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by jon-wood 5y ago
I don't know if they've officially said anything on this, but since the MS acquisition it feels like Atom is on life support. Github Codespaces is built on VSCode, and there's a lot of effort from Github going into their VSCo
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I've got a lot of hope for Home Assistant here. Its just a little bit too involved for a typical end user at the moment but I really don't think its very far from being something that can be sold as an appliance to people who don&
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I've never used it in anger, but I thought Xamarin probably had the most pragmatic approach. Their recommended path was to have a common core of business logic, but to build native UIs for each platform you wanted to support hooked int
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by jon-wood 5y ago
If only Microsoft had a app development framework designed to allow developing apps for multiple mobile + desktop platforms with as much shared code as possible. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/xamarin
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by jon-wood 5y ago
As with all security mitigations it does something , it’s significantly more difficult to get kernel level malware installed now than in the Win95 days, but it’s not a cast iron guarantee nothing bad will ever happen again.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Open wifi networks for configuration used to be a pretty good solution, but have become less useful since the advent of phones automatically failing over to their mobile connection if the local network can’t route traffic to the internet.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I’ve gotten job offers on three separate occasions off the back of side projects I was playing with between jobs, and neither was particularly impressive. The benefit of going in with a side project is that during interview you can show wha
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I have a slightly different interpretation of this, and it comes down to the horrible manager-ese phrase "risk appetite". As a small scrappy startup shipping is the absolute priority - get something out in front of customers, beca
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Ransomware really is the best possible kind of data loss, at least there’s a recovery path built into it. On three occasions in my career I’ve been involved in events which led to large scale data loss. The first time the backups failed, an
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by jon-wood 5y ago
They need to be rebuilt. There’s no ifs or buts about that, once a server has been compromised by a malicious actor it can no longer be trusted. Even if you could just restore functionality you have no guarantees that there’s not a time bom
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by jon-wood 5y ago
> I have traffic to most known Facebook servers blocked on my Mac hosts file, perhaps I can't get to hosts on iOS but an extension would be the next best thing. Content blockers can match on URL patterns, either for all only a subse
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by jon-wood 5y ago
As they point out in the article though, its possible for them to take out very substantial loans using that stock as collateral, effectively giving them a way of realising those gains without having to actually sell the stock and pay cap
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by jon-wood 5y ago
It is.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I get the anger about Sidewalk, but this is absolutely not a thing you can do with it. Sidewalk isn’t a wifi network that people can just connect to, it’s a LoRa radio. A low bandwidth, long range protocol. Devices connecting need to be pre
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by jon-wood 5y ago
One of the key points in the article is that this is a partnership - while the EM has final say on the timeline, that's going to be influenced by the PM's product requirements. Maybe the PM says that the timeline quoted isn't
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Find a recruiter and say you want to do some contract work, its a seller's market at the moment so unless you're CV is absolutely dire you'll have work within a couple of weeks.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
A lot of people here seem to have fundamentally misunderstood what Sidewalk is, which is understandable with that headline. The key thing to understand is that devices providing access via Sidewalk aren’t broadcasting a wifi SSID. They’re u
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Alexa is another sales channel for Amazon. The fact it can be used for setting timers, toggling lights, and looking up stuff from Wikipedia is all tangential to making Amazon your default choice for ordering something while cooking and payi
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by jon-wood 5y ago
If this is what you want to do contracting is the way to go. I know several people who do contract work through the winter months and then spend summer sailing round the Mediterranean and Caribbean off the proceeds.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
In which case he’s guilty of securities fraud, and is going to have a very bad time.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
Off topic, but as the father to a seven year old I’ve discovered how many things I don’t really understand over the last few years. His interest in black holes recently has me thinking I need to read a whole heap about relativity.
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by jon-wood 5y ago
The (completely legitimate) anti-tracking measures built into AirTags means that they're not really viable for tracking things that have been stolen. Recent iOS devices will alert you fairly rapidly if you've got an AirTag that is
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I've done this before, and I'd argue its more the worst of both worlds. With people who are kind of but not really remote the company never actually adjusts in the ways needed to properly accommodate it - you just end up with peop
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by jon-wood 5y ago
My ex-wife would lose her keys approximately every time she wanted to leave the house. I wish I was exaggerating, but it was like a ritual, she'd decide to go out, and then spend ten minutes stomping round the place looking for them. U
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by jon-wood 5y ago
I’m sorry, what? What is their actual purpose then? How do they remain a charity if profits aren’t being used for charitable causes? Having grown up in the UK I always assumed goodwill stores were just what we call charity shops over here,
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by jon-wood 5y ago
So often these things happen with the best of intentions. We use OS level geofencing support in our mobile apps at work to provide some functionality to customers, and have been looking at providers of better support for that recently to tr
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by jon-wood 5y ago
This is probably similar to the posts that regularly do the rounds claiming Facebook are asserting ownership of any photos or text you post to Facebook, when if you read the terms what they're actually saying is that by posting your gi
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by jon-wood 6y ago
And then imagine that on seas with 10ft waves, because you don't have containers falling off a ship in good weather.
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by jon-wood 6y ago
Nah, that's pretty sane compared to pointers as NFTs: https://github.com/zhuowei/nft_ptr
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by jon-wood 6y ago
Not the GP, but I've been using a Razor Kiyo because it was about the only good quality camera available for a reasonable price back at the start of last year. The microphone on it is predictably terrible, but video quality is fantasti

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