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by epc 4y ago
Get a lawyer, now. Starting an income producing side gig as a founder, whether you feel like one or not, is problematic, especially if you signed the seemingly standard “everything I create is owned by the company” sort of employment agreem
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by epc 4y ago
The oldest extant site I had anything to do with appears to be https://park.org/ . My bit was the IBM Chess Challenge that seems to have evaporated. But you can see one problem with keeping a site up for 26 years. park.org
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by epc 4y ago
No. If “without any kind of maintenance” is the test, then no. At a minimum you need to sign a contract with an organization and pre–pay for the term you expect them to maintain the site. And you probably need a third party to monitor that
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by epc 4y ago
Depends on the product lab. The o/s I worked on had some form of SCM dating to the 1970s (CLEAR). The thing is most of the source code from the 1960s and even 1970s would have been punch cards, shifting to tape in the 70s. There'
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by epc 4y ago
Much of IBM’s internal informal history was lost in the transition from the RSCS based TOOLSRUN forums to a mix of Lotus Notes/Domino/web forums around 1999–2000 (note that this was a business choice, all internal fora were alread
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by epc 4y ago
If you're senior, you should be able to leverage your experience with one stack to learn the basics of another stack. My advice would be to pick a couple of small projects that you've done in the stack you're experienced in
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by epc 4y ago
The same advertising apocalypse that wiped out the early dot coms took out most of the media covering technology (Internet World, Red Herring, etc). Fast Company and Wired went from 100+ pages to really, really thin magazines from 2000 to 2
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by epc 4y ago
When the "engagement team" gets penalized for closed browser windows.
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by epc 4y ago
Do you mean licensing as in a structural engineer must be licensed and bonded before approving (and accepting liability) for a structure, or licensing as in “we have to have purity in our profession and only the right people should be softw
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by epc 4y ago
I have all but two of my cell phones dating back to 1995. Unfortunately I didn't keep the chargers for many of them so while they should be functional I can't really confirm that. Also have a Mac SE from 1990. Booted the last tim
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by epc 4y ago
Honestly, kind of enjoyed that. So many stories of that day have been left out of the historical record because they don’t fit the narrative of heroic deeds in the face of terror (writing only from an NYC perspective).
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by epc 4y ago
I don’t know that it would shield from another Carrington event but figure it can’t hurt. Am assuming I will have more important problems in the event of rapid dispersal of nuclear radiation.
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by epc 4y ago
Am hoping that monthly/quarterly use is enough but that’s a good point to research.
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by epc 4y ago
I have two pocket SSDs that I archive to on an irregular basis (basically quarterly) of selected documents and photos. Each is in a small faraday bag, whichever one is in the house is in a safe, the other is in a safe deposit box at my bank
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by epc 4y ago
Have been using MFP on and off for many years. Was fine with the tradeoff of getting crappy ads in return for using it for free. The app has not improved at all in years. I’ve tried paid a couple of times and found no additional value. Rec
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by epc 4y ago
This is more akin to the 1991 recession or the weird 1997/1998 not quite recession. 2008 was multiple houses of cards that were built in the belief they were insulated from external risks collapsing due to tight interdependencies which
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by epc 4y ago
Might add [2011], I haven't updated it since then except to fix references to YUI and other minor glitches.
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by epc 4y ago
Write tests as you write code. Test as you finish code chunks. Don’t wait until the “end” to scramble and test what you’ve developed.
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by epc 4y ago
So…I did this and pretty much made every mistake possible. I: - underestimated how much cash I’d have to pour in to get going. - hate sales. hate, hate, hate with a passion of a thousand ESC keys trying to get out of vi, hate sales. - didn’
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by epc 4y ago
Yeah, I wish I’d known about archive.org when I was in a position to help them capture the sites I worked on (ibm.com, the Deep Blue chess sites, etc.).
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by epc 4y ago
Well, absent graphics you couldn't really do much styling. CSS wasn't widely available until 1997 or so. I maintained one of those corporate sites…here's a library of the IBM homepages for the five years I was the webmaster:
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by epc 4y ago
Also, difficult to take seriously any criticism from a guy who routinely poisons or jails his political critics or foes. Neither Obama nor Trump had any experience managing a very large organization and it showed. Both thought they could j
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by epc 4y ago
One guy's "Deep State" is another guys "let's protect all people regardless of their ethnicity/politics/genetics/religious faith". In a country (the US) where the executive can be elected by a m
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by epc 4y ago
Bureaucrats report to (mostly) elected politicians (in the US). Politicians report to the public. The public complain about food poisoning, not about 92 forms to open a restaurant. The politician tells their bureaucrats to “do something”
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by epc 4y ago
"Normal" vesting tends to be over four years with a one year cliff (and then quarterly or monthly afterwards). Then you’ve got Amazon where the vesting is weighted towards the end of the period (I don't know the breakdown bu
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by epc 4y ago
Do they have any other companies in their portfolio that they have already implemented this structure? Can you talk to the non-VC staff? If you're not raising money, you're not doing the CEO job. My guess is they're willing
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by epc 4y ago
The Aviation Week article is dated 8 August 2005: https://aviationweek.com/sr-71-disintegrates-around-pilot-du... (subscription req'd).
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by epc 4y ago
I use it to research people. I'm over 50 so I don't get recruiter spam, just countless job shops offering to redo my web site or iOS app or SEO something or another. I have a grandfather'd "pro" account at $160&#x2
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by epc 4y ago
In 2001 the US was at about 45 cell phones per 100 adults according to the ITU and statista.com (which may be the same dataset). Some other sites put it at 38% but unclear if total population or just US adults. Regardless, hardly ubiquitous
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by epc 4y ago
Yes, for average business people in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Not unusual for adults to have them, uncommon for students and children to have them.

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