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by csixty4 7y ago
The biggest step for me was becoming a manager. As the person calling the shots, I push my team to work ~40 hour weeks, take comp time if we're paged after hours, to have interests outside work, and to spend time with those close to th
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What exactly are "real organizations"? I can think of two long-lived NFPs in my life that can barely afford hosting & domain registration right now.
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I've had mine public for years. The spam filters at Fastmail are good enough that it's not an issue.
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To add onto what dpeck said, another thing to keep in mind is how difficult it was to find information on how the world around you worked back then. So these curious kids whose smarts were, yeah, probably only eclipsed by their egos, were l
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Zappos Data Breach consolation might be the most egregious one yet(boingboing.net)
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I graduated with an associate's degree in Chicago in 1999 and went looking for a job right away. My skillset was mostly C/C++, but I was struggling to get responses to any of the resumes I faxed out. The crash was still over the h
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I was getting an error message back, apparently. So I needed to send EBCDIC too, but apparently nobody thought to document this anywhere. It wasn't binary, but it was fixed length fields, which were surprising common in those days.
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In the early 2000s I had to interface with a credit card authorization and settlement system for a major credit card. I opened a socket, sent a perfectly formatted transmission, and got back gobbledegook. Fortunately I had a computer histor
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"Agency Agile" is another good one.
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It's a lot easier (not to mention cheaper) to get a working Apple II. Lots of folks out there want the chance to meet around with an Apple I for less than $100k.
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They're required per the WordPress PHP Coding Standards and flagged by the WordPress rules for PHPLint. Lots of WordPress developers stick to those standards, so that's why you see it everywhere.
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Ads. It's hard to make money in online news, so lots of sites feel the need to plaster ads all over the page. Every ad is going to bring along its own trackers to gather information on users but also to make sure the site is meeting gu
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ES is somewhat popular in the enterprise WordPress space, driven largely by 10up's ElasticPress plugin which uses it both for search and to improve the performance of database queries over MySQL.
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Without knowing anything about your situation, it's hard to recommend anything. But lack of motivation can be a symptom of depression and it may be helpful to speak with your physician and get screened for it. If you read about the sym
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C64os is by Greg Nacu from the Toronto area. It's a hobby project along with a portable c64 he's built that's more portable than an SX-64 and much more versatile due to modern components.
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Yes. The music industry went after them in 2014 and they've been paying royalties since.
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Their product used to be a box that encoded video off cable and sent it to your devices over the network. But now they have their own streaming service that carries cable TV content.
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You might be interested in the book "White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf" by Aaron Bobrow-Strain A lot stems from the late 18th century concern that filthy immigrants were making unhealthy food in local bakeries
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by csixty4 7y ago
Chrome, VS Code, and whatever terminal ships with Mint. That's about it. Seems like everything I need to do happens in the browser or terminal these days, which is one reason I've been able to start using Linux on a daily basis ag
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Buzz Aldrin had serious problems with depression and alcoholism for years.
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Does this mean Alexa won't be able to control my thermostat anymore? What a crappy way to get me to switch to their ecosystem.
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The health services Microsoft Band used were shut down. I'm not sure about the rest of the functionality.
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This is very common in the web agency world, where budgets and hourly rates intersect at a place where there's hardly enough time to build out features. Testing is seen as eating up time that could be better used getting through the ba
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Often when I use this, it's to make it explicit that the normal/common case is met and the other clause is truly exceptional. It's also a stub where you can add logging or similar along the normal path without touching the co
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by csixty4 7y ago
I want all my music in one place. If I want to hear the new Janelle Monae, I want it there. If I want to hear Braindead Sound Machine's cover of Walking After Midnight that I ripped off the EP I bought in 1996, I want it right there. I
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Amazon Music. I paid for it because I could intermingle my Bandcamp music and obscure CD rips and then they took that feature away. I should switch to Google Music but that doesn't work with my Echo very well. The state of online music
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Groove Music Pass and Microsoft Band stand out as good parallels, too. As does Windows 10 Mobile. The Microsoft Health service that went with Band & Mobile is shutting down soon. And they announced today that they'll no longer sell
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Way less than I used to. The big deal breaker for me was Amazon no longer letting you upload your own music, meaning Alexa can't play my obscure CD rips from the 90s and my Bandcamp purchases from today. So I really only use it to chec
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by csixty4 8y ago
This sounds more like the behavior of a narcissist than a generational thing (and there are plenty in that generation).
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That's a shame. It seems like the V30 and V30+ were great phones and then the series really went downhill.

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