barclay

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by barclay 3y ago
Following the API blocking earlier this year, my fear is that the half-life of old.reddit's existence is getting ever so small...
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by barclay 6y ago
> You join a startup because of the many other benefits it provides This. So much this. The exit is the lottery ticket. It'll likely fail. But the real lure is getting to wear a ton of hats and fly by the seat of your pants. Any eng
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by barclay 6y ago
Love all of these responses. I'll add mine into the ring as well. I came in by photojournalism -> photoshop -> graphic design -> web design through the 90's. I was never really good as a designer. I was capable, but I did
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by barclay 6y ago
I think it was the first "Expanse" book that referenced that... and it rocked my world. Never able to willfully suspend it since.
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by barclay 7y ago
(also a happy syno user here, been using it on several NAS's quite happily). My rough understanding is synology did some pretty heavy modifications to btrfs in their implementation though... (a quick google finds me nothing to back thi
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by barclay 7y ago
It was late '99 or early '00 when I went to work at my first "tech" startup. We'd raised 70-something million, and all the stars were aligning. We'd go to lunch and bring a calculator so we could work through &
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by barclay 8y ago
As an indigo^2 user: holy shit they were trinitron heavy, too. But the internals of that case were [stunningly beautiful]( http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/i2/i2open.jpg ).
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by barclay 9y ago
It's called [filld]( http://filld.com ), and it's _awesome_.
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by barclay 9y ago
You've not seen _jupiter ascending_, I take it?
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by barclay 9y ago
Though, now dated, I'd also recommend [Steve Matchett's books]( http://stevematchett.com/ ). Previous mechanic, and now commentator (which, yeah, some people hate... but i love the guy). Interesting insider perspect
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by barclay 10y ago
I dunno. I'm part of the 10 year club (/u/barclay is my main account). I've modded in the past. However outside of a couple of select subs i still casually participate in (watches and bikes) the draw just isn't ther
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by barclay 10y ago
This, this, this! I bet there's a whole slew of us who spent countless hours inspecting everything, trying to take it all apart... that formed the developers we are today.
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by barclay 10y ago
> Chances of this ever happening in the real world: Zero I dunno. I've seen more than one person get caught by setting up their phone for development (1), getting suckered into installing some mal-ware laden game (2)... 3 and 4 don&
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by barclay 10y ago
Deliv ( http://www.deliv.co ) | Menlo Park, CA and Grand Rapids, MI | on-site | full-time Deliv is a crowdsourced logistics company that powers same-day delivery and returns for retailers, local businesses, and e-commerce companie
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by barclay 10y ago
Until they went for these bloody 6-cylinder turbos that the formula is using now. They're nowhere near as loud or as impressive as either the v8's of the 00's, or the v10's and v12's of before. Even being televised,
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by barclay 11y ago
Deliv ( http://www.deliv.co ) | Menlo Park, CA and Grand Rapids, MI | on-site | full-time Deliv is a crowdsourced, last mile logistics company that powers same-day delivery and returns for retailers, local businesses, and ecommerc
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by barclay 11y ago
> A couple of years ago Spotify rewrote their clients to use CEF Eh. And not to sound like a cranky old man, but that shit sucks. It's ridiculous that their "app" needs 20-30 seconds to boot on a modern computer. It's
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by barclay 11y ago
Seriously. Does no-one remember ReplayTV, and the shit-storm that went up against them?
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by barclay 11y ago
> Request, Response, Server, Application, Session, and Error. Not a lot of room for undetected edge cases Famous last words, son. Like everything, seems simple enough up front, but since it's closed source, you have _no idea_ what&#
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by barclay 11y ago
Yup. I had an LC520 (25 MHz 030--not that far back from your 6116) that ran 7.5.x.
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by barclay 12y ago
Yup. I remember in 97(?) when I was able to be an early adopter of @home (before the excite merger), listening to "music on the internet" with realplayer on my PowerMac 7100. It was positively mind blowing. Almost equivalent to se
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by barclay 12y ago
(Unrelated) As someone who grew up in Oakdale, I'm positively shocked to hear there's a tech-related meetup there. Wow!
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by barclay 12y ago
Yeah. This is a sticking point for us, also. There's ways around it, but it's still pretty broken. :(
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by barclay 12y ago
Super interesting. I've also got no sense of smell, though my ENT thinks it was due to an accident I had as a baby (fell face first onto broken glass), that severed the nerve. I can smell absolutely nothing (not gas, not coffee, nada)
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by barclay 12y ago
Old (old) school vi user here. When I was working at a .net shop, VS became my vim (mostly because it was already always running), also because it was incredibly familiar. Since leaving the .net world though, I've relapsed. Have had tr
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by barclay 12y ago
I resent the title of this article.
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by barclay 13y ago
Not to sound like the classic idealist libertarian, but isn't this how uber and lyft will be better? You ride with someone who's clueless or an asshole, rate them 1-star, the ratings compound, and unless they improve quickly they&
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by barclay 13y ago
> I assume their salespeople are on commission like any other company. With one important difference: they're the most arrogant, uninterested and rude sales people i've ever had to deal with. "Because, what are you going
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by barclay 13y ago
Congrats, guys. Another big circleci fan here. Can't wait to see where they go.
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by barclay 13y ago
I can speak from experience--a PR firms, even at a very light engagement, like lawyers, are bloody expensive. Shockingly so.

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