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by epc 5y ago
Just a anecdotal data point: www.ibm.com had 100k "hits" on the day of the Lotus takeover announcement (June 5, 1995) which IIRC was the peak traffic to that point. Actual people traffic was probably around 20k. A gimmick of the
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by epc 5y ago
Checksums: I'd want to verify the data integrity, especially if it's to be stored for a long time and retrieved in the distant future. So I'd compute at least some sort of SHA sum (I personally use SHA512 but I'm doing
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by epc 5y ago
I’d compute a couple of checksums on the files and store those plus metadata in a database, storing the files either on multiple RAIDs under your control, or one or more geographically dispersed cloud storage systems. Whether local storage
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by epc 5y ago
I’ve moved cross country twice, and did an international stint. My advice is it frequently costs more to store or move most of the stuff we own than it would cost to buy it new. Figure out the truly irreplaceable stuff, move that, sell or d
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by epc 5y ago
I had chronic lower back pain and sciatic numbness for years and completely separately (or so I thought) problems with my knee (going down stairs was excruciating). The knee pain was dx'd as IT band / piriformis syndrome. P&#x2F
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by epc 5y ago
Some people are better at absorbing new information, mapping it whatever they know about the situation, and responding. Or they are awesome bullshitters. I'm neither. What I learned to do was to review who was in an upcoming meeting
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by epc 5y ago
No advice, just commiseration. Am going through a sciatic period (in my case it causes numbness down my leg, not pain). For decades I’d sit sort of weirdly with my right leg tucked under my left, it made my lower back feel better, but alleg
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by epc 5y ago
They sold to News Corp early (2005) for US$580MM and got sucked into the traditional media world.
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by epc 5y ago
Unless there is a legitimate legal requirement for an accurate birth date, I use the date on the Julian calendar. It’s close enough to give an accurate age while being far enough off to not easily line up with my real identity. I have a va
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by epc 5y ago
I'd look up "tagsonomies" circa 2009-2011. IIRC most sites treated two separate tags as a loose AND. i.e. items tagged both 'TAG A' and 'TAG B' would sort to the top (whatever the display method was) while
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by epc 5y ago
I think it would have helped with re–entering a normal work environment, I don't think it would have interfered with the results. Honestly (and this is ~20+ years in the past now) getting some sort of therapy after spending five years
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by epc 5y ago
I took a three month leave of absence at the end of a six year run of 7x24 days in the dot com era, totally burned out. I extended it another three months as I entered the initial last month as I didn't feel "ready" to return
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by epc 5y ago
I started maintaining an “in case I die” letter in my 30s when I was flying a lot, with the target recipients being my parents. Once they passed and I married I still kept a document with key information spelled out. In addition we maintain
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by epc 5y ago
No.
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by epc 5y ago
iGuide was started in 1995 or 1995 (a Newscorp / MCI JV). Surprisingly no Wikipedia entry for it. Was intended to be a "TV Guide" for the web. The i* prefix was popular before the iMac, it was a way to show you were hip and i
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by epc 6y ago
It’s absolutely hyperbole, in the same way the Vogons clearly published the development of the interstellar bypass In a closet behind a door labeled something like “tiger, do not enter”. How, precisely, would you have determined that an on
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by epc 6y ago
Is it really innovative if you do not implement it? I don't mean market it and make it successful, I mean just implement it. Because if the "inventor" can't implement the process described in the patent, it's not
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by epc 6y ago
Notes was fun to use if your experience prior to it was Profs/OfficeVision. I had the odd privilege of using it inside IBM in the months before IBM bought Lotus, including writing the worst hack of sendmail.cf macros I thought possibl
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by epc 6y ago
Visor was a competitor to Palm by the founders of Palm. I had had a Palm Pilot which I kind of used but it always felt like a hassle to use. Visor was what Palm should have released (I think it was the first color PalmOS handheld, before P
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by epc 6y ago
Ricochet was decent for its time, not blazing fast but much faster than trying to do dialup over a cell phone. I used it routinely on the train between NYC and White Plains and it was fine for checking mail or very basic web surfing. IIRC
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by epc 6y ago
I tried to do this when I blogged with MovableType and it’s a fool’s errand. You end up needing to cache all of the links somewhere and revalidate them periodically. But it's not enough to check for a 200 or 304 because the site could
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by epc 6y ago
In the US, a union must represent a majority of the workers identified as potential members of the collective bargaining unit in order to gain that negotiating status under Federal and State laws. Once recognized through a vote or collectio
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by epc 6y ago
I don't know that they've addressed your concerns but they're one of the few organizations publicly documenting their thought process, what they've reviewed, rejected, and accepted. The crux of the problem is going to be
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by epc 6y ago
I'm assuming you've already familiarized yourself with the Long Now foundation ( https://longnow.org/ ) and the Internet Archives long term efforts…
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by epc 6y ago
Create a religious non–profit, the Order of Librarians. The Order of Librarians will assess the merit of the donated information for perpetual salvation. Digital donations must be accompanied by some monetary amount. All copyrights and int
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by epc 6y ago
For most of their history, IBM mainframes were used for two tasks: batch workloads and interactive users. Batch workloads were things like billing: you're a utility and you need to do the accounting and billing for the million customer
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by epc 6y ago
Caveats: I have not worked for any companies of consequence in a long time, the following is based on a brief moment of time when I rose from schmuck to near–C level at an F100 company. Find out how you are going to be measured, find out wh
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by epc 6y ago
The spam problem helped kill independent blogging by driving bloggers to centralized hosting. The great thing about MovableType, b2, and eventually WordPress was that pretty much anyone could install it on a shell account and set up a fairl
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by epc 6y ago
I have had trackbacks turned off on my MT blog for ~15 years and still get hundreds of attempted POSTs to mt-tb.cgi every week.
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by epc 6y ago
Am somewhat incredulous that the original announcement letter for the infamous Type 1 cable is online: https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?appname=s...

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