dsparkman

8 ms·

31.
by dsparkman 7y ago
Yeah, it may seem high, but at the same time a lot of the content is still content he created. In that context, I think the number is reasonable. We use it as a huge part of the our home schooling at the house.
32.
by dsparkman 7y ago
Time to get the "they're stealing our jobs" crowd out in the fields picking.
33.
by dsparkman 7y ago
I remember those days. The age of "shareware". I made a good side income in the late 90s writing software utilities in Delphi. I do miss the days of a good visual IDE.
34.
by dsparkman 7y ago
Florida made $77 million in 2017 alone in selling its DMV data to bill collectors, data brokers, marketing firms, and insurance companies. https://www.fastcompany.com/90376510/floridas-dmv-is-selling...
35.
by dsparkman 7y ago
You want to send something sensitive, mail a letter. In the US, the protections on ease dropping on physical mail is quite good. Requires an actual warrant in an actual court, unlike most electronic communications. Otherwise, assume your co
36.
by dsparkman 7y ago
I love to watch the shrinkage of ice cream. Over the past 10 years, the standard packaging of ice cream has gone from 1/2 gallon (1.9 L) to where they are currently at 1.4 L, with prices staying relatively the same.
37.
by dsparkman 7y ago
This was devised by Amazon in 2005. They called it OpenSearch ( http://www.opensearch.org/ ) Basically it was a standard way to expose your own search engine on your site. It made it is to programmatically search a bunch of i
38.
by dsparkman 7y ago
That was not a bad thing. It was curated. Most of the crap never made it in the directory precisely because humans made decisions about what got in. If you wanted in the directory faster, you could pay a fee to get to the front of the queue
39.
by dsparkman 7y ago
To this day, HomeSite was my favorite HTML editor. The Allaire ColdFusion Studio variant, my favorite IDE for a language. Everything went downhill when Macromedia purchased Allaire, and we got Dreamweaver.
40.
by dsparkman 7y ago
Yeah, the whole affair was about Barcelona getting a cut of the money from Sagrada Familia. > Barcelona officials said the city will be paid 4.6 million euros ($5.2 million) in fees under an agreement negotiated with a foundation devoted
41.
by dsparkman 7y ago
Local radio stations of my childhood did one thing that no streaming service could provide... community. Not the "fake" online community crap. You got the news of your community. You learned the away high school basketball game ha
42.
by dsparkman 7y ago
Nailed it :)
43.
by dsparkman 8y ago
And a lot of the time they leave University with a BS in Computer Science and can't find (code) their way out of a paper bag.
44.
by dsparkman 8y ago
I am not disagreeing with you that it is easier than deploying your own infrastructure. .. But, again back to my original point, lamda functions are not anything new. They are simply an http app that is "typically" responding to a
45.
by dsparkman 8y ago
Again each piece you have named can be done in an "older" tech which was the original point of this thread. Every few years the tech industry reinvents the same tech and a new generation of developers think mana has fallen from he
46.
by dsparkman 8y ago
Apples to Apples. Your 20 EC2 instances are just 20 VPS at any VPS provider located geographically where you want to deploy them. Also with a script. You still have not gained anything from your vendor lock-in. IaaS has been around since th
47.
by dsparkman 8y ago
More like learning to use a slide rule :) You still have to learn how to setup a load balancer (API Gateway), firewall (IAM, API Gateway), Server Config (CloudFormation, API Gateway, S3, etc) and so on. And those are Vendor specific. Move t
48.
by dsparkman 8y ago
Problem is that these young whippersnappers don't even realize that there is nothing "new" about this tech stack. You can recreate the new sexy with 30 year old tech. You are talking about a load balancer that is redirecting
49.
by dsparkman 8y ago
They are good for plain text emails, since a lot of email systems mangle plain text emails at ~ col 72.
50.
by dsparkman 8y ago
DuckDuckGo has become the search engine of choice. Again I agree that HN is the type of audience that will skew the results, but personally I have DDG a more than capable search engine.
51.
by dsparkman 8y ago
The package delivery business side of the USPS is a profitable venture. The USPS is in the state it is in not because of Amazon or last mile delivery that is doing for other businesses. The core problem is Congress and the requirement they
52.
by dsparkman 9y ago
Just like India does.
53.
by dsparkman 9y ago
If you know RoR, then use RoR. You should pick the stack that you are comfortable with and can produce good code quickly.
54.
by dsparkman 9y ago
I am not aware of any "frameworks" for this. However, the bulk of your CSS can be classless. The really tricky part is grids. You will in all likelihood have to use classes for that.
55.
by dsparkman 9y ago
Yeah DuckDuckGo is awesome. I have been using them exclusively for the past couple of months for search. In that time I have found their results as good as Google's results for the topics I cluster around.
56.
by dsparkman 9y ago
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed" href=" http://feeds.abcnews.com/abcnews/topstories" />
57.
by dsparkman 9y ago
I use to work at a small health insurance company with a tech staff of 10 people. 1 persons entire job was to essentially managing the tape backups and getting them sent/picked up from offsite storage. This was a senior network adminis
58.
by dsparkman 9y ago
I learned in the late 90s that the best fit for myself was to hop and hop often. I tended to stay with a company for about 12-18 months and would use each hop to increase my salary. Among my friends, the basic catch phrase was "want a
59.
by dsparkman 9y ago
One more quick point. US banks would love to have all that cash repatriated. It for every $1 that Apple et al. deposits into their bank they create $10 of new currency that they can loan out.
60.
by dsparkman 9y ago
Would the repatriation mean more US jobs as a result? Doubtful. Apple, et al. would not suddenly do on a hiring binge. They would also not suddenly start paying their employees more or provide better benefits. This is a red herring that pol

More ›