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by jbgreer 5y ago
Even better when you consider that some pilots are not domiciled in their route's origin city and for some airlines get paid by blocks of time. I recall a friend talking about pilots that lived in lower-cost areas, commuted to LA for
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by jbgreer 5y ago
For those of you wondering at home: Playwright for .NET is the official language port of Playwright, a Node.js based library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
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by jbgreer 5y ago
“When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.”
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by jbgreer 5y ago
Interesting approach, especially given that they don't seem to be concerned about having internet service providers declared public utilities.
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by jbgreer 5y ago
Thank you for stating more clearly an opinion I made on another submission [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27433877#27434884 ] "What is X and why should I care?" is great advice to any submitter. In my sta
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by jbgreer 5y ago
Also, with respect to your comment "Terraform is not exactly obscure tech": you're right. Google estimates there are "About 14,200,000 results". My desire for context is not only to address obscurity, but also di
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by jbgreer 5y ago
I also prefer shorter titles. Do you consider my suggested title editorializing? If so, how?
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by jbgreer 5y ago
I mean this as a constructive complaint, not just for this post, but many posts on HN: I do wish the titles of submissions included some context that would clue me into the nature of the product, service, or meaning of the submission. I do
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by jbgreer 5y ago
Ditto, with the same hassles mentioned by you and others, such that I'm actively looking at email services that handle this sort of thing better using approaches such as mentioned below - domain@mydomain style registration addresses.
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by jbgreer 5y ago
Even if you did order enough to produce a run, there is no guarantee you’ll get the full quantity or any at all. Suffice it to say I know this first hand. Had a vendor come back and say, “Sorry, we know we promised your order by June, but
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by jbgreer 5y ago
I still have my Linuxcare BBC. And tomsrtbt and QNX media. Fun times.
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by jbgreer 5y ago
As I said on the condolences page, John Tiller had a profound impact on my life. As a high school student I participated in a summer study program at a local college where John was an instructor. He provided a whirlwind review of programm
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by jbgreer 6y ago
One of my friends was a hired courtesy of Reagan's actions. He retired in the middle of last year (mandatory retirement). I know 2 other ATCs that retired in the last year. I bet you're right.
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by jbgreer 6y ago
Chick Corea was the unknowing instigator of rebellion from the jazz of my father and the beginning of a broader embrace of jazz. I saw Chick twice - once in 80s and then again a few years ago. The night of his death I was playing selected t
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by jbgreer 6y ago
Your professor didn't start doing that at your university. I knew who you were talking about before even visiting your link, although the home directory sealed it: Brian Stuart. Very useful to study (and modify) a small OS.
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by jbgreer 6y ago
Pleased to see the report reference my late acquaintance, Atul Chitnis, and his work in fostering Free Software in India. I connected with Atul during a business trip to Bangalore in the mid-90s. He ended up arranging a dinner at a nearby
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by jbgreer 6y ago
Here's a list of items that are prohibited on the Capitol grounds, in the Capitol and visitor center, in the buildings and the galleries: https://www.uscp.gov/visiting-capitol-hill/regulations-prohi... The gallery
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by jbgreer 6y ago
I can only express myself in English, but I laugh every time a developer explains how easy their tool is to use because one types “ctrl-f” for find and “ctrl-s” for save, etc. The day these developers learn that the latest Cool Tool uses n
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by jbgreer 6y ago
Friends told me that a former advisor started a side business counseling couples, and made some of his students pretend to be married participants during larger group sessions. One kicked a PhD student out of her lab after he spoke to a loc
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by jbgreer 6y ago
In 1983 I bought an Apple ][e with a monitor, dual floppy drives (but not the fancy duodisk verson), and an 80 column card. A friend and his father had bought several as a speculative investment, and when his parents left town he needed ca
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by jbgreer 7y ago
In 1988 a friend and I presented at the 3rd Conference on Hypercubes and Concurrent Computers. We had spent the summer and fall programming an Intel Scientific Hypercube. Fractal calculations, heat diffusion, chemical reactions, that sort
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by jbgreer 8y ago
Came here wanting to cite a study advocating use of lowercase letters (as I've been told), but a quick search turned up this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2016788/ "Our finding that
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by jbgreer 8y ago
Like others, it depends upon what you mean by important. In grad school I helped another PhD student by writing control software for a device used to assess the locality and severity of brain lesions. I got a tee shirt for doing that work.
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by jbgreer 8y ago
A colleague at my office recently brought in a 43" 4K TV to use as a monitor. He was reimbursed immediately. After a few days I bought one, too, took it home, and took the 2x 23" monitors it replaced to the office. In a different
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by jbgreer 8y ago
FedEx | Engineering Specialist Advisor, Operations Technology Innovation | Collierville, TN FedEx is looking for a forward-thinking, innovative, and technology savvy professional who will help develop the next generation of FedEx solutions.
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by jbgreer 8y ago
I used WordStar. Thank goodness Turbo Pascal used WordStar keybindings for their commands, too!
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by jbgreer 8y ago
I see a couple of other references so I know I'm not unique, but my first experience of version control was SCCS on SCO Xenix. Then RCS, CVS, SVN and Git. I never used Perforce or ClearCase. Knew some folks who used PVCS and StarTea
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by jbgreer 8y ago
Like several others I read GEB during my undergrad days. I recall attending a local CogSci roundtable to announce my achievement, which I then viewed as something of a right of passage. When I told a prof I had just read GEB he laughed a
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by jbgreer 8y ago
Not for this position.
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by jbgreer 8y ago
FedEx | Technical Advisor | Collierville, TN | ONSITE Job Specific Information: We are looking for a forward-thinking, innovative, and technology savvy professional who will help developed the next generation of FedEx solutions. The succes

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