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by justanother 3y ago
One of my first ("borrowed") internet accounts was on VM/XA SP around 1991. Yeah you had to hit CTRL-Z to clear your screen, but I was actually amazed at how friendly this machine was (and it would happily spit out pages and
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by justanother 4y ago
I met up with Hans on X.25 just a couple years after the book came out, when he was at Artcom. I found him to be incredibly nice, and he even ran a small BBS and was helping me get a VAX account to explore VMS a bit. I don't recall why
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by justanother 4y ago
I remember installing the VRML plugin for Netscape and how it slowed my dual-CPU SPARCStation 20 to a crawl, but it was OMG The Future! and then one day nobody ever mentioned it again.
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by justanother 4y ago
Given the percentage of Korean GDP for which Samsung accounts, and the political influence they wield, they're effectively a state institution. We can assume they're not for sale, ever.
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by justanother 4y ago
Most American humans and pets know the distinctive sound of an LLV trolling around the block delivering the mail. EVs are Ninja-like by comparison. I'm not suggesting this is a bad thing, but it's gonna be a different world.
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by justanother 4y ago
"Like codepen, but node.js executing in the browser."
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by justanother 4y ago
As a 45 year old lead developer, this is the answer that I most align with. Not only are job expectations a bit higher than 20 years ago (ie, back then you could just say "I'm still workin on it" but today you generally have
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by justanother 4y ago
I'm something of a generalist, but I prefer to do Typescript stuff with node.js and AWS Lambda, as well as React frontend stuff. I can do lots of other things and will even deliver C-Sharp and PHP components, but the thing about contra
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by justanother 4y ago
My wife spends some time keeping my Linkedin account active, and I spend about 15 minutes a day maintaining a 'pipeline' spreadsheet and replying to inquiries about opportunities. If something gets to the introductory-call stage,
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by justanother 4y ago
After watching several of my friends become managers, directors, and VPs, I got FOMO and finally said yes to the management track about 25 years of software development. After about 3 years of engineering management, I was absolutely misera
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by justanother 4y ago
I have no dog in this fight (I thought Twitter was a cesspool then, and I know it is now), but before we go much farther in the conversation about collusion between LE and big business, we must remember how Qwest lost an enormous contract (
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by justanother 4y ago
Ken Burns retells this story masterfully in "Empire Of The Air" which should be considered mandatory watching for anyone with an interest in this stuff.
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by justanother 4y ago
Depends on what is meant by 'conspiracy'. If you refer to certain American and British political topics, you're not wrong. Some people whose opinions I formerly valued have been thus subsumed by the vast divisive misinformati
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by justanother 4y ago
I agree with all of this. I round up to the nearest 15-minute increment on hourly gigs, and I stay 'clocked in' except for lunch, cardio, siesta, and other unrelated activity. Even so, 6 hours is a very full day (sometimes even in
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by justanother 4y ago
Interesting that '555-5555' is historically listed as 'IN DISPUTE'. It was well-known in the 1980s and 1990s that if you hit 0 to have an operator dial a call for you (for example to an ANI demo or other target known to
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by justanother 4y ago
I have been in exactly this position. It does end. In the meantime, make sure you're getting fresh air and plenty of sleep. And try not to schedule an interview every day, you need at least one weekday away from it.
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by justanother 4y ago
"Attractive" is a wee bit subjective here, but I can tell you my career took off after I spent a small fortune on my teeth and upgraded my mic and webcam setup to near-studio-grade. If it's a coincidence, it's the most i
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by justanother 4y ago
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by justanother 5y ago
The Elder Things will awaken and humanity will have to choose a side between the Elders and the Shoggoths.
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by justanother 5y ago
Not sure how weird it is, but a lot of people tend to let their job keep their butt in a chair for too long. I suggest going into your company's calendaring system (Google or MSFT or whatever) and carving out 30,45, or even 60 minutes.
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by justanother 5y ago
We work hard to rapidly capture our market space! (But as a result, sales is allowed to bully engineering, and our technical debt is growing faster than the Internal Revenue Code)
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by justanother 5y ago
If you decide you really enjoy 65816 development, just a gentle reminder: The Apple IIGS dev community would love to have you and we're seeing new hardware releases at a pace we haven't seen since the 1990s.
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by justanother 5y ago
iFit unfortunately is not humming along. Amid plummeting home fitness equipment sales (particularly bikes), they postponed their planned IPO, laid off tons of people including engineers in December, and at their current burn rate, they eith
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by justanother 5y ago
I worked for a fitness company for a few years and it was really nice helping people who wanted to workout and sometimes hearing the stories they'd share about using our platform to change their lives. But that job was the exception, n
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by justanother 5y ago
I'm probably going too far from the original point since Target was only cited as a hypothetical example, but Target has some of the country's largest and most capable crime labs. I mention this as an example of how large corporat
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by justanother 5y ago
I'd go as far as to say that by 1990 post-Operation Sundevil etc, this was considered common wisdom, and such people with great skill who never got arrested were the rule, not the exception. People pulled off fantastic things, but refu
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by justanother 5y ago
Digging this, but no love for the Apple IIGS GUI?
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by justanother 5y ago
I use an S55H hanging from a pulley, boxing ring-style, just high enough to be out of the video frame unless I'm trying to show it off, into a Cloudlifter and Scarlett Solo. As a veteran of several remote-first company audio wars, I ha
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by justanother 5y ago
Did any other Old Folks click on this story thinkin it was gonna be about British JANet users who put the .uk first in their domain names?
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by justanother 5y ago
I've bought a lot of silly ones over the years. When 'enterprises' TLD opened, I couldn't believe that criminal.enterprises wasn't taken yet, so I snagged it. Although I found myself reluctant to actually use it on

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