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by jkestner 7y ago
Of course there’d be a marketplace for this. Raise.com may give you a better return.
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by jkestner 7y ago
The takeaway for me: “Kalle Anka is almost like gathering around the fire in old times and listening to fairy tales.” I hope that these shared cultural experiences can occasionally pull us back together after being scattered by algor
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by jkestner 7y ago
I'd like to think that too, but most people don't have the money or inclination for calm tech. We want distractions from the uncomfortable truths, and Facebook is happy to provide distraction with comfortable "truths."
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by jkestner 7y ago
A classic vision of AR where Idiocracy meets Stephenson: https://vimeo.com/8569187
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by jkestner 7y ago
I know y’all want to repeat the whole thing about consultants we've all heard before, which sure, is “exactly this”, but the article goes much deeper, and is specific to the government. Here, consultants are ripping off taxpayers becau
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by jkestner 7y ago
Lol, like years ago. https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/iot/modern-aut...
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by jkestner 7y ago
I’ve said it before, but I’m in the best shape of my life now with two children because the YMCA has free childcare.
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by jkestner 7y ago
Like the original iMac eliminating SCSI, DIN-8 serial and ADB for USB-A, the point of removing old ports is to ensure support for the new ones. Local pain, long term gain. (Uh, once they sort out the many flavors using the USB-C form factor
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by jkestner 7y ago
> Apple’s plan includes making available land it owns in San Jose, Calif., which it said was worth $300 million, for new affordable housing Question the efficacy if you like, but here's how they're addressing the other side.
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by jkestner 7y ago
Position is filled now, thanks.
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by jkestner 7y ago
Advanced Scanners | Principal Software Engineer | Austin, TX Advanced Scanners is a recently funded seed-stage medical device company bringing its unique IP to solve real problems in surgical navigation for patients undergoing open brain su
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Deadspin Staffers Resign After Editor Fired for Refusing to ‘Stick to Sports’(variety.com)
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by jkestner 7y ago
I don’t want my complex devices changing all the time either. Just updated my desktop to last year's macOS and it caused a cascade of changes from dependencies I wasn’t ready for. Same with the latest version of Xcode, and the auto-upd
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by jkestner 7y ago
When was that? Everyone's got to start somewhere. I was the only web developer for a really big moving company back when you were just called webmaster. Ran it off Mac OS X Server 1.2 on an original iMac for a while.
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by jkestner 7y ago
Advanced Scanners | Principal Software Engineer | Austin, TX Advanced Scanners is a recently funded seed-stage medical device company bringing its unique IP to solve real problems in surgical navigation for patients undergoing open brain su
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by jkestner 7y ago
It’s only a matter of degree—unless it’s completely controlled by Facebook, or any other company.
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by jkestner 7y ago
Reminds me of a commentary I read about a dozen years ago, whee the author has a similar experience to you, and starts craning around to see what new headsets people are wearing, until one day he realized that he actually was again seeing a
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by jkestner 7y ago
Might have something to do with the weakening of unions ever since. You might consider the flip side—what has not having strong unions gotten us? Greater inequality? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_labor_l
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by jkestner 7y ago
And you’ve got time this weekend to do so thanks to unions.
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by jkestner 7y ago
Yes. Covered in https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/kickstarter-turmoil-uni... The union wanted to ensure management adhered to the company’s stated values, notably in pay equality and standing up to fascist
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by jkestner 7y ago
This is important. Kickstarter has presented itself to the public and employees as an ethical company, a public benefit corporation. It would probably be the best-known tech company to have a union, and we can't set that kind of exampl
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Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoil(slate.com)
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by jkestner 7y ago
And what part is rigged? In the case of this food printer, sure I suppose it should be able to actually do what it claims is its breakthrough. But if I make a prototype of, say, a wallet that gives you haptic feedback to reflect your money
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by jkestner 7y ago
That’s not their current list of projects, but a tiny subset you picked. I don’t disagree that many of the projects are silly or unworkable (and some listed there are just class projects of a couple weeks’ work), but it’s reflective of the
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by jkestner 7y ago
People wouldn't have booed because other than journalists, the theater was filled with Apple employees.
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by jkestner 7y ago
They could start fixing it by not turning their spying tools inward, and enacting strong whistleblower protection laws. The other half is admitting that the government did something wrong in the first place, which they can do by prosecuting
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by jkestner 7y ago
Removes the use case where I activate Siri while driving by reaching in my pocket.
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by jkestner 7y ago
As a Media Lab alum, I know there are plenty of people who agreed. It takes courage to interrupt the venerated founder, especially when your livelihood depends on the person he's defending, and the people with whom they've built r
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by jkestner 7y ago
I'm in better shape than ever, and it’s thanks to free childcare at the YMCA. Getting a break from the children is the most motivation I've had to drag myself to the gym.
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by jkestner 7y ago
Maybe the only constant is that every child is different. We had two close together, and it became a net positive about two years in, when they could keep each other occupied much of the time. And they'll have a built-in best friend. W

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