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by psim1 4y ago
I kind of hate Thunderbird because it is in every way worse than beloved Apple Mail.app, except for one: it can do the Microsoft 365 IMAP Oauth2 dance, but Mail.app can't. Mail.app's native Exchange functionality has broken for me
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by psim1 4y ago
Weirdly, a senior dev from my company was recruited by another company and will be changing jobs in a couple weeks. And to be clear, he is not a unicorn type. He's a good senior developer in a common language. It's hard for me to
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by psim1 4y ago
When I have been the one hiring, whether as a supervisor or as part of a hiring committee, my favorite part of the paperwork has always been the cover letter. I cannot agree with this article's advice saying it is not important. Are yo
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by psim1 4y ago
About 7 years ago I got fed up with the company (not the team I was leading) and moved to another company in an IC role. I enjoyed it for a few months and soon realized how much less influence I had as an IC. So I regretted the move. For me
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by psim1 4y ago
I was excited to read this Tell HN, but quickly deflated. I have an original iPad without a camera. :(
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by psim1 4y ago
No need to presume; the ITU-T standards are surprisingly readable! https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-V.22-198811-I For this older standard (1200 bps using FSK modulation) it does indeed use separate bands (from section 6.1
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by psim1 4y ago
One of our local muni airports adjacent woods always has a NOTAM advising of potential for deer on the runway.
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by psim1 4y ago
This blogger occasionally seems to throw in stories that are made up for the sake of making a point; this is likely one of them, given the inconsistencies.
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by psim1 4y ago
What language do you prefer? Enigma (NodeJS): https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs x84 (Python - needs some work to use current Python): https://github.com/jquast/x84 Synchronet (C, JS): https
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by psim1 4y ago
How is this exact dupe URL possible? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33711724
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by psim1 4y ago
The only key I can't find is the one that controls the toe brakes. Anyone? edit: I found the answer -- period key -- on page 21 of the excellent manual < https://archive.org/details/microsoft-flight-simulator-v-4
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by psim1 4y ago
Good. For every benevolent use case there are a thousand spammers and scammers using this technique for junk and phishing.
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by psim1 4y ago
> Do you remember what software you were running? Not at all! I was the PC tech and I remember feeding a lot of diskettes into Windows 3.1 machines to load Word Perfect and other office tools of the time.
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by psim1 4y ago
They had the 5362, seemed to be about the size of a two-drawer file cabinet. I recall maybe three or four terminals connected to it from around the office. It was a small manufacturing firm and this computer was a big investment for them.
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by psim1 4y ago
I worked at a company in the early 1990s that ran its business on an IBM System/36. It was basically a System/360 but one tenth of the size and expense! This was the only minicomputer I ever encountered, and I was not responsible
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Success at Work Is Warped by Your Co-Workers’ Salaries(wsj.com)
8 points by psim1 4y ago|1 comments
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by psim1 4y ago
Unpopular opinion(?): online medical information should be inaccessible to the common person. It should be journal papers full of jargon, behind paywalls, and otherwise restricted. Laymen can't handle medical information. They use it t
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by psim1 4y ago
It was a time of, frankly, reckless engineering and hubris, though with great results. Challenger taught us a lesson. They pushed ahead into disaster due to ego. NASA won't do that again.
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FW-Cloud, a firewall management system for netfilter/iptables hosts(fwcloud.net)
4 points by psim1 4y ago|0 comments
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by psim1 4y ago
> Everything is crypto "web 3" bubble, fintech, or recruiters being very vague about "unicorn" startups Everything? No, you're looking in the shiny techy places. Counterintuitively, interesting tech jobs are foun
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Delphi still exists and is actively developed(embarcadero.com)
165 points by psim1 4y ago|243 comments
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Obituary: Former Microsoft Executive Richard Tait Created Cranium Board Game(wsj.com)
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by psim1 4y ago
High pricing for legitimate services is not a scam. It is simply a bad deal.
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by psim1 4y ago
ping and traceroute used to be very useful tools. Then for a period of time -- maybe still ongoing -- sysadmins and some network security folks decided that by blocking ALL ICMP at their network edge, they were increasing security. (Wrong!)
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by psim1 4y ago
I found blogging to be too open-ended. I need some prompting, and I found that by participating in topical forums related to my interests and expertise. When someone would pose a problem or ask a question, I would dig into the threads that
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by psim1 4y ago
I think there's a finesse to it where the bigger company can in many ways adopt the smaller company culture, leave it alone, or bring in their own unique and not bad culture. Big != sucks, necessarily. Some of the other comments have i
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Ask HN: Examples of large acquisitions that did not ruin the acquired company?
120 points by psim1 4y ago|167 comments
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by psim1 4y ago
I'm sorry I wrote it in such a way to give you that idea. I fully agree with "explicitly nurture [growth and expertise] in the environment you create."
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by psim1 4y ago
> HTG: So let’s go the opposite way now. What did you do “wrong” at Atari that people could learn from today? > Bushnell: I think that I—how do I put this without sounding like an asshole? I put up with incompetence more than I should
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Zoom One(blog.zoom.us)
3 points by psim1 4y ago|0 comments

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