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by jmspring 9y ago
And a place one should be careful/vigilant.
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by jmspring 9y ago
Yes, Slab City is a trip and I was skimming things when I posted. The region and how people live/survive and advertisements for lots/etc. is quite a trip.
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by jmspring 9y ago
Salton City is briefly mentioned in the article. It and the Salton Sea are quite interesting places to visit and are certainly worth checking out. Parts of it are incredibly creepy, parts quite beautiful in a barren and lonely sense.
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by jmspring 9y ago
Sigh. Arguing logic of proper behavior on these matters on HN always results in apologists making excuses as to how it should have been handled.
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by jmspring 9y ago
My bad, it was Left in Seattle. My last international trip was Uber just for the fact that it was the only available service (and takes amex).
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by jmspring 9y ago
Travis himself has exhibited poor public behavior that was recorded by an Uber driver. That in itself reflects upon the company. Yes his assertiveness and drive got them where they are, but sometimes companies do need to grow up. Jobs was
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by jmspring 9y ago
Don't generalize the company products with the company teams. I don't have an opinion on your comments on Skype. Teams is a competitor and tied to Active Directory. But many employees are involved in slack channels across Micro
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by jmspring 9y ago
What's interesting thinking about history, would Webvan and Pets.com fall under "no demand", "too soon", or just tried to do too much given the timing? Now we have services that are similar, for instance chewy.com
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by jmspring 9y ago
I've worked as part of a larger local remote team for a number of years. I'm dealing with customers, group meetings, or hackfests on about a 3-5 day a month basis. Outside of that, I'm fully remote. I used to have a garage
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by jmspring 9y ago
The issue of addiction - especially meth and heroin - happens in rural / backwater areas as well as in urban / expensive. Santa Cruz and other parts of the Bay Area have huge meth and heroin problems. I've recently started s
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by jmspring 10y ago
You've done nothing to justify your "systemd + sensible" in this comment. You've just ranted against other technologies. I don't see the point.
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by jmspring 10y ago
Another downside however is as those jobs go away, the numbing of skills can come back to bite at finding jobs down the road.
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by jmspring 10y ago
Even if they did, the issue w/ caching DNS info will possibly still bit one. Java apps is one specific example that comes to mind.
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by jmspring 10y ago
It is interesting, having lived in the Bay Area pretty much my entire life, spending more time up in what one might call "red country" -- rural Northern Sierra Nevada mountains (still in CA) -- the attitudes around conceal carry (
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by jmspring 10y ago
His office at UCSC was just a couple of doors down from that of Glen Langdon (my advisor) during my tenure there. I only got to listen/talk to him a couple of times. A loss and an interesting guy. Husked Langdon Huffman UCSC had some
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by jmspring 10y ago
As of maybe a month or so ago, tribe.net was still struggling along. Maybe a little new content, but interesting to go back and look at things. I knew a sys admin type that was helping keep it going (years ago). I recall an investor group
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Tribe.net finally appears to be dead(tribe.net)
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by jmspring 10y ago
In the east bay (primarily - Contra Costa County, but there was an offshoot (maybe two) down towards Dublin/San Ramon), there was a multi-line chat BBS known as Popnet. The main office was in Walnut Creek, socials were a regular thing
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by jmspring 10y ago
I worked at a startup where the company didn't hire the low skill H1Bs, but the engineering manager was hell bent on outsourcing things. It started logically with "support" type areas that should have been easy boiler plate.
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by jmspring 10y ago
I work for the company, mostly use a Mac, sometimes use X11, and started laughing when I read X11 server on WSL/Linux on Windows. Things have come a long way. I don't know if there is X11 support, but when I have some time later
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by jmspring 10y ago
My stint in computers started back in the DOS days, diverged into *nix, Os/2, and other operating systems, but also knew way too damn much about Windows platforms. By nature, I was a BSD guy, moved to Linux for some things. I've
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by jmspring 10y ago
A lot of development around Azure tools is done in the open under various "groups" -- MicrosoftDx, Azure, etc -- there is no one "source repo" for all products. Even when I was at Skype, the repo for that was separate f
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by jmspring 10y ago
We have customers running DCOS workloads as well as Kubernetes workloads on Azure. Some use ACS, some use bare VMs (be it ubuntu, CoreOS, etc). Some use DCOS enterprise from the market place. Just from my perspective, having sat down and
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by jmspring 10y ago
Apples and Oranges. Maybe there are intersections, but "Silicon Valley" and tradition? Just seems a stretch. The Bay Area is mixture of traditions depending on those you mingle with.
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by jmspring 10y ago
I recall using OS/2 as my development platform while at Netscape. Win16, Win32 andOS/2 builds on one platform. Plus it had a much better networking stack. Continued to run Warp for a few years and recently set up a VM with Ecoms
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by jmspring 10y ago
If we are at the point where Amazon is being compared to quality at Fry's, things have gotten really bad. Fry's has so many issues with returns, etc. and just slapping them back on the shelf.
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by jmspring 10y ago
it could also include a local agency fed up and finally looking to provide a service Comcast, AT&T, etc refuse to provide/expnad/etc. In gold rush area along Highway 49 in Califnornia you have two prominent Coop/Local sol
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by jmspring 10y ago
I recently moved to an area where the local coop did step up and is bringing Fiber to one of the least populace continues in California -- Plumas County -- and the spinoff of the coop is Plumas Sierra Telecom. They've been providing s
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by jmspring 10y ago
Tiny houses are great and all, but most articles, tv shows, etc two basic issues: - land - hookups Had this discussion today with someone enthused about a tiny home community until the land use rental fee came into play.
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by jmspring 10y ago
Oh, I've had the same. And return trip finding and complaining about wine opener. Which is cheaper / effective DHS or private contractors?

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