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by maxclark 5y ago
And here's the problem with cable and the OTT providers as well. The content networks force an all or nothing contract. ESPN must be licensed for all subscribers or no ESPN option for anyone. The same thing that forced me off of cable
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by maxclark 5y ago
I can confirm these $s
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by maxclark 5y ago
Forums are the ultimate in async workflow. You can post a message, and when get to control when you come back. Little features like search, threads, search engine integration, are amazing! Slack/Discord is fine for an IRC alternative.
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by maxclark 5y ago
Not just a MacBook problem but Apple M1. So far nothing “bad” has happened when my Mac runs out of Ram.
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by maxclark 5y ago
If you still have that it’s pretty awesome
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by maxclark 5y ago
It’s fun to see these posts but soo much backstory and history is glossed over and skipped. OpenBSD developers used to have development sprints and code check ins in Canada to work around US crypto laws. It’s hard to explain how big a deal
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by maxclark 5y ago
I default to Apple Maps, but Google Maps * is more accurate * has way better local search and reviews (Yelp is garbage)
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by maxclark 5y ago
Wow congrats to Mailchimp Smart move by Intuit Odds this ends up like Mint?
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by maxclark 5y ago
“Together, these effects may make it harder for employees to acquire and share new information across the network.” Remote is hard and not every company is going to adapt to this long term. I’m happy that remote is now an accepted structure
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by maxclark 5y ago
International coverage is lightyears better than US.
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by maxclark 5y ago
Booking a vacation for 126 days now.
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by maxclark 5y ago
Thank you for this!
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by maxclark 5y ago
“Other findings in the UC San Diego survey of more than 3,000 respondents include” I really hate polling and surveys.
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by maxclark 5y ago
I’d love to know this as well. Dell doesn’t have anything remotely close to what Backblaze was designing/building themselves. So did they do something custom (unlikely at this volume) or did Backblaze change their hardware approach?
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by maxclark 5y ago
"The alternative of paying $9.99/month for Youtube..." I completely agree - until you have kids watching Youtube the Ads are much better in general. I am however extremely concerned with the amount of data being collected on
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by maxclark 5y ago
And there's plenty of COBOL developers that have been trying to retire for years but keep getting coaxed back. Maybe the nuance you're looking for is it would be unwise to not progress your skills along the way. Like Salesforce Cl
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by maxclark 6y ago
Or ban the ability to exchange USD for Crypto and vice versa. Part of the argument for crypto is the exact reason why central governments don't want it to exist.
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by maxclark 6y ago
A "Big 4" partner explained this to me years ago. It's an intentional system designed to extract the most resources from a college graduate as possible. Some are promoted up the ranks, but most leave with the resume line item
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by maxclark 6y ago
I was in the same boat. Just never seemed to be in the right place. 28 years is an incredible run.
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by maxclark 6y ago
So Notion's backend DB is actually Slack channels?
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by maxclark 6y ago
The lie of cloud services is ephemerality and elasticity. We convince ourselves that this hacked together solution is not actually going to run for years, or that we need instant scale 50x our current capacity. For most is that resources tu
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by maxclark 7y ago
So frustrated that Cloudflare didn't just add resources/support the existing NTP Pool. Hard to even pretend their motives are altruistic at this point.
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by maxclark 8y ago
Google and Google Cloud culture is ingrained and very specific. Was in a meeting to move >$10 mill/year in spend over and the account director literally walked out for an hour. The entire process was just insane and ultimately GCP c