jefecoon

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by jefecoon 1mo ago
Any indication yet as to whether Quack, DuckLake, real-time materialized views dev will continue full-steam ahead? B/c myself and i know of many others very interested in seeing these efforts completed... :crossed-fingers:
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by jefecoon 2mo ago
Andy, you had me at KillerMike + El-P super group. Best of luck running the jewels on the dbase world with CH
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by jefecoon 4mo ago
class action lawsuit? maybe i'll eventually get a settlement for my multiple Office Mac licenses that won't buy me a latte. what a joke. note to self: never buy anything from MSFT ever again.
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by jefecoon 7mo ago
Here's my workflow, hopefully concise enough as a reply, in case helpful to those very few who'll actually see it: Research -> Define 'Domains' -> BDD -> Domain Specs -> Overall Arch Specs / complete&#x2
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by jefecoon 10mo ago
I'm impressed by the depth of snark from GPro3 here, e.g. - Google kills Gemini Cloud Services (killedbygoogle.com) - The unexpected return of server-side rendering (htmx.org) And, how GPro3 clearly 'knows' HNews and knows wh
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by jefecoon 1y ago
Nice read, and beautiful website btw.
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by jefecoon 2y ago
Few misc thoughts here: - Lawyers want this all to work in Word.docx - Many [ / most? ] law firms have a large, overly-complicated "doc database." These have Word plugins, and they're usually required to 'check-in&
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by jefecoon 2y ago
> Using a very well designed library for your use case is not nonsense. Could you recommend your personal favorite(s) of such libraries? Enquiring minds want to know! Thx.
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by jefecoon 2y ago
100% If equity is going to be a material component of compensation, then the argument "you're not committed enough, you deserve nothing if you leave..." is utter nonsense. Imho, many/most of these draconian equity /
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by jefecoon 3y ago
https://www.rubykoans.com/ Last time I looked they hadn't been updated in a while, so may not have support for the very latest & greatest features of rubylang, but find this a great approach to quickly familiarizin
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by jefecoon 6y ago
Great article exploring specific colormaps and applications, incl discussion of pros/cons of popular maps [ e.g. Cividis better for color-blind viewing than Viridis, but is a more simplistic blue--yellow scale than others which utilize
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by jefecoon 6y ago
"The old Apple laptop would sound like a VAX in a hurricane while building Emacs!" Sysadmin to a VAX farm in an earlier life -- this brought back some good memories, especially of what our server room sounded like when we pushed a
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by jefecoon 6y ago
To whomever went to the trouble of writing this up, then giving it a dedicated domain -- thank you, you're making the world a better place.
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by jefecoon 6y ago
"Not sure I totally get your point about my reason for selling. Are you saying I should or shouldn't say my heart's not in it? That's the genuine reason and I've always built in the open and been transparent about m
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by jefecoon 6y ago
Hi Andy, Former founder, now investment banker here. Sorry to hear you're not interested in continuing the business moving forward. Btw, if you really want to sell, probably best to work on this answer [ e.g. I love other things >
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by jefecoon 8y ago
From 1995 to 2002 I led biz dev for DataChannel's XML parser [ the first written, most widely licensed to other platforms eg MSFT, and likely most widely adopted ]. I coordinated our participation in XML & all the related web serv
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by jefecoon 9y ago
I've been using Bitwarden a couple months now and can only speak highly. We'll see how it's security audits & stands the test of time, but so far so good for me.
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by jefecoon 9y ago
Long time ago, in a dot.com startup epoch long ago: Our Seattle/Bellevue based startup hired VP & Dir of outside sales in Silicon Valley. Expensive hires, big payout to recruiting firm, then these two proved extremely difficult to
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by jefecoon 9y ago
Ask your student(s) to look at a map, or better yet, open up Google Maps and flip to 'Earth' view. All that satellite imagery? Every single pixel, from every single satellite fly-over / observation, all interpreted &#x2F
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by jefecoon 10y ago
They never wanted to sell this data -- it's far too valuable. They merely wanted US gov't approval to use it in any possible way they choose to, which they have not had previously. E.g. https://www.eff.org/deepli
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by jefecoon 10y ago
How is it possible that no one else has already commented that Uber's first truck delivery is basically self-driving Smokey & The Bandit??? Well played Uber, well played.
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by jefecoon 10y ago
Other concepts to discuss: > API versioning, perhaps in Services DSL, and toolset to enable factories and testing more easily against multiple versions > Modular 'apps' from singular codebase: could single Rails codebase sup
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by jefecoon 11y ago
tldr: My year off was fantastic. Not life-changing, but amazing. In the years since I find individuals reaction to hearing of my year off very telling in what they'll be like to work with and their take on work/life balance. M
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by jefecoon 13y ago
+1 for VMS.... so good, but so proprietary & doomed to extinction... so unfortunate.
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by jefecoon 13y ago
Thought this very interesting and potentially useful. I added a suggestion under 'person going through a divorce,' e.g: ''Acknowledge it's going to be a difficult process and transition period, but give them hope th
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Free mobile app analytics & demographics from Quantcast(quantcast.com)
5 points by jefecoon 13y ago|5 comments
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by jefecoon 14y ago
Jeff @ MakeGood; I pitched yesterday at StartupRiot. For what it's worth, 'makegoods' are old ad-industry jargon for extra ads which have to be run to literally 'make good' on what you've sold to an advertiser... plus a half-way decent play
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by jefecoon 14y ago
+1 for yet another great D3 implementation
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by jefecoon 14y ago
Hey Motobabble- Disclaimer: I used to manage ad sales & operations at CarDomain.com, the largest social network in the automotive space. I browsed your site but didn't create an account, create my own car page, or upload any pics. Your