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by dblock 6y ago
I was the de facto maintainer of JNA ( https://github.com/java-native-access/jna ) win32 bindings for years. The API metadata is welcome - we have always based all work on header files in the visual studio / windows
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by dblock 6y ago
Anyone doing this in New York? I walk past the empty Hudson Yards every day.
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by dblock 6y ago
When it comes from non-contributors to the project, it just creates more burden on maintainers to keep fixing broken builds for no obvious benefit.
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Is Oracle pushing TruffleRuby and IBM adding ppc64le into CI to fake adoption?(twitter.com)
1 points by dblock 6y ago|3 comments
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by dblock 6y ago
This could be really great for existing investors to buy employee equity. There's no easy way for an employee to reach the broad set of existing investors with a relatively small amount of options/shares. Founders are very much ag
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by dblock 6y ago
Private markets take 3-5% of a deal, require a 3-way contract, and thus won't do anything below $100K. They are indeed fragmented, disorganized and inefficient. If Carta can solve that, great.
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by dblock 6y ago
Very true. In 1996 I incorporated as a British Virgin Islands offshore exactly because of the upfront capital requirements. It was easier than doing it in Switzerland.
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by dblock 6y ago
I’m Swiss, did CS at the University of Geneva and work at AWS in New York. “The lake is not burning” is my favorite way to describe Switzerland when it comes to software and startups. And everything else, in fact.
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by dblock 6y ago
Came here to leave this comment, with a slight variation. I was so exhausted from 2 years of legal separation that I just decided not to bother with a divorce. It has practically no advantage, and it's easier to stay technically marrie
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by dblock 6y ago
I remember drinking horse milk, кумыс, as a kid, in Ufa, Bashkiria. Highly recommended. Is it sold in the US at all?
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by dblock 6y ago
I may or may not have participated in click fraud in 1997 with DoubleClick by forging source IP headers and going through a proxy ... that I may or may not have been running. I can only imagine how much more sophisticated click fraud has be
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by dblock 6y ago
When I moved a couple of years ago I started banking with Fidelity which has 17-digit account numbers. Using those for ACH with ConEd resulted in them failing to bill me at the end of the month. I thought it was a typo and put the ACH numbe
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by dblock 6y ago
That actually seems to be working. I maintain ruby grape, a mid sized project. We get $144/month from Tidelift. As more companies signup for corporate sponsorship the $ amount increases. It’s a pool.
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by dblock 6y ago
SSO on *nix is a non-starter and is a big (only?) argument to use a Windows box for Windows services. It used to also be a big argument for writing applications in .NET instead of, say, Java, but that got resolved with https://gi
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by dblock 6y ago
How so? I use dokku on A DigitalOcean server for a dozen apps. AFAIK cluster support is different (it exists). What else?
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by dblock 6y ago
Time to finally remove support for it, https://github.com/slack-ruby/slack-ruby-bot/issues/261
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by dblock 7y ago
4-12 years, https://www.thecut.com/2019/05/anna-delvey-sorokin-sentenced...
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by dblock 7y ago
Here's a deck from the convicted con artist Anna Delvey, https://www.are.na/block/2250665 The strongest slide is the team, which includes 2 PhDs, and an MIT research scientist.
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by dblock 7y ago
I joined AWS 6 months ago at 43 as a principal engineer, transitioning from a CTO role of a Series D company, and wrote about it. https://code.dblock.org/2019/11/17/the-pros-and-cons-of-goin... I would recomm
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by dblock 7y ago
Same customer support though.
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by dblock 7y ago
For runners Garmin is far more reliable and superior in every way. Fitbit is cheap. I think google wants data from more people, and Fitbit is a distressed asset, so good opportunity.
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by dblock 7y ago
Fitbit is damaged goods. Just read https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Ionic/Would-you-buy-Fitbit-I... - I own one of these along with many unsatisfied customers. Google is buying technical debt.
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by dblock 7y ago
I like this. A nice, practical solution to a real problem! Disclaimer, I work for AWS. At some point there's just too many of these data streams, so a warehouse no longer does it and we turn to data lakes. The advanced version of what
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by dblock 7y ago
Windows programmers are familiar with StrSafe.h, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strsafe.h and https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/src/pal/inc/st... which go
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by dblock 7y ago
I’ve recently left a CTO job and am going to a large software thing. Facebook was the one company I didn’t consider. Facebook being “the past” played an equal role to “Facebook being evil” in my decision.
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by dblock 7y ago
Right on.
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by dblock 7y ago
Yes, you can pay people full engineering salaries to do random OSS. They contribute to your team's brand, reduce recruiting costs and reduce team churn. If they do too much random OSS to a point where it prevents them from achieving yo
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by dblock 7y ago
No no no. This work should be part of your total, main, comp. Working on open-source projects directly contributes to your employer's business, even if the code of that project doesn't get used in those systems. You're buildi
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by dblock 7y ago
This article makes me sad. While not a fad, Silicon Valley is the ultimate manifestation of a place where Americans and contagiously the rest of tech workers value work over life.
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by dblock 7y ago
Congrats.

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