itworker7

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by itworker7 1y ago
over the course of your career, technology will change at least 4 or 5 times, unlearning is as important as learning. Technology changes - people don't. What you need to learn at Uni is not syntax but critical thinking, active listeni
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by itworker7 3y ago
checkout swissmicros.com They make several functionally close HP calculators. Its a rather interesting approach and unless HP itself resurrects the OLD calculator line, these are close as you can get to a new HP calculator.
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by itworker7 3y ago
I hope not, the preponderance of religious gullibility is already off the charts. I guess sheeple just need to follow something.
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by itworker7 4y ago
trust no one. get it in writing. seriously, having been involved in several acquisitions, even the majority stakeholders may not completely know what is going to happen. The stakeholders may be told anything by the NewCo, simply to keep it
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by itworker7 6y ago
Its like the meme of sitting in a burning room and saying I'm fine. We are not fine. We are not good at all. We have moved so far to the right that the center of 25 years past is now seen as extremist left.
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by itworker7 6y ago
and darkness falls
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by itworker7 6y ago
If you want a trip down memory lane. Look up InSoft Communique. They had multi-person IP video conferencing, shared whiteboard, shared screen applications on Sun and HP workstations using Parallax video cards. The big challenges back then w
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by itworker7 6y ago
its about ratios. 25% clean protean like salmon, 25% slow burn carb like brown rice, 50% veg like avocado, tomato, bok choy, or maybe broccoli steamed. The sauce is garlic, lite soy, mirin and a little sesame oil
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by itworker7 6y ago
In physics, a gallon of water weights 8.34 lbs. (For this analogy, a gallon of water is a unit of work.) And the gallon of water weighs 8.34 lbs irregardless if it is sitting on my desk in a physical building, or on your desk, in the cloud.
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by itworker7 7y ago
This change will likely kill meetup. If you run a tech group in a decent sized metro and have say 200 members, will they all be willing to pay to show up to the meeting? And if someone signs up, but doesn't show up - how does a group b
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by itworker7 7y ago
its up for me, have you checked other sites?
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by itworker7 8y ago
but what if we don't use outlook - not everyone does. this is at the fundamental heart of the problem with Microsoft (Apple is just as guilty, btw). It is the "hey, we have a nice ecosystem - everyone should use it" viewpoint
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by itworker7 8y ago
no
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by itworker7 8y ago
I agree with that. And remember before Microsoft was the evil empire... IBM was the original evil empire (yep, holding on to a grudge is fun)
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by itworker7 8y ago
when I would come out for business in the late 80's at Sun I would always stop at 3 places: Computer Literacy, Fry's and Weird Stuff Warehouse. WSW back then sold even more exotic hardware as the minicomputer era was running down.
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by itworker7 9y ago
I would have expected to see this in the Atlantic, surprising that it was in Popular Mechanics. Very nicely written. Having lost my father-in-law late last fall, the story was a little difficult but it made me realize how much in common we