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by mosburger 2y ago
Brings me back to a time early in my career where I had to write Cognos QTP, QUIZ, and QUICK programs (blech!) ... their documentation used this format, I didn't know there was a name for it. It was the only nice thing about working wi
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by mosburger 3y ago
FWIW, that was addressed in the article: > Whatever chefs might claim, this fact is well established: in 1995, Unicef, concerned about the sensitivity of children to odd flavours, commissioned a study in which rice was prepared with salt
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by mosburger 3y ago
Hey neat - I once destroyed a $5000 prototype disk drive (I was a Firmware engineer at Quantum in the late 1990s at my first post-college job), also with back-EMF (it flowed from the braking spindle motor into a power chip and melted the ci
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by mosburger 3y ago
Welcome, to Ertdfgcvb. This is Ertdfgcvb. The unattainable is UNKNOWN at Ertdfgcvb! /me wonders if anyone still knows this reference
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by mosburger 3y ago
My first industry job was a co-op on the DEC Multia team. Multia was another attempt to lure people over from the VMS/Unix world by bundling an X Server and system administration software along with Windows NT. While I was there, we sw
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by mosburger 4y ago
I worked on a project for Sony Music called "Ariama" a little over ten years ago that addressed this very problem w/ metadata, and organizing classical music differently than the artist/album/track way. I worked on
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by mosburger 4y ago
Wouldn't chargebacks only really impact the merchant, and not the acquirer/payment processor?
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by mosburger 4y ago
Yep, I worked in the disk drive industry over twenty years ago, and I was surprised to learn that a lot of what we read off the disk is actually wrong! If not for a lot of generous error correction they'd've been pretty unusable.
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by mosburger 4y ago
OMG I forgot about FX!32. My first co-op was as a QA tester for the DEC Multia, which they moved from the Alpha processor to Intel midway through. I did a skunkworks project for the dev team attempting to run the newer versions of Multia&#x
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by mosburger 4y ago
If it's a one time payout (to be clear, I'm not that will be the case here? It was for me the only time that I was laid off), I think the withholding would be calculated as though that single payment were a regular salary extrapol
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by mosburger 4y ago
no hate here - the "replace everything with an iPad" movement of car dash design has been generally, IMO, a horrible change. When driving, you need tactile feedback when adjusting things like the cabin temperature so that you can
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by mosburger 4y ago
As a 48 year old who's feeling quite burnt out, I'm curious to learn more about this sideways move... I'm feeling a bit trapped right now. :( EDIT: Ah, checked your profile and history and it seems like you've become a w
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by mosburger 4y ago
I'm surprised that no one in this tread has mentioned Opera. Weirdly, a lot of my son's Gen-Z aged group has started using Opera. When I asked them about it, it's because it "seems faster than Chrome." I haven'
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by mosburger 4y ago
I've wanted to get the "Arecibo messsage" as a tattoo for a while now... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
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by mosburger 4y ago
also very weird use of French-style « guillemet » quotation marks? (not weird because they're guillemets, just kinda weird because they're in an English language article and being used for emphasis instead of quotations)
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by mosburger 4y ago
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by mosburger 4y ago
I feel like it might be a little "safer" if it wasn't tied to Dart. :-/
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by mosburger 4y ago
> I can't recall any Apple service that has been shut down without an alternative. I can think of an esoteric one that no one misses: Ping (their music-based social media network)
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by mosburger 4y ago
I thought a lot of it was developed at JetBrains' (now shuttered) St. Petersburg R&D site? Could be wrong, though.
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by mosburger 4y ago
I know this probably falls into the category of red-baiting hysteria, but sometimes I've wondered (not seriously, in more of a spy-vs-spy, campy, tinfoil hat way) if the Kotlin programming language is a secret plot by the Russian gover
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by mosburger 4y ago
My junior high school library had Tandy Model IIIs that I learned to program on (alongside the Apple IIs). The elementary school had a mix of CoCo 2s and Apples.
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by mosburger 4y ago
My first computer was an Tandy 1000EX (in... 1986?), and this article is spot-on. The sound and graphics were miles ahead of my friends with IBM and Apple PCs at home (but not quite as good as the Commodores). And, as the article points out
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by mosburger 4y ago
Sendwave (YC2012) | Various Roles | Remote | Full Time YC2012 ( https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sendwave ) Hiring in the following countries only: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Costa Rica, Kenya, Poland, Senega
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by mosburger 5y ago
Sendwave | Various Roles | Remote | Full Time YC2012 ( https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sendwave ) Join our global team bringing modern, affordable banking and remittance services to those who need them the most. We
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by mosburger 5y ago
depends on the project - once it was AWS, once it was Linode, the most recent one was to GCP.
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by mosburger 5y ago
Right now I'm on my third job in my career where we've migrated off from Heroku. There have got to be agencies out there that specialize in this, right? If not, it seems like a hell of an opportunity for someone.
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by mosburger 5y ago
Yeah, good point - I can't say what the ID requirements are for those banks. I know that for international remittances (my line of work) we need things like a national ID or passport, so it seems like it'd be along the same lines,
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by mosburger 5y ago
I think that allowing companies to pay in cash is seen as dangerously close to paying "under the table" and not properly documenting for taxation purposes - governments like a money trail. Not saying that's an unsolvable prob
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by mosburger 5y ago
There are at least a handful of countries that offer services like this (basic check cashing, and in some cases, accounts with balances) via the post office. Italy, France, and Japan come to mind as examples, I'm sure there are more. (
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by mosburger 5y ago
I like to say that I am a 10x developer 10% of the time. My work tends to be very "bursty" followed by long bouts of low productivity. It probably has more to do with my mental health than anything else. :/

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