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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Here in Seattle our condo building is in the middle of something insane - Comcast is actively installing their network in our building; previously we were only served by Wave Broadband. The local government has finally pushed back on what u
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Here in Washington state our 405 lanes have new "Express toll" lanes; if you have 3+ people during rush hour you get to use them free, otherwise for 1-2 people you pay up to $10 based on congestion... The prices are mostly set dyn
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Yet common. Stephen Elop (Nokia back to Microsoft) $25m https://news.slashdot.org/story/13/09/19/1834224/nokias-elop...
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Frankly surprised they aren't doing it already, or at least some other agency. The Europeans seem to be leading when it comes to some of this tech, though at least with GDPR in theory it's a rolling 30-day window of data and not a
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
This scares me, a lot. After watching enough videos online I've had to start using the Apple Store, paying shipping, to avoid any potential fire hazards. Most consumers probably never know. :( It's crazy that they sell the fakes o
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
That's yet another whole potential article about lobbying and regulation in America, labeling what "high-speed Internet" is until it's watered down to DSL or so at 4 mbps. At least a few years ago they redefined it to 25
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
It's a bit of a walk; the real amazement to me was that the rental car terminal was built across the street from the Tukwila Int'l Blvd station - I assume some union or lobbyist there for the bus driver's union forced that on
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Yeah... it's also tough, many real estate investment trusts and companies have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to seek a great return on investment. If there's no margin in the affordable housing game, it's n
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
I'm starting to think it is less about foreign investments, like a few other comments have noted, and more about changes at the top end of the middle class. Along with the large amounts of growth, wages in the upper middle class have r
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Basic Angular project. No contributions. Poor code. CS 101-style projects.
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
When I've had time to prepare, I've taken the time to review candidates' GitHub repositories, and it has surely helped to really understand what "open source experience" means vs "coding camp attendee". It
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
So true! We have thousands of employees at our company using GitHub.com, and every week someone loses access to their account permanently. Why? They never bothered to store the original recovery codes for the account.
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
With GitHub the SMS backup option is just a secondary choice, not required. A UbiKey or similar device or just storing the recovery codes + using an app is the best route in that one.
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Check out the Communications Museum sometime - no phreaking exhibit per se, but much more in that direction. It's closely to Living Computers, in Georgetown. http://museumofcommunications.org
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Amex Platinum is a charge card, you must pay them [for the most part] within 30 days, which is quite different from most American credit cards. Not a debit card, but close, outside of pay-over-time benefits.
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by jeffwilcox 9y ago
Super interesting, sure, but the Centurion card ("black card") is much more elite - minimum spend, $7,500 just to get the card, etc. Great offering from Amex but a different league than the middle class cards like Chase Sapphire,
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
Interesting that it's the US-wide one; there are local and regional safety systems, too, which are heavily bid up by folks including Motorola. Here in Seattle ever few years we approve another quarter billion dollar emergency network p
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
Have you heard of the Software Heritage Project? Pretty cool what they're trying to do to help and preserve the world's software. https://www.softwareheritage.org
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
GitHub Enterprise is an on-premise product and separate from the "dot-com" (GitHub.com) product offering. Inside Microsoft we have great engineering systems that today are powered by Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), so for most
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
If we were only doing pure open source, public repos, there would be no cost to us ($0). The truth is that we actually do pay, as we have private repositories. We ask that people prepare their initial open source releases during a 30-day wi
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
Super surprised to see that tech employees aren't funding their 401K the full $18,000 per year. :(
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
+100
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
Loved Rebel Assault! Thanks for posting.
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
Sadly the Delta product is more of a rebranding of Comfort Plus... more food service but not anything very comfortable. If they would just offer the equivalent of domestic Delta First as a premium economy that would be a start for me!
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
+1, love arriving downtown when taking a Euro train... sadly many corporate policies require booking flights OVER trains due to negotiated travel deals in Europe.
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
Many airlines do not consider Central America or Caribbean to be actual international flights from North America. You can usually tell in whether they offer a true business class cabin or just a first class cabin like other domestic flights
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
Transit-oriented development - built along trams/metro/rapid bus cooridors
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
I also purchased it back when Daring Fireball was recommending it... on a retina display it's nice, but it has its flaws, and the value in my mind for an individual developer for this kind of thing is like $10 if it was on Kickstarter.
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
Even more confusing on the TV show timing now thanks to Internet streaming. Westworld on HBO may technically broadcast at 10pm Eastern, and on HBO west it is broadcast at 10pm Pacific, but then it's also available on HBO Go and HBO Now
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by jeffwilcox 10y ago
I've seen a couple examples of folks doing 3-6 month AirBnB renting instead of looking for and dealing with the apartment market. One friend in Italy negotiated to have the owner eventually just lease their unit for which they had a lo

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