mad_ned

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Is it better to go wide or to go deep in your tech career?(madned.substack.com)
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by mad_ned 5y ago
possible, maybe not likely. our school for instance had a modem line you could dial into, that let you access this one program that was for career counseling, it was like a buzzfeed quiz that asked you questions, and then recommended a car
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Black Hat Exploits of the Stupid-Easy 80s(madned.substack.com)
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The Ephemeral Nature of Tech(madned.substack.com)
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by mad_ned 5y ago
Aka "Chip Butty". Jurassic park comes to mind... "Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
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by mad_ned 5y ago
I would say, not letting go when I disagreed with some decision I knew was wrong. Younger me would tend to tenaciously fight those, to my detrement. You end up getting a reputation for being argumentative or hard to work with. Later I learn
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Internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind(madned.substack.com)
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The Case for the Liberal Arts Programmer(madned.substack.com)
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Pirates of the 7 CDs (game piracy and copy protection in the 1980's)(madned.substack.com)
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Demo Roulette(madned.substack.com)
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Internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind(madned.substack.com)
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by mad_ned 5y ago
It also makes a huge difference if the startup is your primary source of income or not. My wife worked for several startups, all of which failed. But since I had a more stable paycheck, it wasn't so bad, and we just treated the extra s
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by mad_ned 5y ago
whups. i really need to hire an editor, with all that crazy substack money :-)
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by mad_ned 5y ago
thanks for this! I've always wondered what the deal was, and teen me did not do any research on why the hack worked- once I got the files visible I just moved on. It was almost certainly this RDOS attribute stuff you show here I was
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A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work(madned.substack.com)
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by mad_ned 5y ago
If you mean "Thin Pipe, part II" - its there. hackernews moderators did something weird - this original post and early comments were just part 2 of the story, since i had posted part 1 separately last week. they relinked this pa
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by mad_ned 5y ago
the unevenness of the level of detail in the story, especially the part at the end, is my fault. I did indeed gloss over it. You have in some senses an unreliable narrator, because I was not privy to what went on with the Municipal Light P
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by mad_ned 5y ago
That is a valid way to look at it. I and probably a lot of our former Broadband committee would tend to agree with you. However, the last time I spoke with any of them was spring of 2020, to thank them again for their efforts - because I
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by mad_ned 5y ago
just for the record, yep I did think about moving, on more than one occasion. (I mentioned it in part 1, a little.) As for whether we were trying to force the town to do something only we wanted - it seemed like that to us at times for su
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My multi-decade quest for rural broadband(madned.substack.com)
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My strange, multi-decade quest for rural broadband(madned.substack.com)
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