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by jeffwilcox 5y ago
Their standard employee agreement must include a set of clauses relating to conflict of interest.
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by jeffwilcox 6y ago
What if the demoralizing answer is... yes, just one dinner!
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by jeffwilcox 6y ago
The speedy providers are all jumping over each other to compete, now that the "gentlemen's agreement" between providers is no longer a thing... but they are cherry picking from people willing to pay and easily providing the s
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by jeffwilcox 6y ago
Yes! This has been driving me insane. I spent an hour on support with Apple, was sent to Best Buy, but do to COVID-19, cannot get an "appointment" for a replacement for 2 months... I should have opted for a mailed replacement. :&#
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by jeffwilcox 6y ago
It sounds like beyond MoPop and some of the brain research work, the legacy was not to be operating his projects, but rather giving away his fortune for causes. I wish Cinerama was self-sustaining... and LCM is a huge loss... but I suppose
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by jeffwilcox 6y ago
As a former engineer on the Silverlight team, this is enjoyably fun...
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by jeffwilcox 7y ago
With Apple Pay your name shows up often as "VALUED CUSTOMER". So that's your privacy name!
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by jeffwilcox 7y ago
Quality is all great, but options, configurations, even engine choices vary. In Europe they are much more a la carte - cloth seats, etc., available, making them the standard cars in many ways at any price point. In the US and other "lu
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by jeffwilcox 7y ago
90 seconds as measured by non-realistic volunteers in Toulouse and/or Everett who aren't actually afraid for their lives :(
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by jeffwilcox 7y ago
Agreed. I also enjoyed this short summary write-up about part of the book... https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/09/08/how-to-steal-bi...
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by jeffwilcox 7y ago
For an interesting read, check out the 1MDB scandal - the book "The Billion Dollar Whale" is quite a read.
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by jeffwilcox 7y ago
There's a reason that it's so important to save those recovery codes... that's your opportunity of last resort to recover access.
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by jeffwilcox 7y ago
Permits, load studies, switchgear components for 3-phase systems (breakers etc.) cost more, engineering costs drive this up, etc. The grid and city permitting processes weren't designed for broad "consumer" scenarios, at leas
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by jeffwilcox 7y ago
I used to feel this way, too - and I live in Belltown - but over the years the random stabbings have added up, like the couple killed after a Sounder's game a while back, of the 3 random people stabbed a few days ago outside Nordstrom.
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by jeffwilcox 7y ago
Sorry for any confusion! I originally intended this as an update to a previous post (years before we acquired GitHub) that had the title "From 20 to 2,000 engineers on GitHub: Azure, GitHub and our Open Source Portal", so was atte
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by jeffwilcox 7y ago
I think our cities are learning from what Scandinavia has been doing for ages. This is exciting news. Smart streets keep everyone safer and raise awareness to pedestrians and people with mobility issues, too.
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by jeffwilcox 8y ago
I enjoyed the Adam Ruins Everything segment on Luxottica... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAeHuDcy_bY
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by jeffwilcox 8y ago
Modern American tech firms only offer insurance while you work for them, it is not a lifetime benefit. As a result, you stop working, you need to go hunting and paying for your own healthcare.
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by jeffwilcox 8y ago
Riding the Link Light Rail is super depressing when it stops at all the streets on Rainier Ave, just waiting to T-bone another left-turning car that isn't paying attention to how things work... The appetite for large-scale transit outs
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by jeffwilcox 8y ago
Apple gets a cut of the intercharge fees that the banks charge (much higher in the US than overseas), but it is not an additional fee to the merchant last I researched. A lot of the NFC issues were either competing tech, payment networks no
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by jeffwilcox 8y ago
Fiber hotels are in all the big cities, Westin Building Exchange on 5th Ave in Seattle is where a ton of peering also happens.
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by jeffwilcox 8y ago
Congrats to Avalara on their recent IPO, pretty good timing... this is a Seattle-area firm that does local/state/etc. tax calculations. In the end, it's a huge tax on infrastructure.
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
If your utility lets you do this... in many areas, increasing your service amperage is expensive if you don't use a majority of that additional capacity.
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
I've seen this especially in the power charger category... Apple power chargers I end up always just having to go to the Apple Store for now. Sigh. I want to use Amazon, but have had so many sketchy "Apple" products sent my w
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Sigh, so true. My first job out of college here in Seattle was by a major company that provided 100% coverage for all healthcare, $0 copay; at the time, that included doctors straight to your home, anytime. It was only after we were pushed
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Fair points, appreciate the insight. I think living in a tech bubble city clouds my thinking a bit much. The only real example I have good knowledge of (1 of 1 cases) is a tech friend who worked for a firm acquired by a company wanting to b
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Data centers aren't cheap, so unless you have the economies of scale to offer R&D investment and stock-based compensation to your employees to build a modern cloud DC, good luck with that... done right you can save operating expens
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
BMW already has a major precedent here... after 3 years of owning one today, you pay: $100/year for real-time advanced traffic in the nav system $100/year for BMW Connected (send addresses and info to your car, unlock, locate etc.
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
For buildings (offices, condos, apartments), air fiber solutions are way better and often faster than fiber pulls. 60 GHz microwave, building-to-building if needed, all are in the big cities... why waste time fighting rights to run fiber in
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Our condo building in Seattle is one of the first to land a landmark experience... we have 3x coax cable providers in our building; per unit, we can select and move between the providers. They are all playing in this space because they want

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