Natales

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by Natales 4y ago
Slack
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by Natales 4y ago
Before microservices were a thing, I had the chance to work on a couple of telecom systems written in Erlang/OTP, but it wasn't until years later that I realized we were already doing most of the things people were using microserv
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by Natales 5y ago
Looking back at the time this article was written, I used to believe the same things, that people would rise up, mesh networks were going to change the world, and the distributed web was going to change everything. I ran IPFS nodes, I was o
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by Natales 5y ago
Don't judge the author too harshly. Ingrid presents an overall perspective of the entire field. Yes, some definitions are somewhat skewed, but I'm sure many people see things the same way. In a way, the fact the author wrote the a
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by Natales 5y ago
I started writing blog-like text entries in my .plan file in the mid 80s, so others could use finger in UNIX and read what I was thinking. I later learnt HTML just so I could keep writing my thoughts. I lost content, I got spam, I had to le
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by Natales 6y ago
I find Althea [1] a lot more interesting than Helium, where their crypto is used basically as an incentive model for bandwidth, with no proprietary hardware or software in the mix. [1] https://althea.net/
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by Natales 6y ago
There have been several posts in recent weeks on this topic, and every time I have the same reaction: how can they all just ignore TiddlyWiki [0], that has been out there since 2004 and has evolved nicely over the years to deliver most of t
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by Natales 6y ago
Let's not be hypocritical. What we really want to know is: did you find/preserve intact DNA? If the answer is yes, I'm not even going to speculate what happens next. We just know it.
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by Natales 6y ago
Although as a non-expert, the methodology of the study seems sound to me, I find its conclusion depressing. I know it wasn't their intent to attempt to provide solutions, but it bothers me having absolutely no idea how to even begin to
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by Natales 6y ago
After years of being beaten by customers with stories like these, I learnt to treat InfoSec and Compliance teams as finite state machines , particularly at banks and other financial institutions. Learn not to question the sacred spreadshee
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by Natales 6y ago
Yes indeed. I had the pleasure to work for Ascend Communications for 4 years. The bulk of our business was the Ascend Max TNT that could terminate dozens of PRI lines into hundreds of digital modems. They were the bread and butter for early
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by Natales 6y ago
True. I visited Medellin a couple of times between 97 and 2006 when I was doing business in LATAM, and I recall clearly that many locals had tremendous admiration for Escobar, constantly praising all he did for the city and the community, w
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by Natales 6y ago
I find fascinating how many folks, typically on the younger side, gravitate to proprietary (and expensive!) software like Roam Research and others, in search for personal knowledge management solutions, without seriously considering TW. Cou
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by Natales 6y ago
Property taxes in CA punish the newcomers and reward old money. When I bought in Mill Valley in 2001, I was literally paying 13X more taxes than my neighbor, a masseuse who inherited the property and kept the same tax rate her parents paid
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by Natales 6y ago
I've been using Wire for a few years and the experience is solid. No need for phone numbers anymore, just @handle, and it does multi-device encryption and backup. Its search is very fast, even for large number of messages. Good support
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by Natales 6y ago
I keep two TiddlyWiki [0] files, one public, one private. If I feel that a certain note can become its own piece of knowledge in a Zettlekasten fashion and can have any value for someone else, I put it in my public file and I run a script t
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by Natales 6y ago
I like the idea of daily notes even better when you combine them with your todo lists at the same time. That concept is called interstitial notes [0], and it's used in several software tools like Roam Research [1]. I use Drift [2] whic
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by Natales 6y ago
I do something similar with Drift [0], a customized distribution of TiddlyWiki [1]. I capture as many thoughts and ideas as I can using the Zettlekasten methodology [2]. If it can be distilled to a single piece of knowledge, I assess, shoul
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by Natales 6y ago
I would also encourage everyone to read what this loss means to the local communities in Puerto Rico [0], and most particularly, to the young kids who fell inspired by it. "Kevin Ortiz Ceballos, a physics student and aspiring astronom
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by Natales 6y ago
I was thinking of Contact actually.
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by Natales 6y ago
True. But the amount of people who care about that is tiny compared with the masses. For music for example, I'm a happy Qobuz customer because I appreciate hi-res quality and I have the gear to enjoy it, but I know plenty of folks who
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by Natales 6y ago
No doubt. But how many scientific tools also become cultural icons? in an era where we need more young people becoming passionate about science and space, the loss of Arecibo feels like the loss of the Challenger to many.
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by Natales 6y ago
I see why it can be confusing. The funny thing is that you can edit posts, but you can't save them on the server. In fact, you can save a local copy of a site built with TW, but it becomes your own copy. You can go to the settings and
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by Natales 6y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I read the article and I started feeling depressed (I'm turning 53 soon). Your parents show it doesn't have to be that way! Hats off to them. They're an inspiration.
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by Natales 6y ago
For having been around for so long in its most basic form, it's pretty exciting to see an entire renascence of knowledge tools and methodologies. Every few years I get bitten by the bug and I go on a hunt of what's out there. Most
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by Natales 6y ago
It does exist. I work for a ~30K software company, and they have a detailed pay multiplier scale depending on where you live. Furthermore, they will adjust your salary if you move from one area to another, and the rates are not insignific
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by Natales 6y ago
Back in 2011 I was going through a period where I felt I wanted to be really outspoken about my atheism, and I heard Richard Dawkins [0] was going to talk at this conference, so I booked a ticket and I attended. It was the TAM 2011 conferen
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by Natales 6y ago
My CTO has been researching this (large 30K emp. software company) and the current consensus seems to indicate that ~60% of the workforce is expected to continue to work remote. Offices will be redesigned as collaboration spaces, where (whe
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by Natales 6y ago
I've been working remotely for 6 years now, and 5 of those was at Pivotal, a culture famous for pairing. I love it, and I have turned down offers that cannot guarantee me a similar situation post COVID. We used Zoom since ~2015 regular
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by Natales 6y ago
This makes me sad. I hope this doesn't mean the demise of Firefox, my personal browser from before it was called "Firefox". I know many of us will pay for privacy, and even help subsidize those who can't, but they have t

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