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by jmspring 6y ago
Only job I was ever fired from - it was a temp job. Mortgage comps in the early 90s. Printing was the slowest part of the process. I installed a print spooler and was 3x more productive than peers and boss. I was fired for “installing un
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by jmspring 6y ago
7/8 needed to modify things. Fuck this over reach. That simple thing will kill the bill. Right/left friends that is a power grab gone too far.
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by jmspring 6y ago
I have the dm42, along with hp predecessors. The buttons are legit. Over time, hard to tell given the Hps I have are 30+ years old.
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by jmspring 6y ago
Swissmicros seems to focus on the classic HP lines which were RPN based. I have a few HP calculators as well as a couple of SwissMicros and am happy to have the updated version.
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DM41x: a modern take on the HP-41CX(swissmicros.com)
101 points by jmspring 6y ago|74 comments
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by jmspring 6y ago
Pge has a history of diverting maintenance to profits. That has been proven. Communities and forests in CA do not keep up adequate maintenance, that is taken as fact. The super dry conditions coupled with wind exacerbate any fires that pop
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by jmspring 6y ago
I’ll take the rep hit. But as a childless middle aged employee... I think we need to reign things in and less experienced expecting the world need to actually prove themselves beyond leet code and one prior couple year experience. Those wit
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by jmspring 6y ago
At the time, it was needed, and I think there is an aspect of the caps that is also needed given how much the state desires to tax pretty much everything it can. The business ownership of property aspect of Prop 13 should be addressed. I&#
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by jmspring 6y ago
I gave in and ordered one. Thought I had previously, but no email to be found. The hackability is a useful feature. And it'll be interesting to compare it with an iPad Pro for notes/etc.
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by jmspring 6y ago
The bulk of public land in California is Federally controlled - BLM, USFS
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by jmspring 6y ago
As someone born and raised in the Bay Area, what I feel is the decline of SF (cultural venues, long time restaurants, neighborhoods changing character) some see as progress. The exodus is interesting ... I don’t see a return of those displa
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by jmspring 6y ago
If he is still in the business, he is probably making a killing right now as people are swarming like rats off a ship to rural areas. I have my condo in a mountain town with fiber. HOA dues and tourists are issues; I'd love property I
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by jmspring 6y ago
Here is what Microsoft does (I don't speak for them, just what I would do): - secure the purchase - let it run independently like LinkedIn - move cloud components to Azure - leverage Microsoft compliance with regulators and data reten
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Ask HN: Options for a “computer programming” topic for homeschooling
2 points by jmspring 6y ago|3 comments
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by jmspring 6y ago
The removal of FB and Google from my digital life are my goals for the next year/. Where I need FB (groups) it’ll be a fake account through a vpn/etc
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Ask HN: Something like Khan Academy but full curriculum for grade schoolers?
283 points by jmspring 6y ago|104 comments
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by jmspring 6y ago
Working for a salary, outside doing your job for the hours ageeed is free money for them. I cook to relax, to get away from the computer.
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by jmspring 6y ago
There was a huge push for backdoors and weakened crypto during the Clinton years. It's not a right/left thing, it's government control thing.
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by jmspring 6y ago
The funny thing about the origins of PredPol - a sitting councilman and a liaison with SCPD were both part of the early team at PredPol and those connections helped encourage Santa Cruz to adopt the technology. SCPD, in general, is one of t
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EU Plans Ban on US Travel to Europe(theverge.com)
50 points by jmspring 6y ago|4 comments
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by jmspring 6y ago
Bay Area born and raised, left 3.5 years ago. Grew up in the East Bay in the mid/late 80s and was fortunate to get to run around from Pleasanton to Oakland/Berkeley and the city (SF). Traffic wasn't that bad. Went to UC Sant
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by jmspring 6y ago
Here is a photo. Food Not Bombs is a broader organization, but Keith McHenry, a founder of FNB, will do everything to promote his agenda atop of what is popular - https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr&#
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by jmspring 6y ago
The sad thing is, there are good jurisdictions (they may have their issues, but generally fair) around, yet local activists will use issue X in city Y as an excuse to blame their own local PD for some unrelated issue. This is happening in S
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by jmspring 6y ago
I believe Oracle, IBM, and some others still charge per core/cpu for various products. It's a nice business model to be in if you have locked in customers.
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by jmspring 6y ago
Wouldn't be prudent...
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by jmspring 6y ago
Despite a market for cheap labor, especially around CRAuD apps, companies doing complex things require a certain level of experience and skill. Outsourcing firms thrive on having one “knowledgeable” person who interfaces with a client, and
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by jmspring 6y ago
Let’s not forget Microsoft also bought Deis. That helped shift the Azure container service from Mesos to Kubernetes. They also hired Brendan Burns. Docker democratized the creation of containers, but other companies built more and better
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by jmspring 6y ago
I recall GW-Basic as well. I ended up with a bunch of random software from my dad at the time. One of the included items was a basic compiler. Showed me how much faster compiled code could be. I then went on to use the various Borland pr
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by jmspring 6y ago
I can second this. Had a recruiter reach out, asked if they were going to support mostly remote, the answer was no.
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by jmspring 6y ago
Birds can be quite aggressive and draw blood. I’ve seen crows dive bombing cats, hummingbirds getting super aggressive with humans. A friend had a turkey vulture get on the back of a colleague of hers while doing some surveying. I’ve been

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