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by ylee 2y ago
Pre-Fastmail, I did not have mail storage space at Pobox; just forwarding ability. I did not use Pobox's own interface for releasing spam mail; I used the standard filter (can't remember the exact name) and almost never saw nonspa
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by ylee 2y ago
What problems have you had? I also came over from pobox and thought that the transition was quite straightforward.
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by ylee 2y ago
I recently officially became a Fastmail user when pobox.com transitioned to Fastmail, and was very impressed with customer service when I had a technical question.
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by ylee 2y ago
>Many years ago I was running an 8x500G array in an old Dell server in my basement. The drives were all factory-new Seagates - 7200RPM and may have been the "enterprise" versions (i.e. not cheap). Over 5 years I ended up averag
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by ylee 2y ago
>Google is full of Ivy Leaguers like that, who would have just gone to Wall Street 8 years ago I am one of those Ivy Leaguers, except a) I did go to Wall Street, and b) I liked my job. More to the point, computers have been a hobby all
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by ylee 2y ago
I also enjoyed Homage to Catalonia when I read it years ago. More recently I read Richard Rhodes's Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made . Although I always rate finished books on Goodreads I rarely revi
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by ylee 2y ago
Computers have been a hobby all my life. I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is. I don't think the fact that the language I have mostly written code in
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by ylee 2y ago
My Goldman Sachs starting salary as a new analyst out of college in 1999 was US$40K. During that first year, because of the dotcom bubble, Goldman raised the salary to $55/65/75K for first/second/third-year analysts, and
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by ylee 2y ago
For me at Columbia Gopher was almost completely gone, although the university's public terminals still used it for the intranet. I used pine for email only, preferring trn for netnews. (I would soon switch to Emacs VM for email and slr
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by ylee 2y ago
I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is. While I have never worked as a professional software developer, computers have been a hobby all my life. I don'
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by ylee 2y ago
>Goldman Sach's IB Analysts starting salaries at the SF office were $90k with minimal bonuses in 2020. These same people could have worked at Google or Microsoft (and most of them legitimately had that option) When I graduated from
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by ylee 2y ago
My father is a very light sleeper. During my childhood in NYC, more than once an earthquake woke him up.
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by ylee 3y ago
I've never worked for a tech company. But I have worked for two bulge-bracket investment banks. So it's been interesting to read of how tech companies recruiting works. During my initial training/orientation period as a new a
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by ylee 3y ago
>What I did was I wrote a large macro library, inspired by Forth. In an elementary-school BASIC class, I completed an assignment using `READ`/`DATA` when it was not necessary to do so. For a later assignment involving writing a quiz
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by ylee 3y ago
I've been using Emacs continuously for almost three decades, 99.9999% of the time text-only (whether Linux console, X terminal console, xterm, or SSH client) on a remote server. My email client is VM, written in Emacs Lisp. I've u
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by ylee 3y ago
Computers have been a hobby all my life. I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is. I don't think the fact that the language I have mostly written code in
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by ylee 3y ago
I apologize; I meant to write "4-digit" and somehow that turned into "single-digit" in my brain. Yours is older.
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by ylee 3y ago
My `pobox.com` account was created in the mid-1990s. Active the whole time. My college email addresses were created three decades ago and are active today. I could switch back to using one as my primary email address everywhere, and do use
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by ylee 3y ago
> I was in SF for the first (2000) bubble. I wrote the below in 2006. < https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178846&cid=14824754 > >I moved from NYC to the Palo Alto area in May 2000. That's right, just o
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by ylee 3y ago
> Say what you will about Apple, but their recent MacBooks have been solid and more affordable than their offerings a decade ago. It’s great to see the prices come down to a more reasonable level. When I covered IT hardware companies on
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by ylee 3y ago
>I remember that flying in the 90s was a hell of a lot smoother than after 911. When living in Redwood City, from 2000 to 2001 I could leave my apartment, park my car at SFO, get through security, and get to the plane's gate within
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by ylee 3y ago
>To be fair, that was what a lot of people thought about Apple making a cell phone. That they'd never compete with Nokia or Motorola Not true. I helped cover Apple for a large investment bank before and after iPhone's launch. I
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by ylee 3y ago
Does the answer count if I was never a full-time software professional? Computers have been a hobby all my life. I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is. I d
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by ylee 3y ago
When I graduated from Columbia in 1999, I interviewed and got offers at various tech startups, but entry-level jobs on the "PM track" for those without a CS/engineering degree didn't formally exist at the likes of Micros
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by ylee 3y ago
>An observation: I switched to mainly reading my email in a text client (vi-cmdg, which is a fork of cmdg, a Gmail client that uses the API rather than IMAP - the fork has vim keybindings). Welcome to the club. I've been using Emacs
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by ylee 3y ago
Welcome back to the club. I've been using Emacs continuously for almost three decades, 99.9999% of the time text-only (whether Linux console, X terminal console, xterm, or SSH client) on a remote server. My email client is VM, written
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by ylee 3y ago
>Almost every place I’ve worked (early at startups later at megacorps) there were never enough recruiting resources. So eventually I just got my own recruiter account on LinkedIn and started using my knowledge of the industry and state o
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by ylee 3y ago
I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is. While I have never worked as a professional software developer, computers have been a hobby all my life. I don'
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by ylee 3y ago
>Yes, there is still a last bastion of focus, productivity and anti-distraction. It's the terminal, which is why I find myself using TUI apps more and more as time goes on. Welcome to the club. I've been using Emacs for more th
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by ylee 3y ago
Consider the Power Macintosh 6100, in 1994 among the first three PowerPC-based Macs: < https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Power_Ma... > What happens when you push the eject button on

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