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by jmspring 10y ago
It's not unusual for me to fall asleep most of a long haul flight. In ear monitors that do a lot of noise cancelation/isolation really are a help in dealing with the noise of an airplane. So, for me, not needing to charge is pre
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by jmspring 10y ago
Sigh. I recall the quercus project from Coucho. Translated php into jvm byte code. One way to truly accelerate php many years back.
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by jmspring 10y ago
Gold rushes bring in the fraudsters. @honkhonkpants response, I take it tongue in cheek. Born and raised here. There is a lot of good that does happen, the Valley used to be more balanced (tech, manufacturing, ag, etc)... In the 10+ comp
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by jmspring 10y ago
Honestly, one's record does eventually catch up with one. This is going to last for this individual for awhile (if not forever)... I've encountered people who reported title inflation on their LinkedIn page, oversold what they di
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by jmspring 10y ago
Reliance on initiatives and standards bodies to provide a guidance for maturity, at least in recent years, is a fools errand. They usually end up rubber stamping what's been the norm and work back from there.
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by jmspring 10y ago
Ticky-Tack book keeping around things like vacation and sick leave. Anything that implies a liability on the books.
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by jmspring 10y ago
Is it me or is each link under the various providers routing to Google Cloud Functions -- https://cloud.google.com/functions/
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by jmspring 10y ago
The generalizations about the quality of C code is interesting...It is easy to criticize code that has been developed over years, multiple hands, etc. C code doesn't have to be terrible. And "terrible" often is in the eye of
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by jmspring 10y ago
This made me smile. Unwinding is very important. If you work at home, even more so. The wife and I used to watch shows on the laptop before bed. Instead we read. It helps sleep. Granted it's on kindles (individual backlight, conveni
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by jmspring 10y ago
Having gone through the first chapter, I agree, if something like what the poster above mentioned is possible, that'd be preferable for my situation as well. Just my 2 cents.
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by jmspring 10y ago
I don't think commodity hardware will fully replace all business of places like Cisco. For one, Cisco does have large contracts like the Chinese Government -- they helped build the "great firewall". I have no idea how this s
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by jmspring 10y ago
Why should a video app be required for N of M situations? Just do one app that works well.
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by jmspring 10y ago
I'd be curious why. If there are issues, happy to try and help out.
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by jmspring 10y ago
When it comes to ecosystems, the definition of the Cathedral becomes interesting. Say what you will about business practices in the 80s, 90s, early 2000s... In a sense Windows was a cathedral. It bent over backwards while accepting the ne
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by jmspring 10y ago
He's had the same views for many years. He just reintroduces them based on the popular closed nuance of the day. In the 90s, it was Microsoft, not Apple. He has valid points, but the general world of software is much more open and di
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by jmspring 10y ago
Raise anticipating a downturn ... @pmarca and @bhorowitz have advocated for such. So, this plan makes sense.
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by jmspring 10y ago
There was a time if you had issues with hardware, and email to Steve Jobs actually resulted in a customer escalation. I had one of the 15" MBPs that had the Nvidia chip issue, but never experienced that. But had 3 other problems -- a
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by jmspring 10y ago
I've seen much apple and microsoft bashing here. Google, not as much. I don't know why. Personally, I've got devices running the spectrum of OSs and they all have their strengths and weaknesses.
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by jmspring 10y ago
Use Square for a purchase, card you used before? You get an automatic email receipt. Convenient. What are they selling? Cookies are one avenue, but there are others.
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by jmspring 10y ago
I suspect they probably were using Telegram or similar, not some unknown app... But it is all in the PR of the after party.
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by jmspring 10y ago
It's racist, but after Hong Kong and Macau, Vancouver was readily referred to as Hongcouver. The money spilling in from Asia has been going on for a long time. 16+ years.
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by jmspring 10y ago
I've got a Surface Pro 2 currently running Win10 and a MacbookPro running OS X 10.11.5. I run Little Snitch on my Mac. The number of "outgoing" connections for every tom dick and harry app and OS call is nearly as bad as wha
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by jmspring 10y ago
That was life in the FreeBSD/Linux world, regardless, for the desktop circa early 2000s.
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by jmspring 10y ago
When I use my iPhones for music (currently have a 6), I use one of two headphones: - Plantronic BackBeat Pros - Westone UM4r The BackBeat's are great wireless, noise reducing over the ear headphones. I need to remember to charge them.
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by jmspring 10y ago
I actually ran FreeBSD as a "desktop OS" on more than a few IBM Stinkpads for years. It worked well, driver support -- well, wifi was always fun, but if you knew enough, you could get them going (orinoco cards for the win). That
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by jmspring 10y ago
Simple answer - knowledge share. Many more people know and are familiar with Linux than FreeBSD. Throw in companies like Red Hat, etc. and that makes it more compelling for those wanting some sort of support backing. Personally, I've
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by jmspring 10y ago
How do those costs compare with something in Northern or Central CA, with the same coal/ng source?
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by jmspring 10y ago
So cost of local energy generation is a big part of it. "The Grid" here in CA, is highly variable in cost depending on where you live. In the Monterey Bay Area, one proposal by a local oceanographer/hydro geologist was at Mo
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by jmspring 10y ago
The article states -- "Desalination used to be an expensive energy hog, but the kind of advanced technologies being employed at Sorek have been a game changer. Water produced by desalination costs just a third of what it did in the 199
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by jmspring 10y ago
Google Sheep View.

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