds of agreements (like buy back X number of coats of you sell less than Y) but that's largely how they operate. Amazon is much more like a
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by codemac 5y ago
The number of possible startups this could be is... incredible.
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by codemac 5y ago
Android work profiles make this so easy - it doesn't appear as easy on iOS, but I was never a big iOS user. I don't mind using resources on my personal device, I mind the access to my personal information. Carrying two phones vs.
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by codemac 5y ago
Can you state the purpose? It's really not clear to me in digital. As a reader that actually likes to read, they are distracting, they are frustrating to accidentally read and reread, and pull me out of the story. In digital formats, i
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by codemac 6y ago
Did this article ever answer the question?
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by codemac 6y ago
For your backups - but once you use iCloud to sync devices in real time, they just use their service keys, and your iCloud credentials are enough to read your iMessage history.
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by codemac 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand your keychain point. With iMessage you can message others with just your iCloud credentials if you turn it on, and you have access to full conversation history - without needing any particular device keys.
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by codemac 6y ago
The part where it backs up all your messages without using a device specific key. The only things end to end encrypted are listed on this page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 If you turn on iCloud syncing, ba
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by codemac 6y ago
If you turn on iCloud, it's theater. Android with syncing enabled does much better in real world tests. Notably in hong kong, they were able to crack the iPhones, but not the Pixels[0] I'm pretty sure without iCloud and a long eno
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by codemac 6y ago
> which won't be changed by any further changes in the parent process. You can attach to a process and call setenv in gdb, so there is a loophole somewhere. I'm not encouraging this, just pointing out that having a nice binary
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by codemac 6y ago
Having the imagination to have imagination always takes a little imagination. Great read, thank you for writing it.
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by codemac 6y ago
Except nations are a completely made up concept by groups of humans, rather than a deep survival drive of the individual when pushed into a life or death scenario.

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