davebindy

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by davebindy 7y ago
>One of my family members paid their way through school writing papers for others... in the 80s. I don’t think this is a new thing. It isn't. In the mid-1970s I worked in the office of a company that sold term papers to students. We
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by davebindy 9y ago
It looks like these publications may have been a precursor of click-bait web sites. Look at the second sample page from Comfort - one column of content and three columns of advertising.
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by davebindy 9y ago
For much of my working career, I worked off and on as a graphic artist. In the 70s for an advertising agency and a typesetter. In the 80s and early 90s, for a flexographic printing plate manufacturer. There, about 80% of my job was to repli
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by davebindy 12y ago
Even better, read the actual bill, not someone's description. https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/101#
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by davebindy 12y ago
As someone from Indiana, and a person of faith, I've followed this fairly closely. To call the response "seemingly-exaggerated" is an understatement. Frankly, I wonder if Mr. Benioff has even read the bill that Gov. Pence sig
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by davebindy 12y ago
Silence, and specifically unnecessary "chatter" is also a major tenet of the Benedictine rule. Some monasteries follow it more strictly than others. (I believe the Trappist and Carthusians in particular are "reforms" of
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by davebindy 12y ago
The items would have been lost (probably forever) when the LEM was crashed back onto the moon, so where's the harm? Other people did know that Armstrong had the items - as the article states, he reported the bag to Collins, who in tu
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by davebindy 13y ago
Even more fun was the Compugraphic Junior. It didn't use disks, but film strips with the font. Then your had to switch out some gears to change the font size. Seemed pretty futuristic at the time though.
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by davebindy 13y ago
Your comments brought back a lot of memories for me. I worked as a production artist (someone who takes a designer's idea and turns it into somethng that can actually be produced, hence the name) off and on for 15 years, starting in th
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by davebindy 13y ago
Your description of SV startup culture isn't unique - it seems to be pretty much SOP for virtually any company these days. Lose your job after 50 and finding an equivalent position can be daunting. >I suppose SV companies are going to t
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by davebindy 13y ago
Twenty years ago, this might have been true. I don't think it is today. I'm 60 years old, and while I'm somewhat unusual in that computers and tech have been part of my life, both personally and professionally, for half my life, I would hav
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by davebindy 14y ago
Appreciate the reminder from you and others re: books by/about Kranz. Back in the 60s (I was 16 when Apollo 11 landed) I would not have cared for his no-compromise/no-bullshit approach. These days, that's exactly what I would appreciate a
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by davebindy 14y ago
And I'd recommend "Apollo - The Race To The Moon" by Murray & Cox. Unlike most books about the US space program, this deals with everything except the astronauts. I've read it so many times my copy is falling apart...
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by davebindy 14y ago
I tend to add feeds only when the site doesn't generate either a significant number of comments or comments that are actually worth reading. Sites like HN I'm often as (or more) interested in the comments as in the actual article, so I'll j
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by davebindy 14y ago
Coming from a somewhat different viewpoint other than as a developer, I spent 10 years working as a full-time reviewer for one of the largest shareware disk vendors, Public Brand Software, and then later for Ziff when they bought PBS. (In f