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by jmspring 4y ago
We use LastPass and I hate it.
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by jmspring 4y ago
Listening to it right now. It's an easy platform to explore a bunch of different music. I'm usually parked on Secret Agent, Boot Liquor and occasionally other channels. Reminds me I should donate (which I do with random regular
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by jmspring 4y ago
Finnish tire and paper product company Amongst its early origins
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by jmspring 4y ago
I have been venturing to Vancover BC for the better part of the last 30 years. In that time, there were waves of hippies selling in Kits and moving to the Okanagan, etc. Prices went up. What has happened in the last 15+ years is a notica
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by jmspring 4y ago
Computer science programs used to teach variations of C/C++. Last I checked where I went as well as talking to junior engineers I have worked with. You can get through a whole CS program at a dop 50 university without touching the la
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by jmspring 4y ago
My father has been doing a decent job decluttering from things my mother accumulated. She is still alive, but not all there. He has a safe that has multiple locks that I need to make sure I have the code(s) for. I don’t accumulate stuff an
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by jmspring 4y ago
Netflix is a company that does rolling layoffs. Things don't work, whole or parts of teams are let go. Life goes on.
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by jmspring 4y ago
Recently former Microsoft here. This is the culture of one specific team. My prior role interfaced with both customers and product teams in Azure. Interactions were constructive and collaborative. There certainly were the occasional ind
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by jmspring 4y ago
I can only speak to those companies I have spoken with. I use apple products, but haven't really been interested in their open positions.
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by jmspring 4y ago
A lot of us working in tech have it pretty well with salaries well above the norm, flexibility that isn't allowed to those at places like Amazon fulfillmet, benefits above many those working union jobs. That said, there is a very visi
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by jmspring 4y ago
Union and trade job wages without needing college.
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by jmspring 4y ago
This is one of the more pompous things I have read of late around some of the rural assumptions. Urban areas don't offer any better "opportunities" when you consider lower income areas. So, a lot of your arguments are hard
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by jmspring 5y ago
It's a cesspool for sure. Depending on your interest in Twitter, the crack down on BS from Russia and related areas has made some of it more tolerable.
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by jmspring 5y ago
Here is a Hanselman tweet referring to it -- https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1032027295572090880?la...
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by jmspring 5y ago
Standards of Business Conduct. It is a yearly required training that pics up one year after the next.
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by jmspring 5y ago
Finally an episode of SoBC where Nelson ends up blindfolded, kidnapped and taken to a black ops site? /s Former here, too, I found it part of "big company" overhead. Had similar things many years ago at a different European
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by jmspring 5y ago
The proposal reminds me of a modern version of all the bad flashy <marquee> and related flags from the 90s.
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by jmspring 5y ago
I have Bosch washer and dryer. I’m in rural no-where about an hour from Reno, NV. Getting a repair person is a challenge and they don’t carry the parts. So far, I’ve been able to handle little things. I’ll probably replace them when the
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Ask HN: Version Control for Non-Engineers?
1 points by jmspring 5y ago|1 comments
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by jmspring 5y ago
Debkafile is an interesting site to read. During (before and after) the second Iraq war there was a lot of rumor and speculation that was way outside mainstream speculation. Several ended up being wrong.
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The Quest to Protect California’s Transcontinental Railroad Tunnels(smithsonianmag.com)
7 points by jmspring 5y ago|5 comments
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by jmspring 5y ago
The funny thing is, the AT / Hayes Command Set still shows up in semi-recent cellular modems. Did some work with an embedded system using FreeRTOS and it had a cellular modem for sending data. I don't recall all the nuances as i
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by jmspring 5y ago
I have a sprinter van for business and a Tacoma for a normal driver. I drive more than some due to distance, not frequency. I also explore remote back/off roads. The sprinter is more susceptible to wind and driving surface variation.
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by jmspring 5y ago
I’ll need to play with this. I need to also revive my vm that was running OS/2 Warp so I could play the original version of Galactic Civilizations. I know archive.org has running classic games in the browser, but I wonder how many wil
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by jmspring 5y ago
You have to be careful here. A colleague/mentor many years back said - be careful, there is no such thing as "part time" when salaried in tech.
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by jmspring 5y ago
I was a junior engineer - it was 25+ years ago. The spec started with a proposal from Microsoft. I happen to agree with The critique. I also recall trying to implement some of the nebulous things and it was painful. The code for encoding
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by jmspring 5y ago
A “standard” based off a proposal from Microsoft. Run through the RSA committee. Implemented by two relatively young engineers. One at Netscape. One at Microsoft. I was on the Netscape side of the house. I love when this article pops up
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by jmspring 5y ago
Here in California in the Sierra Nevada, a pressure variation was noticeable around 4am pacific.
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by jmspring 5y ago
I had the realization when, while in high school, I got talked into seeing Dances with Wolves. Way too much Kevin Costner and itt just was not fun to sit there that long.
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Ask HN: Open-source Embeddable node based scripting
1 points by jmspring 5y ago|0 comments

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