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by epc 4y ago
A friend and I review each other’s “in case I’m dead” documents on a ~yearly basis. He runs a small MSP (~200 clients), I run a variety of small income producing things. The point of the documents isn’t to run the business perfectly, it’s
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by epc 4y ago
In cash meaning you don’t make the offer contingent on financing, and you can document the sources of payment (balance sheet, statement from bank or accountant, etc).
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by epc 4y ago
More pointedly, the Australian Open site (then ausopen.org, now apparently ausopen.com) used the Refresh: header to serve dynamic-ish scoring data and headlines circa 1997-1999 (I worked on the periphery of it through the 1999 open).
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by epc 4y ago
So, there's an intermediate phase missing before AJAX. From roughly 1996 until the nascent stages of the AJAX era we used the Refresh attribute. This could be a <meta> tag in the header of the HTML content or you could send it a
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by epc 4y ago
So, does once a year perf mean once a year promo cycles?
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by epc 4y ago
Sure, I’m my-hacker-news-account @ my-hacker-news-account + ostello.com.
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by epc 4y ago
By far it’s US political campaigns and non–profits. I’ve regressed to only using one email address for pretty much everything except financial accounts and political campaigns. For political donations I now give either a campaign or year sp
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by epc 4y ago
Orality & Literacy by Walter Ong: read it in grad school, opened my eyes to how writing and technology in general feed back into societies and can change them. Influenced my work in the early web in the 1990s. A variety of books and ess
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by epc 4y ago
Am averaging 4-5 years with MacBook Pros though I made an exception and got an M1 MacBook Air when that came out. Have an array of MacMinis still in use dating back to 2012. Debating whether or not to upgrade the sole Windows laptop I have
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by epc 5y ago
It’s a ridiculous pain in the ass made tolerable because we’re both tech industry dinosaurs. Initially it was the only way to get TOTP 2FA on a Gmail account which is why I switched and because of the way Google does Google things my spouse
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by epc 5y ago
Family 1Password for me + spouse, separate 1Password account for my elderly parent–in–law. I maintain paper copies of all keys. I back up (export) 1Password vaults quarterly to an offline backup I maintain. I maintain two small (1Tb) SSDs w
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by epc 5y ago
Initial Coin Offerings.
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by epc 5y ago
Is it cost prohibitive to just let it run? Can you lock it down, and let it run? Otherwise I’d just pin a note saying you’ll shut it down (or suspend it) at the end of the semester.
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by epc 5y ago
IIRC, licensing was partly motivated by the formation of Amdahl in 1970, to lock in OS/MVS and the other 360/370 operating systems to IBM hardware.
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by epc 5y ago
Will they cover travel to the office as a business trip (reimburse airfare/train/etc + hotel)? If yes, then it’s remote, if no, then it’s only temporarily remote. Ask them to put the policy in writing as part of an amended offer
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by epc 5y ago
I think they're reading the tea leaves and proactively locking in (or locking out) a variety of services and behaviors before the various jurisdictions they do business in clamp down. If you know that severing advertising revenue from
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by epc 5y ago
Is it possible that your understanding of the role is that it is more technical than what they view it as? Just going off your comment that the interview wasn’t as technical as you expected.
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by epc 5y ago
By 1988 you had interesting collaborations over the internet using Xwindows and CMU's various Andrew explorations. IIRC it was too slow to do remote computing but you could load binaries over AFS from, say, MIT's network to run on
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by epc 5y ago
He could have, but didn’t. The thing that stuck with me was that he was more concerned with preserving "his" equity than my walking away with the MVP.
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by epc 5y ago
Is a co-founder story acceptable? Recruited by CEO to serve as co–founder & CTO. Asked to sign NDA. That would be the only legal document the CEO put together for the next year. Repeatedly ask him to put together the rest of the documen
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by epc 5y ago
I do not know IBM’s current practice but in the 1990s acquisitions continued to use their internal networking for quite a long time, just interconnecting the networks as necessary and announcing routes internally. 9. addresses only started
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by epc 5y ago
My biggest regret from the first startup I joined was waiting six months to quit when the warning signs were apparent and obvious in the first week after I started. Talk to the executives, but they clearly know the “founding engineer” is a
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by epc 5y ago
First time: severe headaches, severe chills (like ice cold in a 68℉ room), annoying gastrointestinal issues. Lasted 72 hours. Very early in the epidemic. Didn’t know to check SpO2 or temperature. Only diagnosed as Covid retrospectively when
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by epc 5y ago
Flagging doesn’t hide the post, you can search on “unflag” to find it on the front page. A single solitary flag is unlikely to move a post off the front page.
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by epc 5y ago
The file can be processed with jq [ https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ ], I had to invoke it as "jq . 133957095_NewYorkPresbyterianHospital_standardcharges_12312020_Updated07232021.json". But it should work to loo
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by epc 5y ago
I find the digital library to be the most useful thing. Haven't read a copy of CACM in years. Some of the proceedings are useful but you typically have to be a member of the given SIG to access them.
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by epc 5y ago
Remove the work email address from any personal accounts (e.g. LinkedIn, github). Depending on the company you may or may not be allowed to export email. I’ve archived mail concerning performance, compensation, HR or benefits issues (and ar
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by epc 5y ago
All of those are absolutely potential roadblocks and yet, somehow, web applications displaced desktop applications as the preferred user experience. Purity does not always win out over utility. I don’t particularly miss having to decipher w
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by epc 5y ago
I started keeping an “In case I’m dead” file for my immediate family pre-9/11 after a close call on a flight. Basic instructions about what accounts I have and where. 20+ years and a marriage later I’ve updated things to ensure my spou
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by epc 5y ago
Fewer gatekeepers, more users, lower development costs, tighter feedback loops.

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