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by jehb 3y ago
I mean, sure, there are plenty: regulation, battery life, ruggedness, the creep factor, the fact that this does not provide me with anything similar to the value of a smartphone. Not all of us spend our days walking down urban streets, havi
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by jehb 3y ago
It's in fact pretty easy to melt an egg. First, raise it above 29 degrees Fahrenheit or so, and this will melt the internal section. Remove this melted internal section and set it aside. Now melt the external section, which is mostly c
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by jehb 3y ago
I'd love to see the results parsed by reason for skipping breakfast. I used to intentionally skip breakfast as a part of an intermittent fasting routing. I wasn't particularly strict about it, and I didn't really buy into t
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by jehb 3y ago
Not to take this conversation too far off track, but the reverse argument could just as easily be made. Companies are amoral entities, existing only to deliver whatever value their owners wish to extract. Governments, meanwhile, are just t
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by jehb 3y ago
Typically when I attend an outdoor events trying to go green, they'll replace something that's normally single-use with something reusable, like renting metal cutlery instead of using plastic. This feels weird. That said, I can&#x
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by jehb 3y ago
Is this really the issue that it used to be, though? I'm curious if I'm the only person who just doesn't send email much anymore in my personal life. Yes, I get a lot of email. But it's almost all transactional or subscr
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by jehb 3y ago
And it's at exactly this moment the community would fork the project and development of a free version would continue. This is not a real risk for a community-driven project, only for corporate-driven projects where a single entity own
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by jehb 3y ago
In my experience as a hiring manager, I will do a web search. If the LinkedIn result is what I find first that I'm sure is you, I'll click that, but if you have a personal homepage, I'd actually probably rather see that. YM
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by jehb 3y ago
They could be, but often they launched something on-platform in AOL's walled garden that could not be accessed by a web browser. Basically, windows inside of the AOL application. Screenshots would explain better than I can but I'm
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by jehb 3y ago
I think it's interesting that the time horizon being discussed here is so short. I don't think I've cared about new technology... ever. I have cared about "new to me" technology at several points in my life. When
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by jehb 3y ago
I use it all the time, not because I'm as good as I'd like to be about keeping things out of the cloud that don't need to be there, but because I often have ad hoc spreadsheets that are bigger than Google Sheets can handle.
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by jehb 3y ago
It's an interesting question, but it's the opposite of the one I usually ask. Software should be open source. "Why try to monetize?" would be the question I'd ask myself.
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by jehb 3y ago
I can't answer this question generally, but one example that is very close to home is bamboo. (Actually, it's no longer close to home. We moved, and despite being very close to our old house, have an order of magnitude fewer mosqu
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by jehb 3y ago
I live on a busy road, not too far from the intersection with another road that has a quarry on it. The worst thing of living here are the dump trucks who come speeding around the corner and then use their unmuffled engine brakes to slow do
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by jehb 3y ago
Fun fact, when I worked at Red Hat for many years on the Opensource.com project, we created a collection of dozens of great articles on the ins and outs of git, written by open source community members. You can still find most of those arti
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by jehb 3y ago
Non-exploitative business models.
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by jehb 3y ago
Yeah, but back then we were all just cramming "Britney Spears" into our Meta Keywords tags; we weren't actually eroding the quality of our entire web properties to court a live-or-die relationship with a single traffic vendor
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by jehb 3y ago
As I read the process, at this point they're primarily looking for "conversation starters" (my phrase, not theirs) in the form of presentations, as well as attendees to discuss at a number of in-person events this year (I&#x2
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by jehb 3y ago
Of note, if you're interested in helping participate in the discussion of what an open source AI would actually look like, the Open Source Initiative is looking for your help: https://opensource.org/deepdive/
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by jehb 3y ago
This has not been my experience at all with SaaS. I find SaaS products, including ones I have paid for, disappear at a much greater rate than the rate at which the desktop tools they replaced stop working. There's also next to nothing
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by jehb 3y ago
"We're not firing you for discussing your wages, we're firing you for leaking proprietary individual labor budget information with unauthorized employees."
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by jehb 3y ago
> No thanks, I don't want a human connection and asking someone for help when looking up information. Ironically, at the rate the quality of Google results is current diminishing, you may need a human connection in order to have a
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by jehb 3y ago
I'll take a swing, but I welcome additions. > How does an Open source hardware company make profit? The same way an open source software company does, which is to say, there's no definitive answer. If you're building an op
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by jehb 3y ago
For anyone else looking for the whole list, here it is: https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme/blob/main/resourc...
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by jehb 3y ago
Thanks. I should have been clearer, I am okay leaving tech. :)
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by jehb 3y ago
I came here to make this comment if it hadn't already been made. Seriously though, this is the one thing that has kept me a ThinkPad user ever since I got my first university-issued laptop 21 years ago. I've had other laptops sinc
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by jehb 3y ago
> I work seasonally and spend the other half of the year trying to disconnect and focus on real-life, outdoor hobbies. A bit off-topic, but I'm curious if you have any advice for finding seasonal jobs? It feels a bit ironic to be wo
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by jehb 3y ago
It's also missing from the marketing side of the house. I've jumped between technical marketing (being an expert on the software we sell) and marketing technology (being an expert in the tools we use to power our marketing stack).
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by jehb 3y ago
> Privacy is about giving people the freedom to choose how their personal information is distributed. That's one take, and I won't argue that it's an unreasonable one. That said, if you asked me to describe the UX patterns
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by jehb 3y ago
I can't help but notice that I got an interruptive ad asking for my email address on a site that's supposed to be about privacy. I understand it's a Substack, but something about that just felt jarring given the subject matte

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