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by tdicola 11y ago
It was the new normal like 15 years ago. Almost every major application phones home to deliver bug reports, telemetry, check for updates, etc. Read the terms and conditions of apps when you install them next time.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Exactly--there's a great bug thread on the Atom text editor where they laboriously dug through hundreds and perhaps even thousands of dependencies to see if any had licenses that were incompatible with theirs. It looked like a complet
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by tdicola 11y ago
That's not the point, of course no one would pay $100 for a string pad function. The point is they own the source of code that thousands of people will potentially pull from without realizing it's a different owner who might have
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by tdicola 11y ago
Now that you own it what's to stop you from pushing out a new version with a slightly reworked string pad function under a commercial license (say a $100 per use fee)? Could make quite a pretty penny. Kind of crazy that this is possi
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by tdicola 11y ago
I've never felt good any time I have to use node modules and see this gigantic stream of dependencies come flying down. It's even more painful when you need to assemble license information for your software and crawl through _eve
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by tdicola 11y ago
Check out a guide like this on how to cross compile MicroPython for ESP8266 from its source in a vagrant VM and then flash the firmware to your boards: https://learn.adafruit.com/building-and-running-micropython-...
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by tdicola 11y ago
The data is going to get really stale. What my jump ship tomorrow number is today will probably be vastly different in a year, two years, etc. Not to mention how does it help someone who just wants to see how their salary compares to othe
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by tdicola 11y ago
If you haven't already, get fail2ban setup on the box to slow down all the attacks. And disable password login and switch to certs instead.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Start interviewing and don't be afraid to push for double your current salary, or more. Maybe time to think about moving to a coast too.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Good wage, yes. But remember the median price of a home in Seattle is well over $500k. You're looking at something at least $600-700k+ to be in an area without a crazy commute or other problems. Most people I know that are just star
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by tdicola 11y ago
If you're an executive pulling in over $500k, sure stock should absolutely be compensation and motivation. If you're rank and file and need $120k/yr to even afford to live, have kids, save for retirement, etc. in the area, t
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by tdicola 11y ago
And now just suddenly it's back to near the top of the front page. What's going on HN mods?
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by tdicola 11y ago
I'm genuinely curious, this post has over 208 points and is only 3 hours old.. why is it falling off the front page already?
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by tdicola 11y ago
Yeah that helps, but then the question is do you really want to work somewhere that directly ties your compensation to the company's share price? If Amazon has a few bad quarters and you lose 20% of your yearly income that's a ma
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by tdicola 11y ago
IMHO you're being underpaid quite a bit with that base salary in the Seattle area. Time to start interviewing at Microsoft, Google, etc. Those companies usually start fresh out of college developers with a base pay a bit over $100k,
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by tdicola 11y ago
And if you got the job you probably would have been absorbed into Microsoft after the acquisition and then worked on their failed Kin phone. Honestly I think you got the better half of the deal.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Dodgeball, https://www.flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/460987802/ "So.... Alex and I quit Google on Friday. It's no real secret that Google wasn't supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole
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by tdicola 11y ago
Get ready Seattleites, we're next. The housing market is already going a bit bonkers with no sign of slowing down.
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by tdicola 11y ago
You can do this with buses today.
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by tdicola 11y ago
It's a race to bottom of costs, not some market teeming with innovation. Sure you could build the most amazing printer in the world but no consumer is going to spend $1000 for it vs. the $50 special at the big box store. Think of the
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by tdicola 11y ago
What are you going to offer that the big printer manufacturers don't offer today? Cheaper prices? I doubt it, you're not going to be at the same scale as the big players and will pay a ton more for parts. Not to mention you&#x27
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by tdicola 11y ago
My Brother HL-2380DW black and white laser with flatbed scanner works great in Linux (Ubuntu 15.04 at least). The scanner I actually have setup to scan straight to Dropbox so I don't even have to screw around with scanning software on
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by tdicola 11y ago
Get a cheap consumer black and white laser printer and never look back. I can't think of any time I've needed or wanted to print color. For photos and such send them off to be printed with real photo printers.
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by tdicola 11y ago
That's for people that build a PC from scratch and don't have an existing license for Win 7, 8, etc. Or for running in a VM.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Absolutely, it still brings in billions in revenue each quarter.
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by tdicola 11y ago
Corporations have perfected layoffs done in such a trickle or way as to prevent triggering the WARN act and other legislation. It's sick but just a fact of life. See also how they've perfected dodging taxes in offshore shell co
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by tdicola 11y ago
You must not remember some of the more memorable worms like blaster. It was a complete nightmare and would own machines that weren't behind a firewall in minutes. Luckily long since patched, but it's only a matter of time for ot
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by tdicola 11y ago
I find it ironic you're criticizing the pay of a man who leads the people who would happily save you from your burning properties if they were on fire.
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by tdicola 11y ago
There is an official Raspberry Pi foundation wifi dongle that uses a Broadcom wifi chip with full support in the kernel. For a time it was the only dongle that worked with Windows 10 IoT on the Pi. Can see it here: https://www.
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by tdicola 11y ago
He's a member of their board of directors and for a time was even the head of it. The board has more control than even the CEO so it's safe to say Gates is speaking for the company.

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