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by vaxman 6y ago
How’s that outsourcing desktop apps to Shanghai, Photon Orchestration instead of K8s, openStack and then AWS integration working out for ya? Should have sold to Oracle. Buh-bye
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by vaxman 7y ago
Covid-19 is linked to AKF (search). As an older hacker (not a Boomer), I can tell you that the kids who setup microbreweries back in the day first tried to escape into project management and then wound up...not-in-tech.
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by vaxman 7y ago
Bezos is _NOT_ a sociopath. He saw a true need (old guard was permanently retired by dot-com crash, remaining low-wage workers couldn't do much more than HTML) and stepped up with Andy Jaffe's idea for helping them out. He also ha
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by vaxman 7y ago
He's making the big boy pants decisions. The Great Depression was horrible, men killed each other for fishing too much from the river, children ate bugs to stay alive, families forced to separate to ensure everyone was fed. There is a
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by vaxman 7y ago
"I can tear out a sheet and give to a person, I can hand them a pen and let them draw" ...and when you get it back, you can catch a disease for which there is no herd immunity then give it to your girlfriend who gets it on her blo
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by vaxman 7y ago
80s corporate music with a DEC announcer :D This idea of someone on other side of mirror was a frequently used horror movie concept of that era.
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by vaxman 7y ago
The difference between 0% (paying cash) or 0.9% (mfr incentive rate) or %3 (preferred rate) isn't that significant on a sub-$50K vehicle over 5-7 years. When the vehicle goes back to the used car lot, there will be a hit taken and you
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by vaxman 7y ago
That's a relatively new phenomena, quite the opposite was true until about a decade ago.
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by vaxman 7y ago
This being Ycombinator, it's worth noting that the easiest way to offend an investor is to ride up in a luxury or sports automobile. I once lost an investor who visited on a weekend and saw a Jaguar parked near the entrance of my build
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by vaxman 7y ago
You were doin' good there until "My primary vehicle is a $1600 motorcycle,". I wont hire anyone who drives a motorcycle --it's something you can get out of your system in your late teens and if you survive you can join
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by vaxman 7y ago
Why can't someone slap the XNU api onto Linux and create a runtime system that permits Apple's UX frameworks/libraries to be used by Linux developers (who will create more performant apps that do incredible things while maint
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by vaxman 7y ago
You think 20 years is a sign that a codebase needs to be replaced? 20 years is nothing (/grabs your lips and makes them say "NSObject"). Don't talk to me about code quality either, just because something is old doesn&#x2
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by vaxman 7y ago
Fact: Tech careers attract many sketchy people and many young people. Alcohol is one of the few legal ways to quickly identify and filter out the union of those two sets, many of whom are the most disturbed individuals that have found their
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by vaxman 7y ago
SSD tethered to the T2 and can’t be replaced. That allows them to forever enforce their political authority over what software they let you run using maths.
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by vaxman 7y ago
Batteries have to be maintained and that would be a very counter productive use of a lot of money. A better solution is to require cell phone manufactures with over one million installed units in a given region to include an AM radio featur
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by vaxman 7y ago
Let's not forget Fortran IV (RIP Mariner-1) --and Fortran 5 (ok lets https://youtu.be/cL_Ilhd7Odo )
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by vaxman 7y ago
How did you get that Intel and Microsoft failed in mobile "markets" because they had backwards compatibility with 32-bit and 16-bit apps? (I'm thinking you might not know the difference between RISC and CISC --hint: one is no
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by vaxman 7y ago
note: Your questions are in a rhetorical/sarcastic tone; be certain I'm answering only for the benefit of others. > So should Apple have kept the silicon required to support 32 bit apps in their ARM chips forever? Yeah, I think
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by vaxman 7y ago
opposite of correct
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by vaxman 7y ago
it's an electrical issue (contacts on SD cards, voltage/thermal spikes, etc.)
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by vaxman 7y ago
I love how the H1B workers downvote..truth hurts don't it. The "team" at i.am+ was given money, offices, fame and connections --the (lack of) quality of what they put out speaks for itself (literally haha).
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by vaxman 7y ago
That label famously (and tragically) tanked (due to the death of its founder) and he created the Peas from its ashes using nothing but his own skills. The Peas went on to be signed by a new label and the rest is history. What you are implyi
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by vaxman 7y ago
Interesting choice of words, but unfortunately there isn't really anything you can do about discrimination in a tech job interview in California, especially age discrimination and the authorities don't send secret shoppers into th
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by vaxman 7y ago
https://youtu.be/gHN-EhL8x3g
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by vaxman 7y ago
Roger Mcnamee and Bill McGlashan did something similar to Bono, though Mcnamee at least got Bono his cash back. In Will's case, it looks to be some notorious Indian national with a checkered past that took him for a ride. (I can totall
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by vaxman 7y ago
> I ask because I'm trying to understand why someone would keep working because their H1Bs require sponsorship and because they know they are incompetent but don't want to go back to being slumdogs if they can possibly keep rip
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by vaxman 7y ago
i.am+ was founded by will.i.am, who is globally known to be the founder of The BEPs, which he started with no money. this story about i.am+ going broke is likely planted by H1B workers that are turning on him and the somewhat notorious Indi
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by vaxman 7y ago
"dark patterns" alright... BTW, all developers still have to submit their apps to Apple for "notarization" in Catalina, even if they don't distribute through macOS AppStore --it is partially enforced now and will be
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by vaxman 7y ago
..and note rPis don't have error checking memory and have disk errors all the time
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by vaxman 7y ago
Prefab system images From Russia With Love, including password managers and surfing proxies, spun up on a VPS operated by totally unknown people (probably remoted to the actual DC from some place with bad water)...security nightmare. When I

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